Me: Hey Bitches! I'm back!
Trevor: When are you going to focus on Cybertron again, AK?
Me: In time, Trevor. But I got to work on this arc I got going right now.
Bunnie: I got to agree with Trev here, AK. You're focusing on Mobius a bit too much. There are other AutoKnights too, ya know.
Me: I have it all planned out, Bunnie. I just have to finish this arc and make the last character intro for a while.
Sonic: Wait. You're bringing in MORE characters? Dude, you have too much as it is.
Me: I know. I actually have just two more characters and they will both come into it in this chapter. And I think everyone will like who the second one is.
Rouge: Why? Who's the second one?
Me: He's more iconic than most characters. That's all I will say.
Antoine: Really? Let me think….I'm stumped.
Me: Good. Let's get started. I do not own the Incredibles, Transformers, American Dad, Digimon Adventure, Digimon Tamers, Futurama, or Sonic the Hedgehog. The Shikibu Siblings are joint-owned by me and turtleguy. Trevor Bauer, Takamon, Blaze, and GK are owned by me.
Blaze: If anyone decides to make a crack at us for that…
Trevor: You can expect your tombstone to be in the making by tomorrow.
Me: Okay…I admit that was a nice one. So everyone, enjoy chapter 26.
The AutoKnights VI: Knights of Chaos
Chapter 26: The Search
(Mobian Canyon Range; 7:15 AM)
The sun had started to rise over the eastern horizon, but it wasn't high up in the sky enough to bring light down into the bottom of the canyons. But luckily the gap of the walls was large enough for the sunlight to reflect down to the ground. The group of hunters were all in front of the entrance to the first canyon.
"So what do we do know, Tak? This is your mission. You're in charge here." Sonic told the golden one.
He stepped forward and looked to his side.
"Teletraan, you there?"
The Cybertronian lynx fuzzed into view with Nicole next to him.
"Yes, Takamon?" he asked.
"Bring up a map of this canyon range and spot our location." Takamon told him.
Teletraan nodded and waved his hand to produce a screen in front of them with a radar layout of the canyon range.
"Okay. Now search for the signal that was brought on by the Matrix yesterday."
A red light appeared in the exact same pace as it was shown before.
"There it is." Nicole said. "But it's strange. I felt how strong the signal was yesterday, but now it feels like it's gotten weaker. Do you feel it, Teletraan?"
"Yeah. It's strange. The Matrix is always gives off a very strong signal." The other AI said.
"Maybe it's just the canyons interfering with the signal." Sally suggested.
"It hasn't moved an inch from where it was yesterday, Sally." Nicole said. "And it was giving off a perfectly strong signal then. It somehow faded."
"Who cares? It's still there, right?" Sonic asked.
Both of the lynxes nodded.
"Alright then." Sonic went on. "Let's find it first, and then we'll find out why it's supposedly weaker. Sound good?"
Everyone nodded in agreement.
"Lupe, come here." Takamon said.
Lupe walked over as told.
"Do you know this area?" He gestured towards the map and pointed where the Matrix was.
Lupe looked closely at it and nodded.
"Yes. That are is where the largest temple from our early ancestors is. It also has a lot of surrounding temples. They're built right into the wall of the canyon. I'll lead you there."
"Great. Then let's get moving." Takamon said.
Lupe walked in front of them and they all followed her throughout the canyon range. Along the way, Lyco and Leeta were talking sweet-talk to GK. And he was not liking it. Takamon just laughed at his friend. No three-way goes unpunished for GK.
It took about an hour and a half of time for them to get there, but eventually, Lupe turned them around a corner to reveal a another rocky canyon wall right in front of them. And built into that wall were the sacred temples Lupe spoke of. There were multiple wide staircases with pillars at the top. All of them had doorways at the top, but it was the one in the center that attracted the most attention.
The center temple had a very big doorway. It was about forty feet tall. The pillars in front of it were the ones most decorated. The carved heads of wolves were chiseled at the top of them. In total, there were eight temples in total all in a row in front of them. There were three smaller ones on the left of the big one, and four on the right.
"These temples were created nearly a thousand years ago by the earliest of wolves. If there is anything hidden, it will probably be inside one of these temples." Lupe explained.
