LORD OF DARKNESS
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Shredder © Mirage
Chapter Fourteen: Metal Tower
- Prison Island -
The scene shifts towards Prison Island. This was an island that was once blown up by Dr. Eggman after retrieving several Chaos Emeralds that were located here several years ago. Now the place is nothing but an abandoned island, in which G.U.N. no longer overlooks.
We scan towards a closer look at the island. Over at a part of the island, we could see Samus' ship making it's landing, just before it stopped itself while hovering a few inches above the ground. From the top, Samus and the Chaotix appeared. Samus, in her Power Suit, somersaulted into the air and swiftly landed on her feet, while the Chaotix jumped lightly from the ship and on the ground as well. Once they were on the ground, they looked around at the place.
"So this is Prison Island, eh?" Vector asked with interest.
"As expected. It's deserted." Espio stated.
Samus darted her eyes at her surroundings. Prison Island did look deserted. It looked like she had seen something like this before. Something like Tallon IV, only with no signs of life forms around. Well, other than herself and the Chaotix.
Charmy had his hand above his eyes, as he looked at the place with a kind of high view. "So, is there suppose to be a Chaos Emerald around here?"
"There should be." Espio replied, as he pulled out the green Chaos Emerald. "According to the Chaos Emerald's energy readings, there is another Chaos Emerald somewhere on this island."
"It sure is bigger than I expected." Samus thought. "But then, it's not really a surprise."
"What do you mean?" Vector wondered.
"It kinda looks similar to something I've seen before." Samus answered.
"Really? How so?" Charmy asked.
"It's kinda looks like a crash site I once visited. Even before it had crash landed before." Samus added.
Espio thought the same thing. When the Chaotix was on ARK, it still looked very new, despite it being over 50 years old. There was no one there anymore, obviously, after the Eclipse Cannon had destroyed the Black Comet after Shadow defeated Devil Doom.
"Let's keep going, guys." Vector said to them. "We have a Chaos Emerald to find!"
Agreeing to his words, the team of four ventured into the abandoned island, hoping to find a Chaos Emerald that would be hidden somewhere within this place.
On another side of Prison Island, we could see Dr. Eggman in his Egg Mobile as it hovered above the ground. Decoe and Bocoe were on the ground as they looked around the place.
"Well, it definitely looks like Prison Island has changed a lot." Decoe said with a thought.
"How?" Bocoe asked the gold robot. "It's deserted."
"Exactly my point." Decoe retorted. "It hasn't been the same since G.U.N. has abandoned the place after it was blown up."
"Well, of course it hasn't." Bocoe replied. He looked at the place. It was still filled with some hints of toxic river pollution and some broken down machinery. "It's a shame that G.U.N. hasn't done anything to help clean this mess up."
"Then again, I'm glad that they didn't." Eggman spoke. "If G.U.N. had cleaned it up, then technically, they would still have built a new version of Prison Island. But since that isn't the case, we could take over this place anytime and claim this as our new base."
"But Dr. Eggman, don't you already have a base?" Decoe asked.
"Yes. But just in case I want to switch plans, then this place would be my new base. Wouldn't you agree?" Dr. Eggman asked with a grin.
The two robots nodded their heads in agreement.
"I completely agree, Dr. Eggman." Decoe said.
"Me too." Bocoe added.
"I'm glad you agree." Eggman said. That's when he got back his serious face. "Now are you sure our secret weapon is ready to go?"
"After a number of testings, it is ready and waiting, Doctor." Decoe briefly reported.
"Excellent." Eggman grinned again. "Now, let us go find ourselves a Chaos Emerald."
Back with our heroes, they were still venturing further into Prison Island. Espio kept watch of the Chaos Emeralds energy readings just to see where it would lead them.
While he was doing this, Charmy looked up around at the trees.
"What are you looking for, Charmy?" Vector asked.
"I'm trying to search for the Chaos Emerald. What else?" Charmy asked him with a shrug. "It could be anywhere, so it is important to keep your eyes out at all times. Right?"
