Chapter 10

ShadTikal4ever does not own Amy, Tails, Sonic, Rouge, Knuckles, Cream, or Shadow. Sega does. I do, however, own Robo, and Vinny.

Shadow was listening to another of Tails' jokes, unaware of the red dot on the back of his head. And of course, Tails started choking again! Shadow rolled his eyes. Shadow leaned back casually, his chair on its hind two legs. Vinny noticed that something wasn't right, but he didn't know what. Suddenly, Shadow fell backwards, and everyone laughed. But not even a second after he fell, there was a very loud bang, and Shadow gasped. In the wall right in front of where his head was were five bullets.

"DUCK AND COVER! DUCK AND COVER!" Shadow yelled. Everyone got down except for Tails, who took out a metal plate and followed the dot closely with his eyes. Then, the dot slowly inched its way to Tails' chest. Tails put the metal plate over it, and the ruby red dot shone brightly against the metal plate. Then, they heard gunfire. Tails just stood there, wide-eyed. They heard someone scream in pain outside, and they turned to see Sonic, coming out from behind a tree, holding a pistol with a laser attachment. Knuckles babbled, not believing what he was seeing.

"Mr. Knuckles, you're psychic!" Cream said excitedly. Knuckles sweat dropped.

"I was actually being sarcastic when I said that..."Knuckles said. Everyone stared at him. Shadow was bewildered. 'Wow! Knuckles, while being sarcastic, found a way to save us all! So I owe Knuckles my life, and Knuckles owes his to Vinny...we're going to have a long cycle of this!' Shadow thought.

"I'M GONNA GET YOU FOR THIS!" Sonic yelled. They all turned. Sonic was bleeding badly from his chest, where the rebounded shot hit him. Tails gasped. His precision and quick-thinking nearly took out Sonic! Sonic glared at Tails, and warped away somewhere in a bright flash of green light. Cream ran up and hugged Tails.

"Tails, you helped save us all!" Cream cried. Shadow didn't know why, but something made him laugh. Tails blushed, and that made everyone else laugh, except for Rouge, who was in the bathroom, putting on make-up or something.

"Yeah...do we have a plan or something? Something tells me we're going to make a plan, as well as finding a new hiding spot." Vinny stated. Shadow nodded, while Tails gathered quite a few of the metal plates. Cream smiled. Tails then took the plates, separated them into 8 piles, and then managed to fuse them together with maple syrup.

"There! I've just made bulletproof armour of all of us! It covers our heads and chests, protecting all of our vital points!" Tails exclaimed happily. Shadow put his on. It fit his quills perfectly, and had holes for his eyes. And even better, it smelt really good! After looking at Shadow, everyone else put theirs on.

"How do I look?" asked Rouge as she stepped out of the bathroom. Everyone just stared. Rouge walked over to the remaining metal plates, and put them on. She then took off the chest plate, and sliced two tiny slits in the back. Rouge put it back on, and her wings slid through the slits.

"Okay everyone, I think we're ready to go fight Eggman. Only one problem: How do we get there?" asked Amy. Everyone shrugged, except for Shadow. Suddenly, a brick smashed through the window, and hit Amy in the head. Amy, who was unharmed due to the armour, picked up the brick. She then untied the paper, and read it.

"Oh, you have got to be kidding me." Amy groaned. She looked outside, and saw a huge castle outside by the edge of Angel Island. Shadow took the paper, and read it. He showed to everyone else, cursing himself for his stupidity. The paper said 'Look out the window.' Knuckles simply looked out the window, and generated anger. How could he have not seen the huge castle that was on Angel Island? Tails started hitting his head on the wall, and Vinny punched himself on the head.

"Hey, just in case, we should get all of the Chaos Emeralds, because we may need our most powerful forms: Hyper Shadow, Hyper Knuckles, and Turbo Tails." Vinny said. Tails nodded. Vinny held out the purple Emerald, Shadow took out the green Emerald, and Tails took out the white Emerald. Shadow sweat dropped.

"Hey, Tails? Why didn't you ever tell us you had the white Emerald?" Shadow asked. The white Emerald could have been really handy in the past.

"You never asked!" Tails said. Shadow wanted to slap Tails. But before he did, Rouge took out the orange Emerald. And Cream took out the azure Chaos Emerald. Shadow looked angry enough to kill. Finally, Amy took out the red Emerald. Shadow slapped himself on the forehead. They had all but one of the Chaos Emeralds!

