Shadow's Odyssey 2: The Chaos Continues
"I don't think he's going to follow us." Knuckles said.
"We can't go back out there where he is." Tails warned.
"But we can't stay down here forever!" Luke cried.
"Well, Knuckles could dig us a tunnel all the way back to the temple." Tails suggested.
"That'll take hours!" Luke protested.
"It's the best we got, now move aside."
Luke moved and Knuckles started punching the dirt wall behind him.
Luke froze as a sudden certainty washed over him. "Leia. She's alive."
"What are you talking about? How can you know that?" Knuckles questioned.
"I can sense it. She's that way."
Knuckles shrugged and started digging in the new direction.
Sonic's eyes opened, his ears still ringing. Pain coursed through his body as he tried to sit up. Through his hazy vision, he could see the Wookie laying on the ground as well. He wasn't moving.
"No. No, no, no." Sonic slowly crawled towards him. "No, no!" He tried to shake him awake. "Come on. Come on, wake up!" But the Wookie continued to lay motionless. "No! You are not dying because of me!" Sonic climbed onto his chest and began performing CPR. "I'm not letting another person die today!"
Han and Leia watched from the sidelines. Neither really knew what to do.
Then the Mandalorian flew in. He approached Sonic with blasters drawn.
"Sonic, watch out!" Leia called.
But Sonic ignored her, only increasing the intensity of his heart pumps. The Mandalorian aimed and prepared to fire. But then a hand burst out of the ground and grabbed the Mandalorian's foot.
Knuckles pulled his entire leg beneath the ground.
"What the kriff?" Was all he had time to say before his entire body was dragged beneath the surface.
A few seconds later, the Mandalorian's body flew back out of the hole, jetpack broken.
Knuckles poked his head out. "Whoa, Sonic what happened?"
Sonic ignored him. "Come on, come on!"
The Mandalorian struggled to his feet again. He looked over at the echidna who tossed him and saw he wasn't paying attention.
As Sonic continued to pump, the Wookie's eyes shot open and his lungs took in a big gulp of air. He stared at the blue hedgehog who saved him. Then he looked past him at the Mandalorian with two blasters drawn, one pointed at Sonic and one at Knuckles.
With one swing of his arm, he knocked Sonic off of him. Chewbacca flung himself at the Mandalorian and ripped one of his arms free from his body.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Chewbacca silenced him by ripping his head off. His lifeless body fell to the ground as Tails poked his head out of the hole.
A hundred questions filled Tails's head, but he wasn't sure if he wanted the answers.
Luke on the other hand, ignored the grisly scene and ran over to his sister. "Leia! Are you okay?"
"I'll be fine, what happened to you? What happened to stopping Sidious?"
"The trap didn't work. He knew he couldn't hurt Sonic so decided to blow up the city instead. But we still captured him."
"I thought the idea was to kill him."
"That was the plan, but then we found out that Shadow is still alive. We took a vote and decided that we would try to find a way to get Sidious out of Shadow's body."
Meanwhile, Sonic was trying to stand back up, but felt intense pain in his right leg.
"Sonic, you're hurt!" Tails cried.
"It's not th- Ow!" He fell over again.
"Stop trying to stand, you idiot, and let me see." Knuckles barked at him. He examined the leg. "Yep, it's definitely sprained."
"Whoa, Knuckles when did you become a doctor?" Sonic joked.
"Sonic, I did not survive alone on an island my whole life without learning basic first aid."
"You've accidentally sprained yourself before haven't you."
Knuckles chose to ignore that comment as he picked Sonic up. "Come on, let's get you back to the temple."
"Wait, what about him?" Sonic pointed at Chewbacca, who was just standing there, looking at him.
"What about him?" Knuckles asked.
"He saved us when a minute ago, he was trying to kill me."
Chewbacca explained his actions, but Sonic couldn't understand.
"Uhhh… what?"
"He says he owes you a life debt." Han explained.
"A what now?"
"You saved his life so now he's bound to help you for the remainder of his life because you're the reason he's still alive."
Sonic blinked. "A simple thank you would've been fine. I'll tell you what, just agree to stop killing any random hedgehog you come across and we'll call it even."
Chewbacca nodded in agreement.
"Great, now that we've sorted that out, does anyone here have a working ship?" Han irritably asked.
"Sure, we've got plenty of ships back at the…" Tails paused as he came to a realization. There were probably more Mandalorians on the planet and the temple was probably where they would go.
Ezra entered the temple with his mind focused on only on thing. He approached the droid that stood outside the room where they kept Him.
"I wanna see him."
Omega saw no problem with this and stepped aside.
Ezra entered the room where Sidious was sitting in a meditative pose. His eyes opened and focused on Ezra as he approached him.
"Ezra, wasn't it?"
Ezra simply began punching the hedgehog. Sidious put up no resistance. Simply smiling back at him with every hit. Ezra picked him up with the Force and threw him against the wall.
"You killed my parents!"
"I killed a lot of people today. Quite selfish of you to ignore all the other deaths."
Ezra screamed and threw him against the other wall. He pulled out his lightsaber and slowly approached while keeping him pined against the wall. Ezra held the saber against Sidious's throat. Ezra glared, his eyes burning with rage.
"I should kill you right now."
"Well what's stopping you?"
Ezra was about to decapitate him when he was suddenly pulled back by the Force. It was Petro, who had just entered the room behind him.
"Ezra! What are you doing?"
"He killed my parents!"
"I understand, but you cannot let your emotions dictate your actions."
"You're the one who told me not to be afraid to use the Dark Side!"
"Yes. We use the Dark Side, we do not let it use us. That's what separates us from him. Until Shadow is safe, he will remain unharmed. Is that clear, Padawan?"
Ezra glared at him. "No, it's not." He stormed from the room.
Petro exhaled, trying to calm his senses.
"Such a disappointment."
"I will not let you turn my apprentice to the Dark Side."
"Oh no, I'm not the one who's disappointed. Shadow is. He can't seem to comprehend why you haven't killed me yet."
"You knew we would never kill him, didn't you? That's why you were okay with wasting all your energy before. But we will get you out of Shadow's body. And once you no longer have your living shield to hide behind, we will destroy you."
Sidious looked behind Petro and saw a tiny probe droid float into the room and hide itself in one of the dark corners. He looked back at Petro and grinned. "I look forward to it."
