Class of Chaos

Prison Break

Kam woke up and rubbed the back of his head. He must have been laying on something hard.

Kam: "Ow. What was I lying on? Concrete?"

Kam then looked at his surroundings. He had indeed been lying on concrete, but that wasn't all. He found that instead of being on the bus, he was in front of some sort of warehouse.

Kam: "What's going on? Where did the bus go? (standing up) And why does it feel like something is on my back?"

He looked down his back and found that something was inside his clothes. Not sure of what he would find there, he lifted up his suit coat and shirt and was shocked as to what he found there. His skin was now comprised of red scales, like those that would be found on a lizard. He also saw yellow spines going down his back and ending at a point above his pants where a red, scaly, curled up tail was protruding from his body. He had only seen anything like this when he was watching a videotape about reptiles in a science class back at Westley. The animal these features would have belonged to was a chameleon, but how could he have them all of a sudden. The next thought he had was to find a mirror to make sure that he wasn't going crazy. Nearby, he found a sheet of metal that was reflective enough to be used as a mirror. He looked at it and saw something that shocked him even more.

Kam: (thinking) Is this a trick mirror or something?

The makeshift mirror depicted Kam as a half-human, half-chameleon creature with red scales. He had a horn on his nose that was the same yellow as the spines on his back. His outfit stayed the same: red suit coat, white button shirt, blue formal pants, yellow and blue striped tie, and brown dress shoes.

Kam: "What the heck happened to me!? I'm some kind of monster lizard thing!"

Voice: "Wait, who was that?"

Kam heard a voice nearby. He panicked and frantically started looking for a place to hide. He couldn't let anyone see him like this. It might turn into that scene from Frankenstein when the villagers started chasing the monster with torches and pitchforks. Seeing that the sheet of metal he was looking at was up against a dark corner, he hid behind it.

Voice: "Hello? Anybody here?"

Kam looked at the figure as she, he could tell it was a girl by the tone of her voice, came around the corner. He was surprised to see that the girl was another humanoid animal like he was now. The figure was a blue furred cat. Also shocking was the fact that she seemed so familiar. He noticed that her outfit was what was so familiar. The cat was wearing a light blue jacket with regular blue stripes down the front and on the sleeves, a dark blue skirt, black pants, and blue and white gym shoes. Some of the hair on her head was pulled up into a hairstyle similar to a ponytail. Kam was able to look at her well enough to see that she was also wearing a bracelet with the words "Kick Butt!" printed on it.

Kam: "Tamika?"

Cat: "Huh, who said that?"

Her voice was familiar as well. It sounded just like Tamika. That proved it. The cat was Tamika. Kam was a bit relieved to see this. At least now, he knew he wasn't the only one this happened to.

Kam: "It's me, Tamika."

Tamika: (facing the corner Kam is hiding in) "That you Kam?"

Kam: "Yeah, it's me."

Tamika: "Why are you hidin' in that corner?"

The chameleon came out from his hiding spot and into the light.

Tamika: "Whoa! As far as freaky lookin' animal people go, I come in second."

Kam: "Did you see anyone else like this?"

Tamika: "Naw, you were the first guy I ran into."

Kam: "What do you think happe… What?"

Tamika was staring at something just behind Kam. He turned around and saw that a small group of robots were standing in front of them. Some were short and red and others were taller and gray but they all looked dangerous and a few of them had weapons visible.

Kam: "Are those robots?"

Tamika: "Either those are some really good costumes or we in trouble."

Kam: "Wait, maybe these guys could help us."

Tamika: "What!? Boy, you crazy. Can't you see they got guns and swords and all that?"

Kam: "This warehouse is probably a military outpost that these guys are guarding. I'm sure that if we just politely state that we're lost…"

Tamika: (continuing Kam's sentence) "They'll take us to their lab an' experiment on us? In case you haven't noticed, we look like a couple o' Area 51 projects!"

Kam: "I'm sure that they will help us if we just politely state our needs in a diplomatic way."

Kam then walked up to the group in front of them and took a deep breath, preparing to give his explanation.