"Let's search them all just to be on the safe side." Tails said.
"I agree." Takamon said. "But we're gonna have to split up and cover ground more easily. Let's see here."
He had to assign teams now. And he quickly did some math. There were sixteen of them in total. So he decided to make four groups of four.
"Okay, I'll take Blaze, Sally, and Sonic. We'll search the main temple and the first one to the left of it."
"Sounds good. What about everyone else?" Sally asked.
"Lupe, you, Diablo, Chris, and Lobo can search the other two temples to the left of the main one."
Lupe nodded to that.
"Alright, Bunnie, Antoine, Tails, and Cosmo will be one group, and GK, Amy, Lyco, and Leeta will be another. Both of those groups will each give two out of the four temples on the right."
Everyone agreed.
"Search every temple thoroughly and leave no rock unturned. When you're finished, go to the main temple and we'll all meet up there. We have to find the Matrix. Understood?"
Once again, everyone nodded and went off to their assigned temples. But before Amy got out of reach, Takamon went up to her.
"Make sure GK doesn't make a move on the twins." He whispered.
"And if he does?" Amy asked.
"Bop him with your hammer."
Amy giggled and went off with GK, Lyco, and Leeta. GK groaned along the way. Now he had to listen to THREE girls talk to one another. It was one of his worst nightmares.
Everyone searched within every single temple very VERY closely. They looked for a good three hours straight. They looked for secret doors, they looked behind pictures, they looked up, down, and all around every single temple.
But alas, nothing was found. They didn't even find as much as a stupid Cybertron glyph. Sonic, Sally, Blaze, and Takamon stood in the center room of the main temple waiting for everyone else to get back. It was just the four of them right now.
"I just don't understand it. It HAS to be here." Takamon was so sure.
"Tak, baby, there's nothing here." Blaze told him.
"She's right, Takamon." Sally said. "Maybe we should just head back to New Mobotropolis."
"You guys can head back if you want but I'm staying." Takamon said.
"Tak, listen." Sonic started. "We searched every square inch of this place. Maybe the others had better luck than we did."
Takamon was open to that. Another ten minutes passed by and then all the groups were together in the main temple. None of them found anything either and Takamon grew impatient. He started to pace back and forth rubbing his chin.
"Dammit all. What did we miss? There has to be something we missed." He said.
"Tak, come to terms with it. There is NOTHING here. Nothing but rock." GK said.
Takamon glared at him. "I refuse to believe that."
"Hey, believe what you want." GK leaned up against one of the indoor pillars. "But I'm certain, you won't find anything. Not here."
Takamon sighed and ran one last check on the room. GK sighed and shook his head at his friend, and leaned more back.
But he was against a pillar. How could he be leaning back?
"LOOK OUT!"
The pillar GK was leaning on was falling over. Everyone ran clear of it and it came crashing down into the back wall of the temple. Dust flew up and everyone started to cough.
"Nice going, GK. Why don't you just take down the whole temple while we're here?" Amy said while still coughing.
"Oh shut up. I got this." GK flew up and over the dust cloud.
He began to flap his wings very very fast but he didn't move forward. Instead, he created a strong enough wind to blow the entire cloud of dust out the giant door of the temple. He landed and everyone was able to breathe normally again. They all thanked him but then Takamon rushed over past him.
He was at the back wall that was built right up against the canyon. The pillar that fell crashed down into it and it should have done nothing. But instead, the rocky wall became dented and cracked. Why would a solid canyon wall made of rock crack? Unless…
"What is it, Takamon?" Cosmo asked.
Takamon didn't hear her. He grabbed part of the cracked wall and ripped it to his and everyone else's surprise right off. Lupe was about to stop him from tearing apart the temple, but when she saw something shining from behind the wall, she knew what he was on to. Sally and the others came over to help him rip off the wall. And then they stopped when they saw a group of symbols against a grayish surface. Antoine knocked on it with his knuckles. It made a clanging sound.
"It's metal." He said.
Takamon ran his hand over the symbols.
"Cybertronian language. This is it! It's behind this wall! Inside the canyon! AUTOKNIGHT, TRANSFORM!"
Everyone stood back as Takamon's glowing ring covered his entire body and turned into his aqua blue suit.
