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Chapter 12: Total Chaos
Day 3
Station Square Hotel Resturant
10:06 P.M.
Knuckles and the Station Square Freedom Fighters arrived on the top
of the floor, arriving in what looked like a resturant. He looked about
trying to find Robotnik.
"Any sign of him?" Knuckles asked.
"No dude!" Jett called.
"Knuckles!" Lauren called running to him. "The stage nearby is
empty. We can look for him on there."
"Perfect!" Knuckles said, running on stage. He searched the crowd
and slowly realized they were all staring at him.
"Oh....uh..."Knuckles stuttered. He wasn't used to half a million
people staring at him.
"Alright! Knuckles the preformer!" Jett teased.
"What am I, the odd-job echidna?!" Knux exclaimed.
Jo leaned in front of Knux. "All a part of the show, folks!"
Bryce stared at her as she leaned back. "No need to get the crowd
upset," she said through her teeth.
"Uh....yeah...all....a part of...the show..." Knux said nervously,
then spied who he was looking for. As to make it an act, he pointed to
Robotnik, calling dramiticly but emphisicly. "You there! The big red
guy that looks like an egg!"
Robotnik growled, turning around. He didn't want to draw attention
to himself too soon. Stupid echidna.
"Who me? I, Dr Robotnik, the greatest scientific genius in the
WORLD?"
"Yes, YOU, Dr. Eggman!" Knux called.
Robotnik growled, appraching the stage. Knux noticed Robotnik was
gripping to something. An emerald? An emerald SHARD?
"HEY! THAT'S MINE!" Knux yelled.
"Uh this? This isn't what you're looking for," Robotnik said,
holding out the chaos emerald. The FFs gasped.
"No...I guess not...." Knux said, dissappointed.
"That's alright though. I can use you as a guina pig to test it!"
Robotnik grinned.
"On your guard, Freedom Fighters!" Jett called as they got into
a fighting stance in front of Knux. Knux gripped his chao to him tightly.
He's not afraid, but the chao, his buddy, was in danger.
"Chaos! Come forth!" Robotnik called.
"Chaos?" Knux asked.
Suddenly, water started seeping through the cracks of the stage,
and it started gathering until a shape formed, rising before them.
"That's the monster I saw the other night!" Knux growled.
Robotnik tossed Chaos the chaos emerald. As it asorbed it, the
monster morphed into a larger, more hidious shape. A third "horn"
potruded from the back of his head, and thick cartlge developed in the
arms, each holding an emerald.
"Hah! Changing shape won't scare me!" Knux called. Suddenly his
chao yelped and leaped out of his hands, running away, crying in pain.
"HEY! WAIT!" Knuckles cried, diving after the chao. As if he
smacked into a forcefielded, he was rebounded away from his chao. When
he looked up, all he could see was a yellow tipped white shell.
"NO!" Knux called. A shadow loomed over him.
"Forget it. You have MUCH bigger problems now," he could hear
Robotnik say from behind Chaos.
Knux got up off the floor and got into a fighing stance. Chaos
morphed into a ball of water. It started bouncing all over the stage.
"Look out!" Laruen cried. "It's gonna trounce US!"
The FFs scattered as Chaos morphed back into itself. It started
shooting its claw at Knuckles. Knux dodged and attacked the only solid
form it had.
The brain.
Chaos melted into a puddle again and reformed. It started spinning
its arms about, slapping the freedom fighters off-stage. Knux dodged
again and attacked it.
Enough playing, Chaos broke up into many little balls of water
and pounding Knux with all its might.
Knux survived the beating and stood rigid, facing the beast.
"Is that all you got?" Knux growled, punching the brain again.
The monster, out of strength, soaked into the stage.
The freedom fighters surrounded Robotnik.
"Bah. So what if you defeated Chaos. He'll be much stronger once I
feed him all of the chaos emeralds!" Robotnik called.
"Yeah yeah. That still doesn't faze me. Ya hear?" Knux called.
Robotnik smirked. "I know something that might. It's about Sonic."
Knuckles eyes widen. "What? What ABOUT Sonic?"
"He's after peices of the emerald too!" Robotnik gruffawed.
"What do ya mean?" Knux asked.
"Did you see the dead body in the alley tonight?" Robotnik asked.
"Ya mean.....?" Knuckles gaped. So he DID see Manic. But, if Manic
was....
"What happened?!" Knux asked.
"Sonic was after his brother's medallion for power against Chaos.
When his brother refused...."
The crowd gasped, some not believing this terrible news.
"The rest I'll let you figure for yourself!" Robotnik laughed,
walking out of the resturant. The FFs were too stunned to stop him. Knux
plopped down next to the shell where his chao was.
"Manic....no...." Knux whisped. "Sonic.......did he really do it?"
