And now it's time for…duh duh-duh DUH!…Chapter 9! Credit to Falconess for coming up with a great name for the lake: Lunar Lake. And thank you to the other people who posted names…all 4 of you. But enough of me rambling. On with the story!
Tails, Yacker, and I began to venture away from the construction zone over to the next area to find the next core piece. The sun was going down and it would be nighttime soon. Tails said that it would be at a lake, but I hope it isn't underwater. Though, now that I think about it, I probably already jinxed it. We made our way through some trees until we found the lake.
Lunar Lake Act 1
"Oh no! Look at the lake!" Yacker shouted.
The lake was all dirty and murky. It looked totally disgusting.
"The lake is usually so clear and beautiful, especially at night when the moon rises. But now, it's ruined."
Yacker looked so sad. I think that this lake is one of his favorite places.
"Don't sweat it, Yacker. We'll fix the problem. You can count on us." I said.
"Thanks, guys." he said.
"Now where do we find the next core piece, Tails?"
"Uh…Let me use my scanner function."
Tails used his handheld and looked around the lake.
"It looks like we'll find the piece at the bottom of the lake."
"I was afraid you'd say that. Ugh."
"It's okay, Sonic. It shouldn't take too long. You'll be outta there in no time."
"I hope your right. Can you come with me. I might need help getting around in the water."
"Sure."
"I'll stay over here, you guys, if that's okay." said Yacker.
"Alright. See you in a bit, Yacker." I said as we walked into the water.
EWW! It was so gross! It's bad enough that I can't swim, but now I have to get into dirty water. Yuck!
"Sonic, grab my hand." Tails said.
"Okay."
I held his hand and we dove in. He pulled me down lower into the lake's depths. Surprisingly, it was much cleaner down at the bottom and not as murky. Tails pulled me around until we found another wisp capsule. It looked like it was made specifically for catching aliens underwater. We saw that it had only white and yellow aliens.
I gestured to Tails to pull me over to the capsule. He understood and we swam over. We stopped on the lake's floor and I curled up and started spinning in place. I built up enough power to push me through the water and open up the capsule. The aliens got free and a few white aliens and two yellow ones let us absorb them. We decided to save their power for when we really need it. We were about to run out of air until we saw air bubbles coming up from the floor. We walked over to catch our breath and then we continued on.
Lunar Lake Act 2
To pick up the pace, I used boost to get through the water much faster and Tails used his energy to swim faster with his tails. We ran into Eggman's fish robots like choppers and other ones shaped like squids and jellyfish. We were careful not to get chomped, inked or stung. After a bit of searching we found the hole we were looking for, at the deepest part of the lake.
Lunar Lake Boss Act: Egg Jaws
We heard rumbling in the water and the floor of the hole began to crumble. The floor gave away and revealed another boss robot. It was a huge robotic shark. It was blue with large sharp teeth and its underbelly held the aliens.
It started to charge at us hope to have us for its dinner. I grabbed Tails and he swam out of the way of the shark. We had to get more air, so we searched for another pocket of air and took our breaths. The shark came around and charged at us again. This time we barely dodged and it ended up slamming in to the wall of the hole. While it was stunned, Both Tails and I took the chance to attack. I homing attacked its underbelly while Tails used the last of his white energy to power his tails to act as a saw blade and cut into the shark's alien container.
More white aliens got free and they let us absorb them. When the shark got back to its senses it got back up off of the floor and he put a shield on his alien container. It looked like it was inpenetrable and it would be useless to try to attack it. I guessed that we wouldn't be able to let any wisps free anymore.
Then, I remembered that we still have the power of the yellow aliens. I got Tails attention and gestured him to come over to me. We both nodded and we released the yellow energy.
DOUBLE DRILL!
We transformed into drills again and we used up all of the white energy we had to charge up.
CHARGE! TWIN TORPEDO ATTACK!
We locked onto the robot and we charged at him at a breakneck pace. We tore through its shell with no problem at all and he was finished. We climed back up to the surface and jumped out of the water. Tails carried me over to where Yacker was.
"Hey guys!" he greeted.
I noticed that the sun was practically gone and the moon was rising over in the looked off to where the robot was and we saw that he jumped out of the water and exploded. The aliens were free and the ones that we absorbed popped out of us to join them. We said our good-byes to them and watched as the fifth piece of the core was returning to its rightful place. It fell into the water and the lake began to glow with dazzling light. The light faded and we saw that the lake was clean again. It was completely clear and just in time too.
"Guys! Look at that!" Yacker yelled.
He pointed over the horizon. The moon was full and its light reflected off of the water so beautifully. I could just stare at it for hours.
"Wow." said Tails in pure amazement.
After we stopped to rest for a bit, we had to get a move on.
"Okay, guys. There's just one piece of the planets core left to rescue. I'm willing to bet that Eggman has it over at his HQ. According to my handheld, it should be east from here." Tails said.
We looked eastward and saw a tall thin tower in the distance.
"That's where we'll scramble his plans once and for all." I said.
"Well let's hurry. It can't be long now until we save the planet from losing all of its energy." said Yacker.
"C'mon guys! Let's get this party started!" I said while running off with excitement flooding my head.
"Sonic! Wait for us!" Tails shouted.
Well there you go. Thanks again to Falconess for the lake's name. Time to finish Eggman!