"BLURR!"
Blurr raised his right arm and instead of making his shield and saw blade come out, he turned his right arm into his giant robot mode arm.
"Everyone…stand back."
Everyone ran away from him and stood in the giant doorway of the temple as Blurr balled up his robotic fist, reached back, and gave the wall a hard punch right where the dent was. He hit with enough force to have his whole arm go through the wall and make another cloud of dust. This one wasn't so bad. Blurr transformed his arm back to normal.
He called his friends saying it was clear and then they all approached the hole.
"It's not exactly the door, but it'll do." Chris said.
"Blaze, we're gonna need a torch." Sally said.
Blaze nodded and made a fist with her right hand. Then her whole fist became shrouded in her flames. She walked through the hole first with everyone else following her. When they came out of the hole on the other side, no one could believe their eyes.
They had walked right into the bridge of a spaceship. And it was obviously from Cybertron. Blurr could recognize the symbols easily.
"This must be the ship that was carrying the Matrix." Chris said. "It has to be."
"You're right, Chris." Tails said. "The pilot must have crashed into this canyon when he came out of the space bridge."
"And then Lupe's ancestors built those temples into the canyon in order to hide the ship away." Sally suggested.
"Remarkable." Lupe and the other wolves were obviously blown away by this discovery. "My people and I have come here all the time…and we had no idea what was hiding behind the wall."
"Look at these controls." Tails was going crazy by the machinery that was inside there. "Man look at how advanced this is. Not even the Blue Typhoon had technology like this."
"Let's not get carried away, lil' bro." Sonic said. "Remember, we have to find the Matrix and get out of here."
"He's right." Blaze agreed. "Everyone stay close to me since I'm the only source of light. It's very dark in here."
It was indeed pitch black dark in there. Blaze and Blurr walked side my side as they walked around the bridge. Blurr tripped on something. It was a rock from the canyon. Blaze made the flames bigger and the light brighter. And they saw that the front windshield of the ship had been shattered in the crash and rocks poured into the ship.
"Must have been one hard landing." Amy said.
"It had to have been. The glass on a windshield of a space ship has to be more than nearly two feet thick. It had to crash very hard in order to break glass of that kind of thickness." Tails explained.
"Ah bet Rotor would have loved to see this." Bunnie said.
"Rotor's retired from battle, Bunnie. You know that." Sonic said. "But you're right. He would have loved this."
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"
That shriek came from Antoine. He had jumped into Bunnies arms and he was shaking.
"WTF?" GK asked.
"What the hell's the matter with you?" Blaze asked.
Antoine shakily pointed to in front of them. What they saw made them flinch a bit, but that was pretty much it.
Sticking out of the pile of rock coming from the front of the ship, was a giant head. And it was one of a transformer. It was square shaped and silver colored. The rest of his body was buried beneath the rock. The eyes were lightless. Blurr approached it and knocked on it to make sure it was really out.
"Relax, Ant." He said. "It's just a dead Autobot."
Now everyone approached the head to get a better look.
"This must be the pilot." Cosmo thought. "My guess is when he crashed, the force of the impact threw him forward and before he could get back up, the rocks covered him."
"Good thinking." Sally said. "If only he was still alive. Then he could probably help us."
"Look there. That must be the cargo hold of the ship." Diablo said.
Right beside where the body of the Autobot was, there was a giant door with a keypad. Everyone stood in front of it.
"That's a big door." Lobo said.
"How do we open it?" Lyco wondered.
"I think keypad is out of the question since none of the ship's circuits are running." Lupe said.
"Think you can give it another robot punch, Blurr?" Chris asked.
Blurr smirked.
"Maybe. But I'll need to go into my full robot mode for this one."
When he said that, everyone started to back up again. Then his whole suit opened up and he took on his twenty foot tall robot mode. He balled up his fist again, and gave the door to the cargo hold a very hard punch.
But it wasn't hard enough. He didn't even make a dent in the door. All that happened was the ship shook a little and a couple of rocks fell onto the head of the dead Autobot.
"Well, that was an epic fail." Blurr said as he transformed back to his Digimon mode.
"This door is probably built with an even stronger reinforced metal to keep out the wrong people." Tails assumed.
