"NO! DON'T!" Rouge screamed as she ran over to his bed, but she stopped halfway as Blinx aimed his hand over to Rouge.
"Why not?! He's a threat to the planet!"
"What? Knuckles? Never!"
"I suppose I owe you an explination before I kill you, guardian." Blinx looked around and saw Tikal far away from him on the other side of the room. As well as the others cowering back "The rest of you, no need to worry. I mean no harm to you, if you want to listen, you may also."
Blinx started his explination. "For those of you that don't know. My name is Blinx. I was a project started by Dr.Gerald Robotnik. I am the defence weapon against doomsday."
"Gerald Robotnik? He created Shadow!" Sonic recalled. "But what does he, you , and Knuckles have to do with...doomsday?"
"Calm down, little boy blue and I'll tell you!" he glared at Sonic, and Sonic, always standing his ground, glared back. "Uherm...'The servers are the seven Chaos. Chaos is Power. Power enriched by the heart. The Controller is the one that unifies the Chaos.' Guardians, tell me. Is that not how that how the prayer goes?"
Tikal and Knuckles both nodded in in unison. They didn't notice, however, they were too caught up in this newcomers words.
"Thank you." he continued "And, Tikal, when your family revealed it to you you were left by yourself, to figure it out alone. You broke it down into simply The Chaos Emeralds serve the Master Emerald, correct?"
Tikal Nodded in shock. How did HE know?
"Yes, well apparently you were wrong.." he said, his tone of voice getting darker. "It's true, the Chaos Emeralds are controlled by the Master Emerald, it is simply, in the eyes of the emeralds, central power. It keeps the emeralds from going haywrire. When it says "The controller is the one that unifies the Chaos." It's not talking about tha Master Emerald...oh, no. It's talking about you, guardian." Everyone turned toward Knuckles as his eyes widened. "YOU are the controller. Little do you know, you have the purist heart in the world. And like it goes 'Chaos is power, power enriched by the heart.' Knuckles controls the emeralds."
"Well, if he does, why kill him? Now that he knows he controls them, we're in no real danger." Rouge tried to reason. But Blinx had more.
"Like alot of living things that evolve, so can The emeralds. Once they evolve they can become a very powerful weapon, so powerful in face not any rate of heart can use them, as before when and of you or Dr.Eggman used them. The emeralds wouldn't allow it. Knuckles and possibly Tikal, only because I brought her back into this time, would be able to control them. You recall, when Chaos was conceiled in the Master Emerald his heart was full of evil, and revenge. This caused the evoulution process to speed up, but the evolution took place, under a different manner, this time, they started evolving and turning into a dark, blackish color. Before this, the emeralds meant that Knuckles was destined to become guardian and soon, with the power to Control the emeralds, the guardian of the entire planet. But, now because of Chaos, it's completely opposite. It is unknown when the process of the Dark Emeralds will begin, sucking life, not just out of our planet, but everything in existance, emitting a special kind of anti-matter energy. If the Master Emerald is kept on Angel Island then it will be the only peice of land that doesn't blink out of existance. If the Chaos emeralds are kept on the island with it, Knuckles will be able to re-create the planet, not to mention existance itself, he will play and BE god."
"All right, Knuckles!" Sonic yelled out. "I'm glad to know you!"
"Silence, idiot! Have you deducted yet that EVERYONE will die? The only ones to survive will be the ones on the island!"
"Well, why don't we just put everyone on the island?" Amy suggested.
"I won't be too harsh on you for that remark, child. But obviously we can't fit everything in existance on that small patch of land." Blinx said, rolling his eyes.
"It's sad, I'll admit.." Knuckles finally spoke out. "But all of you are welcome to come on the Island."
"No you arn't." Blinx said, in a smart tone of voice.
"Who are YOU to say anything? Knuckles scowled "Of course they can come, these people are my friends!"
"I didn't mean it that way, guardian." Blinx continued "Like I said, before Chaos you were destined to become guardian of the earth. But now, the emeralds and your emotions will take over you, you will be consumed by selfishess and evil, whether you like it or not. So, that's why, he must die. He will try to pick up the peices of the Master Emerald and restore it."
"Well, of course I will! It's my home! Guarding it is all I know!" Knuckles shouted out.
"And so it begins...past guardian, will you help me?" Blinx asked.
"Well..." Tikal stammered "Perhaps...but there has to be an easier soulution, better than killing!"
"I was trained all my life just for the soul purpose of killing him! That's what I intend to do!" Blinx shouted raising his fist above his head, once again.
"WAIT!" Sonic yelled "Blinx...how did you know all this?"
Blinx turned to face Sonic "The professor told me..and he was told by Dr.Robotnik."
"And how did he know?"
"I don't know, I suppose the same way he knew to design the core of ARK as the shrine." he turned his whole body around to face him "But all I can really do is trust in his words."
"If we can find out just how he found out we could probably find a loophole without killing Knuckles."
Blinx socwled at him "Why are you so insistant on keeping him alive, we can just kill him and I'll leave you alone forever!"
"Give us four days! We can also keep Knuckles confined if you want!"
