Shadow's Odyssey 2: The Chaos Continues
Chirrut and Tails arrived at a planet. The Chaos detector went off.
"There's an Emerald here!" Tails exclaimed.
They landed on the moon covered in green forests.
"The natives here are known to be very unfriendly." Chirrut warned. "It is best we find that Emerald quickly."
Tails began to search around with his scanner. "Looks like it's… that way."
He was about to walk in that direction when Chirrut stopped him.
"What?"
"You were about to walk into a booby-trap."
He reached out with his stick and tripped a hidden wire. A large boulder fell out of the trees.
"Okay, now it is safe."
Chirrut lead the way while a dumbfounded Tails followed.
The Millennium Falcon landed on Takodona.
"The tracker does not detect an Emerald. What are we doing here?" Omega irritably demanded.
"I'm going to talk to someone who might be able to help us. You two can wait here."
"Fine." L3 said.
"I'm going with you." Omega declared.
"This is not going to require your… skill set."
Omega ignored him and exited the ship. Lando could only follow. He was a bit worried about what the droid would do. Omega had spent the trip over quietly exuding an aura of menace and rage.
"Just… don't break anything, okay?"
They entered the castle on the lake. Lando pasted a bright smile on his face. "Maz! How ya doing?"
Maz looked up at him. "I heard you got into some trouble with Han again."
"Yeah, I ran into him. But he's not why I'm here. I'm looking for something special."
"Does this 'something special' have anything to do with your new droid?" Maz asked, shrewdly looking over Omega.
"Have you heard anything about people finding mysterious gemstones that just appear out of thin air?"
"Appearing out of thin air you say?"
"Where are the Chaos Emeralds?" Omega demanded, growing impatient with dancing around the subject.
"Um… my friend is very eager to find them, so we appreciate any information you have to offer."
"Well I haven't heard anything about gemstones appearing out of thin air, but I have heard about… people appearing out of thin air. Like a mysterious blue creature coming out of nowhere and winning a pod race on foot or a strange yellow creature appearing in the middle of the road in Theed."
"Your information is worthless! We already know these things!" Omega shouted.
"Hey, buddy, why don't you ask around and see if anybody else knows anything?" Lando suggested and breathed a sigh of relief when Omega left.
"If he kills anyone, I'm holding you responsible."
"I don't control what he does! Have you heard about any other creatures? Maybe a red one?" Lando tried.
"No red ones. But I did hear about one with wings appearing in Canto Bight. Weren't you there at the time?"
"Oh yeah, we actually broke out of prison together."
"I see you're quite deep into this already. Of course, I figured that out when you walked in with the droid that attacked Coruscant."
"I wasn't a part of that." Lando waved her point off.
Meanwhile, Omega was interrogating a customer at the bar.
"What information do you posses about the location of the Chaos Emeralds?"
"What are you talking about? Get away from me!"
Omega moved to the next person and asked the same question. He got a very similar answer. He moved on again and saw…
"Metal Sonic!"
Spike was engaged in dragging a very drunk Hando out the door when some bullets ricocheted off the side of his head. He turned to see another droid angerly bearing down on him. Spike flung Hando out of harms way and activated his boosters. He rammed into Omega and sent them both crashing through a wall.
Omega fired his rockets. Spike dodged and they destroyed more of the castle.
"I told you not to break anything!" Lando screamed.
"Enemy known as Metal Sonic has been identified. Collateral damage is no longer an issue."
"It is an issue if I'm the one who has to pay for it!"
"The cost will be worth it."
Omega continued shooting until he felt his systems locking up. He couldn't fire his weapons, couldn't move. Some device had been placed on him that prevented him from doing anything.
"Lando! Explain why your droid is blowing up my castle!" Maz seemed three times her actual height in her rage.
"Hey, I don't control what he does!"
"Get him out of here, now! And don't you come back unless it's with the money to pay for this!"
Hando stumbled onto the scene. "Spike… how many times… do I have to… tell you… not to fight… unless I tell you."
With that, he unceremoniously collapsed.
Maz looked over at Spike. "And you get him out of here before he pukes on the floor again."
Spike picked Hando up and then froze. His eyes dimmed and went completely dark. After a moment, they lit up again. Spike dropped Hando.
"The Doctor needs me."
He activated his booster and flew through the ceiling.
Maz groaned. "You're paying for that too."
"Whoa, whoa! That one's clearly on him!"
"He is escaping! We must pursue!" Omega seethed in frustration.
"Actually, we don't! Why did you even attack him in the first place?" Lando demanded.
"That is one of Eggman's robots. And he is returning to his master."
"…and so I defeated the God of Darkness and put the world back together. But my new friend had to go to sleep for the next million years so that was a bummer."
Ezra stared. "Okay, are you just making stuff up now?"
"Nope, that all really happened. Well, except for the bit about the ghosts."
An alarm went off.
"What's that?"
"We're receiving a distress signal." Ezra answered. "It looks like it's coming from the planet Alderaan."
They changed course and flew towards the signal's source. When they arrived, Sonic checked the Emerald tracker. There were no Emeralds here, but that was a secondary consideration. Someone was in trouble.
They descended and found a large city in ruins.
"I've never been here before, but I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to look like that."
Sonic's tone was light, but Ezra could sense the concern behind it. They landed the ship and explored the wreckage.
There were bodies. Everywhere.
''No." Ezra moaned. "No, no!"
"Hello?" Sonic called. "Is anyone still here?"
"Help!"
Sonic dashed towards the sound and found a human with no legs. Ezra came up a few seconds later.
"A lightsaber did that. Who attacked you?"
The man only made some pained noises in response.
"Sonic, there's a first aid kit in the ship. It's-"
But Sonic was already back with the kit.
They patched up the man as much as they could and gave him a chance to calm down.
"It's okay. You're safe now." They reassured him.
"No! No one's safe!"
"Why?" Sonic asked.
"He's back."
"Who's back? Who did this?" Ezra questioned.
"General Grievous!"
"Who's that?" Sonic whispered.
"He was a Separatist general that terrorized the galaxy during the Clone Wars. He was killed by the legendary Anakin Skywalker."
"Well if he's dead, then how could he have attacked this place?"
Ezra turned back to the injured man. "What exactly, did you see?"
The man's gaze grew distant and glassy. "Everything was normal. But then all these ships just… came out of nowhere. They bombed the city. And then he came. He was so fast. It was like he was everywhere. He cut off my legs! He killed everyone! He's going to kill everyone everywhere!" His words dissolved into wailing as he broke down completely.
"What do we do now?" Sonic asked. "We can't just leave him like this."
"Let's take him back to Lothal. We'll see what Master Yoda has to say about this."
