BLACK CONQUEST
Sailor Moon © Naoko Takeuchi
Chapter 25: Unexpected Visit
- Station Square Emergency Hospital -
The scene shifts towards the Station Square Emergency Hospital. Inside a particular room, we see Amy Rose lying down on a hospital bed after suffering a brutal attack from Wrath the Tiger. Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Serena, Ami, Raye, Lita, Mina, Michelle, Amara Luna, and Artemis were with her to keep her company.
"Wait, Mephiles was there?!" Sonic asked in surprise.
"Yes." Michelle nodded. "We didn't get there until the last minute. Mephiles took one of your Chaos Emeralds and he and that tiger got away after that."
"Dang it!" Knuckles slammed his fist against a wall. "They got another one!"
Tails rubbed his chin. "Which one did he take?"
Amara looked at him strangely. "Which one?"
"Did he take the one the silver or the red one?" Tails corrected himself.
"Hmm..." Amara thought about it. "Do you remember which one he took, Michelle?"
"I think it was the silver Chaos Emerald." Michelle thought. "I saw it in his hand before he disappeared."
"That must have been the one Sonic and his friends won in the race." Serena said.
"The other Chaos Emerald was given to us by Tuxedo Mask." Ami replied.
Amara sighed in relief. "So your still holding on to that one?"
Raye nodded. "We're using it as a tracking signal to hunt down the other Chaos Emeralds."
"How many have been found so far?" Michelle asked.
"Well, let's see..." Mina tapped her chin in thought. Suddenly, she rubbed her head nervously and laughed. "Sorry, I forgot."
Knuckles sighed. "I'll answer that. The first Chaos Emerald was found in Soleanna by Black Doom's aliens. The second emerald was found in Station Square, where again, the black aliens got their hands on it. They also managed to infiltrate GUN Headquarters and take the third Chaos Emerald. The fourth one was at that Extreme Gear Mini-Tournament, and we won it that night. But now that you told us about what had happened today, they managed to steal one of our emeralds."
"So, that makes five Chaos Emeralds. Including the one Tuxedo Mask gave to you girls." Amara added.
"Now we have to find two more Chaos Emeralds." Sonic said with his arms crossed. "The question is; where could they be?"
Everyone was in deep thought about their situation. The villains have most of the Chaos Emeralds, while our heroes only have one.
Suddenly, the door knocked. Everyone turned to see another figure walk in. It turned out to be Darien.
"Is Amy okay?" He asked.
Serena gasped. "Darien!"
Darien saw Serena and the other girls there. "Hey, meatball head."
"What are you doing here?" Tails asked.
"I heard about what happened to Amy so I came down here to see if she was okay." Darien replied.
""Wait...how did you hear about it?" Mina asked.
"We told him." Michelle answered. "Me and Amara are close friends with Darien and he did seem to hang out with Amy a couple of times."
"The doctor said she will be all right." Luna replied. "Her face is covered with scratches so she will have to rest here for a while."
"I see..." Darien said as he rubbed his chin.
"By the way, there's something we want to talk to all of you about." Amara said.
"What is it?" Ami asked.
"We think we know what Mephiles is really up to." Michelle replied.
Everyone's eyes widened in surprise.
"What do you mean?" Sonic narrowed his eyes.
"We know the real reason why he's after the Chaos Emerald." Michelle closed her eyes.
"What is that reason?" Artemis questioned.
"Have you ever heard of the legends of the Black Dragon?" Amara asked them.
"Black Dragon?" Serena scratched her head.
"There was a terrible war 1000 years ago fought between two tribes. In the middle of it, a monstrous Black Dragon had awakened from it's sleep and nearly destroyed both tribes at the same time. When everything seemed at a loss, a legendary hero came out of nowhere and defeated the Black Dragon by sealing it with a powerful sword known as the Dragon Sword." Michelle explained.
That's when it clicked inside of Knuckles head. "Wait a minute! I know about that story!"
"You do, Knuckles?" Tails asked.
"Sure do." Knuckles nodded. "A long time ago, the chieftain of my tribe told me that very same story about a war that lasted for days and nights without end."
"But wait a minute..." Sonic stopped them. "What does this have to do with anything?"
"Mephiles wants to awaken the Black Dragon." Amara answered him.
Knuckles eyes widened in shock. "You can't be serious!"
