SONIC THE HEDGEHOG: SOLARIS
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Chapter Ten: Enemies Become Friends
It was the day after Elise and Amy had escaped from Eggman's clutches. Everything was peaceful in town, but peace never really lasts very long. Floating high above the town of Soleanna, Eggman's airship could be seen clearly by everyone. "Princess Elise, ruler of Soleanna. By refusing to negotiate with me, you have forced me to take drastic actions." Eggman said over the load speakers. The crowd below the airship was starting to panic at Eggman's initial threat and amongst them was Amy, who was headed towards the castle to meet Elise. Amy quickly darted towards the castle, hoping to stop Elise before Eggman's plan succeeded.
"Meet me at the specified point at 4 o'clock today. Failure to do so on time will result in my leveling of this entire town so that nothing but ashes remain." Eggman threatened. Elise looked out from her balcony to see that Eggman was not bluffing, meaning she had no other choice. "Miss Elise!" One of the maids cried. "I cannot allow harm to come to my people." Elise said as she started to walk out. "Miss Elise?" One of the maids questioned. "It is my duty as princess of Soleanna to go. There is no other choice." Elise told them before she left to fulfill Eggman's demands.
At Wave Ocean just outside of town, Sonic was walking along the coastline. You heard right, Sonic the Hedgehog, the fastest thing alive, is walking. The reason he wasn't running like he normally does was because he had a lot on his mind, thinking about a certain pink hedgehog we all know. "I can't believe I almost kissed Amy. I can't actually be falling for her...can I?" Sonic asked himself in his head. Sonic couldn't believe that the incident happened twice. The first time had been when he fought Silver and the same thing happened only a yesterday. "I have to admit, she has changed a bit and so have I. I think the truth is I actually lo..." Sonic stopped himself when he heard a frantic female voice. "SONIC!!!"
Sonic turned around to face the very person he was thinking about. "Amy, what's wrong?" Sonic asked when his female counterpart stopped in front on him. "It's Elise, she's been captured!" Amy said frantically. "Again?" Sonic questioned, clearly becoming annoyed of having to do the same thing again. "Yes again! Don't just stand there, move!" Amy shouted. "Ok, geez, we'll save her." Sonic said before taking off down the coastline. Amy caught up with him in a few seconds and Sonic asked "Where is he headed anyway?" "I heard from one of workers at a local café that he was headed for Kingdom Valley." Amy answered. Sonic screeched to a halt and Amy turned around to find out why. "What's wrong?" Amy asked. "Kingdom Valley is that way." Sonic pointed the opposite direction. "Oh." Amy said embarrassingly. Sonic and Amy quickly run the other direction to make up for lost time.
High above Kingdom Valley, Eggman held Elise prisoner aboard his airship. "You've wasted so much of my time. If you had cooperated with me earlier, I wouldn't have had to do this." Eggman said irritantly. "What are you trying to do, Dr. Eggman?" Elise said in a proper manner. "Why do you wish to revive the Flames of Disaster?" Elise asked the evil scientist. "Did your parents ever disclose anything to you anything about Solaris?" Eggman asked as he walked around her closely to give him an intimidate look. "Solaris's secrets are in his eternal flames. His power...can change time and even manipulate the very fabric of time itself. I wish to obtain this power and dominate everything in this world. From the past all the way to the future." Eggman revealed his evil plot.
"So...you wish to rule over...time?" Elise questioned. "Yes, truly. And the secret...It remains dormant inside of you, princess." Eggman said. Eggman walked over to his computer console and opened up a file titled Iblis, the Flames of Disaster. "The princess of Soleanna and the seven chaos emeralds. Once I have everything, the fate of the whole world will change. And one of the beautiful gems is just up ahead." Eggman said. Eggman minimized the Iblis file and activated his emerald tracker. His emerald tracker is similar to the one Tails created before, only it works at a larger scale. "Chaos emerald located." The computer stated. "Finally...now, let's go collect that chaos emerald." Eggman said.
Sonic and Amy were running across the valley outside Soleanna until several white fighter mechs drop down and blocked their path. "We never get a break, do we?" Sonic said. The mechs were about to fire until they were suddenly entrapped in a strange light. "What the?" Sonic questioned. Just then, Silver and Blaze drop down from one of the trees and lands in front of the two. "Silver!" Amy exclaimed. Using his psychokinetic powers, Silver pushed all the mechs against the trees and destroyed them. "You two look like you're in a hurry." Silver said. "What's it to you." Sonic said harshly, not trusting Silver one bit. But why would he after Silver tried to kill him not once, not twice, but three times. "Look, I know you don't trust me, but the circumstances have changed. I need to rescue the princess." Silver said. Sonic could tell that Silver was telling the truth and said "All right, but how are we going to find her?" Sonic asked. "It would be a good idea if we split into groups of two to find her and then get back together later to save her." Blaze suggested. "Ok, let's go, Amy." Sonic said as he ran off with Amy close behind. "We better hurry before Eggman frees Iblis." Silver said. "Right." Blaze said as the two ran off in another direction.
Sonic and Amy were running down their chosen path at high speed, but were stopped, like always, by a small army of white fighter mechs and a walker mech block their path. "Looks like they don't know when to quit." Sonic said. "We don't have time for this!" Amy shouted as she pulled out her humongous hammer and charged at the mechs. The mechs aimed their guns at their attacker and fired. Amy was so blinded by her anger towards Eggman that she somehow didn't notice the bullets headed straight for her. Luckily, Sonic quickly dived on top of Amy and pinned her to the ground so the bullets would miss their target. "What are you doing?! Let go of me before I..." Amy was cut when Sonic brought her up to feet and hit her across the face. "Are you crazy?! You could have died doing something that stupid!" Sonic shouted, making Amy come to her senses. "I'm sorry. I'm just..." Amy trailed off. "Listen, I understand that you're worried about Elise. But getting yourself killed isn't going to help." Sonic reasoned. Amy held her head down in shame.
