Chapter 10
When Chaos took her fifth form in front of us, we were all stunned by how she looked. She now no longer represented anything humanesque and she now looked to have turned into a large octopus-type creature with 5 tentacles. "I... What is this monster?!" Amy gulped in fear. "Peh. Monster. If you want to point fingers as to who the true monster is, it is this horrid excuse for a guardian and her entire tribe," Chaos scoffed as she pointed one of her tentacles at Tikal with a frown.
Tikal responded by crying real tears and saying a sentence that I didn't expect her to say. "Chaos, I did nothing to harm you. Nor did I do anything to harm the Chao. I tried to get my father to stop the assault, but he wouldn't listen. But ask yourself this. If you end up destroying Station Square, which is full of innocent people, will you be any different than the Echidna tribe's actions against the Chao? You'd murder innocent humans and animals just like my father and his tribe murdered the Chao species? If anyone's the monster, it isn't just my tribe. If you go through with this, you'll be just as big a monster as Pachacamac," she said, her long speech actually surprising me not in how she said something I didn't expect, but in that she was saying this to Chaos's face right in front of her.
Chaos looked at Tikal with a growl but then looked at me with a small frown. "Half pussy. Tell me this: what do you plan on doing if you were to escape? Stop me in my endeavors, or stop Robotnik in his endeavors? Because it's a two-way street for us. Either way, you can only end one plan," Chaos frowned. I sighed at her question and told her my truthful answer. "I will stop whoever decides to hurt anyone unjustly. Whether that be you, Eggman, or both, I don't care. I will do the right thing in the end and, after all of it is done, I will help make more Chao with the help of the 7 emeralds," I frowned at her.
Chaos raised her eyebrow of white water at that last part and simply shook her head. "You really don't get it, do you?" she frowned at me. "Robotnik has shortened my leash big time since that incident in the ruins. And what's worse, I don't want to do any of this anymore... but... I have to..." she sighed at me. "Why? What is he doing to force you to do these things?" Sally asked in confusion. "He has a whole slew of Chao Eggs on his person and forced me to hatch each of them. If I don't comply with anything he says, he plans on using these Chao to power up his robots... by infusing them with their energy... he is threatening to kill them if I don't do exactly as he says," Chaos said to me, her words actually shocking me big time.
"That's horrific... do you know where he is keeping these baby Chao hostage?" Amy asked. "He's keeping them in his own Chao Garden on the ship. It will only open up for either himself or one of his robots, for only they know of the password to get in. It's sealed completely shut, so I can't hope to break in myself, not even by melting my body under it," Chaos explained. "Hmph. Is that all? Well don't worry. I think I know how to get us in there," I smiled as I happened to know a way we may get in there. "What do you have in mind?" Tikal asked. "We need to get in a sealed door, right? Well, why not smash our way in?... Maybe with the help of a certain Pink Eye," I smiled over at Amy.
"O-Oh yeah! My Piko Piko Hammer! Bright idea, but we'd need to hit it with a lot of force in order to open up a door of steel," Amy said. "Leave it to me," Sally smiled. "How are you going to do anything to a metal door, chipmunk?" Chaos asked her. "Trust me. I have my methods of madness," she smiled. "Fine. I'll open the cell for you, but you need to be quiet. If Robotnik hears that I let you out before we reach them, he'll have the Chao killed before we can get to them," Chaos said.
Chaos then returned through the bars and hit the switch with one tentacle, allowing the gate to open up for us. "Let's get moving now, but don't raise any attention to yourselves," Chaos frowned at us as we then exited the cage and went on our way out the door, the absence of Gamma confusing me. He should've been here by now and yet he wasn't. I then looked to the right and I saw that the door for Beta's reconstruction scene had already been opened and that it had just closed. Gamma was about to check up on us, so we needed to be quick.
"Okay, give me that hammer," Sally said as we approached the door that Chaos had mentioned. Eggman's Chao Garden. Amy then reached into a pocket on her dress and did something I didn't expect. She pulled out a small lollipop and pushed a button in the center, which immediately formed itself into her hammer! "Here ya go," Amy smiled as she gave it to Sally. "Okay..." Sally said as she did a bit of concentration and I could feel energy rise up within her.
It was kind of hard to see, but I could actually see a faint bit of aura surrounding Sally's entire body. And once it completely covered her, she swung the hammer at the door with such force, it actually caused the door to smash open in a snap! "W-What was that noise?! Zero! Investigate the damage in the main hall of the ship!" I heard Eggman say over the intercom as we all rushed into the Chao Garden to try and find the baby Chao. And once we were on the other side, we saw that the Chao, though larger than the one I had, were completely okay.
"Whew... Now let's grab one each and get out of here before anyone finds out," Chaos said as she grabbed one in her hands and the rest of us 4 got the other ones. After all, there were only 5 Chao. Upon going to the door, however, we saw that there was already a figure there that was giving us a cold, dead stare. It was Zero. "You again!" I growled as I put my Chao in my purse and handed it to Amy. "I'll handle Zero. You guys escape while I hold him off," I said to them. "You got it," Amy said as her bird companion flew by her and we moved forward.
I immediately grabbed Zero's attention by hurling a cracked egg shell at him, which managed to crack his left eye a bit. Zero let out a loud whirring sound as he then rushed at me with his claw-like arms, which I quickly sliced through with just a bit of compressed air. Zero looked shocked at this, but not as much as Sally when she saw something that happened when Zero's hands were sliced off. "M-Mom's ring!" Sally exclaimed as she ran back to inspect it, looking at Zero for a second before putting something together that I couldn't.
"MOTHER!" Sally exclaimed as she collided with Zero head-on and kicked the robot right in the head, revealing a button on it that said 'open'. I instinctively rushed past Sally and connected my finger with the button before Zero could get up, which resulted in something happening to the robot that I never would've guessed. Zero's entire head popped off and, from inside of it, we saw the head of someone I never knew before. She had Sally's hair color and she had a tiara on her head, while also having a smoother face than Sally.
"S-S-Sally?..." the mystery girl said as I finally knew who it was now. "Mom! I... I missed you so much..." Sally sobbed as she helped her mom get the rest of the way out of the contraption and finally be able to step on the ground again, which revealed that she was also in a lavish gown of pink with white rhinestones glittered all over it. "Where are your original clothes?" Sally's mom asked. Sally giggled and hugged her, as I smiled at the reunion.
"WE NEED TO LEAVE NOW!" Chaos exclaimed as he reached three other tentacles out and grabbed each of us three and dragged us out of the Chao Garden. And just in time too, as the whole place then got filled with poisonous gas! We barely escaped without a scratch! "Okay... we're out of there..." Amy said as we looked up to see something that I didn't expect. It was Cosmo, from before, and she was looking to be quite happy to see us. "It's you girls again! Listen, we need to get out of here and the only way is through that tunnel up there. We need to fly up there in order to get there, and since Tikal and I can fly, you'll need to come with us," she said, seriousness in her voice. "Okay then! Let's es-sco-pé already!" I said, intentionally saying it like Dory from Finding Nemo just to sound funny.