Chapter 9

Eggman's Ambitions

Far away from our camp, countless miles away, at the robot head's destination, an evil plot unfolds. "Ohohoho!" Eggman laughed, "Scout! Get in here!" He yelled as he pushed a button and a giant door opened. "Show me the data you have gathered, who defeated Metal Sonic?" Eggman demanded. Scout the robot plugged into a monitor, showing the readings from his scan. "Oh… It seems Sonic has made some new pals, Scout, what information do you have on these two?" He says pointing to the two humans on the screen.

"Subjects names are Dylan and Court. Species: Human. Abilities: None." Scout beeped. "Threat level?" Eggman asked. "Minimal." Scout replied. "Hmm, I wonder why Sonic would bring helpless humans with him. Scout, is there any more information on these two?" Scout beeped, "No. I can only acquire current information; I did not gather any background information on these two." Eggman clenched his fists, "Fine! Then you are worthless to me!" Eggman pushed a button and caused Scout to self destruct.

"Worthless. Egg-Spy! Get in here now!" Eggman called as he pressed a button. A black robot walked in, "Yes, master?" It asked. "I need you to gather information on these two," Eggman said pointing to the two humans on the screen. "But do not get caught, or destroyed, I want you to beam all the information back to me, understood?" The robot nodded and said, "Yes, master." and then walked back out of the room. "Yes, everything is falling into place. But wait, I still don't have the emeralds! Graah!" Eggman screamed as he slammed his hand down.

"Find the Chaos Emeralds! All you robots have failed me! Find them! Do not stop at anything! Destroy anyone who gets in your way! Egg-Fleet, dismissed!"

When I woke up the next morning Sonic and Knuckles were gone, Tails was sitting working on the Tornado and Court was still sleeping. "Hey Tails, where'd everybody go?" I said as I stretched. "Sonic went out for a run, and Knuckles is over there, punching trees, training I guess." Tails said, and then looked back down at what he was reading. "Thanks buddy." I smiled. I got up and walked over to Knuckles, who was slamming away at trees, and rocks, and just about anything that got in his way.

"Hey Knuckles!" I scared him, "Whoa!" Knuckles said as he tripped and fell on his face. "Gah, what!?" I laughed, "Where is Sonic?" He stood up and dusted himself off, "He went out for a run, he'll be back in a little while." I nodded, "Thanks Knuckles." He smiled at me and said, "Anytime." I walked back to our little camp area to see Court sitting up, rubbing her eyes. "Good morning!" I said loudly, startling her. "Huh? Don't do that. It's too early." She said in a very tired voice, and then yawned.

I laughed and helped her up, "Where'd Sonic go?" She asked me, "You know, I asked the same question when I woke up, Knuckles said he went for a run." We heard the putter of a car. It was Amy with Big and Cream. "Hi guys! Where's Sonic?" Ok this was getting ridiculous. "He went for a run." Me, Court, Tails, and Knuckles all said at the same time. "Oh, ok! When will he be back?" Amy asked. "Here I am!" Sonic said as he screeched to a stop. He smiled and said, "Hey guys."

"Sonic! We are heading off to the airport now!" Amy said as she jumped out of the car and gave Sonic a big hug. "Uh, ok, Amy, contact us when you get there. David will be waiting at the airport for you guys." Amy jumped up and down and Cream said, "Amy, we are going to miss our flight!" Cheese added "Chao chao!" Walked back to the car and said "Ok! Bye Sonic, I'll miss you!" She jumped back in the car and drove off, waving like crazy back at us. Big, Cream, and Cheese were waving too, but not as wild as Amy was.

"Alright guys, we should get going too." Tails said while he was loading up the Tornado. We all jumped in and got ready for take off. "I like seeing different parts of the world!" Court said excitedly, I laughed, "Me too, and your awake now!" She giggled then looked out the window. I raised my wrist up and pushed a button, "David, Team Rose is on their way to the airport, and Amy will call you when they are going to land." I waited a few seconds, there was no answer. "David? Are you there? Hello?" Tails looked back and said, "Oh, I forgot to mention, if no one answers, it goes to a voicemail type thing." I looked at Tails and said, "Well I'm glad you told me now, I was freaking out. Alright David, call me later." I pressed a button and the screen shut off.

We were in the air for maybe an hour or two, when the Emerald Tracker in the Tornado went off. "We are getting close to an emerald!" Tails said excitedly, as he lowered the plane for a landing. We landed in a clearing and got out of the plane, "The emerald has to be in that town over there, let's go on foot." Tails said while beginning to walk towards the town. "Race you guys there!" Sonic said. Tails then took off into the air, and Court dashed right behind Sonic. "Wha!?" I say as I trip, "Wow they were really ready for a race!" So I boosted off behind them.

"I'm never gonna catch up to them!" I say as I try to run as fast as possible, I held my head up high and thought only about speed, the next thing I know, I'm right behind them. "Woo! Go Dylan!" Court cheers me on as I catch up to her. "Come on! We gotta go!" I say as I grab her hand and feel a burst of energy, we ran so fast we passed Sonic, "What the?" Sonic said as we pass him. We noticed a canyon and we tried to stop, still holding Court's hand, we where skidding and hand no possible way of stopping. "Oh no!" court says as we fly off into the canyon.