"What's so bad about a dragon, anyway?" Sonic shrugged.
"This is no joke, Sonic." Knuckles glared at him.
"How is it even possible to awaken this Black Dragon, anyway?" Ami wondered.
"In order for that to happen, Mephiles needs the seven Chaos Emeralds and the Dragon Sword in order to release the Black Dragon." Amara answered.
"What is this Dragon Sword?" Luna repeated herself.
"It is a sword that has the power of different type of dragons." Amara replied.
"We heard about it from a man named Dr. Eggman." Michelle added.
Sonic's eyes widened when Eggman's named was mentioned. "Eggman?!"
"Wait, who is this Eggman person?" Serena asked.
"He's a man who Sonic has faced countless times. He's a scientific genius and is the grandson of Gerald Robotnik." Tails replied.
"I wonder what he's like..." Serena wondered.
"Not good, that's for sure. Whenever Eggman appears, it usually means bad news." Knuckles said with his arms crossed.
"We met him at the Dusty Desert. That's where he told us everything about the Black Dragon." Michelle told them.
"The Dusty Desert?" Tails asked.
"That's where everything about the Black Dragon resides in." Amara replied.
"If that's the case, then I suggest we go there and find some clues." Sonic said.
"There's no point in that." A new voice said.
Our heroes turned to see the familiar faces of Shadow the Hedgehog, Rouge the Bat, and E-123 Omega, standing at the doorway.
"Shadow!" Tails exclaimed.
"Hello boys. It's good to see you again." Rouge waved.
"Did you find any information about that black rose?" Knuckles asked.
"We looked into finding out where this black rose came from. It turns out that this rose came from a female person." Rouge replied.
"Who does it belong too?" Artemis asked.
"It belongs to a woman named Eve." Rouge answered.
"Eve?" Darien wondered.
"She was a former model from France. She got fired for some reason and killed the person who replaced her. After that, I assume that she joined up with Black Doom after feeling betrayed by everyone who turned their back on her." Rouge explained.
"She kinda sounds like you." Knuckles joked.
"Joke all you want, this woman is more cunning than you or I think. She was the one who took the Chaos Emerald." Rouge said to him.
Shadow then noticed Amy Rose in the hospital bed. "What happened to Amy?"
"Oh..." Sonic turned back to see the pink hedgehog still resting. "She was attacked by Mephiles and some grey tiger."
Shadow's eyes widened. "Mephiles?"
Sonic told him about the situation where the villains attacked Amy and took the Chaos Emerald that they won at the Extreme Gear Mini-Tournament.
Shadow was in deep thought. "So, they got another emerald, huh?"
"Then that makes four Chaos Emeralds." Rouge added. "I know you guys have one, but the other two are still out there, somewhere."
"The question is; where?" Serena wondered.
Suddenly, a beeping sound was heard. It was coming from Shadow's communicator. The black hedgehog grabbed it out and pressed a button on it.
"This is Shadow. What is it?"
There was a moment of silence before Shadow broke it a few moments later. "Okay, I'll be right there." He pressed a button on the communicator before putting it away.
"What was that all about?" Raye asked.
"It's Eggman. They located him at the Mystic Ruins." Shadow replied.
Everyone's eyes widened at that moment.
"What's he doing there?!" Sonic asked.
"They aren't sure. It looks like he must have found something important." Shadow answered.
"I bet he's after the Chaos Emerald we have." Knuckles thought.
"Wait!" Mina stopped him. "You mean, the one that Tuxedo Mask gave us?"
"Isn't that obvious?" Knuckles looked at her.
"Uh...I guess so." Mina laughed nervously.
"Let's go then." Sonic said as he got up from his seat.
"What about Amy?" Ami asked.
"Don't worry about it." Darien said. "I'll stay here and keep her company."
"We'll stay as well." Luna added, mentioning her and Artemis.
"All right." Sonic nodded. "Thanks."
"No problem." Darien replied.
"Follow us." Shadow gestured. "We'll track him down easier."
With that, our heroes followed Shadow as he lead the way towards the Mystic Ruins.
- Mystic Ruins -
The scene shifts towards the Mystic Ruins. Over here, we see Dr. Eggman landing his pod some feet away from Tails Workshop. But he was not alone. There were two figures standing at his side.
