Unleashing Sonic: Story Mode

Once I freed Chip from his potted doom, he was pretty mad -since I couldn't stop laughing- but I just told him in between giggles that it was karma for eating my bun. We discussed the incident all the way back to the Tornado, where Tails watched us approach with wide eyes.

"Uh, you two okay?"

"Hahaha, you'll never believe it Tails!" I said, hopping on the wing. "We were fighting over a piece of food-"

"I already can't believe it…" he said with a smirk, starting up the plane as I started up laughing again.

"That's not the best part- Chip got caught in a pot!"

"And he was laughing like a loon the whole time!" Chip threw in.

"Ha ha, at least it wasn't to one of my daydreams!" I chuckled.

Tails gave a wide smile as we took off for Spagonia.

"Wow Sonic- you certainly are chipper!" he exclaimed. I just shrugged and held my hands behind my head.

"Yeah- I guess I am! I dunno- maybe I was just stressed or something, but now I feel like I'm on top of the world!"

"I feel like I ate enough food to last a trip around the world!" Chip groaned.

"That's good, because I don't think we can afford any more stops!"

I glanced down at Tails. "What do you mean?"

"Well, not to ruin your mood, but Eggman's been spotted back in Spagonia!" Tails explained. My grin didn't falter.

"That? A bad thing? There'll be nothing better than strolling up to that Eggman and beating his contraptions senseless with me and revamped attitude!"

Now Chip was impressed. "That's great Sonic! Now you're not all obsessed with him turning you into a Werehog or anything like-"

Tails gave Chip a warning look, but I just kept grinning and pounded a fist into my palm. "I don't have time to worry about that anymore. Nighttime comes, whether I like it or not, and instead of allowing it to run me over, I'd rather run with it- but then still, I wouldn't let it catch me."

Tails and Chip said nothing more about the subject for the rest of the trip.

. . . . . . . .

"Ah, I've been expecting you, Sonic…you've done a fine job collecting tablet fragments." Pickle said when we entered the lab. I nodded, as if I was expecting him to say that, and Amy Rose eagerly came running up next to him.

"Yeah, I was waiting for you too, of course!"

"Of course, of course…"

Chip excitedly flew around Amy's head. "Yeah, and now Sonic's feeling all better and everything so we can get the planet back together a lot faster!"

I seriously turned to Professor Pickle. "Tails tells me Eggman's in the area?"

Pickle nodded. "We don't have time to waste. Go and open the door immediately. And pay Otto a visit. He may provide some assistance. I was surprised Otto was a guardian, and I've known him so long…"

So much for no time to waste…

"It was because of him, in fact, I embarked on a research career. Funny how friendships can be so influential. Right, then, go see Otto!"

As Tails went to go grab a book and Chip and I turned to head out the door, Amy suddenly tackled me from behind and shrieked, "Good luck Sonic! Don't get hurt or anything, okay?"

I sighed. "All right, I won't get hurt…"

"I only say that because I'm afraid its going to get tougher here on out, you know…"

I struck a pose, despite fact she was still dangling from my neck. "I'll try not to worry about that…"

She finally let go, and I waved to everyone on my way out. Chip had grabbed a quite cucumber sandwich and followed me shortly.

How could he eat that when we just had that feast in Chun-Nan…?

"I wonder who conceived the idea to use tablets as keys. Quite clever!" Amy exclaimed as she joined Tails in researching. Tails just shrugged.

"I dunno. Maybe one of these books will tell us…"

"Ah, it warms my heart to see young folk take interest in history…" Pickle sighed. "Sandwich, anyone?"

"Yes, please!" "Why not? I had a light lunch…"

. . . . . . .

"Okay, Otto- here we go!" I called, jogging down the streets of Spagonia. Robots lined the sidewalks, which was yet another sign of Eggman's lingering, so I took them out before they could hurt anyone.

"I imagine you heard all about tablets from the professor, hm?" Otto asked, once we located him not too far away from the shrine. I shrugged in response to his question.

"I guess you could say that…"

"Then if you'd be so kind as to hand over your tablet fragments…" Chip handed Otto our fragments, and he quickly got to work piecing them together.

"Here- a tablet to open the temple door!"

I accepted it, thanked him, then ran by him to head to the temple. Both the Sun Door and the Moon Door were gone…meaning that the only door left was the Star Door, also meaning that was the area of Spagonia Eggman was rampaging in. I gave a nod to Chip, who flew up and used his orb's power to open the door, yet again. We exchanged a high five for good luck before we took off.

. . . . . . .

"Come on out, Eggman!" I boomed, rushing down the road over water the Star Door led us to. Everything seemed too peaceful for comfort, and Chip and I searched around for anything suspicious. Though suddenly out of nowhere there was this massive whooshing noise that made my heart skip a beat. Glancing to my left, there was this scorpion-fish robot that I could hardly identify, being auto piloted by white android. I narrowed my eyes.

"Where's Eggman…"

I had wanted to beat Eggman- not anymore of his little creations!

Lost in thought, I was promptly zapped by a laser, sending me darting to the right. Chip flew down to try and help me, but I shook my head.

"Stay out of the way, Chip, I've got this! Trust me!"

Chip held up his hands and quickly flew away. "All right, all right! You won't even know I'm here!"

"I just don't want you getting hurt!"

Another laser just missed me again and, again, I sprung out of the way. This battle was definitely going to have some WAY too close shaves.

"How do you like that?" Eggman's automatic voice mocked. I frowned. It wouldn't be fun to talk smack back if he wasn't really there. Pushing that aside, I ran faster, getting face to face with the Egg Devil. I was all ready to attack, until I realized a shield was protecting its weak point.