"Court!" I say as we flew straight off onto the other side of the canyon. Where we let go of each other and made a complete stop. "W-what happened?" I said to Court looking at the canyon we just cleared. "Dylan! Court!" Sonic says as Tails is flying him over. "What happened you guys?" Tails asked us. "We don't know. When we touched, it felt like pure energy and power!" Court replied. Tails looked at us and said, "Maybe because of the gear, and being infused with Chaos Energy, you guys get stronger the closer you are, and if you guy are touching, you have awesome power!"

"Whoa, do you really think so?" I asked him, he nodded and said, "It's a possibility. But I'm not sure, let's look more into it later on. Right now we have got to get the fourth Chaos Emerald!" We turned around a walked towards the town, when we got closer we saw something that looked troubling. "Eggman robots." Sonic said. The robots had the people lined up and it looked like they were interrogating them. We all jumped to the side and hid behind a building, "This is going to be difficult; we have to save these people, and find the Chaos Emerald now." Sonic said.

"We have to be quick. If we hesitate, they will gang up on us." Court said. We all nodded then climbed to the top of the building we were hiding behind. We looked over the town; it wasn't that big, "Hey! Over here!" Sonic yelled out, as a group of robots looked out way. "Now!" Sonic said as we jumped down and began to attack the robots, bouncing off their heads, charging into them, or sliding under them. There were about 15 robots; we destroyed them all in a matter of minutes. "Sonic, go to the next group, me and Court will help these people!" I said to Sonic, he nodded and ran off.

"Who are you?" A person asked me and Court, we looked at each other and I said, "I'm Dylan, and this is Court, we are here to help! Do you know why the robots are here?" One person stepped up and said, "They were saying something about and Emerald. That's why there are here, looking for some sort of emerald." Me and Court looked at each other and Court said, "The Chaos Emerald, do any of you know where it is?" They all shook their heads.

"Ok, thank you, get to safety." I said as they ran off, me and Court ran to the next group of robots and Sonic and Tails apparently already destroyed them, so we ran throughout the town looking for the Chaos Emerald. "Dylan, the tracker on our gear!" I looked at my wrist and pushed a button, "Good one, Court!" I say to her smiling. "It's over there!" I said as I pointed to where the tracker was leading us. "Let's go!" Court said as she grabbed my hand and we ran, but there was an obstacle, and the obstacle was where the tracker was saying the emerald was.

"They know its there." I said to Court as we stopped. "Well then, let's beat them to it!" Court said as she grabbed my hand again and we were stopped by Knuckles, who jumped in front of us. "There you guys are! You ditched me when you started to race!" Knuckles said angrily. Me and Court looked at each other and laughed. "Sorry Knuckles!" Court said, "Yeah, sorry about that, the emerald is over there!" I said as I pointed to the large group of robots. "Hmm, no problem, I'll take them out!" Knuckles said punching his fists together.

Knuckles charged into the brawl before us, and started smashing away. "Well, it's going to be a lot easier now!" Court said laughing. "Yeah, let's do this!" I said as we dashed into the battle. Me and Court grabbed hands and dashed into the robots, causing them to explode. We stopped when we came across a bigger, tougher robot in the center of the swarm. "Are you ready?" I asked Court, "Are you?" She replied. "I sure am, let's kick some butt." We jumped jump and kicked the robot in its chest. It felt like kicking concrete. We both got swatted away by the robot and fell on our backs. "Knuckles!" I yelled, getting his attention, "Hold on guy! I'm coming!" Knuckles said, throwing a robot into the giant one, causing it to stumble. The robot turned around and kicked a mailbox up into the air. The robot caught the mailbox and ripped it open, revealing a Chaos Emerald.

"Hey!" Sonic yelled, as he jumped out of no where and kicked the robot. It stumbled again and then spun around, swatting us away. The robot then started to transform. It gained wings, and jet boosters. It leaned forward and began to charge up I looked at Court, who was standing next to me, also looking at me; we grabbed each others hand and smiled. The robot launched itself off the ground through the street; me and Court immediately chased it. "Are you ready?" Court asked me, "Let's go!" I said as we both made a flying long jump and smashed into the robot, causing it to crash into the ground.

The robot skidded to a stop, Sonic was right behind us, Tails and Knuckles followed. Me and Court looked at the robot then walked over and pried open its hand. There lied a shiny Chaos Emerald. "Good job you guys!" Sonic said smiling. "That's the fourth Chaos Emerald, only three more to go!" Tails said excitedly. Knuckles jumped in the air and drilled through the robot, completely destroying it. "Just to be safe." He said while he smashed the head. "Is everything clear in the town?" Court asked. "Yeah, all the robots are eliminated." Sonic replied.

We double checked just to be sure, and then we headed back to the plane. "We will fly for a while then land closer to the next emerald to rest." Tails said. We all nodded and hopped into the plane. We were about to take off when Sonic stopped Tails, "Wait, Tails what is that?" Sonic jumped out of the plane and chased down a black robot. We jumped out and followed him. The robot froze and said, "Gathering and sending data." We all stopped and observed the robot, Sonic then sliced through the robot like it was nothing; the robot skipped and said "D-data transaction incomplete. T-terminating." Sonic looked at us and said, "Eggman is sending these robots to test us, we have to be more careful." That one knew what it was doing.

"That's scary." I said. "Yeah, who knows what else Eggman can do." Court added on.

"We'll just have to watch our backs from now on. But for now, let's not worry." Sonic said confidently.