"What do we do now? The Matrix is probably behind that door and we can't get to it." Sally pointed out.
Everyone began to think. How exactly DO they get those doors opened? But then they all heard a noise. It sounded like something was whirring up like a machine.
"Vwat is zat noise?" Antoine started shaking again.
"Is the ship turning on?" Tails looked around to see if anything was lighting up or something related.
But no. It wasn't the ship at all. The whirring sound was followed by a moan. And then movement was heard. And finally to top it off, lights came from behind them. All of them turned around to see that all the noise along with the light was coming from the head of the Autobot, which was now moving.
Everyone started to freak out. Antoine shrieked again. Only Blurr and Sonic remained calm. Lupe and the four other wolves prepared to charge the head with spears, but the two speed demons stopped them.
"Okay! Everyone calm down!" Sonic shouted.
"What he said." Blurr turned around to see that the Autobot was looking right at him.
"Where…where am I?" he asked in a voice that sounded weak.
"You're in your ship. You crash landed here in this world some time ago and we just found you today." Blurr approached the giant head.
The Autobot looked around and he recognized his ship.
"I remember." He said. "But…who are you people?"
"We're friends of Hot Rod." Sonic told him.
That was all the Autobot needed to hear.
"Hot Rod? So he's still alive? That's…that's good. AH!"
The Autobot just realized right there where he was as pain shot up through the circuits of his legs. Blurr and Sonic dashed over to him.
"Easy there." Sonic said.
The giant robot moaned again as everyone else approached it and Blaze extinguished the flames from her hand since the robot was giving them enough light.
"What's your name, Autobot?" Blurr asked.
He looked at them.
"S…suh…Silverbolt. My name is Silverbolt."
"Okay. Silverbolt, you hang in there. Alright? We're gonna get you out of here." Blurr looked at Sonic. "We're gonna have to dig him out of that rock."
"Don't worry. With our speed, we should be done in no time." Sonic leaned over and got ready to dash.
Blurr smirked and did the same.
"Ready? Set? GO!"
Two blue streaks of light are what they became as they quickly went back and forth carrying rocks outside the temple. Slowly but surely, more of Silverbolt's body became visible. After ten minutes of getting all that rock out of the ship, Silverbolt's whole body was visible. He nearly thirty feet tall by the looks of it and like his head, his body was silver with golden trim. Coming out of his back with four metal panels, two pointing up and two pointing down. Sally looked over at the hole that was their way in. It wasn't close to being big enough to fitting Silverbolt through it.
"Bunnie, think you can make the hole bigger?" She asked.
Bunnie adjusted her brown cowboy hat and then she turned her robotic arm into her plasma cannon.
"Done deal, Sal-gal."
Bunnie began to shoot the outer edged of the hole. Being buried within the canyon wall for many years had made the outer shell of the ship very weak. So it was easy to break. It took her about five minutes, but Bunnie was able to make the hole big enough so Silverbolt would fit through it. Blurr and Sonic came back in.
"Can you walk, Silverbolt?" Sonic asked.
Silverbolt put that to the test. He tried to get up, but he had no luck. Sparks flew from his legs instead. Blurr went back into his robot mode and dragged Silverbolt out of the ship, and out of the temple so he was in the sunlight. Everyone followed them out and Blurr turned off his robot mode and looked to his right.
"Teletraan. Nicole."
Both the AI lynxes fuzzed into view. And Teletraan for the first time in his new body, smiled.
"Silverbolt? Is that you?" he said.
Now everyone, even Nicole, looked at the Cybertronian lynx.
"Who…who are…you?" Silverbolt asked.
Teletraan remembered there that the only ones who had seen his new body, were the Freedom Fighters. No one on Cybertron had seen him like this yet. And no one on Cybertron had seen Silverbolt for hundreds of years.
"Silverbolt, this may be hard to believe, but I'm Teletraan 1." He said.
Silverbolt tried to lean in closer to get a better look.
"H…how?"
"Silverbolt, you've been away from Cybertron for nearly three hundred years. A lot of things have changed." Teletraan said.
"I want to talk to Prime. I want to let him know I'm okay."
Blurr and Teletraan looked at each other. They were the only two there who knew what he was talking about.
