Chaos Control
Chapter 6
The X Tornado flew high over the forests next to Station Square as it followed Sonic and The Powerpuff Girls who remained low to the ground. From the air, Tails has a good view of the forest below and he also has a good view of the activity by robots within the forest. Although Tails could not see what was going on over there, he knew that it must be Eggman and Mojo because Tails could make out the shiny metal reflected off of the robots that were spreading away from the base of operation. Tails still wore the head set radio that enabled him to speak to Sonic. He said into the microphone on the head set, "Sonic, I see Eggman and Mojo over to your left. Do you see 'em?" Sonic, on the ground, picked up the message on the head set.
"I'm afraid I can't see him." said Sonic. "I'll ask the girls." He turned his gaze towards the girls who hovered above and said, "Hey girls, Tails says that he can see, Eggman and Mojo over there. Can you see them?" Sonic pointed to the left indicating where Eggman was. The girls flew higher into the air until they were high enough to see over the trees and see the machines in the distance.
"I think I see the robots." said Bubbles.
"Me too." said Buttercup.
"The girls say they see him." said Sonic into the head set he was wearing.
"Good, we'll be down there in a minute." replied Tails into his radio.
Later, Tails gently landed the X Tornado onto a clearing in the forest. Sonic and the girls waited outside of the plane as Tails, Amy, Knuckles, Cream, and Cheese stepped out of the plane and Sonic and Tails also left their radios in the plane. Upon exiting the plane, Amy reached behind the seat and pulled out her preferred weapon of choice: a large yellow mallet. Tails also pulled out from the plane his Chaos Emerald radar in order to find the Chaos Emeralds. He turned on the radar but the signal picked up nothing.
"I'll need to get some altitude if I want to pick up anything." said Tails. His tails spun like propellers, enabling him to lift off into the air and over the tree tops.
"Have you detected anything yet?" called out Sonic.
"Not yet, we're going to need to get deeper into the forest." said Tails. "Follow me." Tails flew into the forest and everyone else walked after him. Amy held her mallet out and followed Sonic and the others through the forest, resting the mallet on her shoulder. Buttercup kept staring at Amy's mallet in curiosity as they traveled through the forest. At some point, Buttercup asked Amy, "Why do you carry that mallet with you?"
"This is my weapon." said Amy. "I call it my Piko Piko Hammer."
"Okay." said Buttercup skeptically.
Suddenly, there was a beeping sound from Tails's radar.
"Hey, I think I found something." said Tails. On the radar screen, he could see that there is certainly a signal coming from some where. "Follow me." Tails then picked up speed as he flew forwards. The others ran (or flew) in the direction of the signal and the radar beeped more loudly as they traveled closer and closer to the emerald. Finally, they came to a clearing in the forest where they found, imbedded in a rock, a red Chaos Emerald that shown brightly in the sun light but that wasn't all they found. They also saw mechanical robots, at least a dozen of them, each were humanoid in shape and they were large and bulky with compartments on their arms to hide tools and weapons. There was about a dozen robots and one of them was using a tool in an attempt to pry the emerald off the rock.
"We got to get that emerald." said Sonic. "We attack on the count of three. One...two...three...attack!" Immediately, everyone charged towards the robots. Before the robots could draw their weapons, they were already dropping like flies as the girls and Sonic plowed through them easily. Knuckles and Amy also followed with their own attacks. Knuckles, with his spiked fists, easily tore the robots apart, punch after punch. Amy was also powerful with that mallet of hers, easily crushing the robots like bugs. Cream and Tails, however, were busy dodging the blast from two other robots. The two robots fired at them repeatedly but Cream and Tails easily dodged the attacks by flying in the air. Cream dodged to the side in mid air as a blast flew by her. Seeing an opening, Cream shouted, "Cheese, attack." Upon hearing the command, Cheese curled himself into a ball. Cream than grabbed Cheese and than threw the little chao towards the robots. With as much force as Cheese could manage, he rammed one of the robots' arms with his body and destroyed the laser. Cheese then did another attack towards the other robot's weapon and smashed it too. Now that the robot's weapons was disabled, Tails then seized the opportunity by flying over to the robots and using his tails, he struck the two robots in the head, decapitating them.
