Disclaimer: I do not own Sonic or any characters of the sort.I type this story merely because I felt like it : P I make no profit whatsoever on any of my works. The only works o' mine I take credit for is that story with the evil sorceror Shen'Katu, and a book I'm writing, and the Caped Idiot. Also, the game Monster Rancher Two and all monsters with it are not mine, nor is the Playstation game console. I merely used them as a ridiculous test on this story.

Note that this story is a heck of a lot easier to download it, even if just till you read it, and use "Word
Wrap".. I reccomend Notepad, much, much simpler.

Note: Amy fans, you're gonna love this one. The pink hedgehog finally gets her chance to nab an emerald while the others are "Hanging around". You'll see.

Previously:
Sonic and the group made it through an annoyingly complex, yet stupidily simple maze last time. It wasn't near as overrated and challenging as the sorceror had threatened. Now they enter the next challenge, a crystalline tower full of traps in every floor. Can they reach the top and get the emerald, or will Chris' new challenge wipe them out? Will Skar ever appear in the story again?
Hey, that ain't funny!!

Find out today!! (Except for the Skar part.)


{{Episode 19}}
{{Chaos Tower}}



The five heroes walked into the dark first room. A faint sound could be heard, other than their footsteps.. Five torches lit the room, and they looked up, finding the center of the floor was a rising platform that went through atleast the next floor or so. Nothing happened other than the torches lighting...
".... Why ain't anything happening?" complained Knuckles. "I want some action!!"
"I dunno... Hey Tails, why're you being so quiet?" Sonic asked. Tails looked away from some cards he was holding.
"Sorry, Sonic, what did you say?"
"Nothing." sighed Sonic.
"If those two would stop playing, they'd be a big help..." Knuckles muttered under his breath.

Suddenly, the platform they were on in the middle of the room rose up into the next room. The torches in that room lit up and a small box appeared-- it had a different color on each side of it.
"Aww, man, I hate those puzzles!" Sonic complained as the box lifted and mixed itself up, jumbling the colors around. Knuckles walked up to the box and picked it up.
"These cube things are a sinch." he said, twisting it around a few times. After an hour or so, and after Sally had called once or twice, Knuckles gave up and tossed the block away. "Man... I'm used to the triangles!"
"I can do it!" Amy said, running up to the block. Knuckles smirked. "Yeah, right." As soon as the words had left his mouth, however, he saw Amy run up to him with the block back in order. Everyone stared at her, wide-eyed.. "I told yah!" she said as the box shattered and the platform rose to the next floor.

As soon as the platform stopped moving, everyone saw five closed doors. Above them was a roof, so one of the doors must have lead to stairs or something. Knuckles walked up to one of the doors. "What is this, a gameshow? Pch." He opened the door, and a bunch of string looped out and pulled him in, turning him into a puppet. ".... Don't.... even..... say... a word......" he muttered to the others.
"Whoa! When will this CHaos guy grow up?" Sonic mocked. He picked out a door and opened it, only to meet the same fate as the echidna. "... Aww, man, I must look like an idiot right now..."

Tails and Christin nervously picked two of the doors, both of which turned them into puppets, leaving Amy with the correct choice. "Oh, great!" Knuckles commented. "We're doomed."
The pink hedgehog took out her hammer threateningly, aiming it at Knuckles' head before storming off through the door, determined to finish this. She marched up the stairs and into the next room, which had three barred doors... "Uh... Maybe I should've picked a door first...." she said, looking nervously at the first door, which was slowly rising. A winged serpent darted out of it, slithering and flying around the room at a speed to rival Sonic's, almost! After a bit of flashy, confusing movements, it striked its fangs otu at Amy, missing by a hair before circling around the wall, and back at her to strike again. The pink hedgehog jumped to avoid the snake, and as it made its way back, she flung her hammer down on his head, mashing it into the ground. "Yes! I can do this!" she shouted triumphantly before the second door opened. She heard growling... At first, it sounded like a dog... then two dogs.. then three... A large, blue and black-furred, three-headed wolf bounded out of its cage. On its hind legs, it was three times larger than Amy. She screamed, having a life-long fear of dogs, and started running around the room, dodging jagged-toothed mouths and the occasional claw. After a bit, she got sick of it and jumped on the beast's back. The three heads, she soon found out, also had quite long necks, as the wolf's heads kept snapping at her like a dog trying to rid itself of a flea. She bopped one on the head, knocking it out, and jumped as the other two colllided, K/Oing eachother. She jumped off the dog, which faded away, along with the snake, and noticed the room around her was growing three times larger...

