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Chapter 29: "Picking Up the Pieces"

Day 6
The Egg Carrier
2:59 A.M.

	Gamma landed on the Egg Carrier, deciding that he would find 
Zeta and Beta on board. He scanned the ship for any signs of either 
of them. Zeta was located in the Hot Shelter. Gamma decided to go 
after him first. As he walked towards the rear of the ship, he 
encountered 7 chao looking up at him, gasping.
	"It's a ROBOT!!!" Pucha wailed. Everyone tackled her to shut her 
mouth.
	"Do not fear, little ones, for I do not work for Dr. Robotnik 
anymore," Gamma said.
	Chaima stepped forward. "If you don't work for Robotnik, then 
why are you here?"
	"Must free the E-Series," Gamma said.
	"Free them? Hey, we can help!" Chahura said.
	"If you insist on assisting me, go ahead. I will need all the 
help we can get."

Mystic Ruins Base
3:10 A.M.

	Sleet was in the control room, studying the Sky Deck tapes. He 
was close. The eighth emerald was in there somewhere. Nearby, Dingo was 
playing with a paper airplane.
	Robotnik burst into the Control Room, startling them.
	"Ah sir! Back so soon? How was the trip?" Sleet asked nervously.
	"Chaos was defeated, Sonic took out my Egg Carrier, the missle 
was a dud, and that brat fox destroyed my Egg Walker! WHAT DO YOU 
THINK?!" Robotnik yelled. He sat down. "Now I gotta come up with a new 
plan and my head hurts!"
	"Perhaps we can use the power of the eighth emerald to power up a 
ray to destroy Station Square?" Sleet asked.
	"I know! I'll use the power of the eighth emerald to power up a 
ray to destroy Station Square! I'm so brilliant!" Robotnik said, standing 
up.
	"Uh, wasn't that just what Sleet said?" Dingo asked.
	"SILENCE! Sleet, have you found the emerald yet?" Robotnik 
demanded.
	"Almost sir, although it has been decided that the emerald is....
ah...moving."
	"Moving? HOW?" Robotnik asked.
	"I'm not sure, sir. Maybe that idiot Echidna picked it up 
accidently," Sleet said.
	"Well pinpoint who has it!" Robotnik said.
	Suddenly a robotic voice called out. "Intruder alert! Final Egg 
Level! Hedgehog, Priority 1!"
	"Never mind the emerald! Sleet! Take care of that pesky hedgehog, 
NOW!" Robotnik said.
	"Yes sir!" Sleet said, pulling out a romote and pointing it at 
Dingo.
	"Aw Sleet! No! Please!" Dingo begged.

Final Egg, Level 1
3:18 A.M.

	Sonic ran through the Final Egg level, huffing and puffing. He 
wasn't feeling as swell as he told Bunnie. He kept felt something burning 
inside him. As he ran down the walkway, he was cut off by a horde of 
robots. The pain within him swelled and he turned around. SWATbots 
blocked the other way. He was trapped.
	"AAAAAAAAA!!!' he cried, bending over the railing, the pain was 
intense. What was wrong with him?!
	He heard warrior shouts and looked up back ahead of him. Echidna 
warriors?!
	"I won't let you destroy the shrine!" he shouted, picking up the 
Crystal Sword he saw on the ground.
	Shouting out a war cry, the echidnas rushed towards him. Sonic 
ran forward and started taking them down.
	"The emeralds will not fall to the powers of greed!!!" he shouted.
	He took down the warriors, one by one, with a speed no one could 
match.
	He blinked. The robots around him were destroyed, as he held the 
lead pipe in his hands. He cried out and bent over, terribly in pain.
	"What is with that hedgehog?" Sleet asked, watching from a 
distance. "I've never seen him fight that way. Oh well."
	Sleet held up the sword, who was really Dingo, and raised it, 
getting ready to throw it. "One hedgehog kebob coming up-OW!!!"
	An arrow flew out of nowhere, knocking Dingo out of Sleet's hand.
	Sleet growled and looked up, seeing a figure in the shadows 
holding a bow and arrow.
	"YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT!!!!" Sleet shouted, then was suddenly clubbed 
from behind.
	"I think NOT!" a female voice shouted, as the figure dropped the 
lead pipe. She looked up to the other fugure as he gave her the thumbs 
up and dissappeared from sight. She ran over towards the bent over 
Sonic and helped steady him.
	"Come on, Sonic, you're not ready to take on Robotnik! Let's get 
out of her, " she pleaded.
	"No....no, I must take him down. He decieved her. I will make 
him pay," Sonic growled.
	"Decieved who?" the figure asked.
	"Never mind. Are you coming or not, Bunnie?"
	The girl was speechless for a moment.
	"I'm coming with you."