"Uh…Silverbolt?" Blurr took this one. "Like he said, a lot of stuff has happened. Hot Rod is in charge now."
Silverbolt was weak, but that didn't stop him from showing his surprise.
"Hot Rod? What happened to Optimus? And who exactly are YOU?" he asked the AutoKnight.
"My name is Blurr."
"What? I know Blurr. You're not him." Silverbolt responded.
"Look." Teletraan approached him. "Silverbolt, I'm going to contact Cybertron and put you in touch with Hot Rod. He'll tell you everything. Alright?"
Silverbolt nodded.
"Hold on." Blurr stopped him. "Teletraan, before you contact Cybertron, scan his body and find out how bad his damages are."
Teletraan agreed and then both he and Nicole went up to Silverbolt and touched part of his metal body. Their eyes closed and their hands pixilated. After they were done, which was in about twenty seconds, they stood back and Nicole produced a holo-screen with a layout of Silverbolt's body. Everyone gathered around.
"Well his outer shell has minimal damage. A few dents." Nicole said.
"His legs however sustained heavy damage when the rocks crushed him." Teletraan said. "Oh boy. A few of his conversion joints got damaged too."
"Conversion joints?" Cosmo wondered. "What are those?"
"Conversion joints are the parts inside all Cybertronians that allow them to change between robot mode and vehicle mode." Teletraan explained. "In simpler terms, they're what allow Transformers to transform. And all of them need to be one hundred percent operational for changing to be possible."
"So you're saying that Silverbolt here can't transform?" Sonic asked.
Teletraan nodded.
"How many of his conversion joints are damaged?" Amy asked.
"Four out of forty." Teletraan responded.
"Can they be repaired?" Sally asked.
"Not here. We have to get him back to the city." Nicole answered.
"Alright then. Here's what's gonna happen." Blurr had his plan. "Sonic, you take Tails back to New Mobotropolis and get the X-Tornado. Tails, do you have anything that can haul him back there?"
"A few cables. I think they're durable enough." Tails responded.
"Good. While you guys get the plane, I'll call Hot Rod and have him talk with our new friend here."
Sonic nodded and picked Tails up.
"I know you can fly buddy, but I can run faster." He said.
Tails nodded understanding and then he took off out of the canyons and back to New Mobotropolis. While they did that, Teletraan contacted Cybertron and made another one of his and Nicole's holo-screens appear right in front of Silverbolt's face.
"Autobot HQ, this is Teletraan 1. Respond."
The screen started to fuzz and then an image of a robot appeared. But it wasn't Hot Rod.
"Perceptor here. I read you loud and clear Tele…"
The Autobot stopped his voice when he saw who he was looking at.
"Silverbolt? Is that you, old friend?"
Silverbolt smiled.
"Perceptor. Good to hear a familiar voice." He said. "What's going on?"
"Uh…stay put. I'm gonna go and find Hot Rod."
Perceptor literally ran away from the screen and went off to find the bot in charge. A minute later, Hot Rod had the same reaction when he saw Silverbolt.
"Silverbolt? You're alive?" he said with the shock in his voice showing.
Silverbolt got right to the point.
"Hot Rod, tell me right now. What's going on? Where's Optimus? Why is this brown furry thing saying he's Teletraan 1? And why is this little golden creature claiming to be my good friend, Blurr?"
Blurr rubbed the back of his head. It was a bit obvious now that Silverbolt was good friends with the original Blurr. And now he had his power.
Hot Rod explained everything to Silverbolt. He explained what happened with the original Optimus, and the rest of the old platoon. Including Blurr. Then he explained the current situation. The AutoKnights were stuck on Cybertron and they were all working together to get them back home. Silverbolt wanted to see what they looked like now, but Hot Rod said they were too busy to be disturbed.
But when it came to Teletraan 1's body, Teletraan himself had to answer that. He explained that another AI helped him get his own body and hers was similar to his. So that's why he chose that design. Hot Rod understood and complimented the lynx on his new body. He wanted to know more, but Hot Rod had to get back to work. The transmission just as Tails came back with X-Tornado and he landed it right near him. Tails and Sonic hopped out and brought out multiple heavy duty cables.
