Spoiled Brat Part Four
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. Well, I'm finally back from my trip, but since I'll be leaving on another trip on the 18th of August, I'm putting all of the last of this story into this one final chapter. Now, on with the story!
***
Before Emperor Kip could bring the knife down, something slammed into him. Hard.
The knife was knocked out of his hands, where it went off the same cliff that Emperor Kip had selfishly ordered the guard who'd questioned him to be tossed off of. Emperor Kip was sent sprawling across the garden.
"Ow! That hurt!" he shouted, and looked up to see exactly who would be so rude.
As he looked up, he saw Sonic zooming up to him, and Sonic grabbed Kip by his shirt.
"You're a slimeball!" Sonic shouted. "Do you really think the Chao are just your playthings? Look at them!"
Emperor Kip looked around. First, he saw Tails in his Cyclone walker, Knuckles, Amy Rose, Rouge, Eggman his his Egg-o-matic/walker in walker mode, and Omochao standing near the entrance/exit to the Chao Garden.
Then, he saw the all the other Chao, crying.
He didn't care.
"So what? I'm the Emperor Kip! I can do whatever I want to!" he screamed. "Chaos Control!"
This time, Emperor Kip used Chaos Control not to warp, but to stop time. For him, everything became a yellow haze. (Author's Note: In 2P battle mode in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, if you collect 60 rings with Shadow, you can use Chaos Control to stop time for the other player, and the other player's screen turns yellow. I merely incorporated that yellow screen into the fanfic.)
As Emperor Kip had hoped, time stopped for everyone else. He used this opportunity to rip himself free of Sonic's hand. Sonic's hand was left grabbing empty air. Emperor Kip quickly scrambled on top of a cliff. Then, the Chaos Control wore off, and the yellow haze disappeared.
Sonic was ready to give this five-year-old emperor the spanking of his life. He'd abused those poor Chao, and had been about to kill two of them, and he didn't even care!
Then, suddenly, for no apparent reason, Emperor Kip suddenly disappeared out of his hand. For Sonic, it was like Emperor Kip had been there one minute, and gone the next. He looked around and saw Emperor Kip on top of a cliff, and Sonic had no clue until he'd gotten there.
Until he remembered that Emperor Kip had absorbed the powers of the Master Emerald. Emperor Kip must've either used sped himself up or stopped time and merely freed himself.
Judging by Emperor Kip's love of power, the latter was more likely to be true. That would explain why Emperor Kip had seemingly just vanished out of his hands, because Sonic and everyone else wouldn't have been aware of time having been stopped.
All this passed through his head in a smaller amount of time than you might suppose.
He happened to look back and saw Eggman leaping for joy. Casino, one of the two Chao that Kip had been about to stab, had evolved into an adult Dark Chao.
"This is wonderful! This is delightful! You finally evolved!" Eggman was shouting. "I'm so glad I raised you, you cute little chip off the old block!"
Eggman pet it.
"I helped too, and so did Shadow, you egomaniac!" Rouge snapped at Eggman.
"In a minute you'll have nothing to argue about, because no one will stop the might Emperor Kip!" one of the guards said.
The guards rushed at the heroes, and soon Puppy, the eight-foot-tall puppy/robot combination that had knocked Knuckles out earlier, appeared as well.
Luckily, our heroes plus Rouge and Dr. Eggman had planned for this on the way to the Chao Garden after finding the Hero Garden and Dark Garden empty.
Tails and Dr. Eggman, in their walkers, moved to intercept Puppy, while Knuckles, Rouge, Amy Rose, and Omochao prepared to take on the guards.
"I guess that leaves you and me, Emperor Kip," Sonic called to the five-year-old royal bratness.
"No one will spoil my fun! You're finished!" screamed Emperor Kip, as he and Sonic prepared to face off...
Puppy was snarling at Tails and Dr. Eggman, because they were blocking its path.
The two commenced to use their Volkan Cannons to repeatedly pound it with bullets.
Whatever the robot was made of, though, it have been tough, because the bullets merely bounced off and scattered across the garden. Luckily no one was injured, but Tails and Dr. Eggman stopped firing in a hurry.