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One minute later…

Kam and Tamika were thrown into a jail cell, being captured by the robot troop. Before they could do anything else, one of the robots slammed the door to the cell.

Tamika: (mocking Kam) ""I'm sure they'll help us if we just politely state our needs in a diplomatic way." Does this look like they're helpin' us!?"

Kam: "How was I supposed to know they would throw us in jail? In fact, I don't think they even heard a word I said."

Tamika: "I oughta just beat the stupid outta you right now! But first, we gotta get outta here."

Voice: "Oh no. He got two more."

Tamika: "Wait who said…"

Tamika and Kam both turned around and found that two more humanoid animal creatures also occupied their cell. One was a yellow squirrel that was wearing a blue jacket, white gloves, and blue tennis shoes. The other was a large bee that had long orange hair and was wearing a pink dress with yellow flowers on it, a brown pilot's jacket, white gloves with black bands on the wrists, and pink and black shoes.

Kam and Tamika: (in unison) "WHOA!!"

Tamika: "What the heck!? What's goin' on here?"

Kam: (thinking) I don't know what's more surprising: seeing more half-human animals or seeing them in a place like this.

Squirrel: "You don't know what's going to happen?"

Both of the Westley kids shook their heads in response.

Bee: "Robotnik is capturing victims for roboticization around here."

Kam: "Robota-huh? Is that some kind of new workout plan?"

Bee: "You don't know about it?"

Kam: "No. Why? Should we?"

Squirrel: "Roboticization. It's when Robotnik uses this machine called a Roboticizer to turn Mobians into his mindless robot slaves!"

Kam: "Robotnik? Roboticizer? Mobians? Mindless robot slaves?"

Tamika: "Do you watch a lot of old sci-fi movies?"

Squirrel: "No."

Tamika: "Are you on medication or somethin'?"

Squirrel: "No."

Tamika: "Then where are you getting all this stuff about robots an' Mobalins an' junk like that?"

Squirrel: "Wait, you don't know about any of this?"

Tamika: "No. All I know was that me an' my friends were on our way to Nashville went a lot o' stuff went down and now most o' our group is missin', me an' Kam-a Chameleon here look like a couple o' things straight outta Roswell, an' everything we seen so far look like stuff outta a sci-fi movie."

Squirrel: "Let me see if I have this straight. You and your friend were on your way to a place called Nashville with a bunch of other people who are all missing, you and your friend as you said "look like a couple of things straight out of Roswell," and everything you've seen so far looks like it's from a sci-fi movie?"

Tamika: "Yep."

Kam: "Hardly anything we've seen makes sense here. People don't just disappear, get turned into animal creatures, and thrown in jail by a bunch of angry robots. It sounds like something out of the tabloids next to stories about aliens invading Earth."

Bee: "What's Earth?"

Kam: "What? That's the name of the planet we're on, right?"

Bee: "No, it's Mobius."

Upon hearing this, Tamika and Kam looked at each other then burst into hysteric laughter.

Kam: (laughing) "We're on another planet? Yeah right!"

Tamika: (laughing) "Y'all guys is crazy!"

Their laughter was brief and began to die down however as they took a good look at their cellmates, each other, and themselves. While they thought it was impossible that they could be warped to another planet, they also thought it was impossible that humans could be transformed into humanoid animal creatures with unnatural coloration, yet here they stood.

Kam: "You're not joking, are you?"

Bee: "You really are from another planet?"

Kam: "Yes." (thinking) This whole thing is real?! Oh my goodness!

Squirrel: "That explains why you don't know about Robotnik."

Tamika: "Or those Mobalin things you said?"

Squirrel: "Mobians, not Mobalins. They're what we call humanoid animal creatures like us or you."

Kam: "So there's a name for what we are now? Interesting."

Tamika: "And who's this Robotnik guy you keep talkin' about?"

Bee: "He's this mad scientist and mean dictator type person who wants to rule the world and turn everyone on it into robots."

Kam: "It really sounds like we stepped into a sci-fi movie now."

Bee: "How did you get here in the first place?"

