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Utopioph
As Nack held the sword, he felt an incredible power surge through him. All the raw
strength of the Walkers was flowing into his body. He trembled, then produced a shield of light
blue fire around his body.
"Now that I contain all the power in the universe, or at least the planet, I won't need
THEESE petty things!" Nack said, as he threw his plasma rifles across the floor and took of his
teleportation boots and cast them aside. Then, he emitted a circular wave of light, and the
weapons were destroyed in an instant. "Well, I guess I'm even more powerful than I thought!" he
said. "That hardly took any effort at all!" And with that, he soared clear through the roof
at incomprehensible speeds and shot off into space.
* * *
"Damn it!" said Knuckles, "He's already stolen the Sword of Acorns! So that was his
plot! But who is this guy?.....I mean, no efforts of Robotnick ever succeeded like this! It's
definitely got to be Mammoth Mogul! Who else?! He has always been after the Sword of Acorns,
and was always a formidable opponent, but I'd be suprised if he managed to break free from the
Master Emerald,.......yet,.....the island was not sinking when I left, but it may just be now!
I'd better go check, just in case . . ." Knuckles then sped down the halls and headed for the
exit of the Royal complex.
* * *
Tails had just gotten to the room of the sword right after Knuckles left, but he did not
even know he had been there. But there was a WALKER on his tail, thought Tails, how come he just
let him TAKE it?! He could have stopped him easily, but obviously he didn't. And Nack, now, he
must have extreme power, judging from the hole in the roof he made. I may be the chosen one, but
with him having the actual--
"Hey Tails! What's hanging?" Sonic exclaimed loudly, jolting Tails off his train of
thought.
"GAH!! Oh, it's you. Y-You're Alive! Just don't do that to me again, okay?"
"Oh, sure, sorry 'bout that. Hey, what's with the hole in the roof?!"
"Uh, well...........Nack Stole the Sword of Acorns and since he was actually found to be
the savior of the planet, the sword gave him the brute strength of all the Walkers and then he
flew straight through the roof and off into space."
"Okay......holy shit........" Sonic said in a calm, but obviously pissed-off manner. He
suddenly realized that he swore in front of Tails, so he tried to cover it up. "Uh, you know,
'shit' isn't a real word, I was trying to say 'shoot', but it came out........weirdly..."
"I understand," Said Tails, obviously already knowing that an every other swear word
there was, since he was 13, but he tried to make the tone of his voice innocent. Sonic gave him
a kind of unsure glance, but then decided to get back to buissness.
"Say, does Rotor have anything we can use to get into space?"
"Probably, but I'll betcha' anyhting it's experimental."
"Well, we gotta use whatever he has no matter what. Come on, I'll race ya' to his lab!"
Slighty taking of the pressure from the mission, Tails and Sonic sped along, at least for the
moment, gleefully, and closed in on Rotor's lab.
* * *
Nack kept soaring throught the void of space, until he came to, just on the outer reaches
of the Mobian orbit, the space station "Utopioph". This was the thing he was refferring to the
Walkers as "something very helpful" to him. This thing was actually the base for the Walkers
themselves, and contained a huge laser cannon that could destroy all of Mobius. It was supposed
to be used by the Walkers in only a severe emergancy. The key to this device was the Sword of
Acorns, which fit in its own keyhole. Nack was originally going to threaten the world with it,
then controll the world with this fear, but now he was actually going to use it. Why had nobody
seen this place before? Because Mobian technology had not been quite advanced enough to fly
there, or even to view it with a telescope. Or at least most of Mobian technology. Kyoto had
stuff that he had made that was so advanced that Nack made routine expeditions to the place, and
as he learned more about it, he developed his master plan. He could not tell anybody, not even
Kyoto, about this if he was going to succeed.