"Confound it!" Dr. Eggman exclaimed. "I don't know what that metal is made of, but the bullets aren't working. We'll have to bring out heavier artillery."
"You got it!" Tails said with a grin.
But Puppy slammed into both of them, knocking them back a few feet.
"But we'll have to hurry," Tails added.
Knuckles was pounding some of the guards with his fists, even though, being human, they were much taller than he was.
Rouge was kicking butt as well, literally, as she used her feet to layeth the smackdown on more of the guards.
Amy Rose's Piko Piko hammer came in handy, as more of the guards rushed at her, only to get smacked away.
Even Omochao was winning. He was ramming into the guards, knocking them all over.
Obviously these guards weren't very well-trained, considering that Emperor Kip had been too lazy to spend money on training them at all.
Now Puppy, on the other hand, was an accomplished fighter, slamming Tails and Dr. Eggman around like rag dolls, even though the walkers made them heavy.
They'd tried using the lock-on missiles, but those only served to annoy it, as a human might be annoyed by a swarm of flies.
"Grrrr...what kind of monster is this?" Tails exclaimed rhetorically. "Even those Artificial Chaos enemies you built weren't this hard to beat!"
"I know what you mean," Dr. Eggman replied with a grunt. "This robot surpasses many of my creations. We'll have to go for the Rocket Launcher." (Author's Note: As bosses, in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, both Tails and Dr. Eggman can use the Rocket Launcher. You can also use this in 2P Battle mode if you collect enough rings.)
Tails sighed.
"I just loaded this thing with rockets yesterday..." he muttered as both he and Dr. Eggman used the Rocket Launcher to fire rockets into the sky.
Puppy wondered what was going on. It soon learned the hard way as many rockets slammed into it.
This finally damaged it. Many of its parts broke, but Puppy was still raring to fight.
"Well, at least we damaged it," Tails said hopefully. "How about using the Power Laser to finish it off?"
"Very good idea, Tails," Dr. Eggman said, rubbing his hands together with glee.
Tails and Dr. Eggman got on opposite sides of Puppy, as Puppy was confused as to what was going on. (Author's Note: Power Laser is another attack Tails and Dr. Eggman can use both as bosses and in 2P Battle mode if you have enough rings.)
Tails and Dr. Eggman charged up energy in their walkers, and then, at the same time, blasted Puppy from opposite sides with huge lasers, obliterating Puppy to scrap metal.
Meanwhile, Knuckles, Rouge, Amy Rose, and Omochao were finishing off four remaining guards.
Knuckles used a Thunder Arrow, Rouge used a Black Wave, Amy Rose used a Storming Heart, and Omoc hao rammed into one of the guards. (Author's Note: You get the idea by now.)
Needless to say, the guards were soon as unconscious as their comrades.
"Phew...that actually made me sweat," Rouge said laughingly.
"Let's go see what Sonic's doing," Omochao said.
Sonic, meanwhile, was not having a good time. Every time Sonic would dash at Emperor Kip with his faster-than-sound speed, Emperor Kip would use Chaos Control to stop time, go somewhere else, start time, and attack Sonic from another direction.
And it was really starting to tick Sonic off.
"Anybody can win when they have those powers!" Sonic said.
"You're just a poor loser," Emperor Kip said tauntingly.
"Poor loser?!" Sonic screamed, enraged. "We'll see about that! Sonic Wind!"
Sonic sent blue energy rings at Emperor Kip, but Emperor Kip merely used Chaos Control yet again, stopping time, and then starting it and then attacking from another direction. The Sonic Wind ended up crashing harmlessly into the pool by the waterfall.
"My turn! Chaos Spear!" Emperor Kip shouted, sending yellow energy spears at Sonic.
Sonic was relieved. Finally, he'd be doing the dodging.
He easily speeded out of the way...only to be blasted into the dirt by more Chaos Spears!
Sonic figured out with disgust that Emperor Kip must've stopped time yet again, this time sending more Chaos Spears to the spot Sonic headed for when he dodged the first ones.
"This is gonna be a looooooooong fight..." Sonic complained.
