Episode 31: The Phantom Ruby Part 2
In Echidnaopolis Police Station Sonic, Eve, Knuckles, and the others explain to Remington and Locke about the situation Eggman has caused and the Phantom Ruby's affect on the Master Emerald. At the same time, many of the Echidna police force are taking care of the citizens who are a bit shaken up from the strange wave and the Island falling on the sky again.
"I see. So this Phantom Ruby has been the cause of the strange signaling we've been receiving, and for the Island falling out of the sky," Locke says.
"And it's Dr. Eggman's fault for finding it and used it to find the Chaos Emeralds. Now he has all seven of them now," Eve says.
"What are we going to do?" Saffron nervously asks.
"I'm sure we'll think of something," Mighty says.
"How. Dr. Eggman has the emeralds and that Phantom Ruby. We need to get rid of it," Eve says.
"But how? Dr. Eggman probably took it to his Base," Charmy asks.
"Well we're going to get the Emeralds and the Phantom Ruby from Dr. Eggman and his Egg robots," Sonic says.
"We need to be careful," Eve says.
"Why do we need to be careful? I'm always careful," Sonic says.
"Because we're going up against some strange gem that seems to alter time and space. He might try to use it on us if we're not careful," Knuckles says.
"You're right. Once false move and Eggman might have used it on us," Julie-Su says.
"Then let's head off to Eggman's lair and get the Phantom Ruby and the Chaos Emerald," Eve says.
"Alright Vector. You, Espio, Charmy, Julie-Su, and Saffron watch the Master Emerald. Mighty, Ray, Sonic, Eve, Tails, and I will go to Eggman's lair," Knuckles says.
"Right," Julie-Su says.
With that, Sonic, Eve, and the others hurry out.
"We'll see you later. Come on, Jazz," Eve says.
Jazz flies after her as she happily says, "Chao."
Jazz lands on Eve's head and Eve closes the door behind her. Vector and the others look at the door.
"Well, that didn't take long for them to go on a mission," Vector says.
"Come on guys, let's go to the altar and watch the Master Emerald," Julie-Su.
Julie-Su and the others walk out of the room as well to watch the Master Emerald.
Remington turns to Locke, "Locke, have you noticed that the Dark Legion has been quiet."
"Yes. They have been quiet lately. We haven't heard from them since what happened with Enerjak. I can't help but feel that they're planning something. And we're all going to be put involved in it," Locke says.
Remington sighs, "Again. When the Dark Legion is quiet, that worries me."
Meanwhile, Dr, Eggman is in his lair as he maniacally laughs. He is standing by a large machine that has the seven Chaos Emeralds inside. The robot is big with two strong arms, and wheels for legs, and it's the shape of Dr. Eggman's head. At the back of the robot there are two rockets attached like a backpack, and the rockets look like they have a lot of power.
"Now that I have the seven Chaos Emerald, I can power up my brand new machine. The Mega Egg Roller," Eggman says, evilly laughs.
Eggman then presses the button so the chair on the Egg Roller will come out through the mouth and place on the ground where Eggman is. Eggman then sits on the chair. Then the robot pulls the chair with Eggman through the map. Soon, Eggman is placed close to where the controls are. Eggman maniacally laughs as he rapidly presses the remotes. The then presses a red button that opens the compartment. Then places the Phantom Ruby inside.
"The Phantom Ruby will act as a conductor for the Chaos Emeralds. With the Phantom Ruby and the chaos Emeralds to power up my new Mega Egg Roller, I will take over Mobius and most of all, get rid of those meddling hedgehogs," Eggman says, and maniacally laughs.
As Eggman laughs and brags, the Hard Boiled Heavies are standing close to see Dr. Eggman laughing and is showing his ego. The Heavy King squints the eyes to see the Phantom Ruby Eggman is placing in the compartment.
Suddenly, the alarm goes off. The light begins to shine red as the voice shouts, "Red Alert! Red Alert! Red Alert! Intruder! Intruder!"
Eggman angrily says, "What!? Don't tell me!"
Eggman presses the button on the robot and on the monitor inside, it shows the Tornado that has Sonic, Eve, and some of their friends on the plane.
Eggman angrily says, "It's Sonic and Eve along with some of their annoying friends."
