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Chapter 25: "Evacuation"
Day 5
Station Square
8:05 P.M.
Tails sat in the Station Square diner, eating a bit of supper. He
was starving from his adventure. He hoped that this was all over. But
something wasn't adding up here. What was that Tikal had mentioned about
the emeralds? The 7 chaos..? The server? What's the server?
"If she's talking about emeralds, she probably means the 7 chaos
emeralds and...a server emerald? Could there be an 8th emerald out
there?" Tails pondered. He looked up at the diner TV and saw Nellie
Stargazer on there.
"Hey Miss? Can you turn up that?" Tails called over the noise of
the diner.
"No prob, kid!" the waitress called, turning up the volume. It
still could be barely heard over the crowd.
"-and we ask for ALL citizens to evacuate the city. If you don't
have a car, we urge taking the train to the Mystic Ruins-"
"What? What's that about evacuation?" Tails asked.
"QUUUUUUUUUUUIEEEEEEET!!!!!!!!!!" the waitress screamed, shutting
everyone up. "Nellie Stargazer is on TV."
That grabbed everyone's attention and they rushed to gather
around the TV, leaving Tails at the front of the group.
"Once again, the Mayor has called a state of emegency as there
is a threat of a missle out in the bay, and we need ALL citizens to
evacuate!" Stargazer said.
The waitress called out to the boys. "Okay, boys, you heard
Stargazer! Go home, pack up your stuff and meet me at the train station!
We'll go as a group!"
Everyone but Tails agreed and left.
"Hey aren't you one of Amy's protestors?" Tails asked.
"That's right, kid. The name's Pepper Johnson. I run this diner."
"Pepper? Weren't you the one that got jailed last night?" Tails
asked.
"Yeah, well they got bigger fish to fry now," Pepper said proudly.
"Aren't you Stargazer's nephew?"
"Adopted nephew," Tails said.
"Is that so? Well you better get home, kid. At least you live in
the Mystic Ruins, right?"
"Yeah," Tails said, getting up. "See ya around, Pepper!"
Tails ran outside, only to see Dr. Robotnik crash land into the
pavement. Uh oh...
"Hey, it's Dr. Eggman. I wonder what happened to Sonic," Tails
wondered.
"I'm finished. Chaos has been defeated," Robotnik muttered.
He growled.
"No matter. I will destroy Station Square anyway!" Robotnik
said, pressing a button.
Out towards the bay, Tails could see something rising. The
missle!
"Ready?" Robotnik called on the radio.
"Tails!" Shalita called, running to the fox. Bane was right
behind them.
"Aunt Shalita!" Tails cried, hugging her.
"FIRE!!!" Robotnik ordered.
The three gasped and watched as the missle fired. Everyone who was
still in the street stared as the missle soared across the sky. And
there was nothing ANYONE could do.
"This is it," Shalita whispered.
Mystic Forest
8:15 P.M.
Antoine pushed Sonic off of him as he stood up.
"Argh! I hate that Eggman!" Sonic grumbled, brushing himself off.
He looked around "Where's this?"
"This is the Mystic Forest," Bunnie answered.
"Oh, is that so?" Sonic asked, rubbing his head. He weaved a little.
"Sugah, are you okay?" Bunnie asked.
"Yeah..just feeling a lil strange," Sonic said. "Huh-?"
Sonic saw a small light. Bunnie and Antoine looked up and saw it too.
"What is it?" Bunnie asked.
"I...dunno...but...I think it wants us to follow it," Sonic said.
"Well....let's do it!" Bunnie said.
Station Square
8:19 P.M.
Shalita, Tails and Bane hugged each other as the missle came down.
There was no escape this time. They heard the crashing sound, and
then....nothing.
No fire storm, no explosion, NOTHING. The three looked at each
other.
"AAAAARGH! Sleet, you idiot! It was a dud!!!" Robotnik yelled on
the radio.
"A dud?" Shalita asked. "Bane, follow me and get the chopper!"
"Right!" Bane said, and the two took off.
"Argh! I'll take care of this myself!" Robotnik growled, heading
towards the Speed Highway Mantence building.
"Oh no!" Tails murmured, following Robotnik.
As Robotnik blasted though the building door, Tails spotted the
missle about a mile off.
"I see it!" Tails said. "I gotta stop Eggman! The fate of Station
Square depends on ME!"
He groaned. "Sonic, where are you?!"
Tails shook his head. "I've changed a lot since I started hanging
with Sonic. But I can't depend on him forever. Okay Eggman! Here I
come!"
As Tails took off after Robotnik, he called back to the fox.
"You think you can keep up with me?!"
"I can certainly try!" Tails said, whirling his tails and
blasting forward.
Within moments, Tails caught up with Robotnik.
"What? He's caught up!" Robotnik murmured.
"Yeah! This is too easy!" Tails grinned, looking back at
Robotnik.
SMACK!
Tails ran into a wall.
"Next time," Tails groaned, Eggman passing him. "I'll get it
next time..."