Meanwhile, Tikal and Chaos were still inside Kip, along with their knowledge of the full capabilities of the Master Emerald.
However, they still retained their consciousness while inside this human prison.
Now they were wondering what to do.
"Sonic isn't going to win without our help..." Tikal said sadly. "As long as we're inside him, he'll keep using the same strategy again and again, and he doesn't attack from the same direction every time, so he can'd be predicted."
"Can't his friends help him out?" Chaos snapped grumpily. Chaos was currently in his Chaos Zero mode (you know, the mode that can be played in 2P Battle). He was in a bad mood. He was an extremely powerful spirit, and yet he'd been reduced to being a captive of this spoiled lunatic kid. If Tikal hadn't sealed herself and him inside the Master Emerald in the first place, he woulldn't be here now. Then again, he had nearly destroyed the world when he became Perfect Chaos...
But he hadn't had a choice! Tikal's father and his guards had thoughtlessly killed the Chao he'd created. He hadn't had a choice but to take revenge on the planet, who had obviously needed a lesson.
Tikal concentrated for a minute on what was happening outside. Minutes passed...and more minutes...and more minutes...
"Answer me!" Chaos shouted.
"They just tried to help," Tikal responded. "But Tails, Eggman, Knuckles, Rouge, Amy Rose, and Omochao aren't as experienced fighters as Sonic is. Emperor Kip was able to knock them all unconscious with Chaos Spears in one fell swoop."
"Then it's hopeless," Chaos said grumpily. "As long as Emperor Kip is one with us, he has our knowledge and we can't escape..."
Suddenly a shocked look came over Tikal's face.
"Chaos, you're brilliant!" she said happily, trying to hug Chaos, but passing right through him since Chaos was made of water.
Chaos was confused.
"Come again?" he asked.
"If he has our knowledge, we can have his knowledge too, if we just concentrate!" Tikal said. "We may be able to find a weakness."
"Allow me," Chaos said.
Chaos concentrated...and then looked like he got a bright idea.
"This kid doesn't know much, being only five..." Chaos began, "but he does know that his family's biology have a weakness: once a user of these powers is old enough to be a senior citizen, the user not only loses the ability to absorb mystical energy, but also loses all the mystical energies that he already absorbed. The reason is practical: it's the family's bodies' defense system, because a senior citizen's body is frail and would be killed by all the power within him or her."
"But how are we supposed to exploit that weakness?" Tikal asked. "We're just prisoners of his body."
"Well, he isn't currently accessing our minds because he already got our knowledge," Chaos said. "So he won't know what we're thinking. Why don't we offer to make him stronger if he lets us gain control of the cells in his body? Then, we'll make the cells multiply at a hundred times their normal speed. Kip will become stronger when he grows into a young man, so technically we won't have lied, but he'll lose his powers because we'll keep aging his body until he's a senior citizen."
Tikal sighed.
"We don't have much of a choice..." she said...
Meanwhile, Sonic was losing. Emperor Kip's Chaos Control and Chaos Spears were proving to be too effective a combination. Ten minutes passed as Emperor Kip proceeded to kick his butt, metaphorically speaking this time.
Suddenly, to Sonic's astonishment, Emperor Kip began to age.
He grew taller, and his arms and legs developed more muscles. A beard began to grow on his face.
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!" Emperor Kip shouted with glee in a much deeper voice. "You've been betrayed! Tikal and Chaos have offered to make me stronger by making me grow older! You're finished!"
But to Emperor Kip's horror, his body didn't stop aging. The beard kept growing, and a mustache also growed.
"Okay, you can stop now," Emperor Kip said, but his body didn't stop aging. Soon his hair, beard, and mustache began to turn gray, and his limbs weakened.
Finally, his hair, beard, and mustache turned white, and Emperor Kip turned into a very frail old man.
"Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!" he screamed as he realized what this would mean.
But it was too late. Mystical energy began pouring out of him in droves. To Sonic's astonishment and glee, Emperor Kip was losing his powers. Some of them were going back into the Master Emerald, while the others were going to whatever places in the universe they'd been absorbed from.
"I knew Tikal and Chaos would never betray us," he said to himself.