"Hmm..." Vector rubbed his chin. "Your right, Charmy! I totally forgot!"
Espio looked around at his surroundings. Including the trees. "From I could tell, I don't see a Chaos Emerald around here. Not yet anyways."
Samus remained silent the rest of the way. Mainly because, she was focused on her mission. Despite becoming friends with the Chaotix, that did not mean she strayed away from her serious bossy attitude. There was a Chaos Emerald here, and she would not stop until she completed her mission.
A few minutes later into their walk, Samus stopped. The Chaotix looked at her as she stayed in that position.
"Hey Samus, are you OK?" Vector asked. "Did you find anything?"
Samus pointed her finger at something. "Look."
The three members of Chaotix turned to see something that Samus was staring up ahead. It was a large metal tower standing in the middle of this forest. It looked like it was built by G.U.N. at first glance, but after getting a closer look, we could see that this was not true. There were no signs of G.U.N. on this tower whatsoever. The last time anyone was here was Shadow, who at the time, was searching for answers to his past.
Charmy kept his eyes locked on all parts of the tower. Charmy was also one of the last ones here on Prison Island. The reason for this was that Vector sent him on a mission to find some top secret disks. Even when Charmy was here, he had never seen this tower before. It was kinda confusing to him.
Vector was the same. Even he had no idea there was a tower here. "What is that thing suppose to be?"
"It's a tower." Samus replied. "What else?"
"Well...it's strange." Vector said as he scratched his head. "I just never seen this tower before."
"But how is that strange?" Charmy asked. "It looks pretty harmless to me."
Espio narrowed his eyes at this strange tower. "Something is wrong here. For one, this tower was not built by G.U.N. Federation. Two; Even if it was, you would think that they would have something to do with it. And three, this tower couldn't have survived from being blown up. Unless..."
"Unless what, Espio?" Charmy asked anxiously.
Espio had a theory in his mind. "Someone else built this tower."
"He could be right." Samus said. "This tower..." Just by looking at the designs of this tower from the outside, it seemed like she had seen this kind thing before. Samus had a sinking feeling about this suspicious tower. "Something about it just bothers me."
"Hmm..." Vector rubbed his chin in thought. "Perhaps we should check out what's on the inside."
"That is exactly what I've had in mind." Samus said, as she got her arm cannon ready. "Let's go."
The four headed towards the door of the tower. The door opened itself as Samus and the Chaotix entered inside the tower. When all of them were inside the tower, the door behind them closed.
- Metal Tower -
On the inside of the tower, we could see that it was dark here. Vector and Charmy couldn't see a thing, due to the darkness that surrounded the place.
"Could anyone turn the light on?" Charmy asked. "I can't see a thing."
Samus, switched her visor, so that it changed into a different viewpoint. It looked like night vision goggles from her first point of view, but instead of green, the objects were orange and there was some hints of darkness that represented the floor and walls. She looked around for any signs of a light switch. She saw one at the corner of where Charmy was buzzing near at. So she made her way towards it and flipped the switch.
The light itself was turned on, as the Chaotix looked around, finally being able to see everything.
"Finally! Light!" Vector shouted with relief.
Espio looked to see Samus turning on the light in the dark. "How were you able to find that light switch?
Samus switched her visor back to her normal version before answering Espio. "I used my Thermal Visor to help me see in dark places. I am able to see everything, including the light switch."
"So it's like night vision goggles?" Vectort asked.
"Sort of. But not quite." Samus answered. "Night vision goggles only help you see in the dark. Thermal vision can help you to not only see in dark place, but also to find objects much easier, too."
"That's so cool!" Charmy said happily. "I want one of those!"
"We can worry about that later, Charmy." Espio said. "For now, let's focus on finding that Chaos Emerald."
"Right!" Charmy nodded.
Our heroes continued on forwards through the large hallway of this strange tower. Samus looked around at the place. From the outside, she could tell that the tower was already suspicious. When she saw the inside of this place, she saw that this tower's machinery looked very familiar. But she wasn't exactly sure if her suspicions were true or not. The only way she would know is that she would have to continue onwards.
