Yes I know this one was a long time coming. Yes I know about 30 people pm'd me about it. So here it is, and I promise it's the best chapter so far. I also went into the last few chapters and touched up a few things on the grammar side.... Enjoy.
Chapter 25: The Getaway
Amy actually carried Sonic back to castle by holding one of his spines. Once they arrive and enter the castle doors, Sonic sees Silver here too. He was called of course since then girls knew Daisy and he has the power to see everything. The only way such a video could be recorded would have to be his doing. Amy literally throws Sonic up the endless staircase. Rouge catches him. She ties him up to a chair in the front row. Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Mario and Luigi all now populate the front row. Rouge walks out the door and closes it behind her. She stands in front of it.
"Guys, before we go through this, I just want you all to know that I'm sorry for what I made you guys do and that I dragged you all into this mess," Sonic says.
"Wait, you idiot," Tails whispers. "You have the Chaos Emeralds, right?"
"Yes," Sonic says. "I guess they only split if I use them for an extended period of time."
"We can escape," Knuckles whispers.
"Why are you guys whispering," Sonic asks.
Luigi doesn't say anything; he just makes a gesture with his head to the top of the theater. Rosalina is sitting up there.
"Oh, I get it," Sonic whispers. "So you guys want to break for it?"
"No," Mario whispers. "They can't kill us, or beat us, the worse they can do is perform the same punishment on us."
"Are you crazy," Sonic whispers. "Amy tried to kill me to get me to come here."
"Really," Tails whispers. "We're screwed then."
"Not if I can help it," Sonic whispers. He does a spin dash as quietly as possible to cut through the ropes binding him to his seat. He looks to the top to see that Rosalina is actually sleeping. He quietly instructs Knuckles to hand over his shovel claws. Sonic puts these on his fist and uses them to cut the remaining ropes to set everyone else free. They all hold hands in a circle except for Mario who still think that they shouldn't do it. Luigi forcibly grabs him anyway. Sonic yells Chaos Control and they are all gone in an instant without waking Rosalina at all.
Amy, Cosmo, and Peach have Silver in the courtyard. The girls' backs are facing the backyard of the castle. They are all staring at Silver who is afraid to actually say anything. He then starts to lie.
"I didn't have anything to do with this, I swear," Silver says calmly. He then looks behind them and can actually see Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Mario, and Luigi escaping. He chuckles. Amy turns around and notices the escaped convicts. Sonic looks up. He sees Amy staring at him. His heart drops and his face is in shock. He darts away actually leaving the others behind. Their backs are actually facing away from the courtyard so they didn't really pick up on it first, but then they notice a shadow. They all look up to see a green light flying towards Sonic at an incredible pace. The light engulfs him and carries him into the wrong direction. Now they all look back with fear in their eyes. Silver is laughing, Amy is running, Tails takes off. As Sonic looks on while the green light sends him back to the courtyard, in his mind all he can think of is that he hopes that Tails can get away. Well, Sonic's hopes are now dashed as Cosmo pulls Amy's stunt. The green light flings itself towards Tails. He's caught without a problem. Mario, Luigi, and Knuckles are left. Rosalina and Rouge have now come onto the scene.
Amy screams out to them, "Are you guys going to come out here too, are do we have to waste our time again?"
Sonic gives them a nod of confidence from his floating green light. Knuckles decides to carry out Sonic's wishes. He digs through his pockets for his shovel claws, but then remembers that Sonic has them. Sonic actually waves them at Knuckles. With this stunning revelation, Knuckles just walks towards the courtyard without doing anything to resist. Mario and Luigi are left. Mario suggests to Luigi that they should just turn themselves in, but Luigi disagrees.
"I know what Sonic convinced us to do was wrong, but you must admit it was pretty fun," Luigi says to Mario convincingly. "Sonic made us take a risk and do something we would have never done if we were in that situation without him, and we actually had fun and did something we will never forget. I don't know about you, but one of us must complete Sonic's mission. One of us must escape. One of us must carry on Sonic's legacy!"
After his weird speech, Luigi pulls out a flower. It turns him invisible. He makes a run for it, but Rosalina does her wish and Luigi is still caught. Mario stares on with a complex storm of emotions in his head. Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and now visible Luigi are cheering him on. Mario then begins to rethink his mindset. The gaze he focuses on the most is Peach, who is actually holding her green star emerald in her hand with a serious face, a look of determination. Mario stands still motionless for a bit. Silver stops laughing, the others stop cheering; everyone is sitting down with surprised looks on their faces, except for Mario and Peach. Mario breaks the suspense by pulling out his blue and white star emeralds. He activates them, gaining his scepter and his crown.