Kam: "Now that I'm thinking about it, we might be here because of that bright light on the bus we saw."

Tamika: "Ya mean because o' that jewel at the back o' the bus?"

The bee and squirrel's interests peaked when the use of a jewel was mentioned as it sounded oddly familiar.

Squirrel: "What jewel?"

Tamika: "I saw it before we ended up here. It was this big red jewel that started glowin' after it got zapped wit some electricity. Then, here we are."

Squirrel: "That sounds like it might be a Chaos Emerald. They're one of seven different jewels with incredible powers."

Tamika: "I bet Philly Phil is eatin' this up if he's here."

Squirrel: "Philly Phil?"

Kam: "He's one of our missing friends and he loves science fiction. My name's Kam, by the way."

Tamika: "And I'm Tamika."

Bee: "Nice to meet you both. My name is Saffron."

Squirrel: "And I'm Ray."

Kam: "Now that introductions are out of the way, how are we going to get out of here? We should probably leave before they decide to do that roboticization thing on us."

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Meanwhile…

Three figures were making their way toward a certain destination. The first figure was a male hedgehog. It had black and red fur except around its muzzle, which was skin toned, and had white fur on his chest. He was wearing a pair of white gloves with gold rings on them and a pair of white and red air shoes, also with gold rings. The second figure was a female bat. She had white fur on her head, but skin tone on the top half of her body. She was wearing a skintight black body suit with a chest plate in the shape of a large pink heart, long white gloves with pink bands, and thigh high white boots with pink hearts in the toes and high heels. The third figure was a large robot comprised of red, white, black, and metallic silver parts. It had large arms with clawed metallic fingers. Painted on its shoulders was a Greek symbol meaning "omega." The group was silent for a while until a member of the group broke the silence.

Bat: "I'm getting bored just walking around. How much longer do we have 'til we get there, Omega?"

Robot- Omega: "Global positioning says it is approximately five kilometers forward."

Bat: "We're almost there then. Good, the commander said that since Eggman's new plan involves the Chaos Emeralds he's started collecting them again and now he's got one guarded in this old warehouse. The sooner I get that emerald, the better."

Hedgehog: "Rouge, you know you can't keep the emerald."

Rouge: "No need to rain on my parade, Shadow."

Shadow: "Let's just get going."

At that note, Shadow began to sprint of in the direction they were heading.

Rouge: "Hey, wait up!"

Rouge began flying after Shadow and Omega wordlessly followed the both of them. All three of them were now making their way towards the warehouse, which was their destination.

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Meanwhile…

Ray, Saffron, Kam, and Tamika were brainstorming ideas as to how to escape their prison and the fate of roboticization. So far, no one came up with any good ideas.

Ray: "I just thought of something!"

Kam, Tamika, and Saffron: (in unison) "What?"

Ray: "Kam, you're a chameleon right?"

Kam: "Yeah, I guess. Why?"

Ray: "You see that robot over there? It has the keys to the cells."

Their attention was turned to a short red robot that had a set of keys.

Kam: "Yeah."

Ray: "I'm not completely sure but I heard from somewhere that chameleons could…"

Before they could debate the subject any further, their cell was unlocked as robots came in and grabbed Ray, Saffron, Kam, and Tamika. Robots escorted them out and into another room in this room. This room contained a machine that had several pieces of complicated equipment in it and some sort of tube in the center of it.

Tamika: "What's that?"

Kam: "I still don't know about how most of this world works but I think I don't want to get in that thing."

Saffron: "That's the roboticizer, the machine Eggman uses to turn Mobians into robots. It takes away their free will and makes them just mindless machines that do his bidding!"

Kam: "Okay. Now, I know I don't want to get in that thing!"

Tamika: "That's brutal. Dat Eggman guy's got some issues!"

Ray: "We need to do something or we'll end up buckets of bolts!"

Before they could do anything however, a large explosion was heard. Everyone, including the robots, looked to where the explosion came from to see just what happened. There was a gigantic hole in the wall, still smoking from the explosion that blew it out. Three figures were now standing in the hole, but all anyone could see of them were their silhouettes because of the smoke. When the smoke started to clear, the identities of the newcomers were revealed (to everyone except Kam and Tamika). The three were Shadow the Hedgehog, Rouge the Bat, and E-123 Omega.