And the third door opened.. "This'll be easy!" Amy said, keeping her hammer in stance as whatever was in there snorted. It roared, breathing out a wave of flames, before extending its long, serpent-like head and neck out. Its head alone was the size of four large refridgerators, atleast, and its teeth were all as big as Amy herself. It snapped at her, barely missing, before getting bopped on the head with a hammer. It merely shook its head a bit and laughed, stomping its front feet out of its cage.

"Oh, no..." said a breathless Amy as the rest of it stomped out. It was a black-scaled, red-eyed, razor-sharp-clawed, bladed-tailed, fire-and-thunder-breathing.... "DRAGON!!!" she screamed, dodging a tail swipe that could have sliced her head off like a knife through butter. She jumped up and tried to bop it on the head, but it just stood on its hind legs and avoided the hit entirely. On its hind legs, it was truly magnificant, standing a good two or three stories tall. Fortunately, by the time the dragon had gotten out, the room around it had increased to the size of a domed baseball stadium. Amy landed on the ground just in time to jump over another tail-swipe, before being slapped about ten yards away. The dragon laughed and kicked her back another ten yards before she could recover fully, and then hit her with the flat of its bladed tail, slamming her a good 70 feet more back.

She got up, quite bruised, and pulled out her hammer. The dragon looked at the thing, a mere toy to it, and laughed, spitting a thunderbolt into the air. Amy pressed and held a button on her hammer, making it so big it actually stood above the dragon. She held it back, aiming it at the now cowering beast's head, and brought it down hard, smashing the dragon's skull. A wall behind her shattered, revealing a staircase to the next, huge room. She cheered as the dragon lied motionless and dashed up the stairs and shrinking her hammer back down.

The pink hedgehog stopped dead as she reached the next room... In front of her was a very small, 5-inch-wide path of crystal, that went straight across a pit of icey spikes below. The wind picked up as she stood there, feeling like jagged shards of ice. It went away, as if it were a living creature, and the heroine, after quite a while of thinking, decided to start walking on the path. Fortunately, the wind seemed to have died down, but she soon realized that the pathwas made of sturdy ice, and was only four inches wide now. The icey spikes below looked like wet, steel, jagged teeth now. Before she could think about what was happening, however, the icey wind picked back up around her, almost knocking her off. In fact, she was holding on to the path by her hands, and climbing back up, with no help from the ruthless, freezing air. But as she got back up, she felt a pleasant warm breeze, and was quite enjoying herself... untill she felt her shoes start to moisten...

Amy looked down.. "Oh, no!! The path's melting!!" she screamed, looking down at the thawed out spikes, which were emmiting steam. The path was now only two inches thick, and she started, quickly but carefully, making her way across it. It still shrunk, untill it was completely gone, revealing the now thawed-out tightrope that it had previously surrounded. Amy was almost to the end, but the steam below had begun shaking the now-thawed rope with each gust of air, before the spikes fully thawed and started shooting small fireballs into the air. One of them hit the rope about five yards ahead of her, right at the door that lead to the next area. She hurried, quickly as she could, as the fire threatened to break the rope from where it was.

Amy made one last leap, making it to the door as the rope came loose, plunging into the flames below. She took one last look down at the spikes... untill a fireball flew by and singed a few of her quills. She decided to go and ran up the stairs as fast as she could into the final room.