The robots were no problem and in no time, they were all destroyed.
"Ha, that was too easy." said Buttercup.
"Yeah, but we better make off with the Chaos Emerald before Eggman and Mojo send reinforcements." said Sonic.
"I'll get it." said Blossom. She flew over to the Chaos Emerald and with her super strength, she easily pride the emerald from the rock.
"I got it." said Blossom. "Now lets get out of here." They all ran away from the area, making off with the Chaos Emerald.
Once they were sure that they were out of ear shot, they stopped to admire their prize.
"I can't believe that it was that easy to steal the emerald." said Blossom as she held up the emerald.
"Me neither." said Sonic. "Obtaining this one emerald brings us one step away from saving the world from total annihilation and once we've collected all the emeralds, we will have a chance to find a way back to our dimension."
"I can't wait." said Amy excitedly.
"Uh guys, where did that puddle come from?" asked Cream. Everyone was surprised about the question but they quickly noticed that there was indeed a large puddle in front of their path.
"That's strange, I know we didn't cross a puddle of water on the way over here." said Bubbles.
"Perhaps we took a different path." suggested Sonic.
"What's the big deal?" said Buttercup. "It's just a puddle." Buttercup flew over the puddle to demonstrate that it was safe to cross but as she did, the water of the puddle began to stretch into the air.
"What the...?" said Buttercup in surprise. Everyone watched in astonishment as the puddle's water began to rise higher into the air and the water itself began to take on a shape of its own, transforming into a monster. The monster that was formed out of the water was about 10 feet tall and humanoid in shape. It was made up entirely out of water and it had large round pupiless yellow eyes. Within the creature's head was what appeared to be a brain or something that looked similar to a brain.
As everyone gazed in shock at the creature before them, a strange phenomena happened to Blossom and Knuckles. Upon seeing the monster, Blossom and Knuckles suddenly remembered something as if they both knew it in the past and seeing the monster somehow reminded them but both Knuckles and Blossom knew they couldn't have known this before. This sudden bit of information that had entered their minds told them that the monster before them was named Chaos. How and why they knew, they weren't sure but some how, they knew.
Without warning, Chaos reached over and grabbed Bubbles in its large hands. Surprised, Bubbles tried to pry her way out but the hand wouldn't budge.
"Help!" cried Bubbles as she struggled against the monster's grasp.
"I'll help you, Bubbles." said Buttercup. She flew over to her sister but before she could get close enough, Chaos grabbed Buttercup with his other hand, holding the two girls in both hands. Bubbles and Buttercup both struggled with all their might but amazingly, Chaos held them with an amazingly powerful grip.
"Sonic, help." chorussed Buttercup and Bubbles.
"I'm coming." said Sonic. Sonic leaped into the air in an attempt to use his homing attack on Chaos but Chaos saw the attack coming and it stretched both its arms like rubber bands and grabbed Sonic with both hands. The hands changed from hands to globs of water that held both Sonic and Bubbles in the right hand and Buttercup in the other. They all struggled but they couldn't even move against the strength of Chaos.
"Sonic!" shouted Amy. "Don't worry, I'll save you, Sonic." Amy raised her mallet and began repeatedly striking Chaos's legs but the mallet went right through Chaos as easily as water (which is what Chaos is made out of). The others also tried to help. Tails beat at the creature with his tails, Knuckles continuously punched Chaos, and Cream was directing Cheese to pound on Chaos but all of their attacks went right through like water. Blossom didn't fight back, however. She instead stared at Chaos in wonder. As she watched the creature, she noticed that Chaos was staring at the Chaos Emerald that Blossom was still holding. Blossom instantly realized that Chaos was after the emerald. How she knew? Even Blossom couldn't explain it but in the back of her mind, she knew. Chaos began to move towards Blossom and Blossom wasn't sure if she could fight Chaos or escape him. As Blossom's mind raced, her thoughts halted on the red Chaos Emerald she held her hands. She suddenly remembered what Sonic had told her about Chaos Control. He said that Chaos Control can enable someone to temporarily tap into the power of the Chaos Emerald but it is a rare gift. Blossom wondered to herself, "Is it possible for me to use Chaos Control?" Without giving the idea a second thought, she held the Chaos Emerald over her head and called out, "Chaos Control." Suddenly, Blossom felt the emerald's power flow into her. Her body glowed a slight reddish glow as she felt the Chaos Emerald energize her and enhance her powers. Everyone, including Sonic, stared in shock to see that Blossom had just used Chaos Control.
