CHAPTER 9 – THE POWER OF THE 7 CHAOS EMERALDS

"He'll be here any second," shouted Tails. Sonic the hedgehog raced into the mission control room to find all his friends and the mission crew. Everyone immediately turned around and bellowed out "Happy Birthday!" Although he looked about 15 years old for a hedgehog, he was now 22 years of age.

"Guys you really shouldn't have," said Sonic flustered.
"Why ever not?" asked James.
"I feel spoilt." Sonic was given several presents. Most of which came from Amy to show how happy she was that it was the day of her crush's birth. "I'm so happy that it's your birthday Sonic, we're going to have so much fun today," said Amy.
"And what's your definition of fun?" asked James.
"Just the normal definition of fun."
"I beg to differ." James laughed.
"And I'm happy that you're not dead, James." James presented Sonic with a new pair of shoes, gloves and rings. "Wow thanks James," said Sonic happily. "Chris will be on his way here soon," said James. "I don't know whether Shadow and rouge will be coming."

Due to the fact that it was a lovely day everyone agreed to have the party outside. "Amy stop trying to kiss Sonic, it'll never happen that easily between you and him," said James. Ben arrived in a Republic cruiser to wish Sonic a happy Birthday. James was happy to see his best friend again and asked him to join the picnic. However, the reunion was interrupted. General Grievous suddenly crashed onto the ground with thunderous force. He laughed evilly and then revealed an extra two pair of arms and drew all four of his lightsabers. James shot up from the ground and drew his own lightsaber and stared into the eyes of his long-time mortal enemy. He began to engage in battle with the evil robotic warlord. Everyone cheered James on. Ben rose from the picnic area to help his long-time best friend, but was then ambushed by Ventress. Ambushing was one of Ventress' specialties. Ben did the same as James had done and stared into the eyes of his long-time mortal enemy. He then began to engage in battle with the Sith Lord. Before either of the brave heroes could express their hate for their enemies, Grievous spoke. "We're not here for a fight. We are here to present you with our demands."
"Demands?" shouted Ben.
"Yes the demands issued by my master, Lord Sidious," answered Grievous.
"Yeah well, we don't care about the demands," shouted Ben.
"Ben!" shouted James.
"You may be my best friend but at times you can say some really stupid things."
"Shakespeare is at stake here, we can't afford to lose him."
"But we don't know what those demands are going to be yet."
"That's a risk as mission controller I am willing to take." James once again stared into the synthetic eyes of his nemesis. He asked for the demands from the robotic warlord. James knew it was going to be a tense confrontation as they both wanted to rip each other apart. Grievous handed the demands to him and leapt off the ground. The two tyrants exited the scene.

The demands were as follows: If you want Shakespeare to live, just follow every one of our instructions.