As they continued walking, Espio immediately stopped. Vector seemed to notice this as he told the others to stop as well.
"What is it, Espio?" Vector asked.
Espio's eyes looked right and left before fixing them up ahead. "Something's close."
"Is it the Chaos Emerald?" Charmy wondered.
"No. I sense danger nearby." Espio replied.
After those words were spoken, a few new figures dropped from the ground. From their physical appearance, they appear to be alien-like creatures that looked the same. Their skin was of a grayish-blue color. Their heads looked round at the top with a shade of orange and with two antennas, their eyes were yellow, it's mouth had two bottom teeth that were separated by several inches. It's upper body was shaped like a spine. It's arms were shaped with two fingers on it's hand. One it's right arm, there was a large metal-like cannon above it's right arm. And on it's left arm, we could see a large yellow sword-arm attached to it's left arm. And it's feet were also alien-shaped too.
The Chaotix were taken back by these alien-like creatures.
"W-what are those things?" Vector asked a little nervously.
"Those things look like the Black Arms." Charmy thought.
"But did you ever see the Black Arms look like that?" Espio asked him.
"Uh..." Charmy scratched his head. "No. I guess not."
Samus used her visor to scan these creatures until she got a reading.
Enemy Identified: Space Pirate Trooper. Sentient aggressor species well trained in weapon and melee combat. Space Pirates wield Galvanic Accelerator Cannons and forearm-mounted Scythes in combat. This species seeks to become the dominant force in the galaxy, and their technology may help them realize this goal. Ruthless and amoral, the Pirates care little for the cost of their ambition. Only the results matter, and they take these very seriously."
Samus had her suspicions confirmed. "Space Pirates."
Vector looked at her weirdly. ""Space Pirates?"
"These things aren't to be taken lightly." Samus replied. "Be on your guard."
One of the Space Pirates jumped at Samus with it's scythe. Thinking quickly, Samus rolled out of the way before it could hit her. Samus fought back by firing many Power beam shots at the Space Pirate. The shots connected with the Space Pirate as it staggered backwards a few steps. The Space Pirate fought back by firing shots from it's cannon at Samus. The bounty hunter quickly jumped to the side to avoid the shots before returning the favor by firing a missile at the Space Pirate. The missile connected with the Space Pirate as it cried out in agony, but was still alive. Samus decided to quickly finish this as she charged up her arm cannon and fired a charged beam shot at the Space Pirate. The alien creature cried out in pain one more time before falling to it's death.
Another Space Pirate was firing shots at Charmy, whom was flying around them, trying not to get hit. When Charmy found an opening, he quickly used his stinger and poked the Space Pirate in the leg. The Space Pirate took the effect, but it didn't look liked it affected him much. Charmy looked to see the scythe was about to hit him, so he quickly flew upwards to avoid the swing, in which was able to do this just in time. Charmy then buzzed towards the Space Pirate again and smashed it in the stomach with his arm. The Space Pirate staggered backwards a couple of steps, but was able to stay on it's feet. Before Charmy could attack again, the Space Pirate jumped in the air and, this time, was able to attack Charmy with it's scythe. The attack connected with Charmy's side as he was sent flying dizzily in the air before crashing to a wall.
Charmy shook his head, trying to get the dizziness off of him. "Man, that must've hurt."
The bee looked to see the Space Pirate was about to jump him without warning. When the Space Pirate jumped and was about to attack Charmy again, a bright glowing missile blasted at the Space Pirate's side, sending it flying backwards as it landed on the steel ground with a thud. The Space Pirate groaned weakly before dying.
Charmy looked over to see that Samus had saved him. "Thanks, Samus!"
"It was nothing." Samus replied. "Just stay focused, all right?"
"You got it!" Charmy answered with a smile.