The only one who was not affected by the sight of Blossom using Chaos Control was Chaos who still pursued Blossom and was moving very close. Blossom responded quickly by firing her eye beams. Because of the power of the Chaos Emerald, the beam was more larger and more destructive than before. It struck Chaos's head and his head blew up into multiple droplets of water. Those droplets of water scattered around the ground but they began to crawl up Chaos's body and the droplets formed and merged together to recreate Chaos's head. Determined, Blossom flew over and struck Chaos in the chest before the head had fully formed. Thanks to the enhanced powers of the Chaos Emerald, the attack actually struck Chaos's body instead of passing through him, causing him to stumble backwards and release his hostages from his grasp causing them to tumble to the ground but they didn't get hurt because Sonic easily landed on his feet and the girls could fly. Chaos attempted to strike Blossom with his large hands but Blossom used the power of the Chaos Emerald to enhance her speed and dodged the attack. She flew high over Chaos and then dive bombed towards Chaos's head. She struck Chaos, causing a crimson colored burst of light and she cut through Chaos causing him to explode into a million pieces that splattered everywhere. Once Chaos was destroyed the Chaos Control ceased and Blossom no longer felt the power of the emerald coursing through her body.
Everyone began to gather around Blossom in amazement.
"That was incredible." exclaimed Buttercup.
"You really tore that guy to pieces." said Bubbles.
"You actually used Chaos Control." said Sonic with a mixture of joy and shock. "How'd you do it?"
"I don't know." said Blossom. "Guess I was just taking a risk or something."
"Well you certainly showed that guy." said Amy. "Now, lets get that emerald back to the mansion."
"Good idea but does anyone remember where the X Tornado is?" asked Cream. There was a pause as they thought about this.
"You know, after that fight, I totally forgot." said Tails. "I'll fly up and see where the plane is." Tails began to spin his tails like propellers and like a helicopter, he rose off the ground and into the air so he could have a bird's eye view of the forest. Because everyone's gaze was on Tails, they didn't notice that the pieces of water that were once Chaos was moving. You know that scene in Terminator Two where the T 1000 was frozen with liquid nitrogen, blasted into pieces, and then the pieces melted and they merged back together. A phenomena like that was happening. All the pieces of Chaos was coming together and reforming in shape right behind Blossom. Chaos formed himself into a free standing blob of water as the pieces began to merge. Blossom suddenly realized that something was behind her and when she turned around, she saw Chaos leaning over her and grabbing her. Blossom just had enough enough time to shout for help before Chaos wrapped its liquid body around her, preventing her from opening her mouth.
"Blossom!" chorused Buttercup and Bubbles. They tried to save their sister but for some reason, they could not penetrate Chaos's body. Chaos was forcing everyone from getting to Blossom, leaving her trapped inside.
Meanwhile, Blossom tried to struggle against Chaos but Chaos easily contained her and held her motionless as if Chaos was made of stone instead of water. Blossom couldn't move, she couldn't open her eyes, and she couldn't breath. She feared that Chaos was trying to suffocate her but without warning, Chaos released Blossom and left her onto the ground where he had dumped her. Blossom gasped for air once she was freed.
"Blossom, are you all right?" asked Bubbles.
"Yeah, I'm fine." said Blossom.
"Where's the Chaos Emerald?" asked Knuckles. Blossom looked at her hand to her shock, she realized that the emerald that was once held tightly in her hand was gone. She turned around and noticed Chaos completely shaped into his standard form and holding the Chaos Emerald in its hand.
"Hey, give that back." said Buttercup as she charged towards Chaos but Chaos saw her coming and by using the power of the emerald, Chaos teleported away. Baffled, Buttercup asked, "Where'd he go?"