"If you four had Chaos Emeralds, why didn't you say something?" Shadow yelled. Vinny sweat dropped. Knuckles started laughing, and Tails quietly walked out of the room.

"You never asked!" Amy said with a smug grin. It was the wrong thing to say. Shadow took out his gun, and threatened to shoot. Knuckles grinned.

"Hey, Shadow, can we just go attack Eggman now?" Knuckles asked. Shadow took a deep breath, and put the gun away. Tails walked back into the room.

"Guess what? I made a giant bomb to blow up Eggman's fortress!" Tails exclaimed. In his hands was what looked like a football? Tails grinned. Shadow shrugged. Then, Knuckles ran out of his house, as fast as he could. Shadow rolled his eyes. Leave it to Knuckles to try a full frontal assault. Knuckles ran back into the room, carrying a shrunken master Emerald in his hand.

"So we can use the Chaos Emeralds to transform." Knuckles stated. Tails walked up to Vinny and whispered something in his ear. Vinny nodded.

"Hey, guys? I'm going to be right back, Tails wants to try something. Oh, and I'd be advised to leave the area, and go to the area where Robo did suicide." Vinny said. He then used Chaos Control to warp somewhere with Tails in a flash of emerald green light. Shadow then opened the door, waving his hand in a motion for them to leave. They all ran out, Shadow in the lead, and Amy in the rear.

Eggman's Base

There was a flash of green light, and Vinny and Tails appeared inside the main control room. Tails put the bomb down, and set the timer to 30 seconds. Just then, Eggman came in.

"Oho! It looks like Tails came by to visit! May I offer you tea, or biscuits?" Eggman asked. Tails and Vinny looked at each other.

"Where's Sonic?" Tails asked.

"Oh, I don't know, but ever since he joined me, he forced me to work for him! Now, I want to break free, but I don't know how!" Eggman said. Tails looked down at Eggman, who was lying on the ground, thumb in his mouth, crying like a baby.

"How about we save him now, and throw him off Angel Island?" Tails asked.

"Tails, that's a good idea!" Vinny replied Vinny grabbed Tails, and Eggman. He looked at the bomb. 5 seconds left! Vinny grabbed his purple Emerald, and held it in front of him.

"CHAOS CONTROL!" He yelled as the bomb blew up. They disappeared in a green flash, as the entire castle blew up.

Angel Island, North edge

Shadow turned around. A giant fireball appeared in the distance, where Eggman's castle was. Amy just stared at it, amazed that such a little bomb could do all that. Knuckles got a little worried.

"What if it destroys my house?" Knuckles asked. Shadow just glared at him. There was a bright, emerald green flash in front of them, and Tails and Vinny appeared, alongside...Eggman? Shadow stepped backwards in surprise. Eggman started talking,

"Guys, Sonic has gone out of control. My armies are listening to him now! He has taken over my position, and treats me as a prisoner. He plans to do the one thing that nobody would ever do, not even me!" Eggman said. Tails was surprised by this. Eggman had roboticized people, and tried to kill Sonic on a regular basis. Not to mention take over the world, and rule in the Eggman Empire. If Eggman wouldn't do it...it sent Tails shivers down his spine to even think of it. Knuckles, who had also known about the roboticization, shuddered. Amy and Cream didn't really care, Eggman does lots of things.

"Sonic the Hedgehog plans to destroy every living being except for himself, and you, Amy Rose, and become the great ruler of the Universe! Not just that, but to do it, he will have my robots slaughter every person, one country at a time!" Eggman exclaimed. Amy gasped in terror, and every one else stared at her, a look of terror on their faces. Amy was really upset. If it weren't for her, he wouldn't be so evil, he wouldn't have gone mental...Amy burst into tears, and was welcomed by none other then Sonic the Hedgehog.

"Eggman, Eggman, Eggman. You are a traitor. You told them my evil plan. You know what the punishment is. Death." And with one smooth motion, he flung Eggman off the edge of Angel Island. Sonic grinned.

"I'm back, and better than ever!" Sonic exclaimed. And Sonic took out a rocket launcher, and locked on to Tails.

"Sorry, Tails, but as they say, keep your friends close, and your enemies closer..." Sonic said. Then, everything seemed to go in slow-motion as Sonic pulled the trigger.

Heh, that's the end of chapter 10. I know, last chapter's Robo suicide was...random, but I didn't know what to do. Yeah, and I have to thank my friend for actually saying and doing that in a video game. Actually, most of this is based on video games. See if you can find any examples! For a hint, the resurrection is one. Later!

ShadTikal4ever.