Spoiled Brat Part Two
by Martial Arts Master
Sonic and all related characters copyrighted by Sega, Sonic Team, Archie, DiC, and the original Japanese creators. I, however, created Emperor Kip and the Kip Empire, though. This takes place after the events of Sonic Adventure 2 Battle (I finally got that game). Sorry, I don't know what happened in Sonic Adventure because I don't have a Dreamcast. I'm sorry, KawaiiKaren, but I can't use your idea in my story, because Emperor Kip is still five years old, in the "girls are gross" stage, and therefore would be unlikely to fall in love with someone many, many years older than him. However, you might like this chapter anyway. As a side note, I may not put up more parts for a while, because I'm leaving on a trip on Friday. I promise, when I get back from the trip, I'll continue putting up parts. Now, on with the story!
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It was the next morning, and Knuckles was guarding the Master Emerald, as usual. It was his duty ever since he was old enough to guard it responsibly. He did get bored sometimes, but since lots of people would want such a huge, powerful emerald, for either commercial or supernatural value, it certainly wasn't a boring job on the whole.
Most recently, some bratty treasure-hunting bat named Rouge had shown up, thinking that all the jewels in the world were hers to keep. (Author's note: I don't hate Rouge, because I try not to hate characters. It's just that I'm trying to keep these characters in-character, and from Knuckles's point of view, Rouge is a brat.)
Knuckles couldn't believe Rouge had been so selfish. Couldn't she see that the Master Emerald was more than just a big jewel? And that should it fall into the wrong hands, disaster could befall the entire world if those wrong hands knew how to unlock the power of the Master Emerald?
She also seemed to be sexist, making that stupid comment about how men shouldn't hit girls. Knuckles treated all of his opponents equally, male or female.
And even after he'd saved her life, for crying out loud, she'd accused him of merely trying to hold her hand, calling him a creep.
Well, let Rouge think what she wanted. He'd saved her because she just happened to be carrying some Master Emerald shards at the time.
Actually, though, Rouge did get much better at the end. She'd even giving up treasure-hunting, saying she had her eye on something else...though what could that be?
Knuckles decided she must've meant her job as a government spy. From what he'd heard, and he hadn't heard much, she'd kept that job.
Knuckles absent-mindedly wondered why his mind often wandered to Rouge, considering she'd been such an obnoxious brat until the Biolizard and Finalhazard incident. But he soon gave up the thought.
Then he heard a noise...like a spaceship descending.
All of Knuckles's senses were on full alert. They had to be, considering he had to protect the Master Emerald at all costs.
"If these are more thieves, I'm going to knock them senseless," he grumbled.
The noise was indeed a spaceship descending...a large spaceship descending...a very, very large spaceship descending! Knuckles had to scramble out of the way, carrying the Master Emerald, to avoid getting them both crushed by the spaceship.
When the spaceship landed, a five-year-old boy walked out, surrounded by guards.
"Who are you?" Knuckles demanded.
"I am Emperor Kip, of the mighty Kip Empire!" the boy said. "I have come to induct your planet into the Kip Empire. Bow to me now!"
"No offense, but I don't bow to strangers," Knuckles quipped.
"I said bow! Bow! Bow!" Emperor Kip screamed, throwing a tantrum and jumping up and down. "Guards, make him bow! I want him to bow now!"
The guards moved towards Knuckles.
"Jeez, you sure have a brat for a master, but I don't like being forced to do things," Knuckles said, knocking the guards away with a flurry of punches.
"Hey! Those are my guards!" Emperor Kip shouted, and then he noticed the Master Emerald.
"Ooooooh...pretty jewel...large jewel..." Emperor Kip said with greedy eyes.
"No! The Master Emerald isn't yours," Knuckles snapped. "This isn't a toy! This is a very powerful jewel whose energy can neutralize that of the Chaos Emerald. It has other powers too, and it's my duty to protect it."
"But I want the jewel! I want it, I want it!" Emperor Kip screamed, laying on the ground and beating the ground with his fists like a baby.
"What a spoiled brat," Knuckles muttered to himself. "I wonder how he ever got to be emperor."
Aloud he said, "Sorry, but you can't have it. Now go back into space where you came from."
"Well if I can't have it, then I'll have to take it!" Emperor Kip said with a smug look on his face.
Then, Emperor Kip whistled, and a huge...thing...that looked like a cross between an eight-foot-tall robot and a dog that stood on its hind legs walked out of the spaceship.
"This is my puppy," Emperor Kip said. "And it's name is Puppy."
Knuckles raised one eyebrow.
"That thing looks like walking destuction, and you call it Puppy?" Knuckles asked, laughing. "No offense, but that name only fits because it looks sort of like a dog."
