Ch12: Battleship Bonanza!
"MWAHAHA! You fools must all have a death wish?" Eggman's voice said over the PA system. "Witness this invincible battleship built by the hands of a genius! It's power unmatched throughout the universe!" When the communication ended, All seven of us in Team Dark and Team Sonic stood on the platform and ready to battle. "You'll regret this doctor! Even if I'm not real, I'm still the ultimate life form Shadow the Hedgehog!" Shadow exclaimed as we all rushed off for the battleships in our way.
After the jump ramp, we began to fly through the air and I activated my propeller hair as the other seven got on the various grind rails below me. "Be careful down there, guys!" I exclaimed as I hovered near the next ship. "If you fall now, you'll be flatter than a pancake upon hitting the ground!" "No problem. Let's keep moving!" Shadow exclaimed as we rushed forward on the ship we were currently on and I noticed something... off. Again.
At the end of the area that should have had another grind rail, there was a glide propeller instead. "This looks like the same flowers we saw in the jungle... just more mechanical," Tails said upon seeing it. "You guys wanna ride?" Sonic smirked as he did a tornado spin around it, making it float in the air awaiting the teams to get on it. It was much bigger than before as if it expected all six of the team to get on the thing. Why did I say six? No way in hell I was going to get on that thing!
When the six team members all got on the flower, it began to fly off into the distance as I propelled myself forward with my hair. I was surprisingly able to keep up with them as the ship began to blindly attack them and all the firepower missed. It was sad to say the least... their aim that is. The blue battleship soon came into view and we all landed on the battleship at the same place, my hair taking care of the miniature egg hawks in our way. "Thanks! Let's go!" Sonic exclaimed as we all rushed forward the nose of the battleship and into danger.
It took a little while, but we eventually got up to the E-2000 robot at the top of the bridge, our last hurdle to destroying the giant craft. "Those guys look a little tough!" Knuckles exclaimed. "Who do they think they are?" Shadow growled. "The E-2000. So they're in production? I'll destroy them!" Omega exclaimed as he let out a flurry of bullets at the machine and shocked to see the bullets ricochet off the robot's shield... that is until I blasted the robot with a concentrate water blast that completely destroyed his shield!
"Thank you, Sapphire," Omega said as he finished the job of obliterating the robot and destroying the rest of it. The door opened up in front of us and we saw the next hurdle. The spin dash treadmill that led to the battleship power supply. "Let's do it!" Shadow exclaimed. He grabbed Omega's and Rouge's hands as Sonic and I grabbed Tails and Knuckle's hands respectively. We all ran at full speed on the treadmill and jumped out of the top just as it exploded. "YEAH!" I exclaimed loudly at the sweet destruction... that is until I saw that we were shooting way off what it should have been!
"Damn..." Chaos swore to me. "I sense the Final Fortress... it is coming up soon... be careful, Sapphire." "Mm... I'll be careful..." I whispered to myself. When I looked ahead now I saw what Chaos meant. The Final Fortress, the biggest ship I'd ever seen fly, was coming into view. "This must be Eggman's Headquarters!" Sonic exclaimed in the lead. with Tails right behind him and Knuckles and me behind them. We were positioned so that all of us were at the same altitude and all of us would hit the grind rail.
I didn't risk hitting it, however, and flew myself above it. "How does this thing stay afloat?!" Knuckles exclaimed for all of us. "Doesn't matter! Let's take it down!" I exclaimed for him. "Alright! It's time to attack!" Shadow smirked a mean smirk. "Let's show that Egghead what some Sonic Heroes can do!" Sonic smirked as we rushed off to the beginning of the final zone. And boy would it be a long one!