But while they weren't looking, the white fighter mechs took the opportunity to completely surround the hedgehog couple. Sonic and Amy only realized where they where when they reload their guns. "You know, I never thought I would go out like this." Sonic said. "I can't believe it has to end this way." Amy said sadly. Sonic check around for anyway off escaping this, but saw no way out. Sonic knew it was over, but he knew he had one thing left to do before he died. "Amy, there's something I need to tell you." Sonic said as he turned to face her directly. "What is it, Sonic?" Amy asked curiously. "A lot has been happening between us lately and I just need to tell you the truth. Amy, I lov..." Sonic was cut off when an object came from out of nowhere and sliced of one of the mechs head off. After taking a closer look, Sonic found the object to be a large shuriken. "No way!" Shouted happily. Suddenly, a whole barrage of shuriken came from out of nowhere and killed off all the white mechs. When the white mechs were all destroyed, Vector and Charmy walked next to Sonic and Amy and Espio reappeared next to them. "Team Chaotix!" Amy shouted in joy. "You looked like you could use some help." Vector said. "Thanks." Sonic said. "Don't thank us yet. There's still one left." Espio said, referring to the walker mech.
The walker opened up the secret hatches in its body and fired out a barrage of homing missiles. "Homing missiles! Charmy, try to redirect them back at that robot." Espio instructed. "Hey! I'm the leader here! Charmy, do what Espio said." Vector said as he shoved Espio to the side. "Gotcha!" Charmy said excitedly. Charmy flew directly at the missiles and when they were a foot away, Charmy made a sharp turn upwards and the missiles followed. Charmy was going to do what he was told, but then decided to have a little fun. Charmy flew in circle with the missiles and even spelled his name from their exhaust fumes. "Quit messing around, you idiot!" Vector yelled from the ground. "He's no fun." Charmy complained and flew at the mech. Charmy flew directly under the mech and turned around and watched as the mech was destroyed by the missiles. "Yeah! Fireworks!" Charmy cheered.
"What are doing here anyway?" Sonic asked the detective trio. "We were called to investigate on why this areas valuable treasures keep disappearing." Espio explained. "Hey! I was going to say that!" Vector complained. Espio ignored him and asked "Do you have any clue as to who might be behind it?" Just then, Jet and his team passed by on their Extreme Gear, carry a large bag with them. "Just one." Amy hinted. "They've got to be the thieves." Espio informed his team. "After them!" Vector ordered. Team Chaotix left to chase the Babylon Rouges, leave Sonic and Amy very confused. "What just happened?" Amy asked. "I have no clue." Sonic answered honestly.
Eggman was in his ship further studying the files on Iblis until the alarms suddenly went off. Eggman checked his computer for what was causing the problem. "The one of the engines are malfunctioning." Eggman stated. Suddenly, a thunderous explosion could be heard from the lower chambers. "What is happening?!" Eggman questioned. Down in the engine room, Black Doom was destroying the attacking Mechs while Erazor Djinn was destroying the engines. "SWIFT STRIKE!" Black Doom called out as a horizontal disk flew out to destroy another group of mechs. Erazor unsheathed his razor blade and sliced another engine in half. "Are you certain this is a good idea?" Black Doom asked as his master watched from the shadows.
"If we can't stop Mephiles, then the least we can do is make sure that Iblis is not freed from its seal." The master said as he jumped in front of Black Doom. "Help that accursed genie. I'll take care of these meddlesome pests." The master ordered. "As you wish." Black Doom said before he turned to assist the evil genie. The shrouded master gathered a large amount of blue chaos energy and shot it out towards the mechs. The attack was so powerful that it not only destroyed the mechs, but blew a hole in the side of the airship itself. Back in the control room, Eggman was panicking as he realized that there was nothing he could do. "No! We're about to crash!" Eggman shouted in fright.
Sonic and Silver met up again later, but found out they were too late as they watched Eggman ship fly over the horizon and exploded. "No! We're too late!" Sonic exclaimed. "We failed. We couldn't save her." Amy said tearfully. Silver held his head down in shame. It was his fault that Elise became Eggman's prisoner in the first place. Just then, an idea came to Silver. "Wait...there's still a way to change this." Silver said. "Huh?" Sonic said in confusion. "If we return to an earlier point in time, we'll be able to save her." Silver explained. "Chaos control." Sonic said, understanding Silver's plan. "Exactly." Silver said as he pulled out the white emerald he received from the ruler of Soleanna. Sonic pulled out the light-blue chaos emerald he obtained from Silver's time. The two hedgehogs held their chaos emeralds in the air and shouted "CHAO CONTROL!"
On command, a white vortex appeared behind them. "Come on, Sonic! Let's go save Elise!" Amy exclaimed as she charged at the vortex. "Amy, no!" Sonic yelled, but was too late as she jumped through the vortex. Sonic was about to follow her until he turned around and threw his chaos emerald to Silver. Silver caught the emerald and looked to Sonic, confused, "We can handle this ourselves. Besides, you've got somewhere to go, don't you? we'll make sure to change Elise's fate. And that in turn, should change your future too. Thanks, Silver" Sonic said. "Yeah...just go save her." Silver said. Sonic jumped into the vortex with Silver and Blaze jumping in after him.
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