1/02/08: I am so bored. Well, I've got nothing to do. So yeah, happy new-year everyone, also, school starts tomorrow for me, boo.
I don't own the Sonic the Hedgehog series, and this story has nothing to do with the storyline of the Sonic the Hedgehog series; this story is of my own imagination. But all of the characters besides Sonic and Shadow that appear in this story are of my own creation and can not be used without my permission. I will never and have never tried to copy someone else's character and plot line for any of my stories or chapters so if there is another story with character and/or plot line similarities my guess is that it's a coincidence or you/they are coping me.
Chapter twenty-nine – A trap
Blue told Shanoc, "It is very simple indeed, just break the connection with the gem."
Shanoc looked at Blue with a look of annoyance on his face then he replied, "Gee, thanks, that sure does help."
Blue then responded, "Snap your fingers."
Shanoc sighed before snapping his fingers, and when he did, he returned to his natural silver color. With a look of annoyance that appeared on his face after a look of surprise faded, "And you couldn't say that in the first place, why?"
Ignoring what Shanoc said, Blue ordered, "Everyone, go to the beach, Shanoc needs to get his hands on the second apocalypse gem as soon as he can."
Before either Green or Shanoc could comment, they where pushed into the room with the elevator by Miranda and Snowy. Pink turned to Blue before leaving, as Blue turned to her, the same thought ran through their head. Pink then left, and Blue went back to the computers, constant monitoring was the key here. He needed to watch for any activity that he should be aware of from their opponents.
After a bit, the group came to the beach and the stone like object was there. Green then said, "I've got it!"
Then, all of a sudden, underneath Pink and Green, who where in front of the group, snapped closed two dome like structures that then flew into the air, releasing all sand that was trapped in the bottom through some advance mechanism made to release sand but not let it back in. Then, behind the rest of the group, was a laugh, followed bye some clapping, they turned around to see Verzeck, followed closely behind by Nekron, then the other four followed the two in somewhat of a line. "Excellent work Nekron," Verzeck said as he stopped clapping, "Now, prepare to face your demise fusion experiment."
Shanoc opened his mouth to speak, but was quickly interrupted by Snowy, "What are you talking about? The only things that could qualify as the fusion experiment here are Shanoc and Xun, and seeing as I built Xun myself and analyzed Shanoc myself, it can't be either of them."
Nekron then retorted, "Don't play dumb, we know that Shanoc there is the fusion experiment, I thought the energy waves that he gave off looked familiar, and would you have guessed it? They matched up exactly to that of the fusion experiment's."
Miranda then responded, "You won't win this fight, Blue will…"
Verzeck interrupted, "Blue won't be able to do anything." Then, beneath all nine of them, a giant dome like structure, much similar to the ones that trapped Pink and Green, closed, then lifted into the air, and through the same mechanism, released all the sand. "As you can see, Blue no longer has any power here," Verzeck told them over the raging attacks sand controlled specifically to target the dome, obviously the work of Blue.
Shanoc looked around, the odds weren't good, it was six against three, and the six had complete control of the situation.
"Now," Verzeck said getting into a battle position as his armor clamped down releasing all the air that had previously gotten in, "Let's finish this!" Verzeck then unsheathed his sword and lunged towards Shanoc at an incredible speed, so fast, that Shanoc only avoided the slash at the very last second.
Snowy and Miranda pulled out their energy based weapons, only to have Nekron wag his finger, "Can't use lasers in this dome, it is made specifically to cancel out energy, so if I was you Shanoc," Nekron said turning towards Shanoc, "I wouldn't let Verzeck near you, though he is bull-headed, he can pierce metal with metal very easily."
Nekron then pulled out his sword and went charging at Shanoc as well, with equal speed. Shanoc would have gotten hit by the horizontal slash that followed had he not bent backwards, which, as his luck would have it, fall backwards.
Nekron and Verzeck's lackeys then pulled out metal weapons much like the ones they used, if they used any that is, and then went after Snowy and Miranda, Adelaide and Astor after Miranda, Senka and Xun after Snowy.
Shanoc got up and ran to the edge of the dome just in time to evade a downward slash from Verzeck, this wasn't good, they where outnumbered, two to one, and without any weapons… but, what if they had more people to fight with. An idea came into Shanoc's head, and he focused on the thought of the red apocalypse gem, and it appeared before his face, and then fell, he went to grab it, only to have it be battered away by Nekron's blade, "No trinkets now."
Shanoc rolled towards the gem just in time to evade yet another downward slash from Verzeck, then, all of sudden, the gem disappeared, right as Shanoc was about to grab it, and Nekron said, "Oh, didn't Blue mention? You only have about two seconds to grab a gem before it disappears, so, if you don't grab it in that intentional appearance, you might as well kiss it goodbye until you get another chance."