"This is for Sonic," Mario screams loudly. He makes his scepter shoot some water on the ground. He dives headfirst into it and freezes the water with the wind powers of the white star emerald while passing over it making an ice slide. His destination, Bowser's old hideout. Why? It's made to block all energy from the Mushroom Kingdom. Peach instantly activates her wish. Mario turns himself around while going down his ice slide. He knew that was coming. In response, Mario uses his scepter to shave off the green light. Everyone looks off into the distance. It actually works as Mario jumps up, waves his scepter horizontally and the light splits. It splits into two then recombines to go at Mario once more. He continually swings at the light, splitting it into more pieces. The individual pieces actually start to come after him. He waves the scepter in all directions to block every piece, but then he notices something. Someone is running on top of the main green light! It's Peach. Without hesitation, Mario jumps onto the light and runs into Peach's direction.
"Wow," Sonic exclaims. "Tails man, I see you got the recorder out."
"Yes man, this one's going on Blu-ray," Tails remarks.
Peach pulls out her own scepter while Mario gets his at the ready. Peach is the first to swing, Mario swings too and clashes with her. He tries to push her back, but notices that they are both actually on equal footing! In his moment of shock, Peach knocks Mario's scepter out of his hand. It ends up sticking into the ground below. Peach swings at him once more. Mario leans back. He flips himself under the cylindrical, green light and grabs his scepter from out of the ground. He jumps back up and continues to block Peach's assault. For the longest time now, Mario has been on the defensive end. He can't find any opening, but he comes up with an idea. He dodges Peach's last vertical swing, ducks, and then sweeps her legs from under her. She spins under the light then reappears right on side of Mario. Mario is at a loss of words. She thrusts her scepter at him, catching him off guard. Mario drops his weapon, and now Peach is standing there pointing hers in his face.
"One of the most important things to remember in battle is to never lose your weapon," she says.
Mario is confused. Peach twirls her scepter around and creates vortex. Mario is sucked in and ends up falling right in front of the courtyard with Peach landing on top of him while holding his scepter. Sonic shakes his head in disbelief. Everyone else is stunned. Tails saves this video to his memory card, and now they all walk to the theater room. Once there, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Mario, and Luigi are all sitting in the front row. Silver is standing at the entrance laughing. Peach is pacing in the front of them with her scepter in her hand. She then points at Silver.
"Is there some type of law or punishment for this given to use by the higher-ups," Peach asks in a demanding tone.
"Nope," Silver says. "I had nothing to do with this anyway. I don't know how this got recorded. I promise. No reason to be mad at me."
"You are right I guess," Peach says. "I'm sorry."
Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Luigi, and Mario all give Silver very scornful looks. Silver just looks on and laughs it up. Peach rises up her scepter, and prepares to speak. She's interrupted by a portal that appears in front of the window. A person steps out of the portal that makes Silver as nervous as ever because of what she's holding.
"Hey, Silver I came to tell you that your two terabyte external hard drive is full to capacity and the beeping noise it makes is getting on my nerves," Blaze screams at him. She then looks around. "Are you guys having a meeting about something?"
Tails sees this as his chance for repentance.
"Hey Blaze, what's on the external hard drive," he says nonchalantly. "It must be a lot of stuff to fill up two terabytes."
"Ah, you guys don't know," Blaze says. "Silver is in charge of keeping track of the star emeralds to make sure nothing happens to them, that means you guys too. The masters from above make Silver records everything then he must watch it and edit out the boring stuff and submit the interesting things to the leaders. He's the only person with the power to do so. They don't trust Daisy with it. This job of his is very time consuming though. I usually watch some of it with him."
"Ha, how does it feel now sucker," Knuckles screams.
Peach brings Blaze up to speed. She grabs Silver by the ear and takes him to the portal.
"I'll handle this dummy myself," she says as jumps through the portal.
All attention now returns to the five ducks in a row. Peach and Amy discuss some things. Peach then returns to the front of the theater.
"We have decided on the punishment," Peach says.
"Here it comes," Tails says.
"You idiots are our personal slaves for the next two weeks," Peach says. "We're giving the Toads a vacation. You guys must clean the castle, do everything the Toads do, and you must listen to our demands."
"That's a load of bull," Knuckles remarks.
"Three weeks," Peach shouts.
"Hey, that's not fair," Tails screams."
"One month," Peach orders.
"Ok we'll shut up now," Sonic says.
"You start next chapter," Peach says. "Now get out of my sight. You idiots disgusts me."