"Dunno, dude," Jett said.
"If that's so, then now what?" Lauren asked.
Knux thought deeply. If Sonic killed Manic for his medallion, why
would he do it? What's so special about a medallion that turned into a
drumset? He suddenly had another thought. If Manic was here with Sonic,
then so was-
"Sonia!" Knux gasped.
"Who?" Jo asked.
"Sonia! She's Sonic's sister! Oh my gosh, if he gets to her....aw
man! We gotta find her!"
"Chaaaao!" came the call. Everyone turned and standing there was
an orange chao with three tiny horns potruding.
"Is that...my chao?" Knux asked.
"No time to explain Knux. Put him up inthe Chao Garden and let's
go find Sonic," Bryce said.
Day 4
Station Square
4:45 A.M.
Sonic, bleary-eyed, woke up, finding the others also trying to wake
up. What time WAS it anyway?
A figure approached them. Shalita.
"Hey, I see you're finally up," she said softly.
"Ugh..." Tails moaned. "What happened to the chaod emerald?" he
mumbled.
"Uh......." Sonic moaned. "Eggman got one of them. But the other
one is safe..."
He pointed to his medallion.
"Whoa.....that's made from a chaos emerald?" Shalita asked.
"Yeah....Eggman must be getting desprite," Sonic said, standing up.
"Now it's his two, to our one, and Eggman's winning..." Tails
noted.
Bunnie yawned. "So now what'll we do?"
"I dunno, but let's get going," Sonic said.
Antoine woke up screaming.
"Huh?!" they turned around. Standing before Antoine was a green
hedgehog-shaped chao.
"Oh wow, it evolved!" Shalita gushed. "It's so....."
She frowned. It reminded her of the thief that Tails said had
fallen out of the plane. But if that chao belonged to Sonic....why did it
look like the other guy? "....cute!"
Sonic picked it up. "Hey lil guy! You tryin to be me?"
Everyone grinned as Antoine calmed down. The chao cooed.
"Hey Sonic. Me an Tails are gonna head to Station Square Diner and
get us some breakfast. How about you drop off your chao in the garden
and meet us there?" Shalita suggested.
"Good idea. See ya there!" Sonic nodded.
The sun rose finding Sonic, Shalita, Bunnie, Antoine and Tails
riding the train to the Mystic Ruins. Shalia suggested checking the weird
mountain range for any chaos emeralds, and Sonic readily agreed. Upon
arriving there, they stood before the wall of rock that was not there
last week as Shalita had said.
"This is strange..." Sonic said. Suddenly his medallion started
glowing. "What in the world?!"
There was a low rumbling before the wall in front of them exploded,
rock and dirt sent flying. A white glowing object flew at Sonic, pausing
in front of him. It was a small gemstone similar to the Wind Stone he
found outside of the Windy Valley. Only this time, the picture of a
snowflake was on it. HOWEVER, unlike the the Wind stone patten, this
stone he reconized. He'd only seen it once. It was the Ice Stone.
"What is it?" Bunnie asked.
"This? This is a key to the entrance of the Ice Cap Mountains..."
Sonic murmured.
"Ice...Cap...?" Shalita asked.
"Shalita, I know what your mysterious mountains are.......
it's.....it's the Floating Island!"
"The Floatin' Island? What the hoo-haw is THAT?" Bunnie asked.
"No time to explain. Tails, follow me. The rest of you stay and
make sure no one else gets on the island. I gotta find Knuckles!" Sonic
called. He ran in. Tails followed.
Sonic's mind raced as fast as his feet. Maybe the island crashed
and Knuckles got trapped in the Ice Cap Mountains. That would explain the I
ce Stone flying towards him...
Several hours later found the duo within the heart of the Ice Cap
Mountains. Still no sign of Knuckles, but Tails kept insisting he saw
someone following them. Checking into the caves, Sonic gasped. It was
so beautiful! This was Limestone Cavern. The name fit well. This cave
had a rich deposit of limestone. As Sonic wandered back out the cave
he saw something. A snowboard. HIS snowboad, from the last time he and
his sibs visted the island. Before he could get a chance to inspect it,
Tails cried out.
"AVALANCHE!!!"
Sonic looked up, and sure enough, an avalance had started. He
grabbed Tails and hopped on the snowboard, racing down the mountian,
out of the distance of the falling snow. Towards the bottom of the
mountain, Sonic stopped short. Standing against the light of the sun
was a figure. But it wasn't Knuckles.
"Catch!" it called and ran away, tossing Sonic something. Sonic
caught it.
There was a sudden explosion as jet plane started flying in from
above, shooting at them.
"SCRAM!!!" Sonic cried, running down from the mountain. Tails was
hot on his feet.