Knuckles was now glaring at Sonic "What the heck is your problem?!"
"Sorry, Knux. But it what he says is true it'd be safe."
"I agree." Tikal chimed in "But I'm curious, Blinx. You had all these strong heroes to fight for you, why tap me?"
"I don't know. The doctor told me to, I'm sure you're of some important significance." he said walking towards Sonic. "Now what do you propose to do?"
"Well.." Sonic thought "We could get Rouge to find the missing peices and keep them in a safe place."
"I don't trust her." Blinx said firmly.
"Oh, well, you and Tikal can go with her, that outta get rid of any doubts you have."
"And you?"
"Well, me and Tails can go try to dig up some stuff on Dr.Gerald Robotnik, maybe we can find a loophole."
"What about me?!" Amy jumped up in front of Sonic and waved her arms around.
"Yes, what about the child?" Blinx smirked. He found her tag along attitude somewhat humorous.
"She goes with you. C'mon Tails! Let's go to your workship and work on a confinement cell for Knux!" Sonic grabbed the still injured Tails and Ran out at top speed.
"Wait!" Amy shouted "Sonic, don't leave me with this Scary man!"
"I am not a sitter of small children."
Rouge couldn't help but chuckle "It's alright, I'll keep her under control."
"I could do it by myself you know." Blinx said heading for the door, but Rouge cut him off.
"Do you know who I am? I'm--"
"Yes, I know Rouge the Bat famed treasure hunter and spy." Blinx interupted.
"Wha?"
"You forget, I'm from a G.U.N science HQ, I know a lot."
Rouge smirked "So you do."
Knuckles was sitting in his bed, pretending to be asleep as he thought to himself. Why? Tell me! Why!? I didn't do anything to deserve this, could this really be my destiny? Blowing off my allies like nothing at becoming an evil ruler? This had to be big if time travel was involved and Tikal was tapped. He wanted to blame someone...Chaos! It was all that monsters fault! Why couldn't he just die along with the Chao? He could care less about them! He just wanted his life to go about what it was! PLEASE! He closed his eyes tightly and wished. "Childish" he said to himself. "I'm acting childish. Wishes don't come true, my fate is in the hands of my friends..I just hope they don't get hurt for me. If I felt bad when Tails was injured, I could never die happy if Amy was hurt very badly.." She was a child, she had no place and she was very vonerable..what if she..died? More in the front of his mind he was worried about Rouge...he didn't show it, but he was worried out of his mind. He then heard Rouge speak out.
"One more question, Blinx."
"What do you want?"
"How do you know Chaos Control?"
Blinx chuckled. These creatures wouldn't know common sense if it was their mother. "Do you really think that in all the years Shadow was in the G.U.N Facility, that nobody would study him? Hardly, they already knew how to replicate the gems and the Chaos Control technique was simply a small fracture in the D.N.A, it could be transplanted."
There was nothing left to do but wait..for Sonic and Tails.
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Tails whistled happily in his workshop as he joined two wires together, making a shower of sparks. His head didn't hurt anymore and now, he had something to do! He really hadn't ever made a high tech confinement cell before but, it sounded fun!
Sonic sat outside on top of the roof with a hammer. If Tails scolded him for not doing any work, he'd pound the roof a couple of times with the hammer, no biggie. He looked up into the blue sky. Wow, this was happening fast. He was used to events happening faster..but this could affect existance, not just hte planet EXISTANCE! He was in his own trance...getting sleepy...sleepy..slleeeepppy...
"SONIC!" the little voice of Tails screamed out. Sonic jumped up so fast he fell off the roof and right in front of Tails who had a headset on.
"Sorry, Sonic." Tails giggled. "But it's ready. You can call the hospital and tell them to bring Knuckles over."
"Why can't YOU do it?"
"Because all you've been doing is sitting out here pounding the roof with a hammer."
Sonic grumbled as he walked inside to make the phone call.
It was only a matter of minutes before they could see two gliding figures. Rouge is carrying Knuckles and Blinx was carrying Amy and Tikal, looking rather peeved, mumbling to himself. They landed right in front of Sonic and Tails who had been awaiting their arrival.
Sonic waved as he walked over to all of them. "Hey, everybody!" he smiled "Hey, Knux! How do ya feel?"
"How do you think I feel, idiot?" Knuckles talked from behind his clenched teeth "I'm about to be put in prison by my friends!"
"You think you have it bad?" Blinx spoke in his dull tone "I had to drag the tag along and the guardian by myself, heavy is all I can say."
"I am not heavy!" Amy shreiked
"You didn't have to carry me, I can glide, you know." Tikal spoke out "You didn't give me a chance to tell you, you left in such a hurry."
Blinx glared at Tikal "You're a REAL smart alec, you know that?"
Tikal smiled cutely "Am I?"
"Enough wasting time! Put the guardian in so we can get moving!"
"Okay!" Tails shouted back at the orange echidna "Hold your horses!"
Tails led everyone inside to his workshop, it was small but they scruched in.
"Okay.." Tails said as he held a remote in his hand "C'mere Knuckles."