Eggman evilly grins, "Well, It looks like Eggman has saved me the trouble of flying the Mega Egg Roller to Angel Island."
Eggman commands, "All Badniks! At your station! It's Open Season!"
Then he maniacally laughs.
Sometime later on the Blue Tornado, Sonic, Eve, Knuckles, Tails, Mighty, and Ray are heading off to Dr. Eggman's lair to fight against. They've been flying for some time now. They fly through the clouds and over the ocean blue.
Sonic sighs, "How long will it take for us to get to Eggman's lair?"
"I'm sure we'll be there in no time. Now stop being impatient," Eve says with a grin.
Mighty laughs, "I can picture it being hard from Charmy, not you, Sonic."
Ray giggles too.
"Very funny," Sonic says with his arms crossed.
"Stop whining and lets focus on how to get the Phantom Ruby away from Eggman," Knuckles says.
"Chao Chao," Jazz replies with a smile.
"Which is zip. We don't know much about the Phantom Ruby and we'll be flying blind if we step in that lair," Eve says.
"What the worst that can happen," Sonic says.
Suddenly, they hear a loud booming sound. They turn forward to see what looks like a cannon flying at them.
Ray screams, "L-Look out!"
Tails then turns the wheel on his plane and the plane turns to the left side before the cannon ball can hit the wing. Tails then turns the wheel again and allow the Plane to stand still.
"What in the world was that?" Mighty asks.
"Someone's firing at us!" Sonic says.
Tails shouts, "Hold on!"
Suddenly, three more banging sounds appear and cannon balls begin to fly at them. Sonic, Eve, and the others hold on to the wings and to their seat. Tails turns the wheel so the plane will turn left and right to avoid the wings having collision with the wings.
"Who's firing at us?!" Knuckles shouts in anger.
Eve looks out and points out, "That's who!"
Sonic and the others look down to see the Eggman's lair down below. They hear more banging and cannon balls, and now: missiles, lasers, and other weapons are flying at them.
"Uh… n-now this c-c-could be a p-p-problem," Ray nervously says.
"Chao Chao," Jazz worriedly replies.
Eve presents her hands forward and shouts, "Chaos Bubble!"
Just then, a large bubble appears in front of the Blue Tornado and the missiles smack into it and they explode.
"Thanks Eve," Tails says.
"Don't thank me yet," Eve says.
She then uses her Chaos Energy to create a bow. Then creates an arrow as she points her target towards Dr. Eggman's lab and aims at one of the launchers.
Eve then shouts, "Chaos Arrow!"
Then fires the arrow down at the missile launcher. The arrow hits the launcher and it explodes. However, more of them begin to fire and Tails does his pest for the plane to dodge the attack.
"There's so many of them!" Tails says.
Sonic says, "We need to do something before we're sitting ducks."
Just then, the roof of Dr. Eggman's lair begins to open. Then a giant robot begins to rise up from the opening. Sonic, Eve, and the others are shocked to see the strange robot that has Eggman's appearance, strong arms, wheels, and rockets. Just then, the mouth opens revealing Dr. Eggman maniacally laughs.
He then says, "Hello my little targets!"
"Eggman!" Everyone on the plane exclaims.
"Yeah. I'm glad you decided to arrive instead of me coming all the way to Angel Island to take care of you with my new robot, the Mega Egg Roller!" Eggman announces. Then press the buttons.
He then presses a red button, "See you never!"
Just then, the eyes of the robot begin to glow. Inside of the robot, the Phantom Ruby and the Chaos Emeralds begin to glow bright. Then fire a powerful beam. Before, Tails can do anything, the beam hits the left wing.
Sonic screams, "We've been hit!"
Tails screams, "Hold on!"
The plane begins to get into a bit of a tail spin. Everyone screams as the plane is about ready to crash to the ground.
The Freedom Fighters and Chaotix continue to be spun around on the plane because of the lost wing. Tails pull on the lever to help control the pain, but without the wing, they are spinning out of control.
Eve panics, "Tails, we need to stop the plane from spinning."
"I Know!" Tails screams.
Then Sonic says, "I hate to say this, but… Abandon Plane!"