Confused as to what Nekron meant by another chance, Shanoc got hit by Verzeck's blade, but managed to roll out of the way before getting more then a scratch. This was seriously not good. His team was outnumbered, out skilled, out powered, and had no weapons. Shanoc was the only way they could win, what with how he doesn't use weapons, but he was too busy running for his life. It looked as it would be the end of them. Then, Shanoc looked up, from where he was. He saw Miranda get thrown against the ground, and she responded as if in serious pain, he looked to the other side of the dome, and saw Snowy get cut, then fall to his knees, all of this… for peace… They where risking their own lives to help that of others… Why?
Just then, another one of Verzeck's downward slashes, which Shanoc avoided with ease, only to come close to running into one of Nekron's horizontal ones. He evaded this one not by moving out of the way, but rather, getting enough on his feet to jump onto the blade itself, then use it more as a spring, a bad one, but a spring none the less. While in midair, Shanoc focused on the red gem again, this time, he didn't have enough time to open his eyes before grabbing the gem, but with him being in the air, he doubted that it was about to be hit away.
Then, Snowy and Miranda looked to where Shanoc was, risking their very lives, and would have lost them had not their pursuers been doing the same, while Nekron and Verzeck had obviously been watching it, as they where trying to kill Shanoc himself. Pink and Green looked up from their dome like structures, as Blue watched from the computer screens in the base. All of them, with a look of shock and amazement on their face, for Shanoc did indeed summon an apocalypse gem, but it wasn't the red one, but rather, a green one that looked exactly the same. When Shanoc grabbed it, it fired a beam much like the red and white one from earlier, only this one extended both to the ground and the sky, destroying whatever part of the dome in its path. When the beam faded, the dome had two circular holes above and below Shanoc, who was now green in color, and held the green gem within his hand. The dome began falling to the ground, as everybody but Shanoc within the large dome braced for impact. Shanoc then fell to the ground quickly, followed but the crash from the big dome, sending a big wave of sand that threw the domes that held Pink away, Pink's unto the ground, Green's into the water. Shanoc looked around in the dome, saw his opponents then looked at himself to see why everyone was looking at him strangely. Seeing that he was green, he looked back to everyone, and then he lifted the hand with the gem at Xun, then fired a small green laser from the gem, knocking the robot out cold. He then hit Astor, aimed the laser in between Senka and Adelaide asking, "Need any clarification?" The two shook their heads no, as Shanoc then turned towards Verzeck, "This one's for scratching me." He then fired another beam, knocking Verzeck out cold. He then fired a fourth beam at some area of the dome where no one was, breaking it. He then walked out, followed shortly by Miranda and Snowy, he then saw Pink, and fired another beam at the dome that held her, smashing it to bits, while she remained somehow unharmed.
Pink got up, as Miranda looked around, and asked, "Where's Green?"
The group then heard from the water, "Over here." Green then emerged wet and sitting on a chair of water, he then said, "They should have known not to dunk me of all people into water."
Green and Shanoc then saw one another, pointed at the other, and then yelled, "You can do that?"
Shanoc was amazed that Green could control water; while Green was amazed that Shanoc could turn green. The gem in Shanoc's hand then disappeared and he turned back to normal. Green then thought for a second before once again yelling, "You can do that?" this time about the fact that Shanoc was able to establish a connection with an apocalypse gem that he had never even seen before.
Shanoc shrugged, then the entire group returned to the base, passing a now abounded dome, obviously their opponents where able to evacuate while the group was distracting. Along the way, everyone but Pink kept commenting about how shocked and surprised they where about how Shanoc was able get a hold of a gem that he had never seen before. During the trip Pink, who was trailing behind the rest, noticed a cloaked being walk behind her, one who had the same energy signature that of the person they encountered in the scientists' base, who said as they passed behind her, "Everything is going according to plan," in a very deep voice. After hearing this, Pink turned her head after stopping, but the being was gone. Green then yelled to her, to remind her about them, and she then ran to the group.
On a cliff overlooking the town, the cloaked being and the one covered in shadows looked at the village, as the cloaked being said, "Everything is going according to plan."
End of chapter
Ooh, the plot thickens, or does it? Well, yeah, this chapter is short by about a hundred words, but listen here, I think that the ending at least was a VERY good place to end a chapter, so yeah, if you have a problem being a hundred words short, then write a review complaining about it, this will then motivate me to find a way to fit in those hundred words in another chapter. Trust me, if you ever want to do something, feed my ego, works like a charm… I think. Oh, look, got in those extra hundred words through this ending, HA! NOTHING FO- Darn, no review complaining.