Knuckles walked over to Tails
"Okay, Tails. Where is it?" Knuckles asked looking around.
"Okay, hope this works.." Tails pushed a small button on the remote andthe floor opened from under Knuckles, making him fall a few feet under ground.
"Hey, that part worked!" Tails said smiling "Now watch this!"
He turned on a monitor which showed Knuckles looking around. He was completely surrounded my metal as some mechanical arms came up from the ground and wrapped around him he struggled to get out but his whole body was wrapped, all that visable was his head. After a few seconds a steel cage came crashing down on him, many mechanical hands where on the sides of this one too boxes were below each hand along with glowing lights surrounding it.
Tails spoke into his headset "Hey, Knuckles! How Does it feel?"
Everyone watched the monitor as Knuckles spoke "Umm..well, it doesn't feel good. But it's not unconftorable.
"Good! See those robotic hands on the side?"
"Yeah.."
"See those boxes below them too?"
"Yeah...
"Those will feed you three meals a day. "
"Really?"
"Yeah, I don't got much on the menu, Sandwiches and stuff, is that okay with you?"
"Sure, I guess.."
Blinx stomped up to Tails "THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A CELL NOT A CAFETERIA LUNCH!"
"Don't worry!" Tails pratically yelled at him as he pointed to the screen "That metal is some of the strongest on the planet! Even if Sonic was in his super form, he would have a rough time breaking them."
"Wow!" Sonic was amazed "You did all this while I was laying on the roof?!"
"Yup!" Tails smiled
Blinx was getting tired of this. He went outside to do a little task of his as the little heroes said their goodbyes they were gonna be in there for at least an hour.
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The time had come for our heroes to set off on their missions. They agreed to 'let' Amy stay and guard Knuckles. Tails knew for sure that nothing could break through his new invention, but it was a way to keep her out of danger. Amy regretably accepted after Sonic said it was a 'Great contribution for the team!' She said she was gonna go into town for a bit though and she went out of sight.
Sonic and Tails took off in the Tornado in search of information on Doctor Gerald Robotnik. Blinx, Rouge, and Tikal would be looking for the master emerald. Blinx insisted going on foot, but Rouge was pretty insistant on going in her car. Tikal was rather interested in riding an automobile so they wound up riding in the car, Blinx was sitting up front with his armed crossed stubbornly. Rouge was driving, keeping her eyes on the road and Tikal was sitting in the back admiring the surroundings, she rather liked the city.
"Keep driving until I can sense something." Blinx ordered
"I know what to do! Don't order me around like that!" Rouge snapped back.
They continued driving, waiting for a hint of the power of the Master Emerald.
"This little damn thing is WAY too crowded!" Blinx grumbled as he sunk into his seat.
Sonic and Tails, however were more confused on where to go. Just where in the heck would they find information on Gerald Robotnik? The G.U.N HQ had been bombed and there was really no other information The only thing they could think about was to go to the rubble and look for clues.
There was really nothing there but dirt and medics carrying bodies from ambulance vehicles.
"This is bad, we can't find anything with all this rubble lying around." Sonic said as he stepped over some sort of melted goo.
"Sonic!' Tails yelled from a about thirty feet away "Look what I found!"
Sonic rushed over to Tails. What luck! He had found...a peice of metal.."What the heck is this?" Sonic told Tails angrily "We're supposed to find information!"
"Read it, Sonic!"
"Hmm...G.U.N Head Quarters Building A..What about it?"
"'Building A' means that it's the first of many! If we found another one it would probably have Gerald Robotniks Profile too!"
"Hmm..." Sonic Pondered "Let me think..where might there be another G.U.N HQ?" His thinking was interrupted by the engine of the Torndado starting up again. "Tails! What the heck are you doin'?"
He felt so stupid. He knew there was another one, it just didn't click right away, he would have thought Sonic, his worth 'elder' would have figured it out too, but he obviously didn't "Where do you think? Prison Island."
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Tikal, Rouge, and Blinx stood in front of Rouge's car as it let smoke out of it's engine. They were now, stuck in the middle of the forest.
"Stupid peice of junk!" Blinx shouted kicking it.
"I guess I kinda forgot to put gas in..heh.." Rouge giggled
"This is funny, is it, treasure hunter?" he shouted and aimed an open hand to the car "I'm gonna blast this unreliable peice of shit into oblivion!" a ball of energy formed in his hand but something kept him from throwing it. A Little voice.
"mmnt!" it yelled
"What is that?" Blinx walked around the car cautiously as he got to the side of the door and heard it again.
"Pmmm! mmn't!" It shreiked again
The sound was coming from the trunk. He moved around the car and with oure strength, lifted open the hood and sent it flying, he was about to hurt whatever it was inside that was spying, but it was Amy, she was curled up into a little ball with her hands covering her face "P--please! Don't hurt me!" Blinx rolled his eyes and helped her out of the car.
"What are you doing?" He glared at her.
Amy smirked "You didn't think I was going to let everyone leave me behind, did you?"