Rouge: "You know, you didn't have to blow up the wall."

Shadow: "Who cares? As long as it got us in."

Robot: "Threats detected. Now engaging new targets."

Some of the robots now left what they were doing to combat Shadow, Rouge, and Omega.

Omega: "Eggman robots approaching. Prepare for battle."

The robots engaged the three intruders. Two of them charged at Shadow with lances but Shadow jumped over them and used a Spin attack to destroy them. Rouge began to fight with some flying robots. They began shooting lasers at her, but she was able to dodge them until she could get close enough to destroy them with an aerial roundhouse kick. Back on the ground, more robots were approaching Omega. The former Eggman robot armed a pair of machine guns and shot enough scattered bullets to destroy them.

As the robots began to battle the three newcomers, on the other side of the room, a smaller group of robots were still walking their prisoners over to the roboticizer. Tamika looked toward the team with great interest. She saw their capabilities as fighters and thought that she should get out there, as she was a good fighter herself.

Tamika: (thinking) Ooo! That looks like a good fight over there! I gotta get me some o' that!

The robots then walk by a bunch of crates and scrap metal. Picking up a metal rod from the scrap heap and using it as a fighting staff, Tamika proceeded to fight of the robots, smashing up their arms, legs, and heads and freeing Kam and Ray. The robot holding Saffron however, managed to make it to the roboticizer. The bee was put in the glass tube, which locked into place, but before the robot could activate the machine, Tamika threw the rod she was using like a javelin and it stabbed straight through the side of the robot's head, coming halfway out the other side. The robot dropped to the ground and Ray went over to unlock the roboticizer's chamber, freeing Saffron.

Saffron: "That was close. (looks at the robot with the rod stuck in its head) Remind me never to get on your bad side."

Tamika: "Y'all okay?"

Kam: "Yeah. Thanks Tamika."

Ray: "I didn't know you could fight like that!"

Tamika: (in a tough girl pose)"Yeah, I'm a tough girl you just don't wanna mess with."

Kam: "At Westley, that's the name of the school we attend, Tamika's got a reputation as the toughest girl in school."

Just then, the remains of two flying robots landed next to them.

Saffron: "Those three look like their handling it. (pointing at Shadow, Rouge, and Omega) We'd better get out of the way."

Tamika: "Y'all go hide if ya want. I'm getting' in there."

Ray: "What?"

Tamika: "You heard me. Ain't no way I'm passin' this up! Y'all just sit tight. I'll be back before you know it."

With that, Kam, Ray, and Saffron hid behind a bunch of nearby crates while Tamika ran into the crowd of robots with another metal pole in hand. Seeing that another threat was in their vicinity, the robots now ran to engage not only Shadow, Rouge, and Omega, but Tamika as well.

Omega took out three more robots with his guns. That was when he looked to his side to see a blue cat (Tamika) fighting off a group of robots with a metal pole. He began examining her.

Omega: "Attention Shadow."

Shadow heard Omega and rushed over to him after smashing the heads of two more robots together, destroying them.

Shadow: "What?"

Omega: (pointing at Tamika) "Unidentified female Mobian engaging in combat with Eggman robots. Deemed as hostile. Which course of action should be taken?"

Shadow thought about it for a while. While he could care less what happened to this girl, he was still very curious as to exactly who she is, what she's doing here, and how she can hold her own against a crowd of robots.

Shadow: "I'll go find out about her."

Omega: "Affirmative."

Shadow worked his way through the crowd until she reached the cat.

Shadow: "Who are you and what are you doing here?"

Tamika turned her head away from her battle and toward the black hedgehog she saw earlier but with the robots not stopping their assault, they found themselves talking and fighting at the same time.

Tamika: "What?"

Shadow: "What are you doing here? Don't you know how dangerous this is?" (roundhouse kicks a robot)

Tamika: "Excuse me? (stabs the staff she's holding into a robot's body and pulls it back out) I ain't the one who just busted his way through da wall. Who you think you is, Mr. Stuntman?"

