Episode 9
Crystal Cavern Craze
Dr Rose
"Hold on Moises, I'm very confused, what exactly happened when you grabbed on to that post and dissapeared?"
Moises
"Well, you 2 won't believe this but when I grabbed on to that post, I was taken to some kind of different dimension!"
Dr Kean
"A..different dimension?, that's impossible, multidimensional travel was deemed scientifically impossible for years"
Moises
"Well I guess I just proved you wrong Dr Kean, cause I know what I saw, that place was filled with weird stuff, a lot of colors, golden rings and even bombs scattered across the floor, but at the end of it all I found the Chaos Emerald!"
Dr Rose
"That's amazing, I've never even heard of such a place, this is incredible!, but now that we have the emerald we can-"
Dr Kean
"Now that we have 2 emeralds, we can continue searching for the remaining 5, where does your radar say we need to go to next Alia?"
Dr Rose
*She checks the radar and she sees another emerald icon appear in a different direction*"It says that there's another Chaos Emerald south from here, let's go!"*She says going south with Dr Kean and Moises following her*
Dr Kean
*He thinks to himself*"This is perfect, if I wasn't able to find them on the island, then perhaps they're on this different dimension the hedgehog told us about, these 2 have made my search all the more easy!"
*Dr Rose, Dr Kean and Moises keep going south until Dr Rose stops and they both see that the Chaos Emerald Radar has lead them to a cave entrance*
Moises
"That place looks pretty...ominous..."
Dr Rose
"This is where the radar lead us to, ominous or not we have to go in there"
Dr Kean
"Alia is right, after you hedgehog"
Moises
"You want me to go in there first!?"
Dr Kean
"You are the only one capable enough of taking down anything that comes in our way down, like how you destroyed my Swatbot 2.0.."
Moises
"Alright I guess you have a point, besides, it can't be that bad"*He says going inside the cave entrance with Dr Kean and Dr Rose right behind him*
*As the 3 of them enter the cave they start to see a bright and colorful light from afar, Moises goes first and he follows the light and he stops to see that the cave is filled with crystals*
Dr Kean
"My goodness.."
Dr Rose
"Look at this place..it's so beautiful.."
Moises
"Forget the golden rings, my mom would love this place more!, this place is so cool!!"
Dr Kean
"Let's focus, Alia's radar pointed to this place, so let's split up and look for the emerald"
*The 3 of them split up and they look around the cave to find the Chaos Emerald, while Moises is searching his ears twitch and he hears a clanging sound*
Moises
"What the?, what was that?"*He says following the clanging sound*
*As Moises follows the sound he stops and sees a duo of tall and muscular men with moustaches hitting the crystals with pick axes*
"Good job brother, soon enough we will have enough crystals for money to open circus!"
"That's right brother"
Moises
"Hey!!"
*The duo look to where they heard Moises's voice and they see him*
Moises
"I don't mean to be rude or stick my nose in your buisness but there's a sign there that says you can't mine for the crystals in this really pretty looking cave"
??
"Brother, is tiny red porcupine talking to us?"
??
"I think he is brother, and he is telling us that we can't take crystals from cave"
Moises
"There's a sign there that says you can't so you can't do that, it's like your taking the decorations off"
??
"You cannot tell us what we can do tiny red porcupine, we need crystals for money to open circus on island"
Moises
"Circus?..wait...you guys are circus people!?"*He asks in a cheerful tone*
??
"Used to be, our old circus shut down, now we are looking for money to open new circus, I am Ivan"
??
"And I am Drago"
Moises
"But you 2 can't steal these crystals to get money, that's wrong"
Ivan
"You are getting very irritating tiny red porcupine, leave or me and my brother will have to do something not very circus-like"
Moises
"I'm only calling it like I see it, you 2 can't steal these crystals, and now I'm gonna have to do something not very circus-like too!"*He says jumping to them both*
Drago
"You cannot take on the both of us, we will squish you like little mosquito"*He says running at Moises throwing a punch at him*!
Moises
*He dodges Drago's fist and then runs on his arm to spin attack him on the head*"Too slow!"
Ivan
*He grabs Moises with his hand and throws him into the wall*"Who is slow now porcupine"
Moises
"Uugh..i'm a..hedgehog"*He shakes his head and gets back up*"Hey this isn't fair, there's 2 of you and only 1 of me, c'mon and fight fair!"
Ivan
*He looks at Drago*"What do you say brother, fight fair?"
Drago
"Very well"
*Ivan readies himself and he performs a somersault to jump on Drago and they both raise their fists up and look down at Moises*
Drago
"Is this fair fight now porcupine?"
Moises
"Yep..that's about right.."
*Ivan and Drago swing their fists at Moises but Moises ducks and rolls to evade them and he spin jumps to try and attack Drago but Ivan kicks him away, Moises bounces back and he looks at them both*
Moises
"Jeez these guys are tough, I need to find a weak spot, they're really big but not too fast, and I can't hit them in the center, so only one option, the bigger they are, the more likely it is they'll trip!"*He says running in a circle around Ivan and Drago*
Ivan
"Tiny red porcupine is very quick!, go left brother!"