"What if something happens to the guardian? He could break through!" Blinx lied
"I heard what Tails said!" Amy snapped "If Sonic couldn't break it in his super form, how could normal Knuckles"
Blinx grumbled to himself. They had to keep the kid now. "Well.." he sighed "I'm going to set up camp"
"What the heck are you talking about?" Rouge rolled her eyes "We hardly have the materials to stay in the forest! I say we head back and get to a hotel.."
Blinx was already draggin supplies out of the trunk of the car. "I'm always prepared." Well, she had to admit that he proved her wrong. He had a tent along with matches and some freeze-dryed food "Don't go eating all the food! I'm gonna go find some fire wood! It's all we have to survive on for the next few days!"
Amy jumped up in front of him "Please! Please, mister scary man! Let me help."
He turned to yell at her loudly "DO NOT CALL ME SCARY MAN!"
Amy clung to Rouge and rouge passed a dirty look at Blinx "Don't yell at her like that! She's just a kid!"
"My name is Blinx! Don't call me anything else. Got that? You're hardly a plus for this stupid little mission!" He turned his back and started to head for the forest.
"No wait!" Amy ran up in front of him again "Blinx...let me go to get the fire wood and help, please?" she looked up at him with big cute eyes
"NO!"
Amy's cute little eyes were now moist and her tears were sparkling in the sunlight Rouge did her best to comfort her "It's okay! He's a big fat meanie, that's all."
Blinx turned back to look at them and smirked "I'm not fat."
He walked off into the forest glaring forward at nothing, or whatever would come in front of him.
He walked back, empty handed. No wood at all in this forest! all stupid little shrubs and gigantic trees! He got to where he had left the girls. They were all just sitting there. Rouge was sleeping on a log and Amy was trying to teach Tikal how to play jacks. Blinx was steamed
"ALL OF YOU! GET OFF YOUR ASSES AND HELP ME SET UP CAMP! I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT YOU WOULD HAVE THE BRAIN CAPACITY TO SET IT UP ALREADY!
Even Rouge was intimidated. This guy was strong and had a short temper. All the girls got up as they started setting up the tents and trying to start a small fire with leaves. Amy, however snuck off. She was determined to help, even if Blinx was against it, she would find that firewood if it was the last thing she did!
The sun was setting now. Amy gazed up into the sky. "This is beautiful" she thought to herself. If only Tikal and Rouge were here to see it. But Blinx had them working their tails off..she sighed..Tails..that remined her. Had Sonic and Tails made any progress. More importantly, had SONIC made any progress. She wasn't paying attention when she tripped over a hard pile of something and fell straight forward down a hill. She got dirty and scraped as she tried to keep speed, but she couldn't she looked down after the fall to see what was hurting so bad. It was her leg, it was twisted and it was a nasty sight. She screamed and cried her little heart out.
Camp had been set up, it was dark now. Tikal and Rouge were sleeping on the floor. They didn't have time for adrenaline to rush in for the work they had done they had done it too fast. Rouge sat up. Her ears twitched. She heard something, she woke up Tikal by shaking her. "Tikal, Tikal! Do you hear that?" Tikal sat up, though very faint, she heard it too. "I'll bet my life that that's Amy. Tikal nodded. Blinx was behind a tent, tightening the ropes around the steaks when he heard it too. He ran to the front of the camp site. Rouge and Tikal were already gone. He knew it was Amy. what trouble had she gotten into this time?
He caught up to the girls as they ran to get to Amy. He ran past them and was actually, a few steps ahead of them. They kept running, although they knew Blinx had it under control. But Blinx ran PAST Amy.
"You asshole!" Rouge yelled as she streaked to a stop. A big pile of wood was what had tripped Amy. Rouge walked slowly down the hill and was about to lead Amy by the hand when she realized that the little girl couldn't walk. She slumped her over her shoulder and carryed her to the top.
"Let's head back.." Tikal whispered.
"No." Rouge insisted "I'm waiting for Blinx, I'm going to give him a peice of my mind."
Soon after Blinx walked out from behind a tree, a dark green light glowing in his hand. He walked up to the hill. Rouge couldn't beleive it, at least four peices of the master emerald were in his hand. Although she was still mad at him for running past Amy, at least he had a reason. Rouge kneeled down and picked up the firewood. "Looks like you've helped in more ways than one Amy."
Blinx walked up to her and stared at her. Amy knew she was in trouble... But to her suprise he knelt down and carried Amy in his arms. "You've had a long day, kid. Let's get you back to camp."
Amy smiled to herself all the way back. Finally...she had helped.
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Rouge couldn't beleive it! Sonic and Tails had found a loophole! And Just when they found all the peices of the emerald, Knuckles stole them! How did he get out of his prison? They had worked so hard! She watched in horror as one by one he pushed friends off of Angel island to the explosions on the land below. Finally, he got to her, simply pushing her, but she clung to the side with one hand.
"Sorry, Rouge. It's the way things have to be." Rouge looked into Knuckles' eyes, they weren't his eyes they were red and full of evil. "You understand." He stomped her hand as she fell into the firey land.
Rouge sat up. She had been dreaming, and now she was drenched in a cold sweat. Everything was fine. She was amongst friends, sleeping in a tent in the wilderness...She knew that no matter what she had to stop this Evolution of the emeralds...even if it killed her.