Shalita was back at her place, with Bunnie and Antoine, watchoing
the field. The crazy red echidna from Speed Highway showed up with the
annoying kids that caused trouble in Station Square. She was wary of them,
but after the nutcase started showing up with what looked like sharp
shovel claws, she deemed the group "armed and dangerous" and decided to
wait indoors until they left the area. Unfortunitely, the red echidna
headed right in towards the Floating Island, and the others stood
guarding the entrance. Although Sonic said to keep anyone else away from
the island, there was no way she was gonna confront the group....not
unarmed anyway. Antoine fidgeted. "The prince may be in danger!" he
wailed.
"Sugah-Twain, we can't do a THANG until Sonic an Tails get back,"
Bunnie said.
Shalita's cell-phone rang.
"Stargazer here," she greeted the caller. "Bane? Hey! How you-wha?"
Bunnie and Antoine saw Shalita looked horrified. "What are you
talkin about, Bane? Sonic's been with me all night! Wha.....oh....oh no
.....yes! Get them over here right away!"
Shalita put away her cell-phone. "There was a murder last night,
and someone's passed the word that Sonic was the murderer!" she said.
"But that's impossible. He was with us all night!" Bunnie said.
"I know. Bane said my cousin's in town, tryin to find our other
cousin, and she's got two freedom fighters with her to calm the town
down. They're on their way here now, but we gotta find Sonic!"
"Well here he comes, sugah!" Bunnie said, pointing out the
window.
Sonic was mobbed almost immeditely after he came out from the island.
"AAAGH!" he cried, as he was dealt a sucker punch to the face
from Jett.
"Now, you'll face the wrath of the Station Square Freedom Fighters,
you back-stabbing traitor!" Jett called.
"What?!" Sonic yelped, backing up.
"SONIC!!!" Tails called, running to him. Bryce pushed Tails back.
"Don't get close to him, kid. He's dangerous!"
"I'd say YOU guys are the dangerous ones, trying to harm the
prince!" Shalita yelled, running towards them with Bunnie and Antoine.
"Oiu! You are all under arrest for treason against the crowned
Prince of Mobius!" Antoine threatened.
The FFs laughed.
"You gonna arrest US? The Station Square Freedom Fighters?" Lauren
laughed.
"We can most certainly try!" Bunnie called, getting into a
fighting stance.
"Then you fools are on the wrong side," a familar voice growled.
Everyone looked up to see Knuckles standing there.
"Whattda mean, Knux?!" Sonic yelled.
"Sonic, you KNOW this nutcase?" Shalita asked.
"Knuckles the Echidna. He's the Guardian of the Floating Island,"
Sonic said.
"Hey Knux," Jo said, yanking an object of out Sonic's hand. "Lookie
what I found!"
"Hey, that's MINE!" Sonic growled.
"WRONG. It WAS Manic's!" Knux growled.
Sonic stared at Knux. "Shal's right. You ARE nuts! Manic's back-"
Sonic saw the object. "-in-" It was a medallion. MANIC'S medallion. He
looked at Knux. "-but-"
Knux growled. "Surrender your medallion, Sonic. And you won't get
hurt."
Sonic growled. "Never!"
"Fine, then we do it the hard way," Knux said.
"Not with us here-" Shalita said as the three stepped forward. The
FFs pulled out guns. "-on second thought...he's all yours...."
"She gaved an angry Sonic a fearful look as the three back up and
ran. Sonic growled. Cowards. At least Tails hadn't abandoned him..
The FFs laughed as they tossed aside their water guns and took
turns beating Sonic. Knux hated to do this, but he was no longer a
friend of Sonic's.
Suddenly Shalita came chaging back, with something in her hand. Jo
was the first to spot her.
"THAT CRAZY LADY'S GOT A SWORD!!!" she shrieked and everyone back
off, as Shalita swung.
"Back! Back you savages!" she cried as she made way for herself
and Bunnie and Antoine. She handed the sword to Antoine. "Watch them,"
she ordered. She knelt beside Sonic. He was already developing a shiner
on his left eye.
"You came back..." Sonic murmured.
"Sonic, tell these people you didn't murder anyone!" Shalita said.
"Murder? I would never kill anyone..." Sonic said.
"Liar!" Knuckles growled. "I saw the body! You stole the medallion
from his dead body!"
"Body? WHAT body?! What meda-" he stopped. Dead body? Manic's
medallion? Wha-?
"Knux..." Sonic whispered. "What dead body? Manic's medallion?
But he's been in Robotropolis all week..."
"Actually, he hasn't..." came the call. Everyone turned to find a
navy blue hedgehog, accompanied with a black hedgehog, a lion and a
mouse.
"Sierra? What're you doing here?" Sonic asked.