Hot Shelter
3:48 A.M.

	Gamma and the chao wandered through the Hot Shelter, trying to 
find the fastest way to get to Zeta.
	"What about this?" Chaima asked, pointing to the freight train.
	"A good suggestion," Gamma said, helping the chao on board.
	As he got on, the train suddenly took off.
	"Whoa! What happened?!" Chaima asked.
	"The train is still running as if nothing happened. We must 
stop this train at our stop!" Gamma said, climbing to the top of the 
car. The chao followed him as they hopped cars. There were a few robots 
guarding the cargo, but nothing important happened. The eight got to 
the front of the train and stopped it JUST in time, as they reached 
their stop.

Final Egg, Level 2
4:19 A.M.

	Sonic and Bunnie, still in her cloak, stumbled through Level 2 of 
the Final Egg area.
	"Please, let me go on," Sonic gasped, clutching at his chest. "I 
have...to stop him..."
	"Sonic, you can't fight like this. Let me get you to a doctor. 
This isn't the right time to face him!" she insisted.
	"Then when IS the right time?!" Sonic demanded. "The prophecty is 
never coming true! I'm gonna stop him before he hurts anyone else! 
Deciving others, telling lies, robotisizing people and killing them, 
it's GOTTA stop!"
	"Not before I stop you!" Sleet shouted as he leaped down from 
above, holding the Dingo sword in his hand.
	Sonic suddenly glared hard, yelling as he clutched his chest. 
He didn't see or hear Sleet in front of him. He faced the Warrior Leader 
Pachamac, who was holding a spear.
	"Is this how you want to end this?" Sonic gasped, holding his 
bleeding wound on his arm. "Are you gonna kill me for the emeralds?"
	"Your kind have horded the emeralds for far too long. Get out of my 
way and I shall spare you!" The echidna warrior said.
	"Never," Sonic hissed. "I'd rather die to protect this land, then 
to hand it over to the greed of the Echidna Warriors, who'd use the 
power for their own selfish deeds!"
	"Then prepare to die!" Pachamac shouted.
	Sonic turned to the echidna girl by her side. "Tikal, my sword!"
	Tikal ran and retrived his sword, and presented it before Sonic.
	Pachamac gasped. "The Sword of Mobius!"
	"WHERE DID THAT COME FROM?!" Sleet yelled, looking at Sonic, who 
suddenly had a sword in his hand.
	"You're going down!!!" Sonic yelled running at Sleet.
	The two swords clash as Sleet and Sonic fought. Sonic blocked 
everything Sleet gave. After 5 minutes of this, Sonic knocked the sword 
out of Sleet's hands and pointed the tip at him.
	"Prepare to die, scum," Sonic hissed.
	"DON'T DO IT!" Bunnie shouted.
	Sonic woke up. "Huh?" he called, turning his head towards Bunnie. 
	Sleet kicked Sonic over, and he flipped around, looking up at 
Sleet as he pulled out a dagger.
	"You're gone, hedgehog!" he growled.
	Bunnie ran up and jumped-kick Sleet in the chest, knocking him 
over the edge.
	"There, you're okay!" she said, picking Sonic up. Sonic looked at 
her with glazed eyes, clutching his chest.
	"I...need to stop...him," he gasped.
	"Sonic, the prophecy WILL come true," she said. "Soon the Council 
of Four will be together."
	"Yeah? Shows how much you-" Sonic stopped and looked at her 
again. "....know...."
	She was silent for a moment.
	"You're not Bunnie, are you?" Sonic whispered.
	The figure shook her head. "No."
	Sonic gripped the sides of the hood and pulled it back.

Mystic Ruins Base
4:26 A.M.

	"Sir....the hedgehog....got away. He has assitance....and he has 
a sword." Sleet said.
	Robotnik whirled to face Sleet. "A sword? What did it look like?"
	"It was a sword made of silver, with the Hedgehog crest on it!" 
Sleet said, Dingo nodding.
	"The Sword of Mobius! It can't be!!!" Robotnik yelled. "I'll deal 
with them myself!!! Who's with him?!"
	Sleet activated a monitor screen, and they gasped.
	Kneeling there, holding the exausted and pained hedgehog...
	...was Queen Aleena herself.