"Oh yeah? Puppy, take the emerald from him!" Emperor Kip shouted.
Knuckles wondered where this five-year-old Kip got such an unbelievably huge vocabulary. Then, before Knuckles could react, Puppy leaped over to Knuckles and kicked him headfirst into a tree, knocking him unconscious...
Meanwhile, at the beach, Sonic was relaxing in a chair under an umbrella, while Amy Rose was surfing. Tails was giving his Cyclone walker/plane a tune-up.
"Yahoo! I'm hanging 10!" Amy Rose shouted.
"Yeah, yeah, could you keep it down? I'm trying to catch some Z's," Sonic said. He then went to sleep.
Then, Tails finished his tune-up.
"There we go!" Tails said proudly. "The Cyclone's ready to go!"
Suddenly, Knuckles ran up to Sonic and Tails, having a huge bump on his head.
"Sonic, we got big trouble!" Knuckles said.
Sonic woke up.
"What's up?" Sonic asked. Then he noticed the bump on Knuckles's head.
"And what happened to you?" Sonic added.
"Well, I was guarding the Master Emerald," Knuckles began, "when this huge spaceship descended and nearly crushed me and the Master Emerald. Then this five-year-old named Emperor Kip came out, and he had guards with him, so I guess he wasn't lying about being an Emperor. The trouble is, he's an even bigger brat than Rouge used to be. He wanted my Master Emerald, not thinking of the consequences. Then, when I refused to give it to him, he called out this huge combination robot/puppy that walked on its hind legs and stood eight feet tall. Before I could react, the thing kicked me headfirst into something. When I woke up, the Master Emerald was gone. I went into the spaceship and tried to threaten everyone there into telling me where it was, but they didn't know where Emperor Kip had taken it."
Throughout this rather long explanation, Sonic had been on the verge of falling asleep. But now he was wide awake. Meanwhile, Tails had been listening to the whole thing, and Amy Rose, having recently come back, had also heard everything.
"This is bad!" Tails said. "Are you sure you don't have a clue as to where Emperor Kip or the Master Emerald is?"
"Not a one," Knuckles said mournfully. "I was hoping you guys could help me."
Sonic cracked up.
"You mean you're actually asking for help, Mr. Loner?" Sonic said, laughing.
"I'm desperate, you moron!" Knuckles shouted. "I don't have a clue as to where it is."
"Looking for this?" Emperor Kip's voice asked.
Our heroes spun around, and saw a five-year-old boy and some guards with him. The guards were holding the Master Emerald...but it wasn't glowing. The glow was gone, and the Master Emerald looked like an ordinary jewel.
"That's him!" Knuckles shouted. "That's Emperor Kip! What have you done to the Master Emerald, you little gnat?!"
"Oh, I got bored of playing with it, so I decided to absorb its power," Emperor Kip explained. "There's a reason only my family may rule our empire. Only my family has the ability to absorb all mystical energies we choose into our bodies. I decided to absorb all the powers of the Master Emerald, and there sure were a lot! I don't think any of you even realize the full capabilities of this power."
"Well that explains why he has such a large vocabulary," Knuckles muttered to himself. "He must have absorbed some mystical energy somewhere that gave him that vocabulary.
"Wait a minute...what about Tikal's spirit and Chaos?" Knuckles asked aloud. "What happened to them?" (Author's Note: Yes, I said I don't know what happened in the first Sonic Adventure, but I meant that I didn't know the details. I do know the very general gist of it.)
"Oh, they count as mystical forces," Emperor Kip said casually. "So I absorbed them too, and now I have their powers."
"You little brat!" Amy Rose shouted.
"You need a spanking!" Sonic shouted, and he used his super speed to dash at Emperor Kip.
"Oh, and I also have Tikal's and Chaos's knowledge," Emperor Kip said. "I'm heading to Chao World. CHAOS CONTROL!!!"
A flash built around Emperor Kip and his guards as Emperor Kip used the power he'd absorbed from the Master Emerald to transport himself and his guards somewhere else. Sonic, who'd been far away at the start, got there a moment too late.
"Oh man, this is not good," Sonic moaned...
They knew what Chao World was, of course. It was a secret known to few. It was made up of a Chao Garden, a Chao Stadium that could be reached by the Chao Garden, a Hero Garden, a Dark Garden, and a Chao Kindergarten. Sometimes, when they were bored, Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles took a visit to Chao World to raise Chao. What was extremely convenient for them was that time only passed in one of the three gardens when they were actually in one of the gardens, so they could enter and leave whenever they wanted, with the Chaos not knowing the difference. But without Chaos to protect the Chao, who knew what harm would come to them at the hands of the five-year-old, "cute toy"-loving desires of the spoiled Emperor Kip?
***
To be continued...
