Sorry about delay, Internet was out.
Disclaimer: Even I am getting tired of repeating myself, but this is the only way to avoid lawsuits and legal trouble. I've said it before, and I'll say it again to avoid any problems. *takes a deep breath* I DON'T OWN ANYTHING BUT MY OC!
Metal Sonic held the unconscious Amy under it's arm and set it's next target due Northbound. The robotic menace fired up the thrusters in the soles of it's 'feet' and flew for his destination (I know machines are technically considered genderless for the most part, but we'll consider Metal Sonic as 'male' for this story). "Next target: Angel Island" The machine told himself as he began his flight.
Sonic caught up with Knuckles just as soon as the echidna reached for the front door to the workshop. Knuckles asked, "Were they there?" Sonic nodded 'no' and told the echidna about the multitude of rings he gathered. *OLD JOKE ALERT* The red anthro's jaw nearly dropped when he heard that Sonic gathered that many rings. After regaining his composure, he yelled out loud, "it's over nine-THOUUUSSSSAAAAAANNNNNNNDDDD!!" *end old joke alert* Sonic had to cover his ears when Knuckles yelled out the joke or else he'd lose his hearing. "Hey, Knuckles, that joke has already been told. Besides, I gathered that many to pay for the Chaotix's help. You know how they are with the bills they have to pay for their home, y'know?" The echidna considered the blue blur's actions and acknowledged the speedy anthro's plans for thinking ahead and praised him.
The moment they entered the door, they saw the Chaotix team chatting with Ozone about Espio's issue with the alien. Ozone assured Espio that he may have unreal powers, but he doesn't like to use them unless needed to ensure peace. That calmed down the chameleon a bit, and then realized the bad vibes he had from before were just nervousness. "First time it ever happened to me, sorry about that" Espio started before continuing, "I guess it happens whenever I think something bad might happen… and most of the time I'm right." The chameleon continued talking with Ozone about his issues with the alien in question, until Espio couldn't feel the bad vibes from the newcomer anymore.
Sonic broke the peace between Espio and Ozone by explaining what he heard from Knuckles about the other master emeralds and the 'ultimate emerald'. Vector was leaning on one of the walls of Ozone's 'house' when he looked towards his purple comrade and noticed his behavior change. Charmy, on the other hand, was on top of the crocodile's head taking a short nap out of boredom. The green croc shook his head to get the bee to wake up and inform him about a change in the chameleon's behavior and assumed the problem was solved.
After hearing what Sonic and Knuckles asked them to do, Espio smiled a smile that made his teammates get excited over. The croc was the first to ask, "What's up this time, Espio?" The chameleon replied, "Boys, we got a BIG job to do right now. Sonic wants us to search the world for chaos emeralds. He said they already have seven of them, BUT there is another set of seven somewhere in the world." He smirked, then continued, "He's paid half now, and will pay us the other half when we find the other set of seven chaos emeralds. Knuckles says that if we come across them, he says to bring them back to him to see if they are the chaos emeralds in the set he recently discovered." Charmy got excited and concluded, "So, it's a scavenger hunt for chaos emeralds, but we have to search the world for them, right?" the chameleon replied, "That's the basic idea, Charmy." With that, the three didn't ask anymore questions and simply darted out of the workshop in search of the other chaos emeralds.
Somewhere outside Prison Island, Eggman was building what seemed like a huge dome-shaped coliseum for the fight he planned with Shadow about. While he was hauling around scrap metal for the construction of his arena, his foot hit something on the ground and he fell face-first on the ground. As he turned to kick whatever he tripped on, he noticed that the object glowed a bright shade of orange. When he picked it up, he immediately recognized it as a chaos emerald and placed it in the pocket of his pants. After stuffing it into his pocket, the fat man resumed the construction of his battle arena he's preparing for Shadow.
The ebony hedgehog in question was practicing some new tricks with his powers, until he noticed something in the corner of his eyes. He went to investigate, until he saw what caught his attention: a chaos emerald. Eying it with evil ambitions, he picked it up and returned to inventing new attacks. His progress skyrocketed now that he had a chaos emerald in his possession since he lost his when they were in the world grand prix extreme gear tournament. He had been trying a new technique which he thought did absolutely nothing, until he noticed that he felt stronger in terms of physical strength. Shadow tried the move again, and discovered it's use: boost's the target's physical strength…for a limited time.
He tried another move that he thought was useless, until he grew tired from experimenting. After trying the 'useless move' one last time for the day, he suddenly felt himself surrounded in a green 'ball' of chaos energy. The chaos energy surrounding Shadow suddenly started shrinking, but that's not what surprised him the most. The green energy ball passed right through him, still shrinking of course, and soon enough, he felt his body absorb the ball of energy and he felt like brand new. Once the ebony anthro took in the sudden change that happened, he no longer felt tired, but raring to go on training. He thought the newly discovered technique might be of some help to him, and he called it his 'chaos regen' move. He then learned it's purpose: regenerates the target's energy for a limited time.
Seems like Espio finally overcame the bad vibes from earlier and passed on the information regarding their new assignment to his teammates. What other tricks could Shadow have in store for the blue blur? Will the Chaotix team succeed in retrieving the chaos emeralds from Eggman and Shadow? What does Ozone think about the 'ultimate emerald' he heard about from Knuckles? The only way to find out is to stay tuned for the next chapter!