Shadow: (thinking) Great. She has an attitude. (speaks out loud while punching a robot in the face) "You still didn't answer my question."

Tamika: "Fine, you ain't gotta be pushy. The name is Tamika and me and my friend got thrown in jail by a bunch of angry robots. (whacks a robot with her staff) Then they tried to throw us in that thing (points at roboticizer). Now, my turn to ask questions. Who are you and ya friends and what are y'all doin' here?"

Shadow: "We are Team Dark and we were sent her to look for a Chaos Emerald. (jumps up and smashes two incoming robots heads together) The one in the air is Rouge the Bat, the large robot is E-123 Omega and I am Shadow the Hedgehog."

Tamika: "Ain't y'all da big bosses 'round here. Well, I don't know nothin' about your Chaos whateva', so y'all can back off me."

Shadow: "This is still dangerous."

Tamika: "What, you think I haven't noticed that? (spins her staff hitting another robot)"

Meanwhile, behind the crates, Kam, Ray, and Saffron were watching the scene unfold. Ray and Saffron couldn't believe Tamika's fighting skill. She was taking out robots left and right, then started to fight along side Shadow the Hedgehog. She was really something. Kam knew that Tamika being able to fight was nothing new but the fact that she was fighting robots was what was different. She practically looked like something out of a Hollywood movie.

Kam: "I can't believe this is happening!"

Ray: "Yeah, Tamika is a better fighter than I first thought."

Kam: "Not that. I mean this whole situation. Just look around. This can't be normal for you guys!"

Ray: "Actually, it kind of is."

Saffron just happened to look around when she caught a glance of a robot running towards a computer terminal.

Saffron: "Wait. What's he doing?"

The robot in question just received new orders from its master. Don't let them get the Chaos Emerald…Stop them…Do whatever it takes. Interpreting its masters' orders, it ran to a computer and began to input a code relating to the base itself. Just as it finished writing the code and executed the program, a rocket from Omega found its way to the robot.

Everyone was still fighting or hiding when…

Loudspeaker (sirens flashing): "Attention. Demolition mode activated. This base will self-destruct in T minus five minutes."

Ray: "Self-destruct?!"

Kam: "Just when you think things couldn't get more complicated."

Tamika: "Self-destruct? That ain't good!"

Shadow just pushed off another two robots.

Shadow: "That's it! I've had it with this! Stand back, kid!"

Then Shadow started glowing with a sort of weird energy then suddenly he released it.

Shadow: "CHAOS BLAST!!!"

The burst of energy that Shadow released obliterated all of the enemy robots. Rouge, Omega, Tamika, Ray, Saffron, and Kam witnessed the attack from safe hiding places. After the attack was finished, Rouge flew over to Shadow.

Shadow: "I'll search for the Chaos Emerald and check to see if anyone else is here. You disable the computer."

Rouge: "All right."

Shadow: "Omega, you're with me."

Omega: "Roger."

With that, Shadow and Omega ran through the door out of the room while Rouge went to work on the computer.

Tamika meanwhile just got herself together again and decided to take action. She went back to where the other three were.

Tamika: "Yo Saffron, there anyone else here 'sides us?"

Saffron: "Yes. There are a few others in cells around here."

Tamika: "A'ight, c'mon guys."

Kam: "What?"

Tamika: "You heard me. We cain't let these guys show us up. We gotta get in there. Now come on."

Tamika then grabbed Kam, Ray, and Saffron and pulled them with her while she ran to the door that Shadow and Omega passed through.

Ray: (Tamika is pulling him by his tail) "Ow that hurts!"

Saffron: (Tamika is pulling her by her arm) "Kam, is she always this aggressive?"

Kam: (Tamika is pulling him by his suit coat collar) "Yes."

Tamika then let go of Kam before she reached the door and pulled Ray and Saffron with her.

Tamika: (before going through the door) "Watch her back, will ya?"

Kam: "Uh, her back's not gonna be the one that needs watching."