Vector was busy defending himself as another Space Pirate was trying to attack at the green crocodile's head with it's scythe. Vector had to admit, he didn't expect the Space Pirates to be this strong or fast before. Perhaps this is what Samus meant when she said that these things weren't to be taken lightly. When the Space Pirate stopped attacking, Vector decided to fight back by punching the Space Pirate in the stomach, sending the alien sliding backwards on it's feet before the it managed to stop himself. The Space Pirate immediately aimed and fired it's Galvanic Cannon at Vector. The green crocodile reacted quickly by ducking it's head while the shots passed over him.
Vector decided to fight back by blowing fire from it's mouth and straigh towards the Space Pirate. The Space Pirate quickly rolled to the side before firing more shots from it's cannon. The shots connected with Vector's stomach, as he stopped blowing fire as he grasped his stomach in pain.
"Oh man, that hurt." Vector said with a little pain in his voice.
The Space Pirate decided to take advantage of this as he charged after Vector with it's scythe again. Vector looked up after being able to recover from those shots to see the Space Pirate jumping in the air and was preparing to strike down at Vector. The green crocodile's eyes widened at this, but he quickly retaliated by blowing out another flamethrower at the Space Pirate. The flames encased the Space Pirate as it fell to the ground on it's knees.
Vector decided to finish this off. He took a piece of bubble gum from his pocket and quickly chewed it. Once he was done, he started to blow a pink bubble at it's largest size. He then blew it towards the Space Pirate, whom was still trying recover from his burns. Once the bubble was close enough to the Space Pirate, the bubble blew up in an explosion, causing the Space Pirate to fly backwards until it landed on it's back, dead.
"Phew!" Vector sighed in relief as he dusted himself off. "That was a close one."
With Espio, the purple chameleon and the last Space Pirate seemed to be evenly matched. Every time these two would attack each other, it would either end up dodging each other moves or countering them. The Space Pirate fired shots from it's Galvanic Cannon at Espio, but the purple chameleon quickly cartwheeled out of the way to avoid it. Espio returned the favor by throwing multiple shurikens at the Space Pirate. But like with Espio, the Space Pirate jumped to the side to avoid it. The Space Pirate charged after Espio with it's scythe. Espio narrowed his eyes as he quickly camouflaged itself, causing the Space Pirate to stop itself in it's tracks.
The Space Pirate looked around, trying to figure out what happened to Espio. He unknowingly did not see Espio pulling out some sort of paper with Japanese writing on it. Very quickly, the camouflaged Espio attached the strip of paper on the back of the head of the Space Pirate. The alien figure quickly turned around, but only to see nothing there. The Space Pirate looked around, trying to find where Espio had gone to. Behind him, Espio reformed himself in the flesh.
"This battle is over." Espio simply stated.
On that note, an explosion was made by the strip of paper. The Space Pirate flew forwards, over Espio, and crashed head-first into the metal wall with a sickening crunch. The Space Pirate was already dead at that time.
Our heroes looked around at the pile of Space Pirate corpses. To the Chaotix, these creatures were a lot tougher than they thought. But to Samus, it had looked like she had seen these things before.
"I don't know about you, but those Space Pirates were pretty tought." Vector stated.
Espio looked over at Samus, who continued to look at the dead pile of Space Pirates that laid on the ground. "Samus, are you OK?"
Samus didn't say anything back. She was mixed with confusion and surprise. "This doesn't make sense."
"What doesn't make sense?" Charmy asked.
"These Space Pirates. Why would they be here?" Samus wondered.
"Wait, you mean you've seen these things before?" Vector asked.
"...Yes." Samus replied. "But what I'm confused is to why they would show up here at some tower." The bounty hunter thought about it for a moment. It then suddenly dawned on her. "...Meta Ridley."
"Meta Ridley?" Espio raised an eyebrow.
Samus didn't reply back. Instead, she turned the other way. "Let's keep going. We need to find the Chaos Emerald."
The Chaotix was confused by Samus' statement. But she was right in they needed to find the Chaos Emerald as soon as possible. They decided to continue forwards and worry about Samus' statement for later.