E-mail all questions and comments to bleifer@comcast.net
by Martial Arts Master
Sonic and all related characters copyrighted by Sega, Sonic Team, Archie, DiC, and the original Japanese creators. I, however, created Emperor Kip and the Kip Empire, though. This takes place after the events of Sonic Adventure 2 Battle (I finally got that game). Sorry, I don't know what happened in Sonic Adventure because I don't have a Dreamcast. I'm sorry, KawaiiKaren, but I can't use your idea in my story, because Emperor Kip is still five years old, in the "girls are gross" stage, and therefore would be unlikely to fall in love with someone many, many years older than him. However, you might like this chapter anyway. As a side note, I may not put up more parts for a while, because I'm leaving on a trip on Friday. I promise, when I get back from the trip, I'll continue putting up parts. Now, on with the story!
***
It was the next morning, and Knuckles was guarding the Master Emerald, as usual. It was his duty ever since he was old enough to guard it responsibly. He did get bored sometimes, but since lots of people would want such a huge, powerful emerald, for either commercial or supernatural value, it certainly wasn't a boring job on the whole.
Most recently, some bratty treasure-hunting bat named Rouge had shown up, thinking that all the jewels in the world were hers to keep. (Author's note: I don't hate Rouge, because I try not to hate characters. It's just that I'm trying to keep these characters in-character, and from Knuckles's point of view, Rouge is a brat.)
Knuckles couldn't believe Rouge had been so selfish. Couldn't she see that the Master Emerald was more than just a big jewel? And that should it fall into the wrong hands, disaster could befall the entire world if those wrong hands knew how to unlock the power of the Master Emerald?
She also seemed to be sexist, making that stupid comment about how men shouldn't hit girls. Knuckles treated all of his opponents equally, male or female.
And even after he'd saved her life, for crying out loud, she'd accused him of merely trying to hold her hand, calling him a creep.
Well, let Rouge think what she wanted. He'd saved her because she just happened to be carrying some Master Emerald shards at the time.
Actually, though, Rouge did get much better at the end. She'd even giving up treasure-hunting, saying she had her eye on something else...though what could that be?
Knuckles decided she must've meant her job as a government spy. From what he'd heard, and he hadn't heard much, she'd kept that job.
Knuckles absent-mindedly wondered why his mind often wandered to Rouge, considering she'd been such an obnoxious brat until the Biolizard and Finalhazard incident. But he soon gave up the thought.
Then he heard a noise...like a spaceship descending.
All of Knuckles's senses were on full alert. They had to be, considering he had to protect the Master Emerald at all costs.
"If these are more thieves, I'm going to knock them senseless," he grumbled.
The noise was indeed a spaceship descending...a large spaceship descending...a very, very large spaceship descending! Knuckles had to scramble out of the way, carrying the Master Emerald, to avoid getting them both crushed by the spaceship.
When the spaceship landed, a five-year-old boy walked out, surrounded by guards.
"Who are you?" Knuckles demanded.
"I am Emperor Kip, of the mighty Kip Empire!" the boy said. "I have come to induct your planet into the Kip Empire. Bow to me now!"
"No offense, but I don't bow to strangers," Knuckles quipped.
"I said bow! Bow! Bow!" Emperor Kip screamed, throwing a tantrum and jumping up and down. "Guards, make him bow! I want him to bow now!"
The guards moved towards Knuckles.
"Jeez, you sure have a brat for a master, but I don't like being forced to do things," Knuckles said, knocking the guards away with a flurry of punches.
"Hey! Those are my guards!" Emperor Kip shouted, and then he noticed the Master Emerald.
"Ooooooh...pretty jewel...large jewel..." Emperor Kip said with greedy eyes.
"No! The Master Emerald isn't yours," Knuckles snapped. "This isn't a toy! This is a very powerful jewel whose energy can neutralize that of the Chaos Emerald. It has other powers too, and it's my duty to protect it."
"But I want the jewel! I want it, I want it!" Emperor Kip screamed, laying on the ground and beating the ground with his fists like a baby.
"What a spoiled brat," Knuckles muttered to himself. "I wonder how he ever got to be emperor."
Aloud he said, "Sorry, but you can't have it. Now go back into space where you came from."
"Well if I can't have it, then I'll have to take it!" Emperor Kip said with a smug look on his face.
Then, Emperor Kip whistled, and a huge...thing...that looked like a cross between an eight-foot-tall robot and a dog that stood on its hind legs walked out of the spaceship.
"This is my puppy," Emperor Kip said. "And it's name is Puppy."
Knuckles raised one eyebrow.
"That thing looks like walking destuction, and you call it Puppy?" Knuckles asked, laughing. "No offense, but that name only fits because it looks sort of like a dog."
"Oh yeah? Puppy, take the emerald from him!" Emperor Kip shouted.
