Chapter 14: Captured
Dark Sonic looked down at himself for the fifth time as he flew through the air. He doubted he would ever get used to this new form of his. The hedgehog went back to Station Square, looking for the police chief. He had to be here somewhere. If he could only track him, that would make his job much easier. Dark Sonic frowned. He closed his eyes and concentrated as he became a Chaos Emerald. Slowly, it got a vision of where the police chief was. The man was in an underground section of the town, looking around for something. The Chaos Emerald glowed brightly as it hovered in the air towards the captain. The captain moved back at the sudden appearance.
"A Chaos Emerald?" He asked, confused. Hesitantly, he reached out and grabbed it, looking at it. "I better take this to GUN."
He nodded and put it in his pocket, heading towards GUN. Once he got there, they put it in a glass case in a vault. The captain looked at it and smiled. He walked out of the building and back to the police station. The Chaos Emerald sat in the vault, power coming from it. It had to kill the captain soon. The power wasn't doing much good at the moment, running into the sides of the glass and being forced to circle in the air. It hovered into the air and tried to teleport out of the area, but something was preventing it from leaving. It tried to turn back into Dark Sonic but that wasn't happening either.
Dark Sonic growled inside his prison. Master Emerald, it said telepathically. Why can't I do anything while inside this vault?
There was silence and then the Master Emerald spoke. The vault drains Chaos Energy. I'm not sure how they're doing it.
Is there some way that I can escape?
I'll try and look for one.
The Chaos Emerald's glow flickered. It was getting weak as its energy continued to drain. What happens if I run out of Chaos Energy?
You'll become a normal crystal until you can absorb energy back into your body.
And how long will the energy absorption take?
Not long, I don't think. How fast do you feel it leaving?
Extremely fast. I'm getting weaker by the second.
The Master Emerald sighed. It might take you a long time to absorb all that energy again, in that case. I'm sorry I can't be of any more help to you.
It's...fine, it said. I guess I won't be able to continue what I've been doing for a while.
The Master Emerald's voice grew silent, and the Chaos Emerald flashed again. It became a crystal, and fell to the floor.
The police captain walked down the hall, humming happily to himself. He had seen Dark change into the Chaos Emerald, and finally had him behind bars once again. The emerald wouldn't escape any time soon, and there wouldn't be any more killings. Of course, there were others he'd have to worry about, but they weren't too hard to deal with. The police chief chuckled to himself and smirked. He had done his job, and had gotten rid of that horrible monster that was Sonic. He still wondered where he had come from, though. It had never seemed like Sonic could do something like that.
A few minutes later, a policeman walked inside. "Did you hear that Sonic stopped by the office while you were gone? He took an employee hostage and killed him while looking for you."
"Of course he did. What else happened?"
"He killed the other cops and went looking for you."
"He found me, though not exactly how he wanted to."
The cop nodded. "How so?"
"Something had happened to him and turned him into an emerald. Like the Chaos Emeralds."
"Interesting. So you captured it?"
The captain nodded. "It's at GUN now."
"They'll take good care of it."
"I'm sure they will. It's not going anywhere."
"You don't suppose there's any way he could come back, do you?"
The captain shrugged. "I doubt it. They have it in a special vault that drains Chaos Energy, so most likely the Chaos Emerald will be dead."
"Seems like a fitting place for him after everything he's done."
"I agree."
They nodded and chuckled, happy that Sonic was no longer going to bother them anymore.