"Why not?! He's a threat to the planet!"
"What? Knuckles? Never!"
"I suppose I owe you an explination before I kill you, guardian." Blinx looked around and saw Tikal far away from him on the other side of the room. As well as the others cowering back "The rest of you, no need to worry. I mean no harm to you, if you want to listen, you may also."
Blinx started his explination. "For those of you that don't know. My name is Blinx. I was a project started by Dr.Gerald Robotnik. I am the defence weapon against doomsday."
"Gerald Robotnik? He created Shadow!" Sonic recalled. "But what does he, you , and Knuckles have to do with...doomsday?"
"Calm down, little boy blue and I'll tell you!" he glared at Sonic, and Sonic, always standing his ground, glared back. "Uherm...'The servers are the seven Chaos. Chaos is Power. Power enriched by the heart. The Controller is the one that unifies the Chaos.' Guardians, tell me. Is that not how that how the prayer goes?"
Tikal and Knuckles both nodded in in unison. They didn't notice, however, they were too caught up in this newcomers words.
"Thank you." he continued "And, Tikal, when your family revealed it to you you were left by yourself, to figure it out alone. You broke it down into simply The Chaos Emeralds serve the Master Emerald, correct?"
Tikal Nodded in shock. How did HE know?
"Yes, well apparently you were wrong.." he said, his tone of voice getting darker. "It's true, the Chaos Emeralds are controlled by the Master Emerald, it is simply, in the eyes of the emeralds, central power. It keeps the emeralds from going haywrire. When it says "The controller is the one that unifies the Chaos." It's not talking about tha Master Emerald...oh, no. It's talking about you, guardian." Everyone turned toward Knuckles as his eyes widened. "YOU are the controller. Little do you know, you have the purist heart in the world. And like it goes 'Chaos is power, power enriched by the heart.' Knuckles controls the emeralds."
"Well, if he does, why kill him? Now that he knows he controls them, we're in no real danger." Rouge tried to reason. But Blinx had more.
"Like alot of living things that evolve, so can The emeralds. Once they evolve they can become a very powerful weapon, so powerful in face not any rate of heart can use them, as before when and of you or Dr.Eggman used them. The emeralds wouldn't allow it. Knuckles and possibly Tikal, only because I brought her back into this time, would be able to control them. You recall, when Chaos was conceiled in the Master Emerald his heart was full of evil, and revenge. This caused the evoulution process to speed up, but the evolution took place, under a different manner, this time, they started evolving and turning into a dark, blackish color. Before this, the emeralds meant that Knuckles was destined to become guardian and soon, with the power to Control the emeralds, the guardian of the entire planet. But, now because of Chaos, it's completely opposite. It is unknown when the process of the Dark Emeralds will begin, sucking life, not just out of our planet, but everything in existance, emitting a special kind of anti-matter energy. If the Master Emerald is kept on Angel Island then it will be the only peice of land that doesn't blink out of existance. If the Chaos emeralds are kept on the island with it, Knuckles will be able to re-create the planet, not to mention existance itself, he will play and BE god."
"All right, Knuckles!" Sonic yelled out. "I'm glad to know you!"
"Silence, idiot! Have you deducted yet that EVERYONE will die? The only ones to survive will be the ones on the island!"
"Well, why don't we just put everyone on the island?" Amy suggested.
"I won't be too harsh on you for that remark, child. But obviously we can't fit everything in existance on that small patch of land." Blinx said, rolling his eyes.
"It's sad, I'll admit.." Knuckles finally spoke out. "But all of you are welcome to come on the Island."
"No you arn't." Blinx said, in a smart tone of voice.
"Who are YOU to say anything? Knuckles scowled "Of course they can come, these people are my friends!"
"I didn't mean it that way, guardian." Blinx continued "Like I said, before Chaos you were destined to become guardian of the earth. But now, the emeralds and your emotions will take over you, you will be consumed by selfishess and evil, whether you like it or not. So, that's why, he must die. He will try to pick up the peices of the Master Emerald and restore it."
"Well, of course I will! It's my home! Guarding it is all I know!" Knuckles shouted out.
"And so it begins...past guardian, will you help me?" Blinx asked.
"Well..." Tikal stammered "Perhaps...but there has to be an easier soulution, better than killing!"
"I was trained all my life just for the soul purpose of killing him! That's what I intend to do!" Blinx shouted raising his fist above his head, once again.
"WAIT!" Sonic yelled "Blinx...how did you know all this?"
Blinx turned to face Sonic "The professor told me..and he was told by Dr.Robotnik."
"And how did he know?"
"I don't know, I suppose the same way he knew to design the core of ARK as the shrine." he turned his whole body around to face him "But all I can really do is trust in his words."
"If we can find out just how he found out we could probably find a loophole without killing Knuckles."
Blinx socwled at him "Why are you so insistant on keeping him alive, we can just kill him and I'll leave you alone forever!"
"Give us four days! We can also keep Knuckles confined if you want!"
Knuckles was now glaring at Sonic "What the heck is your problem?!"
