Chapter 19: Second Attack
Day 5 Red Mountain 1:32 P.M. Sonic sat there, tryin to think on what to do. "Sonic, what'll we do now? We gotta stop that Eggman. He doesn't know what he's doing with Chaos!" Chaima said. "I dunno. I just don't know," Sonic sighed. "Sonic, why ARE you afraid of water?" Chaima asked. Sonic looked at him and sighed. "I guess it's time I told the truth on that. Okay. When I was little, I used to have nightmares about a city being flooded, and that... I had to fight this monster that controlled the water. I was glowing brightly and floating on the water, but.....when I went to kill the monster, I....drown..." "I see," Chaima said. "That sounds pretty scary." "I usually don't believe in nightmares, but I can't swim, so...I just didn't like water. And now with this Chaos showing up, I'm starting to think that there was a reason for all those nightmares..." There was a dull roar that Sonic didn't notice until now. "Hey, what's that?" The chao popped back into the backpack just as the plane came into sight. "Tails!" Sonic shouted, bewildered. "You're okay!" "Hey Sonic!" Tails waved. Sonic took a running leap and landed on the tail of the plane. "Whaddya say we nail that Eggman?" "Roger!" Tails said, and they took off after the Egg Carrier. Egg Carrier 1:54 P.M. By the time Gamma finally snapped out of his trance, he realized he was already standing in line with the other E-Series robots, holding Froggy. "My frog is the right one!" one said. "No, mine is!" another said. Dr. Robotnik appoached them, followed by Sleet, inspecting each robot's catch. "Argh! Dummies, dummies, DUMMIES! None of you got the right frog! I need the frog with Chaos' tail!" Robotnik stopped in front of Gamma, seeing what he got. "Ah ha! That's it! That's the frog! I knew you'd be of use to me, Gamma!" He took the frog and turned to the others. "All you other worthless hunks of junk, begone!" Sleet grinned, hitting the transporter button, as the others started to dissappear. Delta turned to face Gamma before he dissappeared. Robotnik turned to face Gamma again. "I have a new assignment for you. This one's easy." He pointed to a door. "Behind that door is a girl and a bird. Just get me that bird! I don't care what it takes!" Robotnik handed Froggy to Sleet. "Take this frog to the Hot Shelter." "Yes sir," Sleet said, and entered the middle door. Robotnik took off for the bridge. "Is this the one?" Gamma asked, heading for the door on the left. As he entered, he was in a small construction bay. Robot parts were littered on the floor. He looked up at the robot. "Beta?" It was Beta alright, but he was being resigned. A workerbot, a hedgehog, was working on him, with the assistance of an auto eqipment machine. Gamma stepped outside. "This is the wrong room," he concluded after a long silence. He headed through the door on the right. Just Outside the Egg Carrier 2:13 P.M. At that moment, Sonic and Tails were raging war on the Egg Carrier. Sonic had to take out mines that Robotnik decided to leave in their path. After the first run through, Tails turned around and Sonic took out the defense cannons as they were firing at them. "I hope iou know what you're doing," Sonic called to Tails. "You bet! Watch this!" Tails called, hitting a button. "Transforming now!' A metallic arm grabbed Sonic, lifting him up. "Whoa!" he yelped. The propellers stopped and retracted. The wings spread apart into an X shape as jet vent emerge from the back of the plane and fired. The claw set Sonic back down. "Let's do it!" Tails said. They headed for the Egg Carrier once again, and the shark fighters came again. Sonic took them down one by one. As they flew to the front of the Egg Carrier, they settled in front of the Egg Cannon that had took them down earlier. Sonic fired as fast as he could to take out the weapon before it could take them out. In the gueling moments before the cannon could fire, the firepower of the Tornado 2 was too much for it and it exploded. Sonic and Tails cheered.
