Chapter 11 - Confrontations
After placing the Emeralds in safe keeping, Rouge brought everyone (save for Teila, Tyreke, Amy, and Anthony) to her office to speak with the local authorities. Sara was also there to speak to the group, acting as the city's representative.
"We're currently keeping an eye out for any more GUN troops," Sara said. "Hopefully, now that the Emeralds are in the Freedom Fighter base for safe keeping, they won't try going for them again."
"Or our Chao," Aura remarked, hugging Ryndar closely. "I still want to know what they wanted with those Chao."
"As do I," Sara remarked. "I was hoping the Gamemaster would be here as well to discuss this..."
"Gee...I wonder why..." Ryan remarked to himself, and winced when Julie-Su elbowed him in the ribs.
"Stifle it, Bat..." Julie-Su said.
"We'll help you any way we can, Sara," Sally said.
"Thank you, your highness," Sara said.
"You guys should head back to the hotel," Rouge said. "I'll stay here and see what more we can find out on our end."
Just as Rouge had said that, an alarm went off throughout the building. "What's going on?" Red Sonic said.
A soldier ran in and said, "Miss Sara...GUN ships have been seen heading towards the city. I've been ordered to take you back to the president's home for your safety."
"Come on, guys," Sonic said. "Let's get those guys!"
As the group exited the building, they noticed exactly where the troops were headed. "By the Goddess...they're heading for the hotel!" Mina said.
"...and just our luck to be on the opposite side of the city!" Knuckles said.
"Then let's move quickly," Lazer said, as a red aura began to cover him.
"Oh...forgetting who I am, Lazer?" Sonic said, revving up his legs.
Sonic and Lazer then sped off towards the hotel, Mina and Red Sonic following close behind with the others following as quickly as they could.
STAGE 15 - Station Square
CHARACTERS: Sonic/Lazer
MUSIC: "Escape from the City" from Sonic Adventure 2
OBJECTIVE: Catch up to GUN
Sonic and Lazer ran as fast as they could towards the hotel, Sonic doing Sonic Spins and Lazer using his sword to scrap every Hunter and Beetle series robot that got in their way. As they got closer, they started to notice that a few Rhinos were also added to the oncoming troops.
"Kinda makes me wish we still had he power of the Rainbow, Sonic," Lazer said as he sliced through a Hunter.
"We don't need it, Laz," Sonic remarked as he Sonic Spinned a Beetle.
As soon as they reached the hotel, they saw something that made them gasp in horror. A robot had a choke hold on Teila and Tyreke was out cold on the ground. However...this was no ordinary robot...
"PACKBELL?!?" Sonic said.
The robot did indeed look like Packbell, but appeared to be in some type of body armor. The two of them also noticed something...
"They've got the Emeralds!!" Sonic said, noticing several GUN soldiers bring the Emeralds out from what appeared to be a large blast crater near the base of the hotel.
As soon as Red Sonic and Mina arrived, the four of them were about to engage GUN when one of the soldiers, obviously a leader, said, "STOP! Take one step and your furry friend in our cyber-soldier's hand gets her windpipe crushed!"
Teila looked at the four of them with a pleading look, and mouthed, "Get them!" The robot then squeezed a bit harder, causing her to wince.
"ALRIGHT!" Sonic said. "You can have the Emeralds! Just let her go!"
"Packbell Beta...hold her until we get out of here," the soldier said. "And throw us that Emerald she has in her possession!"
The robot, now recognized as Packbell Beta, reached in the pocket of her jeans and extracted the Emerald, paying no heed to the fact that the Emerald was burning him. He then threw it towards the GUN soldiers, who immediately put it in some kind of anti-gravity carrying unit.
As a group of soldiers carried the Emeralds and boarded a large craft, which later took off, the leader then said, "We have what we came for...eliminate that furry scum!"
Packbell Beta looked back towards Teila and began to squeeze even harder. But soon found himself letting go when something rocketed past him, slicing off his hand with a lightsaber. He looked and saw the armored form of Amy Rose.
"Nice work, Ames," Red Sonic said, as he and Sonic ran and got Teila and Tyreke out of harms way.
Amy decided to deactivate her armor, and then drew upon the Descendancy Powers to cause the Armor of the Gamemaster to appear on her. She then drew the Sword of the Gamemaster she carried.
"Ames, where's Anthony?" Lazer said, readying his own sword.
"Still out cold," Amy said. "We had to go to Relm, the world in his mind, to fight the Dark Gamemaster again."
"I'll ask about that later," Lazer said, turning his attention towards Packbell Beta, who has now reattached his hand and readied a blaster. "Let's take care of Packy..."
"It's not Packy...it's a duplicate GUN made, something I overheard as I was coming out," Amy explained. "But let's take care of him anyway..."
BOSS STAGE: PACKBELL BETA
CHARACTERS: Gamemaster Amy/Lazer
MUSIC: "Fight with Seymour" from Final Fantasy X
Packbell Beta fired upon both Amy and Lazer, but Amy deflected the shots with her sword and Lazer managed to dodge the shots. Both them then managed to get in close to slash at Beta, but found their swords missing the mark as Beta jumped backwards.