The first figure was a tall gold-colored robot. It's head was shaped like a cone. It had red eyes, and it's body size was thin. The second figure was also a robot, only shorter and was grey-colored. It had blue eyes, and it's body size was shorter. These robots were identified as Decoe and Bocoe. Dr. Eggman's robot sidekicks.
"Doctor, are sure this is the right thing to do?" Decoe, the gold-colored robot, asked.
"Yeah. It think it would be better just to get it over with." Bocoe, the grey-colored robot, added with a nod.
"I've already made up my mind." Eggman replied. "All we have to do is convince them about this and they'll listen to us."
"I'm not so sure about this idea." Decoe said with a sigh. "They will think your tricking them again."
"Especially Knuckles. He usually falls for it every time." Bocoe said with it's arms crossed.
"Yeah. That Knucklehead is always dumb enough to actually fall for the doctor's tricks." Decoe added with a laugh.
"Enough, you dunce-buckets!" Eggman roared at them, which immediately caught Decoe and Bocoe's attention. "Like I said, I've already made up my mind."
"You mean, your not going to take their emerald?" Bocoe asked with wide eyes.
"No. That's what they would want to think." Eggman answered.
"Is it because of those black aliens?" Decoe wondered.
"Yes. With the current situation, I'm afraid there won't be much explanation going on." Eggman reminded them.
As they made it to the workshop, Eggman sat down on the steps with his arms crossed while Decoe and Bocoe looked around from the outside of the workshop.
"Hey, there's no one here!" Decoe noticed as he looked from the broken window.
"Where do you think they might have gone to?" Bocoe wondered.
"I'm not sure." Decoe crossed his arms. "Do you think they are searching for another Chaos Emerald?"
"No." Eggman said. "If they have, we could have tracked it down ourselves a long time ago."
"Hmm..." Bocoe hummed. "Perhaps they are on vacation."
"Vacation..." Decoe sighed. "That's just what we need right now."
Eggman groaned to himself. For once, he was actually thinking the same thing.
Suddenly, a bright light showed itself. Eggman and the two robots covered their eyes as the light blinded them. The light soon faded as Eggman, Decoe, and Bocoe saw what that light was.
The two robot's eyes widened at who they saw.
"It's Sonic!" They both shouted.
"And it looks like they aren't alone." Eggman added.
We scan over here to see our heroes of Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Shadow, Rouge, Omega, and the seven Sailor Scouts; Serena, Ami, Raye, Lita, Mina, Michelle, and Amara. They looked over at the workshop to see Eggman, along with Decoe and Bocoe standing there.
"Eggman!" Sonic exclaimed.
"Well, well, Sonic. It is delightful to see you again. And along with your friends, as well." Eggman grinned widely.
"What do you want here, Eggman?!" Knuckles demanded.
"Me? I only came here to talk with you." Eggman answered.
"About what?" Serena wondered.
"As you no doubt know, the Black Arms are causing trouble on our planet again." Eggman paused for a brief second before continuing. "And on top of all that, Mephiles is a part of all this, as well."
"What's your point, Eggman?" Tails questioned.
Eggman glanced at Tails. "My point is that we should join forces and stop this mess before it really gets out of hand."
The others glanced at each other before huddling together. Decoe and Becoe tried to listen in on what they were saying but Eggman held them back.
"Do you think we should trust him?" Lita asked the others.
"No way." Knuckles stated. "It's a trap. Plain and simple."
"But Eggman doesn't look like he's lying this time." Tails thought.
"I don't care." Knuckles argued. "This is another one of Eggman's tricks. I can smell it."
"What do you think, Shadow?" Rouge asked.
Shadow glanced at Eggman, whom was standing there with his arms behind his back, while Decoe and Bocoe looked at the group cautiously.
"Shadow?" Ami spkoe up.
"I have an idea." Shadow said.
"What is it?" Mina asked.
Shadow looked over at Eggman again, while the group broke out of it's huddle. "What's the condition?"
"Condition?" Eggman raised an eyebrow.
"Obviously, you have some sort of catch to all this. What is it?" Shadow questioned.
"Hmm..." Eggman hummed to himself. Suddenly, an idea popped into his head. "Oh, that's right! I've got it!"
Our heroes looked at him cautiously.
"If you want my help, you have to defeat one of my latest creations." Eggman grinned.
"Let me guess; another machine?" Amara asked.