Tails takes off his seatbelt and jumps off the plane. Sonic, Eve and the others also jump off as well. The plane continues to go down into a tailspin until it crashes to the ground and soon explodes. Soon, Eve uses her powers to hold Mighty and herself in the air. Knuckles and Ray glide. Tails uses his twin tails to fly and hold Sonic by his hand. Jazz flies next to Eve to see the loss of the plane.
Tails sighs, "Guess we're going to need a new plane."
"Still, what exactly just hit us?" Mighty asks.
"That was Chaos Energy. I can sense the Chaos Emeralds inside that robot," Knuckles says.
"It looks like we're going to need to get the emeralds and that ruby out if we're going to stop him," Sonic says.
Ray screams, "Look out!"
Tails, Eve, and Knuckles turn their head and fly out of the way as the beam flies at them.
From the machine, Eggman shouts, "Fire!"
Eggman's robot begins to fire missiles and rockets at Sonic and the others. Soon, the Freedom Fighters and the Chaotix begin to dodge out of their way.
Sonic says, "We need to get close to that machine."
"I got this!" Eve says.
Eve then flies down and brings out her Chaos energy arrow and pulls the string and makes a bow.
Eve shouts, "Chaos Arrow!"
And fires the Chaos Arrow that hits one of the missile launchers of Eggman's robot.
"Nice shot sis!" Sonic says.
"Thanks," Eve says.
Sonic then turns to the others, "You need to help me get close to Eggman's robot so I can spin dash it."
"You got it Sonic," Mighty says.
Eve, carrying Mighty, Eve, Knuckles, and Ray fly down to Eggman's base.
Eggman then presses the button, "Hard Boiled Heavies, get rid of those annoying Freedom Fighters and Chaotix!"
The Hard Boiled Heavies fly out of Eggman's lair and begin to attack the group. The Heavy Magician takes off the hat and fires bombs and cards. Eve brings out her sword to slice and dice the cards. Knuckles then punches the bombs and fires them back at the magician. The Heavy Magician then snaps his fingers and the bombs explode when they reach a few yards away from it.
Eve turns her head and dodges metal stars. Jazz then flies down with a scream and smacks her head at the back of the Heavy Shinobi's head. The Heavy Shinobi turns its head to see the Chao. Eve then flies down and kicks the robot in the stomach and falls to the ground.
Eve giggles, "Thanks for the distraction, Jazz."
"Chao Chao," Jazz happily says.
Eve then uses her powers to place Mighty on the ground. Eve and Jazz land beside him.
Just then, Heavy Gunner flies over them and begins to fire it's missile blaster. Eve, Mighty, and Jazz hurry out of the way. Mighty turns his head to see a giant rock and has an idea. The armadillo grabs hold of the rock and pulls it right out of the ground.
Eve and Jazz find themselves being chased by the Heavy Shinobi. The Heavy Shinobi brings out it's sword and flies down to Eve. Eve quickly turns around as she brings out her sword for both to collide with each other. Eve then jumps back and speed to the Heavy Shinobi. The hedgehog and the robot continue to fight against each other with the swords.
The Heavy Gunner continues to fire it's rockets at Mighty. Mighty dodges by spin dashing across the area. He then jumps in the air and slams his fist at the Gunner. The collision of Mighty's fist causes the Gunner to fall to the ground.
Knuckles soon begins to fight with the Heavy Rider. Knuckles cracks his knuckles and begins to fight against the Rider. Heavy Rider rides on his Badnik and swings his spike ball in the air. The Rider slams the Spike ball to the ground, Knuckles dodges and slams his fist at the Heavy Rider.
Ray flies in the air as the Heavy Magician pulls out bombs, rockets, and cards from his hat and attacks Ray. Ray flies and dodge the attack. As they all fight against four of the Hard Boiled Heavies, Tails flies Sonic and is getting close to the Mega Egg Roller that is still shooting rockets and blasters at them.
Eggman maniacally laughs, "You fools! My Hard Boiled Heavies will soon tire you all out and then I can blast you all to smithereens.
"We don't think so, Eggface!" Someone shouts.