While Kam just stood in the room with Rouge, who by the way didn't notice or care he was there, Tamika, Ray, and Saffron proceeded into the room they left. Now that Tamika was paying more attention to their surroundings, she noticed that a few more half-human animals (she still hasn't picked up the term "Mobian" just yet) were trapped in jail cells. She noticed that Shadow was in the room too.

Tamika: Yo, hedgehog guy."

Shadow: "My name is Shadow."

Tamika: "Yeah, hedgehog guy. You go on 'head an' find yo Chaos whateva' it was. We'll get these guys outta here."

As much as Shadow would like to set that girl in her place for talking to him like that, she had a point. He had to get the Chaos Emerald. It was the reason he was there in the first place. So, swallowing his pride, he silently nodded and sped off to look for the magical jewel.

Tamika: "Dang, he fast."

Then, a squad of robots came in the room. Tamika was keeping them occupied while Ray and Saffron were looking for a control panel or something to unlock the jail cells. Finally, Saffron found it and deactivated the locks, opening the doors to everyone's cells. With the base still close to exploding, the cells' residents had no time to celebrate. They all ran straight for the exit. The robots taking notice of this closed and sealed the door and began running towards the crowd, but they were stopped by Tamika before the robots could reach them. One of them hit Tamika in the back with a club, causing her to fall to the ground. She looked up to see the robot about to bring it down on her, but before it could, a black and red blur sped through it. It went over her head and slowed down until the ball was revealed as Shadow, holding a purple jewel in his hand.

Tamika: "What's that?"

Shadow: "It's our ticket out of here. (to everyone) EVERYONE GATHER AROUND ME!"

Tamika, Saffron, Ray, Omega and the recently released prisoners all gathered around the black hedgehog as he held the jewel over his head.

Shadow: "CHAOS CONTROL!!!"

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Kam and Rouge ran out of the building as fast as they could. After running a good distance, they stopped. Rouge was used to running like this and didn't even start breathing hard when she stopped. Kam, on the other hand, was not used to this kind of running, or any other physical activity for that matter, and looked like he would pass out any second.

Rouge: "What's the matter? Tried already?"

Kam: (speaking between breaths) "You're...talking...like...this is...easy."

Rouge: "You don't exercise much, do you?"

Kam: "I...wouldn't have...needed... to run... if the place...wasn't going...to blow up!"

Rouge: "I was locked out of the system and it would have taken too much time to unlock it."

Just then, the building exploded. Rouge and Kam turned around to see the fire rising from the destroyed structure.

Kam: "Tamika! Did she make it?"

Kam dropped his head thinking his friend was caught in the explosion. Just as he did this though, a flash of light was seen and several mobians were now standing in the forest just away from the flaming rumble of the building. Among the group was Ray, Saffron, and Tamika.

Kam: "Guys! You're all right!"

Tamika: "Was there any doubt in yo' mind?"

Shadow and Omega walked over to Rouge.

Rouge: "Did you find it?"

Shadow: "Apparently."

Omega: "Mission complete."

Rouge contacted G.U.N. headquarters to report the mission a success. Then Shadow then looked at the crowd behind him.

Shadow: "Well, are you waiting for a bus? Get out of here!"

Then the group began to leave and Rouge finished the mission report.

Rouge: "Hold on! (pointing at Tamika) You. I just wanted to say you're a pretty good fighter and say thanks for helping us."

Tamika: "Thanks. Oh an' can I ask ya somethin'?"

Rouge: "Sure."

Tamika: "Kam an' I...um, got separated from our friends earlier. Would ya mind helpin' us out?"

Rouge looked at Shadow.

Shadow: "Ugh...fine."

Rouge: "All right then. Come with us. Maybe someone at G.U.N. can find your friends."

Kam: "Bye Ray. Bye Saffron."

Tamika: "Take care o' ya-selves."

Ray: "Bye Kam."

Saffron: "Bye Tamika."

Then, as Ray and Saffron walked one way through the forest, Shadow, Rouge, Omega, Kam, and Tamika went another way.

To be continued...