"Oh, GREAT-"

I cart wheeled to the right as another laser clipped off another couple quills of mine. And for a split second, the shield was down.

"YAH!"

I bashed into it full speed, sending it flying into the air and landing a ways away. The machine picked itself up then moved to the side of the bridge we were battling on. A few of the "extra" lasers it had positioned themselves in a straight line, then started to rotated. I waved through them while the main Ray started shooting at me!

What gives!

I did a matrix flip to avoid all projectiles and landed back on my feet. Ducking under the "line", the Devil Ray fired out small fireballs. I scoffed.

"Is that really the best you can do? Eggman obviously hasn't learned- him controlling robots is one thing, but robots controlling a robot? Sad, sad…"

I was hit in the face with said fireball.

Even robots can have grudges…

Shaking it off, I leapt through the middle of the "line" then within the same second crashed into the Egg Devil Ray with a spin dash. I made it flip again -shoot, was I THAT strong?- and the metal scarped along the stone road. It made my ears twitch. Aside from the noise irritating my hearing, I just watched as the machine picked itself up once again. You could tell just by looking at it that it was quite banged up. Taking the chance, I ran faster, hoping to plow into it and make it crash again. However, this was countered by the fact those robots launched the laser closest to me…and I ran into it.

"Ha. Ha. Ha."

I growled, flashing my fangs and I veered away from the laser. Scorched. Ow.

"You think that's funny?"

The robots instantly stopped laughing once I bulldozed into their precious ride once again, then went berserk with my spin dashes, cracking against the windows and denting metal. I heard robotic screaming coming from the inside, which made me grin a little, but I was still stuck in the destruction rampage. The Egg Devil Ray started going up in smoke! A suddenly spin sent me flying back onto the ground, but without missing a beat I jumped back up and started running again.

Chip, meanwhile, was cringing on the sidelines, wanting to ask if I was okay quite a few times, but his will to say that was overruled by his loyalty to me. I waved at him to show that I was perfectly fine. He seemed satisfied with that and smiled. I grinned back, only to bend over backward to avoid another round of rotating lasers.

One word: JEEZ!

I front flipped over another oncoming one, ducked under another…it was mainly a game of jump and duck until I could target the front of the Egg Devil with my homing attack.

"YAH!"

"Aaaaah."

One fateful kick was enough to send the metal monster flying back a good amount of feet, Chip cheering and me striking again with a quick flip and more contact with my foot. I could practically hear the androids inside begging for mercy! The Egg Devil Ray was almost beaten- just one more excellent strike would do the trick!

"All right! This is it!"

The robots had a feeling I was getting ready to strike again, so they quickly upped their defense by putting up a shield…which I also crashed into. Lying in a daze on the ground, I got the terrible feeling that a laser was targeting me dead on.

"Roll, Sonic!" cried Chip and the top of his little lungs. Responding almost instantly, I tumbled away as a zap mark was created where I once was. Brrr… I noticed that we were at the very edge of Spagonia by the surroundings- we were almost back in Apotos, by the looks of it!

"It's almost like this robot is leading me away…" I mused to myself. Well, it didn't matter. I could always run back whenever, now that the continents were starting to come back together. And I would bet 20 rings this piece of scrap metal would be nothing before we even made it out of the city anyway.

Snapping back into action, my eyes widened. Behind the shield was this…20-laser cannon thing, and it was currently charging up!

"Whuh oh-"

ZING!

I just made it out of the way by the very skin of my teeth, my heart pounding against my chest.

That thing was going to blow me across the planet!

"That's it! Playtime's over!"

I charged straight at the Egg Devil Ray, not caring if another blast was preparing to be launched. This meaningless fight had gone on long enough, and it was time to end it! I closed my eyes, not really sure what would happen when I struck…

The next thing I knew, I heard a loud crash, and explosion, a cry of defeat ("Ah! Annihilation! What happened?")…I saw smoke arise from the remains of the Egg Devil Ray, Chip flying up to me, and the ground right in front of my face…and I felt victorious, though also a lot of pain.

But pain is never permanent…it may go away and come back, but it never lasts forever.

"Whoa…urgh, I think I finished that one off a bit too recklessly…" I chuckled.

"You ran head first into it…" Chip gulped. "It sure looked painful!"

"It was a bit of a headstrong move, huh?"

Chip sighed as I laughed. "Oh, thank goodness! I thought you'd suffer brain damage or something!"

"I've had worse…" I muttered, recalling me falling head first into the ground after falling from space. If I could handle that, everything else was nothing! I pushed myself off of the ground, brushing off dirt like I was just in some playground scuffle. Together we walked up to the exploded remains of the Egg Devil Ray.

"Heh, not a bad toy…" I then glanced up at Chip. "Ready to hit the next Gaia Temple?"

"Uh-huh!"

"…race ya!"

"You're on!"

. . .

Once I marvelously beat Chip to the next Gaia Temple, he flew up to the pedestal and did his thing, causing the part for the Chaos Emerald to raised. I took out the next Chaos Emerald to be revived, this one being my favorite dark blue one, and we watching in awe as the power of the temple brought life back to such a powerful gem. The ground started shaking again (which I completely forgot came next and end up falling onto the pedestal) , which meant that the continent of Spagonia was being restored.

I was happy. We were just about halfway done with our world adventure. Sure, it was far from over, but just the feeling of accomplishment made me feel good! Until I remembered…that the next continent that we'd go to…it'd probably be night there.

But I had gotten over my fear, wasn't THAT right?

Hoo boy...I need to give this story more attention. :P

And to those still reading this, thank you, and I promise to try and get this story back to a more regulated schedule again. ^^