"Sonic, Sierra is my cousin..." Shalita said.
"Sonic, Manic's been here for 2 days. I thought he'd of found you
by now....but..."
"But? But what?" Sonic asked.
"Sonic...." Sierra whispered, bowing her head. "Sonic....Manic.....
Manic is....."
"TIME OUT!!" Shalita cried. "Manic? That's the thief that broke
into our house the other night! if you ask me, good riddance!"
Everyone stared at her, Sonic with angry eyes.
"What? What'd I say?" Shalita asked. She looked at Sonic. "Sonic?"
Sonic got up and staggered past her. Shalita ran alongside him.
"Sonic? Come on, talk to me-!" Sonic ran on ahead, towards the pond.
She stopped. "Sonic...?"
Sierra stood beside her, with Tails and Knuckles trailing the
zombified Sonic. "Shalita..." Sierra called. Shalita looked to Sierra,
tears in her eyes. "Why won't he talk to me?"
"Shal......Manic.....Manic was Sonic's twin brother."
Shalita stared, horrified. "What? No......no oh my, Sierra...."
Shalita looked up suddenly as a yelp came from where Sonic Tails
and Knux were. Tails and Kniux had Sonic by the arms, pulling him back
from the pond.
"Sonic, don't do it!!!" Tails cried. Tears streamed down Sonic's
face.
"Lemme go! Leave me alone!!!" he cried angrily.
"SONIC! Don't throw away your life on this!" Knux yelled.
Sonic suddenly snagged the medallion from Knux, taking him by
suprise, and threw himself into the water. He never his because a watery
claw snagged both medallion away from Sonic.
"NOT AGAIN!" Sonic yelped. Chaos appeared yet again, this time in
the form of a shark. Robotnik appeared before the rest of the Freedom
Fighters.
"Chaos! Destroy them all!" Robotnik ordered.
Needless to say, Sonic was in boiling anger. Chaos killed his
brother, he was sure of it!
He tooked down chaos in no time flat, despite his stronger level.
"ARRRGH! Curse you!" Robotnik yelled.
A dark shadow fell over them. Everyone looked up to see a ship
flying overhead.
"Behold my flying masterpiece, the Egg Carrier! It pales in to the
power of Chaos!" Robotnik laughed. A transporter beamed down on
Robotnik.
"Adeiu! Until we meet again! Hahahahahahah!!!!!"
And with that, Robotnik dissappeared.
Sonic growled. "I'm gonna make you pay for this, Eggman..."
"We can't let him get away!" Tails cried. "Let's get to my
workshop and we'll take the Tonado!"
"Yeah," Sonic glared towards the sky.
"Sonic!" Knux called. "I need to take care of some busniess.
I'll catch up later."
"No prob, Knuckles. We'll take care of everything here."
The Egg Carrier
1:35 P.M.
Sleet stepped off the elevator and reported to Robotnik.
"Sir, Zero has brought in the latest group of prisioners to be
robotisized."
Robotnik turned. "Excellent! The new Zero bot has been doing well
for such a primitive device! What else do you have to report?"
"Beta is being rebuilt as asked, sir," Sleet said.
"Very good!"
As Sleet turned to leave, he called quietly. "Oh...um....sir.....
SHE'S here...."
Dr. Robotnik stood rigid. HER? NOW? "Where?!"
Suddenly the door burst open and a dark woman in a cloak marched
in, with two unidentiful guards at her side. She was a dark hedgehog.
"A-Aushatara...w-what are you doing here?" Robotnik sweated.
"Can the pleasentries, Robotnik. Where's my batallion of robots I
payed good money for?!" she growled.
"Well...ya see....,uh...we just got a new prisioner batch this
morning and are being robotisized as it is," Robotnik explained.
"I don't want excuses, I want RESULTS!" she screamed.
"Y-yes mam! They'll be delivered to you today!"
"They'd better be," she glared, and left without further notice.
As the door slammed shut, Dr. Robotnik growled.
"Stupid woman. All she's doing is going on a wild goose chase in
the Great Desert!"
"Uh, y-yes sir, she is," Sleet agreed.
Just upstair, the green robot, Zero, was tossing frightened mobians
into the robotisizer. Nearby, an orange jackal was looking at the caged
birds.
"Aww, I like lil birdies!" he grinned, tryin to tickle a green
flicky.
It promptly bit his finger and flew out.
"YOW!!!" the jackal yelped.
Zero whirled about. That stupid mongrel has inturpted its work.
It knocked the jackel aside and chased after the bird. Sleet heard the
noise and ran upstairs.
"Dingo, you idiot! You let the prisioner escape!"
"But it bit me!" Dingo frowned.
"Whatever. Get up and follow the metal-head!" Sleet ordered.