Eggman quickly looks to see Tails and Sonic are flying this way. Eggman then presses the button that allows him to fire missiles, rockets, and cannon balls at Sonic and Tails. Tails fly past many of the weapons that come their way. Soon enough, Sonic and Tails are at a range close enough to perform their next attack.
Sonic turns to Tails, "Alright Tails, you ready?"
"Ready," Tails says with a nod.
Tails manages to get a close range. Tails then spin around at top speed and throws Sonic toward the machine as he performs a spin dash. Sonic then bounces off from rocket to rocket as it flies through. The next moment, Sonic spin dashes through the metal of Eggman's robot and into the control room.
Sonic says, "Hey Eggman, hope you don't mind if I help myself in."
Eggman turns around in anger, "Sonic! How dare you come crashing through my lair unannounced!"
"It's what I do. I always break in and trash your plans. Now, you have something that doesn't belong to you. Hand over the Phantom Rubies and the Chaos Emeralds before I trash another one of your robots to Kingdom Come," Sonic says.
Eggman then brings out a blaster and angrily says, "Not once I blast you to ashes."
Eggman then fires his blaster at Sonic. Sonic quickly dodges as Eggman fires multiple times. Sonic runs across the small room and the blast continues to miss him.
Sonic laughs, "Catch me if you can Eggman."
"You meddling hedgehog!" Eggman angrily says.
Sonic lands on the controls, "Sorry to hit and run, but I got the emeralds to bring back and the Phantom Ruby to take back."
Sonic presses multiple buttons trash the system. Soon, the compartment opens to reveal the Phantom Ruby,
"Well, it looks like score one of the goodbye. See you later," Sonic says.
Sonic then spin dashes through the Mega Egg Roller to the chamber where the Chaos Emeralds are. Sonic snags them and uses them to spin dash out of the Egg Roller. Sonic then lands besides Eve.
"I got the Phantom Ruby and the Chaos Emeralds," Sonic says.
"Great job bro," Eve says.
She then takes out her backpack, "Let's put them in here for safekeeping until we get back to the island."
Sonic puts the Chaos Emeralds in Eve's bag. Before Sonic can put the Phantom Ruby in Eve's bag, something zips past them and the Phantom Ruby is gone.
Sonic asks, "Huh? Where the Ruby go?"
Sonic and Eve turn their heads to see Heavy King, leader the Hard Boiled Heavies is holding the Phantom Ruby in its hand.
Soon enough, the rest of the Hard Boiled Heavies stop fighting. They all soon turn to Heavy King to see it holding the Phantom Ruby in the robotic hand. Soon, Knuckles and the others stop fighting when they stop.
"What's going on?" Knuckles asks.
Ray lands besides Mighty as he asks, "Why did they stop?"
Tails lands beside Sonic, Eve, and Jazz to see the robots stop fighting and turn to see the Heavy King.
"I don't get it. Why did they stop?" Tails asks.
"That robot who I suspect is the leader took the Phantom Ruby from us, but at least we got the Chaos Emeralds," Eve says.
Ray nervously asks, "I-is th-this a-a g-g-good thing or a b-bad th-thing?"
Heavy King raises the Phantom in the air and it begins to glow. The next moment, everyone around the area is being affected by the Phantom Ruby's strange wave energy. The rest of the Hard Boiled Heavies begin to fly towards their leader and join up. The Heavy King then places the Ruby in its chest where its main hard drive is. The next moment, the Phantom Ruby's energy begins to glow through its body with some strange dark red aura. Soon enough, the rest of the gang begin to emit the same aura.
Soon, All the roots begin to combine with each other. One robotic body is being attacked to one arm and leg of the leader. Soon, all five begin to glow and begin to transform. The next moment all the robots begin to transform.
The robots changed into a large silver robot with yellow armor and red armor under it. It has a long silver robotic with yellow circles in the middle. It also has yellow claws and red wrists. It's wearing a large cape, black eyes with red in the middle. On the back, it has a missile blaster, and a spiky ball attached to a chain and that is attached to a pole. It has magenta and red mist with two pink gem legs. Finally, it has a long red cape and it has the Phantom Ruby on top of it's head.
Sonic, Eve, their friends, and even Dr. Eggman is shocked to see the four robots have combined and turned into one giant robot.
The robot says, "I am the Phantom King. And I am your destruction!"