Nack came to the door way of the ship, and entered through the airlock. The halls were
always absolutely sterile, and shone with a white raidience. There were various hyroglyphics and
advanced pieces of macinery lining the halls. Nack had been here for such long periods of time
that he was actually able to translate all the ancient writing by himself, which is how he found
out how to use the beam cannon. He went to some vidscreen flickering with a lime-colored glow,
and started touching various buttons, entering a 57 digit code that he had somehow managed to
figure out, through trial and error, and memorize. After a while of fiddling, a door that seemed
to have not been previously there, swished open, and Nack went down through it as the door
closed behind him. I just know those annoying little freedom-fighting brats will end up finding
a way to get here, he thought, so I guess I'll make their death a little more....enjoyable......
as a reward for their meddling. I'll just reconfigure the walls of this place, add a few
clever security devices, and sit back and watch the fun. If they ever make it through, then I'll
know that they'll be worthy to face me....personally....." And with an evil spark in his eyes,
he started reprogramming the structure of the space craft with the console he sat hunched over at.
He spastically laughed in a malicious tone as he typed away, thinking of new traps with which to
permanently nullify the Freedom Fighters once and for all.
* * *
"So you're saying....," continued Sonic, frustrated, "that there's only a 50/50 chance
that this thing actually even work, and even if it does, there's onlya 1/3 chance that we'll
survive?!!!!"
"Yep," said Rotor as he nodded gravely, "that's the best I can do at the moment."
"Well, we don't even have ONE moment too spare, so we might as well get going and use
this . . . blasted contraption . . ."
"Don't be so hard on him," sympathized Tails, "this is pretty good stuff here."
"Thanks. Oh, and by the way," Rotor added, "I hooked up that....really powerful gun I
rebuilt up to the ship. Sonic started to chime in.
"You mean the 'Party-Hearty-Quadra--'"
"*Sigh* Don't get me started, Sonic." Rotor said in an exasperated tone.
"Well,.....all right, let's get this baby runnin' then." Said Sonic, tired with all the
chit-chat, and ready to "kick some purple weasel ass" as he so eloquently put it.
Rotor tightened a few screws, then pushed a button and the large, metallic, spherical
craft revved up and a few lights came on.
"All right, now," Rotor started to explain, "Tails, you just tell the aircraft where
to go, since you can sense where Nack is. Sonic, you make sure everything's alright with the
ship; and remember: green good, red bad; watch the lights. Follow this manual if you run into
trouble." Sonic then was weighed down by a huge book that had about 10,000 pages. Eager to get
the burden off his hands as soon as possible, he plunked it into the back seat of the vehicle.
"C'mon, Rotor, why can't I just be the wing man like in the good old days?" whined Sonic.
"Well," began Rotor "You'd kinda...die...out in the middle of space. Plus, there aren't
any wings on this."
"Oh yeeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhhh," said Sonic, the information gradually sinking in. Tails then
gave a look towards Rotor as if to say "this is gonna be a loooooooong trip".
* * *
Knuckles was approaching the Floating Island, which he saw, unfortunately, was sinking.
He adjusted his body a bit so that he could glide a bit faster, and finally landed on the island.
Knuckles was running as fast he could to get to the zoot chute to see what happened to the Master
Emerald.
Suddenly, as if from nowhere, Espio stopped Knuckles and told him what was going on.
"Mammaoth Mogul escaped while you were gone, and now he's seeking revenge...on us..."
"Where is he now, the bastard?!"
"He went off somewhere far away, maybe near Sandopolis. But the worst part of the news
isn't that he escaped, it's that he absorbed the power of the Emerald after he broke out of it!
Now he's extremely powerful."
"AND HE HAS THE SWORD OF ACORNS! This guy's gonna be IMPOSSIBLE to beat!" And as if on
cue, a stray blast hit Espio and sent him flying. A huge, obese form emitting a green cast sped
over, blocking most of the clouds Knuckles could previously see.
Am I next?, he thought?
TO BE CONTINUED!!
Why were Knuckles' suspicions correct even if Mogul did not steal the Sword of Acorns? Will
Sonic and Tails survive the treacherous ride to Utopioph, and if they do, will they survive
Nack's Maze of doom?? Actually, I'm not entirely sure. I just make up this story as I go along!
: o)