Knuckles wondered where this five-year-old Kip got such an unbelievably huge vocabulary. Then, before Knuckles could react, Puppy leaped over to Knuckles and kicked him headfirst into a tree, knocking him unconscious...
Meanwhile, at the beach, Sonic was relaxing in a chair under an umbrella, while Amy Rose was surfing. Tails was giving his Cyclone walker/plane a tune-up.
"Yahoo! I'm hanging 10!" Amy Rose shouted.
"Yeah, yeah, could you keep it down? I'm trying to catch some Z's," Sonic said. He then went to sleep.
Then, Tails finished his tune-up.
"There we go!" Tails said proudly. "The Cyclone's ready to go!"
Suddenly, Knuckles ran up to Sonic and Tails, having a huge bump on his head.
"Sonic, we got big trouble!" Knuckles said.
Sonic woke up.
"What's up?" Sonic asked. Then he noticed the bump on Knuckles's head.
"And what happened to you?" Sonic added.
"Well, I was guarding the Master Emerald," Knuckles began, "when this huge spaceship descended and nearly crushed me and the Master Emerald. Then this five-year-old named Emperor Kip came out, and he had guards with him, so I guess he wasn't lying about being an Emperor. The trouble is, he's an even bigger brat than Rouge used to be. He wanted my Master Emerald, not thinking of the consequences. Then, when I refused to give it to him, he called out this huge combination robot/puppy that walked on its hind legs and stood eight feet tall. Before I could react, the thing kicked me headfirst into something. When I woke up, the Master Emerald was gone. I went into the spaceship and tried to threaten everyone there into telling me where it was, but they didn't know where Emperor Kip had taken it."
Throughout this rather long explanation, Sonic had been on the verge of falling asleep. But now he was wide awake. Meanwhile, Tails had been listening to the whole thing, and Amy Rose, having recently come back, had also heard everything.
"This is bad!" Tails said. "Are you sure you don't have a clue as to where Emperor Kip or the Master Emerald is?"
"Not a one," Knuckles said mournfully. "I was hoping you guys could help me."
Sonic cracked up.
"You mean you're actually asking for help, Mr. Loner?" Sonic said, laughing.
"I'm desperate, you moron!" Knuckles shouted. "I don't have a clue as to where it is."
"Looking for this?" Emperor Kip's voice asked.
Our heroes spun around, and saw a five-year-old boy and some guards with him. The guards were holding the Master Emerald...but it wasn't glowing. The glow was gone, and the Master Emerald looked like an ordinary jewel.
"That's him!" Knuckles shouted. "That's Emperor Kip! What have you done to the Master Emerald, you little gnat?!"
"Oh, I got bored of playing with it, so I decided to absorb its power," Emperor Kip explained. "There's a reason only my family may rule our empire. Only my family has the ability to absorb all mystical energies we choose into our bodies. I decided to absorb all the powers of the Master Emerald, and there sure were a lot! I don't think any of you even realize the full capabilities of this power."
"Well that explains why he has such a large vocabulary," Knuckles muttered to himself. "He must have absorbed some mystical energy somewhere that gave him that vocabulary.
"Wait a minute...what about Tikal's spirit and Chaos?" Knuckles asked aloud. "What happened to them?" (Author's Note: Yes, I said I don't know what happened in the first Sonic Adventure, but I meant that I didn't know the details. I do know the very general gist of it.)
"Oh, they count as mystical forces," Emperor Kip said casually. "So I absorbed them too, and now I have their powers."
"You little brat!" Amy Rose shouted.
"You need a spanking!" Sonic shouted, and he used his super speed to dash at Emperor Kip.
"Oh, and I also have Tikal's and Chaos's knowledge," Emperor Kip said. "I'm heading to Chao World. CHAOS CONTROL!!!"
A flash built around Emperor Kip and his guards as Emperor Kip used the power he'd absorbed from the Master Emerald to transport himself and his guards somewhere else. Sonic, who'd been far away at the start, got there a moment too late.
"Oh man, this is not good," Sonic moaned...
They knew what Chao World was, of course. It was a secret known to few. It was made up of a Chao Garden, a Chao Stadium that could be reached by the Chao Garden, a Hero Garden, a Dark Garden, and a Chao Kindergarten. Sometimes, when they were bored, Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles took a visit to Chao World to raise Chao. What was extremely convenient for them was that time only passed in one of the three gardens when they were actually in one of the gardens, so they could enter and leave whenever they wanted, with the Chaos not knowing the difference. But without Chaos to protect the Chao, who knew what harm would come to them at the hands of the five-year-old, "cute toy"-loving desires of the spoiled Emperor Kip?
***
To be continued...
E-mail all questions and comments to bleifer@comcast.net