"He teleported using the emerald." said Sonic. "We got to find him. He couldn't have teleported far on just one emerald."
"But if he teleported, how will we find him?" asked Cream.
"We got to try anyway." said Sonic. "Everyone, spread and search." Tails, Cream, Cheese, and the girls took to the skies to find Chaos while everyone else searched on land.
Sonic headed towards where he and the others first found the emerald, moving at fast speeds and darting through the thick forest. The trees in the forest was so thick that Sonic knew that the girls and the other mid air companions might not see Chaos through the trees. Upon realizing this, he began to wonder if this was a good idea. Suddenly, he noticed Mojo and Eggman through the trees and quickly hid behind a tree to spy on the two villains. Both Mojo and Eggman were packing their equipment into a large air craft of some kind that was shaped like a three dimensional parallelogram with wings on the side and rockets on the wings. There was an open door in the back of the plane where Mojo and Eggman were loading the equipment onto it.
"I can't believe we lost the emerald." said Mojo.
"Well next time, we wont be so careless." said Eggman. "We'll bring more robots, more weapons, and more equipment so they can't stop us next time." As Sonic watched, he noticed water flowing towards the villains. Sonic quickly realized that the flowing water was Chaos who had formed into a puddle and sure enough, Chaos was carrying the Chaos Emerald. To Sonic's surprise, Chaos threw the Chaos Emerald into the air and it landed right in front of Mojo and Eggman.
"What the...?" exclaimed Mojo as he picked up the emerald.
"How did this get here?" asked Mojo.
"Who cares, just so long as we have it." said Eggman. "We're ready to take off so lets go."
"I got to stop 'em." said Sonic but as he tried to run, he realized that his feet was stuck to the ground. To his horror, Chaos (still in his puddle form) had surrounded Sonic's feet, holding them in place. He opened his mouth to cry for help but before he could speak, a tentacle of water reached out from the puddle and covered Sonic's mouth, muffling his speech. Chaos held Sonic too tightly to enable Sonic. Sonic could only watch helplessly as Mojo and Eggman took off in their plane with the emerald.
As Mojo and Eggman took of to the skies, Chaos began to cover Sonic's nose, preventing him from breathing. But in the distance, Bubble's voice cried out, "Sonic!" Upon hearing Bubbles's approach, Chaos released Sonic's mouth and then it slithered away and disappeared in the plant life of the forest. The girls flew into Sonic's view, followed by Tails, Cream, and Cheese who landed on the ground next to them.
"Are you all right, Sonic?" asked Tails.
"Yeah, I'm fine." said Sonic. Knuckles and Amy ran up to them to join in on the conversation.
"Sonic, where's the Chaos Emerald?" asked Knuckles.
"It's gone." replied Sonic.
"Oh no, what happened?" asked Amy.
"The monster gave the emerald to Mojo and Eggman and before I could stop them from getting away, he prevented me from moving." explained Sonic.
"He gave Eggman the emerald?" asked Knuckles.
"But why would Chaos give the emerald to Eggman?" asked Blossom.
"Chaos?" said Sonic in surprise. Everyone looked up at Blossom in curiosity.
"How did you know the monster's name was 'Chaos?" asked Knuckles.
"I don't know." admitted Blossom. "I just knew."
"Strange, the same thing happened to me." said Knuckles.
"It did?" asked Blossom surprised.
"Could someone please tell me what's going on here?" asked Buttercup.
"When I saw that monster, I automatically knew that his name was Chaos, as if seeing him reminded me of his name but I know I have never heard the name before or seen this monster before." explained Knuckles.
"The same thing happened to me." said Blossom.
"Do you know anything else about Chaos?" asked Sonic.
"None." said Blossom glumly
"What I can't understand is why is Chaos helping the villains collect the Chaos Emeralds?" asked Bubbles.
"I don't know but we better get back to Chris's mansion." suggested Sonic. "Maybe Chuck will know what to do." They all ran (or flew) in the direction of their plane so they could retreat back to the Thorndyke mansion.
Author's note: A note for you Sonic fans, I deliberately made Chaos to be taller than in the games so that he would be more intimidating and make it more easier for him to fight Sonic and the girls.