Trapped in five, crystalline cards, were Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Christin, all dressed up as Jacks or Queens, or a King, as was Sonic's case. In the middle of the room was a falcon-like beast, holding the green Chaos Emerald. It chuckled evilly as it saw Amy. "I knew you'd come." he said. "You look curious. Would you like to know what happened to your friends?"
"Let them go!" Amy shouted, taking out her hammer and increasing its size to the same size she used against the dragon. "Or I'll smash you!!"
"Your friends are merely cards. If you wish to win them back--" The falcon stopped as Amy brought down her hammer. He pointed one finger to the hammer as it came down, stopping it, and making it disapper, turning into an Ace card next to Sonic. "As I was saying, if you want to win all these cards back, you must win a game against me."
"What kinda game?" Amy asked.
"Any game you wish." the falcon said simply. "I have every game in existance."
"Alright... how about... Monster Rancher 2!!" Amy shouted, taking out a memory card.
"Monster what...... Oh, oh, yes, the.. ehrm... Play.. thingy... game, right?" asked the beast, confused, taking out a disc. "This?"
"Eyep!" Amy said.
"But... but..."
"You said, any game in existance, didn't you?"
"... Oh, alright." muttered the falcon, making a playstation and a TV appear. He put in the CD, put in his and Amy's memory cards, and handed out the controllers. "Three out of Five style, with five DIFFERENT monsters each. Got it?"
"I got it!" Amy said. The falcon went into his card and pulled out an Ice Jell. Amy sent out a Phoenix, nicknamed Solar Flare, which had slightly better everything against the Jell. The battle began, but the TV had disappeared-- Instead, the two monsters appeared away from them, in a part of the room Amy hadn't seen when she came in. It was blocked off from them by invisable crystal. The word GO! appeared for a split second as the Phoenix shot a beam of light at the jell, almost wiping it out.

Anyway, after four battles of the sort, it was a tie-game. As Amy picked her monster, Angel, she disappeared...

... And reappeared in the arena, as her Angel monster. In front of her, the form of a vicious, wolf-like Centaur appeared. It held its lance-like weapon into the air and charged at Amy as soom as the word GO appeared, barely missing her. Not knowing what she was doing, she fought back, eventually wiping out the Centaur and being teleported back. The falcon was gone. Amy picked up the green emerald and everyone else changed back to normal. She ran over to get her hammer (and to hug Sonic, but this ain't the mushy story yet : P), and ran ahead of the others up the stairs and into the next room. As she got there, though, the door slammed the others out behind her, and also other doors of crystal slammed down, trapping the others single-file. Although she had been heroic and saved the others, she was wishing she'd never came just about.

In front of her was another huge room, much like the one she fought the dragon in. In the middle of the room, however, a shadow-like blob was slowly taking shape into a Cerberos, or a three-headed wolf, that was the size of the dragon. It roared at the shivering, pale-faced, pink hedgehog, and reared back to bite. Amy couldn't move as one of its three heads came down....



The door in front of Sonic opened up. Amy had disappeared, and the shadow had returned to a puddle in the middle of the room. Sonic walked closer to the blob, then jumped back as it shape-shifted into.. a black, metallic version of himself... Metal Sonic. Sonic laughed and got ready to attack, but the monstrous robot stopped him dead with what it was saying... "You're lying!!" he shouted. The robot shook its head and smiled wickedly, and aimed a laser-beam at the hedgehog...


Knuckles walked into the room. Neither of the hedgehogs could be seen. "Must've fouled it up." he said to himself. "Figures." As he said that, though, the blob shapeshifted into.... Perfect Chaos?
"Ch-Chaos!?" Knuckles said shakily. He charged at the beast without thinking, but just flew through it. The beast roared with laughter and told knuckles about what it had done to the other hedgehogs, and what it was about to do to him. Knuckles stood there, cold with fear as the beast revved up its super-powerful laser-beam attack, aimed straight at the echidna....