There were five cables in total. Everyone, even the wolves helped out in hooking the cables up to the giant robot. They attached three to his chest, and two to his legs. The other ends were hooked up to the back of the X-Tornado. Tails got back into the cockpit and fired it up, but before he left, Blurr remembered why they were all there in the first place. He dashed over to Silverbolt.
"Hey, listen. Before you leave, we need your help." Blurr said. "We need to know where the Matrix of Leadership."
Silverbolt remembered as well what he was doing in that ship in the first place.
"It's in the cargo hold. You have to enter the code on the keypad in order to open the door."
"But the ship won't turn on." Bunnie told him. "How can we enter a code on the keypad if there's no power?"
Silverbolt looked at Teletraan.
"If he really is Teletraan 1, then he should be able to access the ship's emergency power." Silverbolt explained. "Take his portable device up to the main control console in the bridge. Plug him in, and he can turn the ship on. The code to the cargo hold door is, 14750984."
Everyone smiled at the big bot.
"Thank you, Silverbolt." Cosmo said with a smile.
He smiled back at her.
"Get the Matrix someplace safe." The X-Tornado started to lift off of the ground along with the cables. "Til all are one!"
Silverbolt's body lifted off the ground being towed. The plane and then they both of them flew away back to New Mobotropolis. After they were all done waving goodbye as they disappeared into the sky, they all rushed back into the ship and found the main control console Silverbolt was talking about. Blurr brought out Teletraan's portable device from his suit.
"Teletraan, can you really plug into this thing?" he asked.
"There's an outlet right in front of you." Teletraan responded. Put me down right in front of it."
Blurr complied and then a cord came out of the bottom of device and automatically plugged into a small port into the console.
A few seconds later, the ship started to make noise. Then lights came on. One light, then another, and then rows of them. Soon the whole bridge was lit up.
"Alright. Let's go and get the Matrix." Chris went over to the cargo hold door.
Blurr took on his robot mode again so he could reach the keypad. He put in the code that Silverbolt told him.
1-4-7-5-0-9-8-4
The door slowly opened up and Blurr transformed down from robot mode. They were expecting to see the Matrix. The glorious artifact that would probably bring the good guys closer to winning the war.
But there was nothing there.
There was a large containment field and a stand on the inside of it that would obviously fit the Matrix, but it wasn't there. It was gone.
"Where is it?" Blurr was looking frantically around the room.
"It has to be here somewhere." Sonic said. "Teletraan was picking up this signal."
"Let's just spread out and search the whole ship." Sally suggested.
Everyone nodded and went their own way in the ship to find the Matrix. Each of them went up and down the long corridors of the ship, searching every door, every ladder, they searched for an hour. But none of them found any sign of the Matrix. All of them met back up in the bridge.
"I couldn't find it anywhere, Blurr." Cosmo said. "Are you sure this is the right place?"
Blurr looked around and held up his hands.
"Look around Cosmo! Where else could it possibly be?"
Cosmo started to back up. She didn't like to bee yelled at. Amy was able to calm Blurr down but it didn't solve the problem. After a long breath the knight looked back at the cargo hold. But he then saw someone in there. It was Teletraan's Mobian body.
But how could Teletraan even be inside the ship? The sky spy wasn't in there. He walked over to him and left everyone there. Sonic kept his eye on him and watched him ask Teletraan something. Then he looked up.
"SON OF A BITCH!"
Everyone ran over to Blurr's side.
"What's the matter? Why did you yell like that?" Lupe asked.
Blurr was still looking up.
"Because the Matrix WAS here."
Now everyone looked up with him and then they saw it. It was a giant sized hole in the ceiling of the room.
"Someone beat us to it." Blurr growled.
"That must be why the signal I picked up was weaker. I was only getting a reading from the residual energy in this room." Teletraan said.
Everyone was shocked. How could anyone else even know about the Matrix? But then, Leeta saw something. She walked forward, kneeled down and picked something up off the floor.
It was a long orange colored hair.
"I don't think that robot had any hair." Leeta said.
Lyco went over to her sister and examined the hair.
"You think maybe another group of Mobians got here first?" she asked.
Now Chris went over and looked at it with the twins.
"That hair isn't from one of you guys. It looks like it came from a human." He said.
"But there aren't any other humans in this…" Amy was able to stop herself from finishing that sentence.