Eggman looked at Amara. "I see you've been doing your research. Now..." He took out a small remote which contained a simple button. He pressed it.
The heroes waited for something to happen. Suddenly, a large crash impacted right behind our heroes. They turned around to see an average human-like robot standing there. It had silver metal armor covering the body, a shade of black over it's eyes, the nose area had infra-red vision, and it's arms and legs were covered with knives.
"Say hello to my latest creation; the Egg Gunner!" Eggman introduced with a laugh.
Sonic only grinned. "That thing doesn't look so tough." He turned to the others. "What do you say we turn this thing into scrap metal?"
Knuckles, and the Sailor Scouts nodded as the girls pulled out their glowing pens.
"Moon Crystal Power!"
"Mercury Power!"
"Mars Power!"
"Jupiter Power!"
"Venus Power!"
"Neptune Power!"
"Uranus Power!"
A large glow resided within the seven girls. It took about fifteen seconds before all of them were fully transformed into the Sailor Scouts. Tails decided to stay back with Shadow, Rouge, and Omega.
Decoe and Bocoe's eyes widened at their new forms.
"Doctor! Those humans are different now!" Decoe pointed out.
"But what different does that make?" Bocoe wondered. "It's not like they have special powers or anything."
Eggman, however, thought differently. "I wouldn't be so sure about that."
The Egg Gunner began to shoot red lasers from it's shoulders. Our heroes quickly dodged them in order to avoid getting zapped. Sonic spin-dashed at the robot's body. But unfortunately for Sonic, it did not faze the robot. The robot swiped at the blue hedgehog, but begin fast as usual, Sonic back-flipped in order to evade the attack.
Knuckles was next as he jumped at the robot and slammed his fist at the robot's chest. But like before, it did not do any real damage to the robot's body. Unexpectedly, the Egg Gunner's eyes shot lasers at Knuckles, sending the echidna flying backwards on his back.
"Are you all right, Knuckles?" Sailor Mars asked.
Knuckles gritted his teeth while shaking off his pain. "I'm fine."
Sailor Mars narrowed it's eyes at the Egg Gunner as a gun revealed itself from it's chest and fired at her. Sailor Mars jumped to the side to avoid the shot before she decided to counter back at the robot.
"Mars Fire Ignite!"
Sailor Mars fired a flash of fire at the Egg Gunner's body. The attack was successful, but the robot didn't even flinch from the burns it was receiving. The robot fired a laser beam from it's shoulders again at Sailor Mars. She jumped to the side again, but the laser got her in the knee as she fell to the ground in pain.
"Sailor Mars!" Sailor Moon cried as she ran over to her. She knelt down to check up on her. "Are you okay?"
Sailor Mars held her knee in pain. "I-I'll be all right. Just take care of that robot."
Sailor Venus tried to damage it herself.
"Venus Crescent Beam Smash!"
Sailor Venus fired a beam of light at the robot's arm. The damage caught the Egg Gunner off guard, but still did no damage.
"Jupiter Thunder Crash!"
Sailor Jupiter released a large amount of electricity from her tiara and fired it at the Egg Gunner. This time, it made the robot stagger backwards a couple of steps before stopping itself.
"Neptune Deep Submerge!"
"Uranus World Shaking!"
Both Sailor Neptune and Sailor Uranus released two glowing spheres at the same time as they both targeted the silver-armored robot. Both of the spheres connected on contact, which sent the robot flying backwards towards the ground.
"Did that do it?" Sailor Venus asked.
Everyone waited a few moments for something to happen. Then, in a surprise turn of events, the robot stood itself up. The heroes weer in shock of this.
"What?! That thing is still moving?!" Tails exclaimed.
"There's no way that's possible!" Sailor Jupiter added.
Eggman chuckled to himself. "Oops, I almost forgot. The Egg Gunner has a high endurance. So it cannot be destroyed so easily."
Knuckles growled angrily. "What do we do now?"
"If we keep attacking this thing, we'll all be worn out of energy." Sailor Neptune said.
"It doesn't matter how many times we attack it. It will just keep fighting back." Sailor Uranus added.
Suddenly, Sailor Mercury got an idea. "I got it! I'll use my Mercury communicator to find it's weak point!"
"Mercury communicator?" Rouge wondered.