"Sorry, Knux. But it what he says is true it'd be safe."
"I agree." Tikal chimed in "But I'm curious, Blinx. You had all these strong heroes to fight for you, why tap me?"
"I don't know. The doctor told me to, I'm sure you're of some important significance." he said walking towards Sonic. "Now what do you propose to do?"
"Well.." Sonic thought "We could get Rouge to find the missing peices and keep them in a safe place."
"I don't trust her." Blinx said firmly.
"Oh, well, you and Tikal can go with her, that outta get rid of any doubts you have."
"And you?"
"Well, me and Tails can go try to dig up some stuff on Dr.Gerald Robotnik, maybe we can find a loophole."
"What about me?!" Amy jumped up in front of Sonic and waved her arms around.
"Yes, what about the child?" Blinx smirked. He found her tag along attitude somewhat humorous.
"She goes with you. C'mon Tails! Let's go to your workship and work on a confinement cell for Knux!" Sonic grabbed the still injured Tails and Ran out at top speed.
"Wait!" Amy shouted "Sonic, don't leave me with this Scary man!"
"I am not a sitter of small children."
Rouge couldn't help but chuckle "It's alright, I'll keep her under control."
"I could do it by myself you know." Blinx said heading for the door, but Rouge cut him off.
"Do you know who I am? I'm--"
"Yes, I know Rouge the Bat famed treasure hunter and spy." Blinx interupted.
"Wha?"
"You forget, I'm from a G.U.N science HQ, I know a lot."
Rouge smirked "So you do."
Knuckles was sitting in his bed, pretending to be asleep as he thought to himself. Why? Tell me! Why!? I didn't do anything to deserve this, could this really be my destiny? Blowing off my allies like nothing at becoming an evil ruler? This had to be big if time travel was involved and Tikal was tapped. He wanted to blame someone...Chaos! It was all that monsters fault! Why couldn't he just die along with the Chao? He could care less about them! He just wanted his life to go about what it was! PLEASE! He closed his eyes tightly and wished. "Childish" he said to himself. "I'm acting childish. Wishes don't come true, my fate is in the hands of my friends..I just hope they don't get hurt for me. If I felt bad when Tails was injured, I could never die happy if Amy was hurt very badly.." She was a child, she had no place and she was very vonerable..what if she..died? More in the front of his mind he was worried about Rouge...he didn't show it, but he was worried out of his mind. He then heard Rouge speak out.
"One more question, Blinx."
"What do you want?"
"How do you know Chaos Control?"
Blinx chuckled. These creatures wouldn't know common sense if it was their mother. "Do you really think that in all the years Shadow was in the G.U.N Facility, that nobody would study him? Hardly, they already knew how to replicate the gems and the Chaos Control technique was simply a small fracture in the D.N.A, it could be transplanted."
There was nothing left to do but wait..for Sonic and Tails.
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Tails whistled happily in his workshop as he joined two wires together, making a shower of sparks. His head didn't hurt anymore and now, he had something to do! He really hadn't ever made a high tech confinement cell before but, it sounded fun!
Sonic sat outside on top of the roof with a hammer. If Tails scolded him for not doing any work, he'd pound the roof a couple of times with the hammer, no biggie. He looked up into the blue sky. Wow, this was happening fast. He was used to events happening faster..but this could affect existance, not just hte planet EXISTANCE! He was in his own trance...getting sleepy...sleepy..slleeeepppy...
"SONIC!" the little voice of Tails screamed out. Sonic jumped up so fast he fell off the roof and right in front of Tails who had a headset on.
"Sorry, Sonic." Tails giggled. "But it's ready. You can call the hospital and tell them to bring Knuckles over."
"Why can't YOU do it?"
"Because all you've been doing is sitting out here pounding the roof with a hammer."
Sonic grumbled as he walked inside to make the phone call.
It was only a matter of minutes before they could see two gliding figures. Rouge is carrying Knuckles and Blinx was carrying Amy and Tikal, looking rather peeved, mumbling to himself. They landed right in front of Sonic and Tails who had been awaiting their arrival.
Sonic waved as he walked over to all of them. "Hey, everybody!" he smiled "Hey, Knux! How do ya feel?"
"How do you think I feel, idiot?" Knuckles talked from behind his clenched teeth "I'm about to be put in prison by my friends!"
"You think you have it bad?" Blinx spoke in his dull tone "I had to drag the tag along and the guardian by myself, heavy is all I can say."
"I am not heavy!" Amy shreiked
"You didn't have to carry me, I can glide, you know." Tikal spoke out "You didn't give me a chance to tell you, you left in such a hurry."
Blinx glared at Tikal "You're a REAL smart alec, you know that?"
Tikal smiled cutely "Am I?"
"Enough wasting time! Put the guardian in so we can get moving!"
"Okay!" Tails shouted back at the orange echidna "Hold your horses!"
Tails led everyone inside to his workshop, it was small but they scruched in.
"Okay.." Tails said as he held a remote in his hand "C'mere Knuckles."
Knuckles walked over to Tails
"Okay, Tails. Where is it?" Knuckles asked looking around.
