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Chapter 23: "Fourth Round Rumble"

Egg Carrier Main Room
5:56 P.M.

	Big was holding Froggy, walking around with Sierra, Cyrus and 
Trevor, when they felt the ship shudder.
	"If anything happens now, there's no point to my rescuing you," 
Big said to his poliwog pal. "I dunno who would bother to save us."
	"We need to find an escape pod or something," Sierra said.
	"Well let's get going!" Big said.
	"But where?" Cyrus asked.
	Then came the announcement.
	"Emergency alert has been cancelled. Resuming monorail 
operation."
	Everyone looked at each other and nodded.
	
	The monorail dropped them off on the top deck. They were near some 
sort of engine housing. As they ran up to find some way to get off the 
ship, Big stopped short, and the others ran into him.
	"Hey! What's with the road block?" Sierra asked and gasped, 
looking up.
	Before them was Chaos 4.
	"We are in so much trouble," Sierra said as Robotnik flew up.
	"Trying to escape I see. Well I'm right on time," Robotnik said.
	Suddenly, Froggy squirmed out of Big's hand and plopped on the 
glass flooring.
	"Chaos! That frog is possessed by your tail! Grab it! And here's 
another emerald for you!"
	Robotnik held up Sonia's medallion, and the others gasped.
	Robotnik tossed the emerald medallion at Chaos.
	Froggy in the meantime, was giving up on the emerald he had in his 
mouth. The one he took from Big. The yellow emerald clinked on the 
floor and Chaos grabbed it
	Chaos glew in a bright light and changed into a large arachnid.
	Froggy, hypnotied, hopped into Chaos. The tail dissappeared from 
Froggy and appared as a scorpian-like tail on Chaos.
	About that time, Sonic came running up to the group.
	"Aw no! Not again!" Sonic yelped.
	He looked up to the monsterous thing. "Chaos! Could this be the 
same beast?"
	"It is, Sonic! Ya gotta stop him!" Cyrus called.
	Chaima and the gang ran up to Cyrus. They had evolved yet again. 
Chaima now looked like a chao version of Sonic.
	"We'll stop Dr. Robotnik later! We gotta stop Chaos first!" he said.
	"But that's what I said," Cyrus said, looking down at Chaima.
	"Yeah but-" Chaima started.
	"HEEEEEELP!!!!!" came a brand new voice. Everyone turned towards 
Chaos, and saw Froggy struggling to get out of Chaos' watery body. 
"BIG! SIERRA! SOMEONE! HEEEEELP!!!"
	"The frog TALKS," Sonic stared. Everyone else gasped.
	"I must save Froggy!" Big wailed.
	"If he's your friend, I'll help you!" Sonic said.
	Big nodded and called to his friend. "Don't worry Froggy! We'll 
save you!"
	"Hurry!" the frog pleaded.
	Sonic called attention to the monster while Big tried to fish 
his friend out.
	Pucha, wanting to help Sonic, ran after him, only to be 
stopped by Robotnik.
	"And where do you think YOU'RE going?" Robotnik demanded.
	"Hey! Is this any way to treat a lady?!" Pucha demanded.
	"What lady?" Robotnik laughed. "You?"
	"Who said I was talking about myself?" Pucha smirked.
	Robotnik frowned. "What?"
	They were interupted by a cheerful cry from Big as Froggy 
grabbed the fishing line.
	"Froggy! Safe at last!" Big grinned, holding Froggy.
	"Ugh! Big, I'm glad to see ya too, but you're squishing me!" 
Froggy gasped.
	"Whoops," Big grinned sheepishly.
	"Go! Go on outta here, you guys!" Sonic called.
	"Oh, okay!" Big called as the others took off.
	Unfortunitely, it was in the wrong direction.
	Big wound up on the landing strip, all alone with Froggy.
	"Big, ya did it again," Froggy sighed.
	"Huh? Er, what? HEY! What's this?" Big asked, sighting the 
Tonado 2.
	"That would be commonly known as an airplane," Froggy said, 
looking at Big annoyingly.
	"We could use it to get off of here, but I dunno anything 
about aeroplanes," Big said.
	Froggy groaned.
	"Oh well, I'll give it a try anyway."
	Froggy stared at Big. Was that cat buddy of his NUTS?!
	Big pushed the airplane like a glider and turned on the motor. 
He was too big to fit in the cockpit, but he put Froggy in it. Big 
hung on for life as the plane took off towards the Mystic Ruins, 
Froggy screaming along the way.

Sky Deck
6:15 P.M.

	Knuckles found the last emerald shards and told his gang to scram 
off the Egg Carrier when the bright pink ball appeared before him yet 
AGAIN. When the light died, he was standing in a city of ruins. He 
heard a cry next to him and saw a white hedgehog with blond hair yelling 
up at a feroucious water beast.
	"DON'T DO THIS!!!" she cried. "Don't kill yourself for this!!!"
	Knuckles looked up and saw a glowing figure in the sky, holding a 
crystal sword. He realized she was yelling at the figure, not the 
beast. Was that-
	The vision faded away and he was back on the Pool Deck. What was 
going ON here? That didn't look like the past.
	He realized. He needs to stop Chaos!

Egg Carrier Engine Housing
6:24 P.M.