Everyone at that very moment put the pieces together. And they all had the same result.
Eggman.
"How could he have known?" Blaze wondered.
"Eggman has his ways of getting information without us knowing." Sonic told her.
"Don't worry. I'm sure if we all work together, we'll get it back. Right, Blurr?" Cosmo looked at him.
Blurr started to breathe very heavily. His eyes began to twitch, his fists began to shake, and Amy was starting to think there was steam coming from his head. Slowly, Blurr turned his head to look at Teletraan gritting his teeth.
"Can you track where it is now?" he growled.
Teletraan produced one more holo-screen. It showed another radar layout, but this time, this signal was moving.
"It went north." He said.
"He must have gone back to New Megaopolis." Sally assumed.
"Where is that?" Blurr asked.
"It's just of North of New Mobotropolis." Bunnie replied.
That was all Blurr needed and wanted to hear. He revved up his legs and ran out of the ship and into the canyon range to find his way out.
"Where is he going?" Diablo wondered.
Sonic already knew.
"He was pretty mad. I bet you anything he's going to New Megaopolis." He said.
"Sonic, catch him and stop him! We need to all work together on this!" Sally cried.
"Way ahead of you, Sal."
Sonic ran out after his friend.
"Hey! Wait up!" Blaze called.
She lit up her legs and took off flying after the hedgehog and her husband. Everyone else stayed behind with looks of concern.
"What does he think he's doing goin on by himself?" Bunnie asked.
"I don't know. But I've never seen him that mad before." Chris said. "It looked like he was ready to kill someone."
"Nonsense." Antoine assured. "I am being sure that he will not kill anyone."
Antoine had to second think that. Blurr wasn't a Freedom Fighter. His leader was all the way on another planet. Therefore, Blurr could do whatever he wants, to whoever he wants.
Meanwhile, Blurr was running towards New Megaopolis and had already broken the sound barrier a few hundred miles back. His legs were a wheel of blue. And then Sonic came running up next to him with his own legs in a wheel of red below his waist.
"Blurr! I know you're pissed! But turn back and we'll get the Matrix back together!" he shouted.
"Go back to Sally, Sonic! I can handle Eggman myself!" Blurr shouted back.
Blaze came flying in from above.
"Honey! Look! I think you should listen to him!"
Blurr looked up at his wife.
"I'll be fine! I'll just go in, get back the Matrix, and come back out! It's that simple!"
"But what if you're wrong? What if you can't get it back alone?" Sonic shouted.
"Well I'm about to put that to the test!"
Blurr leaned forward some more and started to slowly accelerate to a higher speed. Sonic had no problem keeping up with him. But then he stopped. Not by his own will. Blaze had picked him up so his feet couldn't touch the ground. The hedgehog glared at Blaze.
"Put me down!" he shouted.
"Trust me. Just let him go." Blaze said.
"Are you insane?" Sonic asked. "Look, I don't think he's alright in his head to be fighting."
"Who knows him better? You? His friend? Or me? His wife?"
Sonic sighed. This was true. If there was anyone who knew Blurr better than anyone else in the world, it was Blaze. His wife.
"Look, he just needs to let off some steam. I'm sure once he's done, he'll come back. AND he'll have the Matrix."
"But what if he kills Eggman?"Sonic asked.
"Then I guess the problem that's plagued this world for so long will finally be gone." Blaze answered. "Look, I'm going back to Sally. You decided what to do."
Blaze jumped and took to the air again heading southbound. Sonic just stood there trying to decided what to do.
"Blaze was right. With Eggman gone, this world will finally be peaceful….But still…KILLING him? It's not right."
Sonic had to make a decision. Go back to Sally and the others and let Eggman be killed? Or stop Blurr from making a mistake?
(New Megaopolis; 12:00 PM)
The Mobian sun had reached its peak in the sky. But the only organic in New Megaopolis didn't care. Inside his fortress, which was a giant egg shaped building called the Eggdome, Dr. Eggman himself was admiring the catch he made to toady.
Inside his own custom built containment field, he had placed the Matrix of Leadership inside of it. And he was happier than he had been in days.