"Okay, hope this works.." Tails pushed a small button on the remote andthe floor opened from under Knuckles, making him fall a few feet under ground.
"Hey, that part worked!" Tails said smiling "Now watch this!"
He turned on a monitor which showed Knuckles looking around. He was completely surrounded my metal as some mechanical arms came up from the ground and wrapped around him he struggled to get out but his whole body was wrapped, all that visable was his head. After a few seconds a steel cage came crashing down on him, many mechanical hands where on the sides of this one too boxes were below each hand along with glowing lights surrounding it.
Tails spoke into his headset "Hey, Knuckles! How Does it feel?"
Everyone watched the monitor as Knuckles spoke "Umm..well, it doesn't feel good. But it's not unconftorable.
"Good! See those robotic hands on the side?"
"Yeah.."
"See those boxes below them too?"
"Yeah...
"Those will feed you three meals a day. "
"Really?"
"Yeah, I don't got much on the menu, Sandwiches and stuff, is that okay with you?"
"Sure, I guess.."
Blinx stomped up to Tails "THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A CELL NOT A CAFETERIA LUNCH!"
"Don't worry!" Tails pratically yelled at him as he pointed to the screen "That metal is some of the strongest on the planet! Even if Sonic was in his super form, he would have a rough time breaking them."
"Wow!" Sonic was amazed "You did all this while I was laying on the roof?!"
"Yup!" Tails smiled
Blinx was getting tired of this. He went outside to do a little task of his as the little heroes said their goodbyes they were gonna be in there for at least an hour.
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The time had come for our heroes to set off on their missions. They agreed to 'let' Amy stay and guard Knuckles. Tails knew for sure that nothing could break through his new invention, but it was a way to keep her out of danger. Amy regretably accepted after Sonic said it was a 'Great contribution for the team!' She said she was gonna go into town for a bit though and she went out of sight.
Sonic and Tails took off in the Tornado in search of information on Doctor Gerald Robotnik. Blinx, Rouge, and Tikal would be looking for the master emerald. Blinx insisted going on foot, but Rouge was pretty insistant on going in her car. Tikal was rather interested in riding an automobile so they wound up riding in the car, Blinx was sitting up front with his armed crossed stubbornly. Rouge was driving, keeping her eyes on the road and Tikal was sitting in the back admiring the surroundings, she rather liked the city.
"Keep driving until I can sense something." Blinx ordered
"I know what to do! Don't order me around like that!" Rouge snapped back.
They continued driving, waiting for a hint of the power of the Master Emerald.
"This little damn thing is WAY too crowded!" Blinx grumbled as he sunk into his seat.
Sonic and Tails, however were more confused on where to go. Just where in the heck would they find information on Gerald Robotnik? The G.U.N HQ had been bombed and there was really no other information The only thing they could think about was to go to the rubble and look for clues.
There was really nothing there but dirt and medics carrying bodies from ambulance vehicles.
"This is bad, we can't find anything with all this rubble lying around." Sonic said as he stepped over some sort of melted goo.
"Sonic!' Tails yelled from a about thirty feet away "Look what I found!"
Sonic rushed over to Tails. What luck! He had found...a peice of metal.."What the heck is this?" Sonic told Tails angrily "We're supposed to find information!"
"Read it, Sonic!"
"Hmm...G.U.N Head Quarters Building A..What about it?"
"'Building A' means that it's the first of many! If we found another one it would probably have Gerald Robotniks Profile too!"
"Hmm..." Sonic Pondered "Let me think..where might there be another G.U.N HQ?" His thinking was interrupted by the engine of the Torndado starting up again. "Tails! What the heck are you doin'?"
He felt so stupid. He knew there was another one, it just didn't click right away, he would have thought Sonic, his worth 'elder' would have figured it out too, but he obviously didn't "Where do you think? Prison Island."
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Tikal, Rouge, and Blinx stood in front of Rouge's car as it let smoke out of it's engine. They were now, stuck in the middle of the forest.
"Stupid peice of junk!" Blinx shouted kicking it.
"I guess I kinda forgot to put gas in..heh.." Rouge giggled
"This is funny, is it, treasure hunter?" he shouted and aimed an open hand to the car "I'm gonna blast this unreliable peice of shit into oblivion!" a ball of energy formed in his hand but something kept him from throwing it. A Little voice.
"mmnt!" it yelled
"What is that?" Blinx walked around the car cautiously as he got to the side of the door and heard it again.
"Pmmm! mmn't!" It shreiked again
The sound was coming from the trunk. He moved around the car and with oure strength, lifted open the hood and sent it flying, he was about to hurt whatever it was inside that was spying, but it was Amy, she was curled up into a little ball with her hands covering her face "P--please! Don't hurt me!" Blinx rolled his eyes and helped her out of the car.
"What are you doing?" He glared at her.
Amy smirked "You didn't think I was going to let everyone leave me behind, did you?"
"What if something happens to the guardian? He could break through!" Blinx lied
"I heard what Tails said!" Amy snapped "If Sonic couldn't break it in his super form, how could normal Knuckles"
Blinx grumbled to himself. They had to keep the kid now. "Well.." he sighed "I'm going to set up camp"
"What the heck are you talking about?" Rouge rolled her eyes "We hardly have the materials to stay in the forest! I say we head back and get to a hotel.."