	Sonic and the chao now faced Chaos and Dr. Robotmik.
	"Your turn now, uglies!" Sonic growled, and started running at 
Chaos. There was only one weakness, and he was going for it.
	Or not.
	When he spin dashed for the brain, he never made it. The body 
was so thick, he was floating in water. Chaos shook its head, sloshing 
Sonic out of him. That hedgehog was beginning to be a problem. Dr. 
Robotnik knew this and tossed a device at Sonic. He dodged just in 
time, as the device started spraying icy air on the surface where he 
was. Thinking quickly, Sonic grabbed the device and tossed it at 
Chaos.
	At first nothing happened and Chaos attacked Sonic with its 
tail. But the device started freezing the water, and Chaos reared 
back...and froze!
	Sonic spin-dashed Chaos and it broke up into pieces.
	"ARGH! NO! I hate you!" Robotnik growled.
	"Hey Sonic!!!" Knuckles cried, running up to Sonic.
	"There you are Knux!" Sonic smirked. "I thought you got lost or 
something."
	"I can't believe this! I'm outta here!" Roboitnik said, taking off.
	Growling, Sonic put on his backpack, now full of chao, and 
leaped off the deck after Robotnik.
	"Sonic! Don't be stupid!!!" Knux yelled.
	Suddenly he felt himself being pulled backwards. He turned 
around.
	Chaos was back, and trying to suck him in!
	"No! It can't be!" Knux stared, fighting the winds until it 
quit. "I guess he didn't get enough the first time!"

Egg Pod Escape Bay
6:35 P.M.

	The Station Square Freedom Fighters were the last to get into 
the escape pods. They were just in time as Sierra closed the doors and 
piloted the escape pod from the Egg Carrier.
	"Next stop, Station Square!" Sierra called.
	"I'll scan for badniks," Cyrus called, manning the scanners.
	The rest of the escapees sat in the back.
	"So what's your story?" Trevor asked. "Lets introduce ourselves."
	Sir Charles was the first to stand up.
	"Um, my name is Sir Charles. I am an inventor. I was robotisized a 
year ago, trying to help my nephew, when I was captured and robotisized. 
I found myself derobotized hours ago, by some sort of magic."
	"Wow, that's quite a story, Sir Charles," Trevor said.
	Bernie stood up. "My name is Bernadette Jones. I'm the foster 
mother of one and I lived happily with my husband when we were captured 
in our montain home 10 years ago. Like Sir Charles, I too was rescued by 
a some sort of magic."
	Sonia stood up. "My name is Sonia. I was in Station Square with 
my brother when I met Amy. Then we got caught by a robot and brought on 
board the Egg Carrier."
	"Sonia," Sir Charles mumured. "That's a pretty name, young lady. 
I had a niece by that name."
	Bernie stared at Sir Charles. "You had a neice?"
	Chip stood up. "My name is Daniel Ranay, but everyone calls me 
Chip. I'm the owner of Twinkle Park in Station Square. Like Sonia, I too 
was captured by a robot."
	"That's my cousin for ya!" Sierra called. "I'm known as Sierra 
Ranay. I'm a Freedom Fighter in Robotropolis and head of positioning up 
there. I came down here to visit my cousins when I found out one of 
the freedom fighters died..."
	Everyone bowed their heads.
	"I'm Cyrus. I'm the head of the Robotropolis Freedom Fighters, 
but not the leader. I came down here to help Amy Rose upgrade her items 
when I too heard that a freedom fighter died."
	"And I'm Trevor," the mouse spoke up. "I too am a freedom fighter 
from Robotropolis. I came down to assist Cyrus."
	Jett and his friends stood.
	"Wow. I heard the Robotropolis Freedom Fighters are famous! We're 
the Station Square Freedom Fighters, but also known as the Sonic 
Adventurers!" Jett said.
	That got everyone talking. Everyone knew Sonic in some way 
(although no one revealed how).
	They call came to the conclusion, that in some strange way, they 
were ALL Sonic Adventurers.
	"This is so cool!" Sierra said. "An organization united to stop 
the evils of Dr. Robotnik!"
	"Sierra, I'm picking something up on radar," Cyrus said. "It's....
Tails and Amy!"
	"WHAT?!" everyone cried, looking out the windows. They saw Tails 
and Amy waving at them. Everyone waved back. Cryus looked on radar 
and gasped.
	"I got something BIG coming up on radar. It's below us!" Cyrus 
said.
	Everyone looked down as saw something poking out of the water. It 
looked like a bouy at first but Cyrus said it's too big to one.
	"We better get back to Station Square and warn the town," Sierra 
said, throttling the engine.

	Outside, Amy was hanging on to Tails' hands, recalling a vision 
she had earlier.
	She wandered through a shrine, and saw an echidna girl.
	"Wow!" she murmued. 
	She stared at the water. "Is it okay for me to be here?" 
	She listened for the reply. She seemed to understand the little 
sounds the water made. "So do you....trust me?" 
	She looked at the emeralds. "So these are the seven emeralds...." 
	She approached the shrine where she saw it. She gasped. "Can 
it be?" The girl asked. "The seven chaos....the controller.....could 
this be the emerald that controls the seven chaos?" 
	And that was it. The next thing Amy remembered, was being back on 
the Pool Deck.

Egg Carrier Engine Housing
6:58 P.M.

	Knuckles fought tooth and nail to keep alive as Chaos swung its 
tail at the echidna again. He didn't know how Sonic did it, but he 
couldn't flick damage on the monsterous beast.
	A long sticklike pole emerged from Chaos 6, tripping Knux. He 
slid into a small device, still spewing cold air. Is this how...?
	Right when the monster was nearly on top of Knuckles, he threw 
the device at Chaos.
	"Here's a present from yours truely! Hope you like it!!!" Knux 
yelled as it entered Chaos' body. Chaos reared back and froze, and Knux 
punched it out. It shattered into mayn pieces, leaving the 6 chaos 
emeralds.
	"Yeah, you're through!" Knux smirked. "Now to return to my island, 
and the master emerald!"
	He gathered the 3 emeralds, the hedgehog medallions and leaped 
off the Egg Carrier. And just in time, as the Egg Carrier started 
exploding and sinking into the ocean.