Tails walked into the room, along with Christin, who had somehow figured otu how to break the crystal walls. The blob shapeshifted into Falco and started cruelly telling the two about what it had done to the others... Tails looked petrified, and Falco aimed a laser gun at Tails, and fired. The laser went through him before Christin could even move, and Tails disappeared. "What did you do to him!?" Christin shouted. "Where are you!?"
"I am in front of you." said the fake Falco, who had shapeshifted into a fearsom, gruesom, gigantic spider.
"I hear you, but I can't see you!!" Christin shouted.
"Of coarse you do!.. I'm a frightening... spider... beast.." The thing began to shrink.
"I still don't see you anwhere!" said Christin, who was looking straight at the still giant spider. Truly, she couldn't see it. It shrunk a little more.
"B-But.. I'm... a feroucious... Spider... aren't you scared... of spiders...?"
"What are you talking about?" said Christin. "I've never been afraid of spiders!"
"What? B-But I just.. I just dove into your mind!!" shouted the still shrinking beast. "I saw tons of images of you being petrified of spiders!!"
"I've never seen a spider in my life!" Christin said. "Stop pestering me and show yourself!!"
The large spider was still in plain-view, but was now only the size of a horse or a cow. "B-But.. I'm right.. in front of you...." it cried, shrinking down to a dog's size. Christin shook her head a bit and finally, somehow, could see the spider.
"... Aww, there, there. What's wrong, little guy?" she asked, petting one of its legs. It cried more and shapeshifted back into a blob.
"Y-You were supposed to be scared of mee!!" it sobbed. "I read in y-your mind that you hated spiders, and I-I turned into one *sob* to scare you!!"
"Why would you do a thing like that?" Christin asked.
"Well... *sniff* .. the Master told me.... to get rid of you... and.. and.. *sob* ALL I CAN DO IS SCARE YOU!!!" it said before busting out crying again. "One you got.. got scared.. you would've been taken to an invisable room over there.." It pointed to a now visable room a good 50 yards away. ".. And.. and... Oh, I've failed!!" it cried.
"You know, if you'd have stayed as Falco, you might've scared me." said Christin, handing the black blob a tissue.
"I.. I would have?" it said, sniffling before straightening up.
"Yep."
"Hahahah!! You shouldn't have told me that!!" it said, turning into Falco. "Boo!"

The metallic fox stared at the immitation of Falco like he was an idiot as it was trying to scare her. After a good 30 minutes, it shrunk back down into a blob and started crying again.
"Hey, how about you help us out?" she asked. "Then we could find you a place in Knothole--"
"Really!?" shouted the blob excitedly. It started talking really fast. "You mean if I help you then you'll take me to Knothole to see the Freedom Fighters WOW I've always wanted to meet them but you mean I can live there WOW THIS IS GREAT and all I have to do is help you how can I help huh huh tell me!!!"
Luckily for the blob, Christin could hear better than normal foxes, being an android and all, and told the blob how he could help. It spit out the purple emerald and the box shattered, revealing Sonic and the others, who were now back to normal. They ran up to Christin, then saw the blob and backed away.

"Everyone, this is-- eh.."

"I'm Nite, Nite Mair! Nice to meet you! Sorry for scaring you back there! I'm here to help now!" it said.

After a long fight and a bit of arguing, they finally agreed to keep the blob around and the walls around them shattered. The remaining Chaos Emeralds fell to the ground at Sonic's feet. The dark sorceror appeared. "I have so little patience, don't I?" he said, amused with himself. "Sonic, here are the other emeralds. Transform NOW, so we can begin the fight, or I'll allow the Void to consume you all." he said. Sonic took the emeralds and absorbed them. His quills stood back like a Super-Saiyan's hair, and his eyes turned red. A golden glow shone brightly around him as he lept into the air, missing the last words of "Be careful..." by the hedgehog down below. Super Sonic flew up to meet Aosis.

"Let the battle begin."


TO BE CONTINUED

Don't you just HATE me, folks!? Anyway....
Please write me your questions or comments at AndrewAllison1@msn.com (Make sure the Caps and everything matches PERFECTLY with the way I typed it), and please make sure to add some note that it's about my Sonic stories, because I get alot of E-Mail at times.

DON'T MISS THE NEXT EPISODE!!!! SONIC AND THE DARK SORCEROR OF CHAOS, CHRISTOPHER AOSIS, SQUARE OFF IN HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT, TWO FEARSOM WARRIORS DUKING IT OUT, BOTH PRACTICALLY INVINCABLE!!!!! WILL SUPER SONIC EMERGE VICTORIOUS AND SAVE THE DAY AGAIN OR WILL THE EVIL CHAOS DEFEAT OUR HERO AND ENSLAVE THE UNIVERSE AS HIS CHAOS ZONE!?!? FIND OUT NEXT TIME!!!!!!!!