Finally, the spirits of Tikal and Chaos themselves popped out of the now senior-citizen Emperor Kip's body.
Meanwhile, our heroes, Dr. Eggman, and the guards awoke.
"What's going on?" Amy Rose asked.
"Somehow, Emperor Kip's become an old man," one of the guards answered. Then, to the other guards, he said, "And you know what that means..."
"What does it mean?" Sonic asked. "Aside from losing the powers and all that stuff."
"By a law of the Kip Empire," another guard answered, "whenever the ruling Emperor or Empress becomes old enough to lose absorbed powers, he or she loses his or her title and becomes an ordinary citizen. Which means...we're free!"
To everyone else's astonishment, the guards began whooping and hollering in glee.
"And you're happy about this?" Knuckles asked.
"You bet!" one of them answered. "We hated working for him! He was always killing some of us off just for questioning him, because of his own desire for amusement! We all lived in fear that we'd be next. He was a tyrant, so if he's an ordinary citizen now, then good riddance!"
"But what's going to happen to the Kip Empire?" Dr. Eggman asked. "Aren't all of his relatives dead?"
"By a law of the Kip Empire, whenever there is no one of the family alive or fit to rule, the Kip Empire is dissolved, and all conquered worlds inducted into it go free," another guard answered.
Emperor Kip had been listening to all of this in horror.
Faced with the loss of his power, both mystical and political, he did what any spoiled brat whose body had been matured but not his mind.
He started beating the ground with his fists and crying like a baby.
"No! No! No! No! No! Waaaaaaaaaaaaah!" he cried. He had lost his enhanced vocabulary now, because it had been enhanced mystically.
"We'll take him to some planet where he'll be out of your hair," one of the guards promised. "A planet very much like this one."
"And what planet is that?" Omochao asked.
Another guard said, "A planet that would have been next on Emperor Kip's list to induct into his empire. A planet that is now free from such a threat, along with the freedom of all the planets that Kip had already conquered. The planet...Earth."
***
The End
Well, Dark Jainex, I hope this way of defeating Kip wasn't "ridiculous". 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. Well, I'm finally back from my trip, but since I'll be leaving on another trip on the 18th of August, I'm putting all of the last of this story into this one final chapter. Now, on with the story!
***
Before Emperor Kip could bring the knife down, something slammed into him. Hard.
The knife was knocked out of his hands, where it went off the same cliff that Emperor Kip had selfishly ordered the guard who'd questioned him to be tossed off of. Emperor Kip was sent sprawling across the garden.
"Ow! That hurt!" he shouted, and looked up to see exactly who would be so rude.
As he looked up, he saw Sonic zooming up to him, and Sonic grabbed Kip by his shirt.
"You're a slimeball!" Sonic shouted. "Do you really think the Chao are just your playthings? Look at them!"
Emperor Kip looked around. First, he saw Tails in his Cyclone walker, Knuckles, Amy Rose, Rouge, Eggman his his Egg-o-matic/walker in walker mode, and Omochao standing near the entrance/exit to the Chao Garden.
Then, he saw the all the other Chao, crying.
He didn't care.
"So what? I'm the Emperor Kip! I can do whatever I want to!" he screamed. "Chaos Control!"
This time, Emperor Kip used Chaos Control not to warp, but to stop time. For him, everything became a yellow haze. (Author's Note: In 2P battle mode in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, if you collect 60 rings with Shadow, you can use Chaos Control to stop time for the other player, and the other player's screen turns yellow. I merely incorporated that yellow screen into the fanfic.)
As Emperor Kip had hoped, time stopped for everyone else. He used this opportunity to rip himself free of Sonic's hand. Sonic's hand was left grabbing empty air. Emperor Kip quickly scrambled on top of a cliff. Then, the Chaos Control wore off, and the yellow haze disappeared.
Sonic was ready to give this five-year-old emperor the spanking of his life. He'd abused those poor Chao, and had been about to kill two of them, and he didn't even care!
Then, suddenly, for no apparent reason, Emperor Kip suddenly disappeared out of his hand. For Sonic, it was like Emperor Kip had been there one minute, and gone the next. He looked around and saw Emperor Kip on top of a cliff, and Sonic had no clue until he'd gotten there.
