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Chapter 07: Return of the Eggman
Day 3
Mystic Ruins Train Station
2:10 P.M.

	"Slowly...slowly...easy does it...there ya go..."
	Nellie Stargazer, Bane Shadow, and Tails Prower were helping 
Prince Sonic Hedgehog down the steps of the train station that was 
in Mystic Ruins. As soon as they got to the bottom, Nellie pointed 
out the cliff wall to Sonic. "See this? This wasn't here the other 
night. I talked to some nutcase that thinks it fell from the sky."
	"Fell from the sky?" Sonic asked. "Sheeeesh, that IS crazy."
	Tails pointed to a small house on the hill. "Look, there's our 
place, Sonic!"
	Sonic looked up. "Cool. Let's go then."
	The 4 slowly traveled up the steps that was built into the hill. 
Up on top of the hill, was a small dirt field.
	"I like to play ball here a lot when Bane or some of the others 
come over to visit." Tails pointed out. "When I'm not playing, I like 
to work on building stuff in my workshop. I already built a couple 
of energy converters to help power planes by chaos emerald power!"
	Just as Tails announced this, a voice boomed out laughing.
	"Hahaha! If itn't Sonic!"
	Sonic glared up darkly at the fat egg-shaped overlander sitting in 
the Egg Moble.
	"Look! It's a giant talking egg!" Sonic said to the others with 
a smug.
	"Silence!" he hushed. "I am Dr. Robotnik, the most evil 
scintific genius in the world!"
	"Yeah right, Dr. Eggman!" Sonic taunted.
	"You're always up to no good. NOW whaddya want?" Tails called.
	"I want all of the chaos emeralds! better not interfere, or else!"
	"Or else WHAT, ya big loser?" Sonic sneered.
	"Or else I'll take them from you by force; the HARD way!"
	Robotnik lowered behind the hill, circling around. Coming back up 
he faced Sonic, Tails, Bane, and Nellie, with a new attachment to the 
Egg Moble. Sonic reconized the design from plans that were copied from 
Robotropolis computers a couple of weeks ago.
	"The Egg Hornet. I thought that was still in prototype!" Sonic 
gasped.
	"Shows how much YOU know!" Bane yelled.
	Sonic took a fighting stance, despite his condition, ready to take 
on Robotnik.
	"Shalita, Bane, Tails, go on! I'll take this guy down!"
	"But Sonic-" Nellie protested.
	"GO!" Sonic shouted.
	The three backed up to one side of the field.
	"Bane get the camera." Nellie said simply.

	Sonic faced off Robotnik, waiting for his first move. Suddenly, 
he shot missles at Sonic. Sonic dashed out of the way, as the missles 
detenated where Sonic once was. Thank goodness they weren't homers. What 
was next up Robotnik's tricky sleeve?

	"This is Nellie Stargazer with breaking news, live at Mystic Ruins. 
What you see here is a live battle that is taking place between World 
Dictator Ivo Robotnik, and, you guessed it, Prince Sonic himself. That 
faithful little chao that Sonic met isn't with him at the moment as he 
is back in Station Square preparing for the next big race but-"
	Suddenly Tails pushed himself in front of Nellie, barging in. 
"Excuse me 'Nellie', as I must protest that I could help Sonic out! I 
been with him when I was 4 years old!"
	"Yes, I'm sure you could, sweetheart." Nellie said sweetly, trying 
not to say anything rude in front of the camera.

	Robotnik drove his machine towards Sonic in fury, two drills 
connecting with the ground as Sonic dashed out of the way.
	Sonic took the moment while Robotnik was stuck in the ground to 
spin dash into him.
	"ARGH!" Robotnik cried, pulling out of the ground. No more mister 
nice dictator, Robotnik thought firing a double barrage of missles at 
Sonic.
	The rain of firearms was so thick, Sonic had trouble dodging the 
explosions. The last one fired caught the ground directly behind 
Sonic, sending him flying across the field. The crew gasped.
	"My....ankle.....Sonic whispered, helpless.
	"Ah ha! Now to finish you off!" Robotnik said, getting ready to 
dive at Sonic.
	"NOOO!" Tails cried, rushing out.
	"Miles, NO!" Nellie cried. Tails came up around from behind, pulling 
Sonic out of Robotnik's fire. Once again, Robotnik hit dirt. Tails took 
that moment to attack, whirling his tails like 2 sharp blades, busting 
up Robotnik's machine.
	"Argh! He's not goning to get away with this!" Robotnik growled, 
pulling out of the dirt.
	"Thanks Tails...." Sonic called softly.
	"Sonic, are you alright?"
	"I think I twisted my ankle....TAILS! Look out!" Sonic called.
	The concussion from a near missle hit sent the two sprawling arcoss 
the field. Sonic's condition no where near improving now.
	Tails stood up tp protect his friend, Robotnik was about to 
strike. Sonic eyed Robotnik, knowing what he was going to do. Suddenly, 
he grabbed Tails' arm, rolling out of the way of Robotnik's impact. 
Then and there, Sonic touched his medallion, the gutair appearing in 
his hands.
	"I'll play with you some other time!" Sonic growled, shooting the 
laser at Robotnik.
	"Arrrrgh!" Robotnik cried, as his ship shuttered from heavy damage.
	"Way to go, Sonic!" Tails cheered, jumping up as Sonic replaced 
his gutair. He accidently dropped the purple chaos emerald. "Whoops, 
I'll get that..." 
	Robotnik caught the glint of the jewel out of the corner of his 
eye. "Ah ha!"
	A metal claw fired out and grabbed the chaos emerald from Tails' 
hands.
	"Uh oh!" Sonic gasped as Robotnik took the emerald.
	"Chaos could use a little snack!" Robotnik smiled with glee. 
"Here, Chaos!"
	"Chaos?" Sonic asked, puzzeled.
	A puddle formed next to Robotnik. It formed into the same green 
eyed water beast Sonic encountered before.
	"Aw no, isn't that the same moster I found last night?" Sonic asked 
himself.
	"Here, Chaos, a little something for you!" Robotnik laughed, 
tossing it the chaos emerald. It absorbed the chaos emerald and a bony 
cartilage formed in its right arm, the emerald inside him.
	"Yes yes! It's really happening. Just as the stone tablets 
predicted they would!" Robotnik said. He called out. " Chaos' strength 
increases everytime I feed him a chaos emerald. With all seven emeralds, 
he'll be invinsible, and work for me! Together, we'll destroy Station 
Square! And on its ruins, I'll expand Robotropolis into the deep south, 
where I will rule it all!"
	He turned to Chaos. "Come Chaos! Let's find another emerald, shall 
we?"
	"Not a chance, Eggman!" Tails cried, stepping forward. Before he 
could get any further, Robotnik threw a smoke bomb. When it cleared 
up, Robotnik and Chaos were nowhere to be found.
	"They're gone!" Sonic cried.
	"Now what'll we do?" Tails asked, looking around.
	"I don't know....Tails...." Sonic said.