Blinx was already draggin supplies out of the trunk of the car. "I'm always prepared." Well, she had to admit that he proved her wrong. He had a tent along with matches and some freeze-dryed food "Don't go eating all the food! I'm gonna go find some fire wood! It's all we have to survive on for the next few days!"
Amy jumped up in front of him "Please! Please, mister scary man! Let me help."
He turned to yell at her loudly "DO NOT CALL ME SCARY MAN!"
Amy clung to Rouge and rouge passed a dirty look at Blinx "Don't yell at her like that! She's just a kid!"
"My name is Blinx! Don't call me anything else. Got that? You're hardly a plus for this stupid little mission!" He turned his back and started to head for the forest.
"No wait!" Amy ran up in front of him again "Blinx...let me go to get the fire wood and help, please?" she looked up at him with big cute eyes
"NO!"
Amy's cute little eyes were now moist and her tears were sparkling in the sunlight Rouge did her best to comfort her "It's okay! He's a big fat meanie, that's all."
Blinx turned back to look at them and smirked "I'm not fat."
He walked off into the forest glaring forward at nothing, or whatever would come in front of him.
He walked back, empty handed. No wood at all in this forest! all stupid little shrubs and gigantic trees! He got to where he had left the girls. They were all just sitting there. Rouge was sleeping on a log and Amy was trying to teach Tikal how to play jacks. Blinx was steamed
"ALL OF YOU! GET OFF YOUR ASSES AND HELP ME SET UP CAMP! I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT YOU WOULD HAVE THE BRAIN CAPACITY TO SET IT UP ALREADY!
Even Rouge was intimidated. This guy was strong and had a short temper. All the girls got up as they started setting up the tents and trying to start a small fire with leaves. Amy, however snuck off. She was determined to help, even if Blinx was against it, she would find that firewood if it was the last thing she did!
The sun was setting now. Amy gazed up into the sky. "This is beautiful" she thought to herself. If only Tikal and Rouge were here to see it. But Blinx had them working their tails off..she sighed..Tails..that remined her. Had Sonic and Tails made any progress. More importantly, had SONIC made any progress. She wasn't paying attention when she tripped over a hard pile of something and fell straight forward down a hill. She got dirty and scraped as she tried to keep speed, but she couldn't she looked down after the fall to see what was hurting so bad. It was her leg, it was twisted and it was a nasty sight. She screamed and cried her little heart out.
Camp had been set up, it was dark now. Tikal and Rouge were sleeping on the floor. They didn't have time for adrenaline to rush in for the work they had done they had done it too fast. Rouge sat up. Her ears twitched. She heard something, she woke up Tikal by shaking her. "Tikal, Tikal! Do you hear that?" Tikal sat up, though very faint, she heard it too. "I'll bet my life that that's Amy. Tikal nodded. Blinx was behind a tent, tightening the ropes around the steaks when he heard it too. He ran to the front of the camp site. Rouge and Tikal were already gone. He knew it was Amy. what trouble had she gotten into this time?
He caught up to the girls as they ran to get to Amy. He ran past them and was actually, a few steps ahead of them. They kept running, although they knew Blinx had it under control. But Blinx ran PAST Amy.
"You asshole!" Rouge yelled as she streaked to a stop. A big pile of wood was what had tripped Amy. Rouge walked slowly down the hill and was about to lead Amy by the hand when she realized that the little girl couldn't walk. She slumped her over her shoulder and carryed her to the top.
"Let's head back.." Tikal whispered.
"No." Rouge insisted "I'm waiting for Blinx, I'm going to give him a peice of my mind."
Soon after Blinx walked out from behind a tree, a dark green light glowing in his hand. He walked up to the hill. Rouge couldn't beleive it, at least four peices of the master emerald were in his hand. Although she was still mad at him for running past Amy, at least he had a reason. Rouge kneeled down and picked up the firewood. "Looks like you've helped in more ways than one Amy."
Blinx walked up to her and stared at her. Amy knew she was in trouble... But to her suprise he knelt down and carried Amy in his arms. "You've had a long day, kid. Let's get you back to camp."
Amy smiled to herself all the way back. Finally...she had helped.
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Rouge couldn't beleive it! Sonic and Tails had found a loophole! And Just when they found all the peices of the emerald, Knuckles stole them! How did he get out of his prison? They had worked so hard! She watched in horror as one by one he pushed friends off of Angel island to the explosions on the land below. Finally, he got to her, simply pushing her, but she clung to the side with one hand.
"Sorry, Rouge. It's the way things have to be." Rouge looked into Knuckles' eyes, they weren't his eyes they were red and full of evil. "You understand." He stomped her hand as she fell into the firey land.
Rouge sat up. She had been dreaming, and now she was drenched in a cold sweat. Everything was fine. She was amongst friends, sleeping in a tent in the wilderness...She knew that no matter what she had to stop this Evolution of the emeralds...even if it killed her.