Until he remembered that Emperor Kip had absorbed the powers of the Master Emerald. Emperor Kip must've either used sped himself up or stopped time and merely freed himself.
Judging by Emperor Kip's love of power, the latter was more likely to be true. That would explain why Emperor Kip had seemingly just vanished out of his hands, because Sonic and everyone else wouldn't have been aware of time having been stopped.
All this passed through his head in a smaller amount of time than you might suppose.
He happened to look back and saw Eggman leaping for joy. Casino, one of the two Chao that Kip had been about to stab, had evolved into an adult Dark Chao.
"This is wonderful! This is delightful! You finally evolved!" Eggman was shouting. "I'm so glad I raised you, you cute little chip off the old block!"
Eggman pet it.
"I helped too, and so did Shadow, you egomaniac!" Rouge snapped at Eggman.
"In a minute you'll have nothing to argue about, because no one will stop the might Emperor Kip!" one of the guards said.
The guards rushed at the heroes, and soon Puppy, the eight-foot-tall puppy/robot combination that had knocked Knuckles out earlier, appeared as well.
Luckily, our heroes plus Rouge and Dr. Eggman had planned for this on the way to the Chao Garden after finding the Hero Garden and Dark Garden empty.
Tails and Dr. Eggman, in their walkers, moved to intercept Puppy, while Knuckles, Rouge, Amy Rose, and Omochao prepared to take on the guards.
"I guess that leaves you and me, Emperor Kip," Sonic called to the five-year-old royal bratness.
"No one will spoil my fun! You're finished!" screamed Emperor Kip, as he and Sonic prepared to face off...
Puppy was snarling at Tails and Dr. Eggman, because they were blocking its path.
The two commenced to use their Volkan Cannons to repeatedly pound it with bullets.
Whatever the robot was made of, though, it have been tough, because the bullets merely bounced off and scattered across the garden. Luckily no one was injured, but Tails and Dr. Eggman stopped firing in a hurry.
"Confound it!" Dr. Eggman exclaimed. "I don't know what that metal is made of, but the bullets aren't working. We'll have to bring out heavier artillery."
"You got it!" Tails said with a grin.
But Puppy slammed into both of them, knocking them back a few feet.
"But we'll have to hurry," Tails added.
Knuckles was pounding some of the guards with his fists, even though, being human, they were much taller than he was.
Rouge was kicking butt as well, literally, as she used her feet to layeth the smackdown on more of the guards.
Amy Rose's Piko Piko hammer came in handy, as more of the guards rushed at her, only to get smacked away.
Even Omochao was winning. He was ramming into the guards, knocking them all over.
Obviously these guards weren't very well-trained, considering that Emperor Kip had been too lazy to spend money on training them at all.
Now Puppy, on the other hand, was an accomplished fighter, slamming Tails and Dr. Eggman around like rag dolls, even though the walkers made them heavy.
They'd tried using the lock-on missiles, but those only served to annoy it, as a human might be annoyed by a swarm of flies.
"Grrrr...what kind of monster is this?" Tails exclaimed rhetorically. "Even those Artificial Chaos enemies you built weren't this hard to beat!"
"I know what you mean," Dr. Eggman replied with a grunt. "This robot surpasses many of my creations. We'll have to go for the Rocket Launcher." (Author's Note: As bosses, in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, both Tails and Dr. Eggman can use the Rocket Launcher. You can also use this in 2P Battle mode if you collect enough rings.)
Tails sighed.
"I just loaded this thing with rockets yesterday..." he muttered as both he and Dr. Eggman used the Rocket Launcher to fire rockets into the sky.
Puppy wondered what was going on. It soon learned the hard way as many rockets slammed into it.
This finally damaged it. Many of its parts broke, but Puppy was still raring to fight.
"Well, at least we damaged it," Tails said hopefully. "How about using the Power Laser to finish it off?"
"Very good idea, Tails," Dr. Eggman said, rubbing his hands together with glee.