It took a few more minutes until our heroes reached a clearing. They noticed something up ahead of them.
"Hey!" Charmy exclaimed. "That's the..."
"Chaos Emerald." Espio finished.
That's right. In the middle of this room, there was a silver Chaos Emerald standing securely on top of a pillar.
"Let's go get it!" Charmy said as he was about to go over to the Chaos Emerald before Vector held him back.
"Hold up a minute, Charmy!" Vector told him. "Hmm...something doesn't look right here. It looks very suspicious."
"It might very well be a trap." Espio thought.
"If it is a trap..." Samus got her arm cannon ready. "Then we blast on our way through."
Before she could take two steps towards the Chaos Emerald, a crashing sound was made, destroying a part of the wall from the other side in where our heroes were standing.
"What is that?!" Vector asked with wide eyes.
The answer of his question became clear as we see three figures entering through the smoke. When it died down, it was revealed to be Dr. Eggman, whom was in his Egg Mobile. And alongside him were his two robot assistants; Decoe and Bocoe.
Espio narrowed his eyes at the villanous trio. "Eggman."
"Well, well, what have we here? It's the Chaotix...and of course, Samus Aran." Eggman said smoothly.
"What do you want, Doctor?!" Vector demanded.
"What else? I'm here for that Chaos Emerald, of course." Eggman replied with a grin.
"We knew there was going to be a Chaos Emerald here. But who knew that you guys would show up?" Decoe said.
"The chances of that happening our slim to none." Bocoe added.
The two robots laughed as Samus spoke next. "Are you here to lecture us on how great you are before you send another one of your bad robots?"
Eggman narrowed his eyes at her. "Are you taking me for a fool? I would be careful, if I were you."
"Why would you say that?" Samus asked, not looking amused.
"Because..." Eggman grinned again. "After our last encounter, I decided to step-up my creativity a bit. And I have the perfect weapon capable of handling you."
"Try me." Samus challenged.
"Very well. You asked for it." Eggman turned to his assistants. "Decoe, Bocoe. Bring it in!"
"Yes sir!" The two robots nodded. "Come on out!"
A couple of moments passed, as Samus and the Chaotix got into a stance. After a couple moments of waiting, our heroes eyes widened at what they saw.
"Hey, isn't that..." Vector paused in mid-sentence.
Samus was the one that was shocked out of them all. What she was seeing was a duplicate clone of herself. Standing at Eggman's side, was another Samus Aran...well, sort of. It was made out of machine. Probably by Dr. Eggman himself. Instead of an orange body, she was seeing a white power suit along with a red visor.
"I want you to say hello to probably one of my greatest creations I have made; Egg Samus!"
Samus mostly stunned at what she was seeing, but she remained calm and kept her composure. "Is that suppose to intimidate me?"
"Well, I suppose it was my original intention. But I figured that would be too easy." Eggman explained. "And if you think for a second that it's nothing compared to you, I'm afraid you are dearly mistaken. For you see, after entered my base and destroyed most of my robots, I was able to get your data thanks to the security cameras. After much hard work, I had created Egg Samus. Who has the same weapons, abilities, and movements as you. And..." Eggman chuckled lowly. "I have added a couple of special features as well."
"And what would they be?" Espio questioned.
"Patience, Espio. You will learn those in due time." Eggman told him. "But now, I must get that Chaos Emerald. So if you stand in my way, Egg Samus will show you no mercy!"
Samus and the Chaotix got themselves ready. It looked like they were about ready to fight this duplicate of Samus Aran at any moment now.
Suddenly, another crashed was heard from another part of the wall that was also taken down. Everyone turned in that direction to see this.
"Now what's going on?" Vector asked.
"It might be Space Pirates." Espio thought. "Be on your guard!"
Eggman narrowed his eyes at what he was seeing. Just what made that crashing sound? Decoe and Bocoe narrowed their eyes, trying to get a better look for themselves.
Entering the room, were two familiar figures. These were Saladan the Tiger and Iriama the Shark.
