Continue the Search...Emeralds Found

Continue the Search...Emeralds Found

Knuckles then went off to the Secret Zone Entrance. The voice greeted him there. "Are you Knuckles, the keeper of the Master Emerald and Chaos Emeralds?" it asked.

"Of course I am!" Knuckles exclaimed. "Lemme in!"

Knuckles dropped down past where Sonic had gotten the first Emerald, and landed in the Second Secret Zone. An extra door was in there.

"You can use the Knuckles Special Zone," it said.

Knuckles thought a second, then went in the Knuckles Secret Zone. He was drawn in by a powerful force he couldn't beat, just like Sonic was. He was on a wood bridge high over lava. "If you fall off, too bad!" the voice said.

Knuckles beat the first two parts, and almost fell off the last part, but he beat that one too. The voice then asked Knuckles the "now or later" question. He said he would do one more just to get the hang of it.

So he dropped down again. Knuckles did another Special Stage, and the outcome was about the same. He then went home to show the guys.

Eggman, in his place, was watching the whole thing. "Ah, yes. They're getting all the Emeralds just like I want. Soon they will be giving them to me in exchange for this little brat."

Sonine, sitting in her cell with her legs pressed close to her, was listening to everything Eggman said. She sat up when she realized what was happening. Oh, no! The guys are falling right into his trap! I've got to warn them somehow! she thought.

In two more days, all the Emeralds were collected. The guys put them all together.

"Okay, now it's time to turn all these in to Eggman. Who's gonna get 'em there?" Knuckles asked.

"I will." Tails stepped forward and picked them all up in his arms. "I want to do something. You all did the Special Stages."

"Okay, little guy, go for it!" Sonic said.

Tails headed down to the fortress. Once there, Eggman welcomed him in.

"So you got all 7 Emeralds?"

"Yup. Now let me see Sonine first, or you're never getting the Emeralds."

"Okay." Eggman took him to the cells. Sonine looked up. "There's Sonine. Gimme the Emeralds!"

"No, Tails! Don't!" Sonine screamed.

"Nope. Give her here first, or no go."

"Nope. You give me the Emeralds first. Or I will kill Sonine."

Tails didn't know what to do then. He just decided he would give them up. "Here, Eggman," he said.

"Yes! I finally have the Emeralds! After all this time!"

"Shut up and let Sonine out now."

"Okay." Tails began to walk towards the cell. Eggman opened the door. Then, Eggman pushed him in and slammed the door shut. Tails ran up against the wall and then fell down.

"Hey! I thought we had a deal!" Sonine shouted.

"I thought you all knew Robotnik more than that. Since when do I ever keep deals?" Eggman said. Sonine then looked up, and saw that the steel ceiling was coming down slowly. Eggman walked off. "Moohahaaa!"

"Tails, wake up!" Sonine shouted, shaking him. The ceiling continued to come down.

"Wh-what happened?" Tails sat up and rubbed his head.

"We've gotta get outta here! We're gonna be crushed!"

"Okay... AAAH!" The ceiling was close to their heads now. Well Sonine's, anyway; she was taller. She walked up to the door and put her hands on it. In a second, the door turned to molten metal.

"Okay, let's get out of here, and don't touch the metal; it's hot."

They both climbed out, and just as Sonine started out, the ceiling sped up a lot. Tails got out just in time to lose a few hairs from his right tail. Then he had to fly them out through the hole in the "ceiling" in the cell, since they didn't know where they were.

Meanwhile in the fortress, Eggman was trying to figure out what to do with the Emeralds next. He set them down in a case on a nearby table. "It's been so long since I've ever had the Emeralds that now I don't even know what to do with em!"

Back outside, Sonine and Tails were trying to figure out how to get the Emeralds back.

"I think I know my way around the fortress. So I'll go back in and see if i can find the Emeralds." Sonine started walking into the fortress.

Tails sat down waiting for Sonine to come back out. An hour later, she came back.

"Well, I found them. That place is bigger than I thought."

"Okay, we got them. So we can go home now."

Once home, Knuckles went back to his island after thanking the guys for helping him gt the Emeralds back. But even though they had won there, Sonine still thinks that Eggman will be able to beat them somehow.