Tails and Dr. Eggman got on opposite sides of Puppy, as Puppy was confused as to what was going on. (Author's Note: Power Laser is another attack Tails and Dr. Eggman can use both as bosses and in 2P Battle mode if you have enough rings.)
Tails and Dr. Eggman charged up energy in their walkers, and then, at the same time, blasted Puppy from opposite sides with huge lasers, obliterating Puppy to scrap metal.
Meanwhile, Knuckles, Rouge, Amy Rose, and Omochao were finishing off four remaining guards.
Knuckles used a Thunder Arrow, Rouge used a Black Wave, Amy Rose used a Storming Heart, and Omoc hao rammed into one of the guards. (Author's Note: You get the idea by now.)
Needless to say, the guards were soon as unconscious as their comrades.
"Phew...that actually made me sweat," Rouge said laughingly.
"Let's go see what Sonic's doing," Omochao said.
Sonic, meanwhile, was not having a good time. Every time Sonic would dash at Emperor Kip with his faster-than-sound speed, Emperor Kip would use Chaos Control to stop time, go somewhere else, start time, and attack Sonic from another direction.
And it was really starting to tick Sonic off.
"Anybody can win when they have those powers!" Sonic said.
"You're just a poor loser," Emperor Kip said tauntingly.
"Poor loser?!" Sonic screamed, enraged. "We'll see about that! Sonic Wind!"
Sonic sent blue energy rings at Emperor Kip, but Emperor Kip merely used Chaos Control yet again, stopping time, and then starting it and then attacking from another direction. The Sonic Wind ended up crashing harmlessly into the pool by the waterfall.
"My turn! Chaos Spear!" Emperor Kip shouted, sending yellow energy spears at Sonic.
Sonic was relieved. Finally, he'd be doing the dodging.
He easily speeded out of the way...only to be blasted into the dirt by more Chaos Spears!
Sonic figured out with disgust that Emperor Kip must've stopped time yet again, this time sending more Chaos Spears to the spot Sonic headed for when he dodged the first ones.
"This is gonna be a looooooooong fight..." Sonic complained.
Meanwhile, Tikal and Chaos were still inside Kip, along with their knowledge of the full capabilities of the Master Emerald.
However, they still retained their consciousness while inside this human prison.
Now they were wondering what to do.
"Sonic isn't going to win without our help..." Tikal said sadly. "As long as we're inside him, he'll keep using the same strategy again and again, and he doesn't attack from the same direction every time, so he can'd be predicted."
"Can't his friends help him out?" Chaos snapped grumpily. Chaos was currently in his Chaos Zero mode (you know, the mode that can be played in 2P Battle). He was in a bad mood. He was an extremely powerful spirit, and yet he'd been reduced to being a captive of this spoiled lunatic kid. If Tikal hadn't sealed herself and him inside the Master Emerald in the first place, he woulldn't be here now. Then again, he had nearly destroyed the world when he became Perfect Chaos...
But he hadn't had a choice! Tikal's father and his guards had thoughtlessly killed the Chao he'd created. He hadn't had a choice but to take revenge on the planet, who had obviously needed a lesson.
Tikal concentrated for a minute on what was happening outside. Minutes passed...and more minutes...and more minutes...
"Answer me!" Chaos shouted.
"They just tried to help," Tikal responded. "But Tails, Eggman, Knuckles, Rouge, Amy Rose, and Omochao aren't as experienced fighters as Sonic is. Emperor Kip was able to knock them all unconscious with Chaos Spears in one fell swoop."
"Then it's hopeless," Chaos said grumpily. "As long as Emperor Kip is one with us, he has our knowledge and we can't escape..."
Suddenly a shocked look came over Tikal's face.
"Chaos, you're brilliant!" she said happily, trying to hug Chaos, but passing right through him since Chaos was made of water.
Chaos was confused.
"Come again?" he asked.
"If he has our knowledge, we can have his knowledge too, if we just concentrate!" Tikal said. "We may be able to find a weakness."
"Allow me," Chaos said.
Chaos concentrated...and then looked like he got a bright idea.