Drago
"I cannot see which left he is going in, yours or mine!"*He says starting to lose balance*
Ivan
"Brother!, brother keep balance!, we're going to fall!"
*Moises places a crystal behind Drago's foot and he trips and both him and Ivan fall to the ground*
Ivan
"I can't believe we were outsmarted by tiny red porcupine"
Drago
"I feel very ashamed"
Moises
"You would've felt more ashamed if you realized that you opened a circus by stealing things you weren't supposed to"
Ivan
"What else are we supposed to do, we can't get job, circus is all we know, it's family buisness"
Moises
"Hmm, I know, how about you guys try being street performers, then you can get enough money to open a circus on the island, how's that sound"
Drago
"That actually not very bad idea, almost all best circuses start out very small, you're very smart tiny red porcupine"
Moises
"I'm glad I could help, and I'm not a porcupine, I'm a hedgehog"
Ivan and Drago
*They both get up and wave goodbye to Moises and leave the cave*"Bye tiny red hedgehog, we will never forget you!"
Moises
*He waves back to them*"See ya later you guys, and good luck!"
Ivan
"Wait!"*He runs back to Moises*"I almost forget, in return for teaching us error of our ways, I want to give you this as token of our appreciation, me and Drago found this next to funny looking sign outside of cave, it looked very shiny and we thought it would be lucky charm, but I have feeling you need it more than us"*He says before showing Moises a Chaos Emerald*
Moises
*His eyes glow and he takes it*"Whoa!, thanks a lot Ivan!, wait, you said it was behind a sign right, what did it look like?"
Ivan
"It looked very shiny and had star on it, it's just outside cave"
Drago
"Brother, hurry, we must go"
Ivan
"I'm coming brother, until next time we meet hedgehog"*He says leaving the cave with Drago*
"Moises!"
Moises
*He turns around and he sees Dr Kean and Dr Rose running to him*"Hey you 2, you'll never guess what just happened"
Dr Rose
"You found another Chaos Emerald!?"
Moises
"Way to ruin the surprise doc, but yeah, I got another Chaos Emerald, but the best part is that 2 giant circus guys gave it to me after teaching them that stealing is wrong, and they told me where the exit is"
Dr Kean
"That's good to know, all these crystals are starting to make me color blind.."
*Moises leads the way and goes in the same direction Ivan and Drago went in and the 3 of them then see a bright light and they finally make it to the exit*
Dr Rose
"We made it!"
Moises
"We sure did, now to find that sign"*He says before looking around looking for the Star Post*
Dr Rose
"Sign?, what are you talking about Moises?"
Moises
"Ivan told me that he found the Chaos Emerald next to a sign with a star on it in the cave's exit, there was a star on the sign that was in the fountain from earlier too, coincidence, I think not!"*He says continuing looking for the Star Post and eventually stumbling upon it*"Alright, the last time I did this, I just grabbed onto the post, let's see what happens this time"
Dr Rose
"Be careful Moises, we're still not sure what exactly those things do yet"
*Moises grabs on to the Star Post and it glows brightly and a sparkly portal starts to appear from above, Moises jumps in it and he is teleported to the Special Zone again*!
Moises
"It worked!, now if I'm right about this, if I keep going on this weird path, I'll eventually find the Chaos Emerald!"
*Moises runs forward and he starts grabbing golden rings along the way and avoiding bombs by jumping over them*
Moises
"Hey, this is actually kinda fun!, it's like running on a treadmill made for the carnival!"*He then sees something in the distance*"Please be what I think it is please be what I think it is please be what I think it is!"*He runs closer and he sees another Chaos Emerald in the distance*
Moises
"Jackpot!, come to papa!"*He runs faster and he grabs the emerald*"I got it!, that makes...4 emeralds!, we sure are on a roll!"*He then starts to see a bright flash at the end*"Here we go again!"
*Moises is then enveloped by the bright flash and is teleported back to the cave's exit and Dr Rose and Dr Kean run to him to see what happened*
Dr Rose
"Moises, are you alright!?"
Dr Kean
"Where did that bizarre post take you time hedgehog?"
Moises
"It..took me to the same place, but it looked a little different, but the prize was exactly the same but all the more sweeter"*He says showing the Chaos Emerald to them both*
Dr Rose
"Well done Moises, it was a great idea bringing you on this mission"
Dr Kean
"Yes..i'm just giddy about it as well, but let's get back on topic, we have 4 exactly Chaos Emeralds now, and considering we could only find them when we find these bizarre posts with stars on them, I think it's safe to say that if we find any of these posts, we'll find the remaining 3 emeralds"
Dr Rose
"That's actually not a bad hypothesis Reeve, I think that for now that this is the best course of action, let's see where the radar points to next.."*She says looking at the radar and a different emerald icon points further north*"This way you 2 let's go!, the next Chaos Emerald doesn't look like it's too far from here"*She says hurrying off with Dr Kean and Moises following her*
~To be continued~