Vector's eyes widened. "It's you! Your that tiger we saw back at Wild Canyon!"
Saladan chuckled to himself. "I'm honored that you remember me."
"But who that other guy?" Charmy wondered.
"I don't think we properly introduced ourselves. My name is Iriama. Pleasure to meet ya, mate." The blue shark greeted with his sharp teeth.
"What are you doing here, then?" Espio questioned.
"We're here for the same reason as you. The Chaos Emerald." Saladan replied.
"Hey!" Decoe pointed his finger at the brown tiger. "You can't barge in here and take what's ours!"
"Unless you came here on your own, you came in at a bad time!" Bocoe added.
Iriama chuckled a couple of times. "Whoever said that we came here alone?"
Samus raised an eyebrow. "So it isn't just you two?"
"That's right." Saladan replied. "And I think it's time we introduce you to him now."
A few seconds passed until another figure approached the scene with Saladan and Iriama. It turned out to be the Shredder. The one who crashed the dance party last night, injured a few of our other heroes, and took a Chaos Emerald as well. The Shredder looked around at the people that were in the room.
"So I see that we have more company than usual." Shredder said with interest. "How interesting."
"And who are you suppose to be?" Vector questioned him.
"I am known as the Shredder! And I'm here to take the Chaos Emerald. And anyone who gets in the way who perish at my hands!"
"You hear that? So unless you don't want to die, you might as well back off and let us take the Chaos Emerald." Iriama warned them with a smirk.
"Hmph!" Eggman grunted. "Do you think I will easily give in to your words? I am known as the greatest scientific evil genius of all time, Dr. Eggman! Nobody tells me what to do."
Shredder chuckled in amusement. "Really? Do you want to say that to my face, then?"
Eggman was about to do just that until Decoe and Bocoe stepped in.
"Doctor, for once, don't do this." Decoe said.
"I agree. That guy sounds like business." Bocoe added.
Eggman narrowed his eyes at Shredder. And then he looked over at Samus. "So, it looks like only one of us will get that Chaos Emerald, then."
All three groups stayed in their spots. Not moving. They waited to see who would make the first move towards the Chaos Emerald. They all eyed each other in silence. It would look like that whoever made the first move, things would turn out ugly afterwards.
Suddenly, something appeared at the pillar of the Chaos Emerald. It was the masked cybernetic ninja from before. Everyone's eyes widened at this.
"It's you!" Espio exclaimed.
"It's that masked person!" Decoe exclaimed.
"What's it doing here?!" Bocoe asked.
Shredder narrowed his red eyes. "What is the meaning of this?"
The masked ninja looked around at everyone that was in the room while holding it's katana. It's feet were standing on the pillar right where the Chaos Emerald was with perfect footing. It looked over to see Espio. "It's you again. Are you still holding on to that Chaos Emerald?"
Espio slowly pulled out the green Chaos Emerald from an unknown pocket of his. "It's right here. Just to let you know."
"Good." The masked ninja replied with it's cybernetic voice. "Knowing this, I don't have to worry then."
"Hey!" Iriama shouted at the masked figure. "Just who do you think you are, mate?!"
The masked ninja turned to the blue shark. "I'm like you. I'm also searching for something important." It then looked down at the Chaos Emerald near it's feet. "And it looks like I've already found it."
Without warning, the masked ninja back-flipped in the air while gripping it's katana. With one quick slice, the pillar was cut in two. The Chaos Emerald was free from it's secure place as it was about to fall to the ground. The masked ninja, however, was quickly enough to reach the emerald and catch it in it's hand.
Shredder wasn't going to let this go by. "Stop him!"
Iriama was going to do just that. "Gigas Spark!"
The masked ninja turned it's head to see the electricity from Iriama's mouth being fired at him. However, it wasn't taken back by this at all. The masked ninja disappeared in thin air as the electric attack passed through nothingness.
"What the?" Iriama was taken back by this. "Where did it go?"
