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Chapter 9
The Oldest Ruin On Earth
Tails was in heaven, Renamed Samus' ship. He had learned so mush by tinkering with it behind Samus' back (though sometimes Wave got there first). He was actually disappointed as they approached their destination. Their destination was a ruin, holding the single remaining Chaos Emerald.
They were hovering above what looked like bare ground. But when Samus turned on her ship's radar, they could see that it was a large cave. Samus' ship began it's descent at 200 mph. It was a good thing it did, because even at that speed it took another 2 days to hit the ground.
When they stepped out, they immediately felt as if it were a very hot summer day. But the ruin took their mind off it. It was unlike any other they'd ever seen.
"Chazoth" Samus said. "What was that?" Amy asked. "Chazoth, it must be the name of the city, it says so on that stone." "How can you read it?" Knuckles inquired. "Because…" "Because what?" "Because it's written in Chozo language!"
Everyone fell silent. They already knew that the Chozos were a race of aliens that raised Samus, but what would their language be doing in this hot place?
Finally, Tails said, "Impossible…" "I know, but believe me, it…" "No, I mean, I can read it, too!" Samus was stunned, so was everyone else. "A… a few years ago I found a 6x5 tablet with this same language. I deciphered it, but it took me 4 months!" "But how could that be?"
"Well… I have a theory…" He said again. A few moments of silence followed once again. "Well?" Shadow pressed. "Well, many years ago, Chozos were still pioneering to other planets, right?" "Yes…" Samus said, she had a clue where this was going. "Well… Suppose one group settled on earth!" He blurted. Rouge opened her mouth, but Tails didn't want any more interruptions, "Suppose they came here, billions of years ago, and settled here. But as life here developed, they were either forced to leave, or died out. It must have been back when Amphibians evolved when they disappeared." "How can you tell?" Vector asked. "Because of how hot it is." "How does that make a difference?" "Because, over course of years, volcanoes erupt and add layers to the Earth. However, it presses the rest of the layers closer to the center. The Chozos must have disappeared Millions of Billions of years ago, so as time passed, their city is only 1,000 mile from the center of the Earth!" He finished, panting. "That makes sense, "Samus admitted," This is different than any Chozo city I've ever seen, though. And the pictures are different…" She stopped, realizing, "Of course! They had to adapt to this planet, so they evolved differently!" Tails nodded. Everyone was in awe. This was a truly great discovery, the Chozos living on earth Eons before humans, even echidnas! It was Shadow who remembered what they came for.
"Well, the emerald must have fallen down here somewhere! Let's get to work!" "But there's no way Ridley could get down here! He doesn't have that adaptations my ship does!" Samus protested. "We still shouldn't forget, Eggman would eventually find his way down here!" Grudgingly, they agreed.
After 4 hours of searching, Amy found it on an Altar. "Wait!" Samus yelled, but it was too late. The minute the Orange Emerald was removed, the Altar glowed, then transformed… into a giant, Chozo-like, hovering fish. That made sense, as the Chozos were there during the sea-period of Earth. Suddenly, the fish spoke. "Outsiders! That stone fell to this temple for a reason! The people on the surface would do terrible things with such power! Give it here!" "No way, fish-face!" Sonic yelled, "You may be right, but we need that to keep someone else from getting it!" The Chozo fish said no more, it just charged at Sonic with its armored head. Sonic was too quick, he dodged. "This is what I trained with Shadow for!" He yelled, and hit the dazed guardian with a Chaos Wind. The fish recovered, and let out a blast of Chozo-energy at Sonic, who warped out of the way. Sonic knew why this match was so easy. When the Chozos lived there, this must've been like a god compared to the others. Time to show Old Grampfish how times have changed! He thought. He quickly did a homing attack on its dorsal fin. The creature turned and opened its mouth to attack, but Samus took the opportunity to finish it off by blasting its insides with ice beam. The creature quickly died.
"Why'd ya have to do that, I was winning?" Sonic joked. "You were dragging it out to long, we have the last Emerald, now let's hurry and get the other ones out of Ridley!" "She's right, Sonic." Knuckles pointed out, "But it's going to be a long ride up, who's up for a break?" Everyone raised their hands.
They boarded the ship and ascended, taking a great discovery with them. But first, they had to put the Earth out of danger.
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