"This kid doesn't know much, being only five..." Chaos began, "but he does know that his family's biology have a weakness: once a user of these powers is old enough to be a senior citizen, the user not only loses the ability to absorb mystical energy, but also loses all the mystical energies that he already absorbed. The reason is practical: it's the family's bodies' defense system, because a senior citizen's body is frail and would be killed by all the power within him or her."
"But how are we supposed to exploit that weakness?" Tikal asked. "We're just prisoners of his body."
"Well, he isn't currently accessing our minds because he already got our knowledge," Chaos said. "So he won't know what we're thinking. Why don't we offer to make him stronger if he lets us gain control of the cells in his body? Then, we'll make the cells multiply at a hundred times their normal speed. Kip will become stronger when he grows into a young man, so technically we won't have lied, but he'll lose his powers because we'll keep aging his body until he's a senior citizen."
Tikal sighed.
"We don't have much of a choice..." she said...
Meanwhile, Sonic was losing. Emperor Kip's Chaos Control and Chaos Spears were proving to be too effective a combination. Ten minutes passed as Emperor Kip proceeded to kick his butt, metaphorically speaking this time.
Suddenly, to Sonic's astonishment, Emperor Kip began to age.
He grew taller, and his arms and legs developed more muscles. A beard began to grow on his face.
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!" Emperor Kip shouted with glee in a much deeper voice. "You've been betrayed! Tikal and Chaos have offered to make me stronger by making me grow older! You're finished!"
But to Emperor Kip's horror, his body didn't stop aging. The beard kept growing, and a mustache also growed.
"Okay, you can stop now," Emperor Kip said, but his body didn't stop aging. Soon his hair, beard, and mustache began to turn gray, and his limbs weakened.
Finally, his hair, beard, and mustache turned white, and Emperor Kip turned into a very frail old man.
"Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!" he screamed as he realized what this would mean.
But it was too late. Mystical energy began pouring out of him in droves. To Sonic's astonishment and glee, Emperor Kip was losing his powers. Some of them were going back into the Master Emerald, while the others were going to whatever places in the universe they'd been absorbed from.
"I knew Tikal and Chaos would never betray us," he said to himself.
Finally, the spirits of Tikal and Chaos themselves popped out of the now senior-citizen Emperor Kip's body.
Meanwhile, our heroes, Dr. Eggman, and the guards awoke.
"What's going on?" Amy Rose asked.
"Somehow, Emperor Kip's become an old man," one of the guards answered. Then, to the other guards, he said, "And you know what that means..."
"What does it mean?" Sonic asked. "Aside from losing the powers and all that stuff."
"By a law of the Kip Empire," another guard answered, "whenever the ruling Emperor or Empress becomes old enough to lose absorbed powers, he or she loses his or her title and becomes an ordinary citizen. Which means...we're free!"
To everyone else's astonishment, the guards began whooping and hollering in glee.
"And you're happy about this?" Knuckles asked.
"You bet!" one of them answered. "We hated working for him! He was always killing some of us off just for questioning him, because of his own desire for amusement! We all lived in fear that we'd be next. He was a tyrant, so if he's an ordinary citizen now, then good riddance!"
"But what's going to happen to the Kip Empire?" Dr. Eggman asked. "Aren't all of his relatives dead?"
"By a law of the Kip Empire, whenever there is no one of the family alive or fit to rule, the Kip Empire is dissolved, and all conquered worlds inducted into it go free," another guard answered.
Emperor Kip had been listening to all of this in horror.
Faced with the loss of his power, both mystical and political, he did what any spoiled brat whose body had been matured but not his mind.
He started beating the ground with his fists and crying like a baby.
"No! No! No! No! No! Waaaaaaaaaaaaah!" he cried. He had lost his enhanced vocabulary now, because it had been enhanced mystically.
"We'll take him to some planet where he'll be out of your hair," one of the guards promised. "A planet very much like this one."
"And what planet is that?" Omochao asked.
Another guard said, "A planet that would have been next on Emperor Kip's list to induct into his empire. A planet that is now free from such a threat, along with the freedom of all the planets that Kip had already conquered. The planet...Earth."
***
The End
Well, Dark Jainex, I hope this way of defeating Kip wasn't "ridiculous". E-mail all questions and comments to bleifer@comcast.net