Everyone looked around to see where the masked ninja had gone to. Up in mid-air, the masked ninja looked to be floating as it something very unexpected. The masked ninja raised it's katana in the air as quick flashes of itself seemed to be attacking the walls of the room without it doing anything. After a moment of this, the masked ninja raised the Chaos Emerald in the air.
"Chaos Control!" The masked ninja shouted as a bright flash of light engulfed the ninja until it had died down. When it did, the masked ninja was gone.
Everyone was confused at what they just saw.
"What just happened?" Charmy wondered.
"I'm not sure..." Samus replied slowly.
Suddenly, a rumbling sound was made as the tower shook itself. Everyone was trying to gain their footing from this rumbling.
"What's going on?!" Vector asked shakily.
"The tower...it's going to collapse!" Samus noted.
"What?!" Charmy and Vector shouted at the same time.
"We need to get out of here. Now!" Espio told them.
"Right." Samus nodded. "Follow me!"
Samus led the Chaotix out of the room, as they followed the bounty hunter out of the tower.
"Stop!" Shredder shouted. But it was already too late.
"Uh, Shredder, we need to get out of here. Like, right now, mate!" Iriama advised quickly.
"Do not tell me what we should do!" Shredder shouted at Iriama.
"Iriama's right." Saladan said. "If we don't get out of here now, we're going to be caved in."
Shredder thought about it for a brief moment before speaking up. "Fine. Let's go."
"I'll get us out of here." Saladan said as he raised his scythe in the air. Dark energy surrounded the sharp end of his weapon as he swinged it vertically, creating a dark portal. "Let's go."
Shredder quickly went inside the portal, Iriama followed after him, while Saladan was in the back as he entered last. The dark portal soon closed itself.
Dr. Eggman looked around at the place that was going to collapse.
"Dr. Eggman, we need to get out of here, too!" Decoe told him.
"Yeah! It would be bad if we don't!" Bocoe nodded quickly.
Eggman stayed in silence for a moment longer. "Let's go. Egg Samus; you too!"
Quickly heeding his words, Eggman, Decoe, Bocoe, and Egg Samus quickly made their way back to where they came from as they exited the tower.
- Prison Island -
Our heroes were quickly running from the scene of the collapsing tower. They were quickly making their way towards Samus' ship.
"How much farther is it?!" Vector asked.
Samus kept her eyes focused on ahead at the path ahead. That's when she saw something in the distance. "There!"
Our heroes soon came to a clearing. It was the Samus' ship. Trying to step it up, our heroes ran a little faster than usual.
When they were close enough, Samus somersaulted in the air and landed at the top of her ship. Espio quickly did the same thing, while Vector was quickly climbing upwards until he reached his footing. All four of our heroes entered inside the ship as Samus got a hold of the controls.
"Hold on!" Samus told them.
The ship began to change it's rocket boosters, as the ship began to quickly fly away from the scene of destruction. Our heroes turned to see the tower as it continued falling to it's doom.
"Man...I didn't think something like that could happen." Vector said with a sigh of relief.
"Good thing we got out of there in time. Otherwise, we all could've been turned into pancakes." Charmy pointed out.
"Are you all right, Espio?" Samus asked.
"...Yeah. I'm OK." Espio replied quickly. But to himself, his thoughts were focused on that cybernetic masked ninja. Just who was it and why did it need the Chaos Emeralds? Those questions clouded over Espio's mind as the ship began to head back towards Chaotix Headquarters.
Back on the island, we could see the masked ninja stood at a lone part of the island, away from where the tower had collapsed. It watched Samus' ship fly away as it held the silver Chaos Emerald in it's hand.
"Soon, my friend." The masked ninja spoke. "That Chaos Emerald of yours will be mine." With those words said, the masked ninja jumped into the air before disappearing in a blurry flash.
More questions appear before our heroes eyes. What did Samus mention about Meta Ridley and those Space Pirates? Why were they hiding at an unknown tower in Prison Island? And what is this masked ninjas goal that involves the Chaos Emeralds? Find out on the next Lord of Darkness!
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