"AHAHAHAHAHA! Oh I should have left a camera in that hole to take a picture of their faces when they realized it wasn't there!" Eggman shouted triumphantly.
Decoe, Bocoe, and Bokkun all stood around it observing the Matrix.
"I've never seen anything like it. It looks even more powerful than a Chaos Emerald." Decoe said.
"Maybe it is. But how do we get to the power source, doctor?" Bocoe asked.
"Well according to what Sonic and his friends unknowingly told us, a very strong source of power lies dormant within the center of this thing. And only those worthy of that power are those who can use it." He explained. "But I'm sure it will be no problem tapping into that power without opening it. Just think, if I am successful in harnessing this thing's energy, I can build a whole army of robots that not even Blurr and Sonic combined can stop! OHOHOHOHOHOHO!"
*BEEP BEEP BEEP!*
A red light flashed on and off as an alarm blared throughout the building.
"The intruder alert! Quick! See who it is!" Eggman commanded.
Decoe and Bocoe rushed to their seats and got to work. They looked at the footage coming from the outside security cameras and Bocoe spotted a blue streak of light coming towards them at high speed.
"It's, Sonic!" Bocoe shouted.
"No it's not! Look closer!" Decoe said.
Decoe had zoomed in to reveal that it wasn't Sonic. But it was the other speedster. And he had a very angry face.
"It's Blurr!" Decoe shouted.
"I guess he found out that we got to the Matrix first." Bocoe assumed.
"Uuuuhhhh….he doesn't look too happy." Bokkun got scared of Blurr's angry face.
"What do we do, doctor?" Bocoe asked.
Instead of acting scared like his robots thought of he would, he was smirking. He was smirking of all things.
"Doctor?" Decoe wasn't sure he was aware of what was happening. "Doctor Eggman?"
"Let him come." Eggman said.
The three robots there thought he had lost his mind.
"But Doctor…!" Bokkun was about to protest.
"Do as I say!" he barked. "I have a surprise for our little golden friend."
Outside the Eggdome, the alarm was still blaring. And Blurr was getting closer and closer to the wall of the place.
"Knock knock, Eggman."
He took out his shield and saw blade and did his drillspin. He went right through the wall and stopped spinning. He was in a corridor of the building.
"I'm in. Now to find that Matrix."
He took off running again. Look at every door he ran by trying to feel the energy of the Matrix. Then he stopped. He felt a source of energy behind the door he was now in front of. He punched it open and walked inside.
The room was very dark with shadows everywhere. The only source of light came from a few lights overhead in the center of the room shining down on two containers with two familiar rocks.
Inside each container, was a Chaos Emerald. One of them was red, and the other one was cyan like his suit. Blurr started to walk towards the red one.
"Well, I might as well take these too. The more Emeralds, the merrier."
"I suggest you leave those Chaos Emeralds alone."
Blurr turned back around to see where that voice had come from. It wasn't Eggman. No. This voice was deep, dark, and a bit cold. Eggman's voice wasn't like that.
Blurr unveiled his saw blade again and started to turn around in circles. He backed against a wall right next an area of black shadow.
"WHERE ARE YOU?"
There was no answer. He was starting to get creeped out. He grabbed one of his stars with his left hand and got ready for who or whatever was in the room with him.
In the area of black, a pair of eyes opened up right next to Blurr and he didn't even notice them. The eyes were ruby red.
"I'm closer than you think."
Blurr slashed his saw when he saw the eyes but he didn't fell like he hit anything. The pair of eyes vanished.
"Huh?"
Just then, Blurr got kicked in his back by something. He fell on his frontside and then turned over to see a silhouette of a…hedgehog?
"Sonic?"
"Wrong."
The silhouette walked forward and into the light revealing himself. He was hedgehog. But it wasn't Sonic.
This hedgehog had jet black fur with stripes in his quills as red as his deadly gaze. On his chest there was a small amount of white fluffy fur. On his ankles and wrists, he had golden bracelets and anklets. He had a scowl on his tan muzzle.
"But he and I know each other. Very well."
Blurr got up. He didn't know who this guy was, but he had every intention of taking his ass down.
But the question is…will he be able to?
Me: Okay. I'm not going into the humor of my closers for this chapter. So I'm just gonna say, until then peace bitches.
And…long live America.