Reality Shock
Chapter 10
The first thing I saw when I awoke was the barrel of a rather large and dangerous looking handgun pointed at my head.
Great, just great...
I quickly checked myself over. The cuts on my shoulder had been hastily bandaged, with a few bloodstains on the white material. The large puncture wound on my stomach from Shadow's Chaos Spear was gone, presumably repaired by Eggman and not my rings, otherwise my arm would have been healed as well.
I ran a mental ring check and found that, other than a few that had been expended to save me from the full strength of Shadow's attack, they were all intact.
"Whew..."
"Ah! You're awake! Good."
I looked at the source of the voice. It was an extremely fat man with a bald head and a large, bushy moustache who was sitting in a strangely egg-shaped mech.
"Let him go, Eggman!"
I tried to turn around and see who was talking, but I didn't have the energy to do more than tilt my head.
Eggman pointed his gun at the newcomer. "And why should I do that, Sonic?"
Sonic!
"Are you okay Ashura?" Sonic asked me.
I nodded. "Yeah, other than the fact I'm being held hostage by Dr. needs-to-go-on-a-diet over here." Sonic snickered.
Eggman was about to retort, but was interrupted by a cry of "SONIC!"
"Amy? Tails? What are you doing here?"
"We came to help!" Tails answered.
I sweatdropped. "Hello, hedgehog in trouble here." I reminded them.
"Right, hang on Ashura, we'll save you!"
The trio of heroes advanced.
"Not so fast!" Eggman shouted. He pointed the gun back at me. "One wrong move and I'll blow his head off!"
"What do you want Eggman?" Sonic growled.
"Give me the Chaos Emerald and I'll let your little friend go."
Little?
Sonic took out the fake Emerald and was gazing at it, deep in thought.
"Put the Emerald over there and BACK OFF!"
Sonic grinned and started walking to the indicated spot. "You're turning into a big time villain, doctor."
Knowing what was coming; I gathered my strength and yelled "SONIC! IT'S A TRAP!"
"Too late!" Eggman shouted triumphantly as he pressed a button on his control panel. Immediately, a large plexiglass cylinder slammed into place above Sonic, trapping him inside.
"You thought you could fool me with that fake emerald?"
"How'd you know it wasn't the real one?"
"Because you just told me, fox-brat!"
"Tails!" Sonic shouted.
"Oops..."
Eggman grinned. "Now farewell Sonic, my worthy adversary!" He pressed another button and Sonic's tube sank into the floor and shot into space.
"SOOONNNNIIIICCC!"
Amy ran to the window and watched as the capsule flew towards the Earth and exploded.
"Sonic..." She started crying.
Just before the capsule detonated, I saw something out of the corner of my eye, a shadow on the ground that didn't belong to anyone. It had no definable shape, but it had two incredibly dark crimson spots that I assumed were eyes.
In the split second that it was there, I could tell that it was very angry. I blinked, and it was gone.
Tails was just sitting in the Tornado and staring off into the distance, his ears drooping.
He then turned his gaze towards Eggman and started growling. "How could you do that to Sonic?" He demanded. "You're going to pay for this!"
Tails turned the Tornado's cannon towards Eggman and fired an energy blast at him. Eggman quickly countered, firing a blast of his own.
The shots collided in midair, detonating and sending shrapnel and fragments of metal from the floor everywhere.
By luck or by divine intervention, every single one of the projectiles missed me, but Eggman wasn't so lucky.
His machine was badly scratched and covered in dents where pieces of metal had impacted, and he was bleeding from several places.
"'Is that the best you can do, Tails?" he taunted.
"Not at all!" Tails flipped a switch and a panel opened up behind him, revealing a missile launcher.
He didn't get a chance to fire however, as unbeknownst to us; Amy had snuck up behind Eggman and whacked him upside the head with her Piko-Piko Hammer. Eggman collapsed and slipped out of his mech and to the floor.
"Well, THAT was unexpected," I said, sweatdropping.
Tails held out the yellow Chaos Emerald in one hand and his radio in the other. "Sonic, we did it..." he said sadly.
The radio crackled to life. "Great job li'l buddy!"
"SONIC! You're okay!"
"Yup! Look outside." came the reply.
Tails jumped out of his mech, dropped the Emerald, and ran to the window, closely followed by Amy.
I, meanwhile, had pulled myself up into a sitting position facing the window. There was a large explosion outside, accompanied by a flash of blue. Sonic posed as he flew past the window. He grinned and gave us a thumbs up gesture.
Amy and Tails started cheering, but I held off on the celebrations for several reasons, first and foremost being that the fight wasn't over yet. We still had the Biolizard and Finalhazard fights to take care of. That, and I was still recovering my strength.
Out of the corner of my eye I could see Eggman's hand slowly reaching for the Chaos Emerald that Tails had dropped. I considered stopping him, but then Shadow wouldn't remember Maria's true final wish and repent, so I let him go.
I sighed and closed my eyes, letting myself drift into a well needed sleep.
A/N: I got flamed the other day. I'm so insulted that I might just stop writing altogether... sniff
Just kidding! I don't really mind flames as long as they're relatively polite. They let me know people are reading my story.
This part of the story is almost done, and I'll get to start on the sequel soon. The next story will be much easier to write because I won't have to follow a set plot.
Please review, but try to keep flames to a minimum if possible. But if you absolutely must, go ahead. I can always use a laugh.
Until next chapter, see ya!