.... Sorry, but I haven't made the next one yet... Don't kill me!!.... **looks at an angry mob** That's my que to get the heck outta here!!




Andrew, a.k.a. 'Skar', runs away from the crowds as fast as he can as they wave pitch-forks and toss hard-as-rock fruitcakes at him. "Uhh... Merry Christmas?!... HAAALLPP!!!!" he shouts, almost getting stabbed in the butt with a pitchfork.



Happy Holidays, Readers!
And now, an extra, bonus, Christmas tape of our favorite characters.
That is, if you like the 12 Days of Christmas song. If not, stop reading here.

((()))


On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me... A Partridge in a Pear tree!



On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me.... Two bags of cookies..
(( "That's not how it goes!" "Well it is now!" **Sonic shrugs))
And a Partridge in a Pear Tree!



On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me.... Three spells of Chaos...
(( Man, everyone's messin this up...I give up!))
Two bags of cookies,
And a Partridge in a Pear Tree!


On the fourth day of Christmas my true love gave to me... Four pet birdies
All of you are doomed!!
Two bags of cookies,
And a Partridge in a Pear Tree! *looks irritably at Aosis*


On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me.. Five diamond rings!
Four pet birdies..
I will rule the Universe!!
Two bags of cookies,
And a Partridge in a Pear Tree! *glares at Aosis, along with everyone else*
What!?



On the sixth day of Christmas my true love gave to me... Six rubber duckies..
(*everyone looks weird at Diminios before continuing*)
Five Diamond Rings!
Four pet birdies..
Everyone bow to me!!
Two bags of cookies,
And a Partridge in a Pear Tree!



On the seventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me.. Seven punching bags!
Six teddy bears
Five Diamon-- Teddy bears? What!?
Four pet birdies.....
This song is so dull..
Two bags of cookies,
And a Partridge in a Pear Tree!



On the eigth day of Christmas my true love gave to me... Absolutely nothin'!
Six action figures!
Five Diamond Rings!
Four pet birdies..
**Aosis is snoring, and is asleep on a crystal couch on-stage**
Two bags of Cookies,
And a Partridge in a Pear Tree!



On the ninth day of Christmas my true love gave to me... Nine hugs and kisses
That was so lame, Christin
***Christin slaps Cloaked Guy***
Seven punching bags
Six bars of soap...
Five diamond rings!
Four pet birdies.....
... huh... whatever she said... **falls back asleep**
Two bags of cookies,
And a Partridge in a Pear Tree!



On the tenth day of Christmas, mah true love gave to me.. Ten flying carriers.
Nine hugs and kisses
All my true loves hate me...
Seven punching bags
Six stuffed Santa-dolls...
Five diamond rings!
Four pet birdies.....
**aosis suddenly wakes up**
I DIDN'T KILL MY GRANMA!!!!
Two bags of cookies... Huh?
And a kick in the butt for Aosis.....
What did I do!?
YOU'RE TRYING TO KILL US ALL!!
Oh, yes... Mwahahahahhh!!



On the eleventh day of Christmas my true love gave to meee.... Wait, my true love dumped me!!
Ten flying pirate ships..
Nine hugs and kisses
Well, there is that one girl...
Seven punching bags
Aosis on hamburger buns..
Five Diamond Rings!
Four pet birdies....
You will all be MINE!!
Two bags of cookies..
And a hammer up Aosis's--
SONIC!!
... err... I mean and a Partridge in a Pear Tree?
Better.



On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... Wait, what'm I doing here!?
*Sobbing* I never had a true love!!!
Ten bouquets of roses..
Nine hugs and kisses..
I think I'll go to Hyrule...
Seven Punching Bags
Can someone pass the ketchup?
Five Diamond Rings!
Four pet birdies...
You don't stand a CHANCE!!!!!
A letter telling me who she was..
And a Pardridge in a Pear Treeeeeee!!






Untill next time.....

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!