Sailor Mercury pulled out her Mercury communicator that she received from Luna during one of their missions. She pressed a few buttons on it as a visor appeared over her eye. The visor scanned the Egg Gunner, searching for any weak points that it could find. After a few moments of scanning, she found it's weak ponit.
"I found it!" Sailor Mercury exclaimed.
"Where is it?" Sailor Moon asked.
"It's eyes. The eyes are it's weak point." Sailor Mercury pointed out.
"All right. I'll take that thing down." Sailor Moon said as she grabbed her tiara from her head.
"Hey, Sailor Moon." Sonic called.
"Huh? What is it?" Sailor Moon asked.
"Let's both attack that thing together." Sonic winked at her.
Sailor Moon nodded with a smile. "All right. Let's do this!"
The tiara soon started to glow in her hands as she took aim at the Egg Gunner.
"Moon Tiara Magic!"
Sailor Moon threw her golden tiara at the silver armored robot's head. As it was flying towards the robot, Sonic spin-dashed alongside the golden tiara as they both flew towards the Egg Gunner's head.
The Egg Gunner tried moving, but didn't get the chance, thanks to Sonic and the tiara's speed. Both of them collided against the Egg Gunner's eyes with full force as the robot blew up into pieces.
"All right! You guys did it!" Tails said happily.
Sonic and Sailor Moon looked at each other with a smirk on their face.
"Not bad, Serena." Sonic said to her.
"You and I make a pretty good team." Sailor Moon replied.
The two high fived each other while Decoe and Bocoe looked on in shock, as they just witnessed the Egg Gunner being destroyed.
"Oh no! They destroyed the Egg Gunner!" Decoe exclaimed.
"What do we do, Doctor?" Bocoe asked him.
Eggman said nothing as our heroes approached the scientist.
"All right, Eggman." Sonic said to him. "We crushed your little robot. What are you going to do about it?"
Eggman stayed silent for another moment before speaking. "To you, I say...congratulations."
"Huh?"
"Normally, I would just make a run for it with your Chaos Emerald, but not today." Eggman said. "There is something important that I must tell you. It involves Mephiles and the seven Chaos Emeralds."
"It involves the Black Dragon, doesn't it?" Shadow questioned.
Eggman glanced at the black hedgehog. "Oh yeah. I forgot that you were there. You already know."
"Eggman. What is this Black Dragon you mention?" Omega questioned.
Eggman raised an eyebrow. "Didn't Shadow tell you? He already knows about it."
"So do we." Amara said. "We were there with him."
"Wait! Shadow was at the Dusty Desert?" Serena asked.
"Of course. There was Silver, Blaze, and a bunch of kids there as well." Michelle answered.
Sonic's eyes widened. "Silver? Blaze?"
"You know them?" Amara asked.
"Yeah. We...met each other once in the past." Sonic replied slowly.
"Wait, who's this Silver and Blaze?" Mina scratched her head.
"And what were a bunch of kids doing there?" Raye added.
All of this was starting to hurt Knuckles head. "What in the world is going on here?"
"Hmm..." Eggman hummed. "Perhaps I should let you all be by yourselves." He then made his way towards his pod with Decoe and Bocoe following him. "But before I go, you should take this."
Eggman pulled out some sort of card and gave it to Bocoe. The short grey-colored robot ran towards Sonic and gave the card to him before running back towards Eggman.
"If you happen to discover any important information, you should give me a call. In the meantime, I'll be looking up on where the other two Chaos Emeralds might be." Eggman hopped inside his pod.
"Wait up, Doctor!" Decoe said as he and Bocoe jumped in with him as the pod hovered into the air and took off in a different direction.
After he was gone, everyone looked at each other.
"Well, that was weird." Sonic thought, as he looked at Eggman's calling card.
"Give me that card." Shadow said. "I'll keep track of what Eggman's doing."
Shrugging, Sonic gave the card to Shadow. The black hedgehog walked back towards Rouge and Omega.
"Shadow, what's all this about Silver, Blaze and these kids?" Lita asked.
Shadow looked at Lita. "I guess I owe you an explanation for that."
Everyone gathered round as Shadow began to explain the events of what happened after the invasion of Station Square.
The truth finally starts to reveal itself. How will Shadow tell the Sonic Heroes and the Sailor Scouts about what has been going on? Will Eggman be able to track down the other remaining Chaos Emeralds? And what will happen once the final Chaos Emerald reveals itself? Find out on the next Black Conquest!
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