Beta then ran forward and attempted to knock both of them down, but both of them sidestepped the bot and slashed at him with their swords. Both swords hit their mark and two large gashes appeared on the side of the robot. Beta, however, wasn't fazed and turned back towards them and opened fire. Amy had to raise a Force Barrier to block the shots, and Lazer returned fire with a couple of firey blasts of his own, drawing upon the red Emeralds within him. Beta ended up taking the full force of the blasts, and dropped to the ground, seemingly deactivated.
Sonic and Red Sonic ran back up to them as soon as they saw Beta fall. "You guys alright?" Sonic asked.
"We're fine, Sonic," Amy said, deactivating the Descendancy Powers and reverting to her original armor.
"I'm just glad that wasn't the real Packbell," Lazer said.
"GUYS! LOOK OUT!!!" Red Sonic said, as he and Sonic tackled Amy and Lazer to the ground to get them out of harm's way as two shots from a now recovered Beta just missed the lot of them.
Beta then trained his aim on the four of them. However...just as he was about to fire, he was soon beheaded by a figure that seemed to appear out of nowhere. As it happened...the four of them recognized the figure...
"Anth?" Sonic said.
It was Anthony...however, something was different. Anthony was in the Armor of the Gamemaster, drawing upon the Descendancy Powers...however, the Armor and his Sword both appeared to be slightly glowing with a light bluish light. Anthony sheathed his sword and then looked back towards the rest of the group.
"Anthony...what happened to you..." Amy asked, surprised at the fact his armor was glowing.
Anthony looked down at his Armor and said, "I guess its true power came out finally." He then looked towards the leader of the soldiers, who was cursing the failure of Beta and the fact the other soldiers left him behind. He then used a Paralysis power to hold him still, even to the point where his jaw was locked so he couldn't bite down on a cyanide capsule.
After extracting the capsule, Anthony unfroze the soldier's jaw and grabbed him by the neck, lifting him high. "Alright, you...I want answers. You're obviously not GUN...and you want the Emeralds for something major. So spill...who are you and what do you want with the Emeralds?"
"I'll die before I tell you anything..." the soldier said.
"Guess again..." Anthony said, and his eyes began to glow. The soldier began to convulse as he felt Anthony invade his mind. Suddenly, Anthony's eyes stopped glowing and the soldier went limp. Anthony then dropped the soldier to the ground and nodded as if he realized something. "So...Tikal was right..."
It was at that time when Sally, Knuckles, Rouge, and the rest of the group arrived at the hotel. Teila had recovered and was currently being comforted by Tyreke. Those who just arrived were shocked at Anthony's appearance. "Anthony...what happened to you?" Sally asked.
"I'll explain later, Sal..." Anthony said, looking at the crater leading into the former Freedom Fighter base. "We have something more important to discuss. And since we have a quick route to the base now, let's use it."
After placing the Emeralds in safe keeping, Rouge brought everyone (save for Teila, Tyreke, Amy, and Anthony) to her office to speak with the local authorities. Sara was also there to speak to the group, acting as the city's representative.
"We're currently keeping an eye out for any more GUN troops," Sara said. "Hopefully, now that the Emeralds are in the Freedom Fighter base for safe keeping, they won't try going for them again."
"Or our Chao," Aura remarked, hugging Ryndar closely. "I still want to know what they wanted with those Chao."
"As do I," Sara remarked. "I was hoping the Gamemaster would be here as well to discuss this..."
"Gee...I wonder why..." Ryan remarked to himself, and winced when Julie-Su elbowed him in the ribs.
"Stifle it, Bat..." Julie-Su said.
"We'll help you any way we can, Sara," Sally said.
"Thank you, your highness," Sara said.
"You guys should head back to the hotel," Rouge said. "I'll stay here and see what more we can find out on our end."
Just as Rouge had said that, an alarm went off throughout the building. "What's going on?" Red Sonic said.
A soldier ran in and said, "Miss Sara...GUN ships have been seen heading towards the city. I've been ordered to take you back to the president's home for your safety."
"Come on, guys," Sonic said. "Let's get those guys!"
As the group exited the building, they noticed exactly where the troops were headed. "By the Goddess...they're heading for the hotel!" Mina said.
"...and just our luck to be on the opposite side of the city!" Knuckles said.
"Then let's move quickly," Lazer said, as a red aura began to cover him.
"Oh...forgetting who I am, Lazer?" Sonic said, revving up his legs.
Sonic and Lazer then sped off towards the hotel, Mina and Red Sonic following close behind with the others following as quickly as they could.
STAGE 15 - Station Square
CHARACTERS: Sonic/Lazer
MUSIC: "Escape from the City" from Sonic Adventure 2
OBJECTIVE: Catch up to GUN
Sonic and Lazer ran as fast as they could towards the hotel, Sonic doing Sonic Spins and Lazer using his sword to scrap every Hunter and Beetle series robot that got in their way. As they got closer, they started to notice that a few Rhinos were also added to the oncoming troops.
"Kinda makes me wish we still had he power of the Rainbow, Sonic," Lazer said as he sliced through a Hunter.
"We don't need it, Laz," Sonic remarked as he Sonic Spinned a Beetle.
As soon as they reached the hotel, they saw something that made them gasp in horror. A robot had a choke hold on Teila and Tyreke was out cold on the ground. However...this was no ordinary robot...
"PACKBELL?!?" Sonic said.
The robot did indeed look like Packbell, but appeared to be in some type of body armor. The two of them also noticed something...
"They've got the Emeralds!!" Sonic said, noticing several GUN soldiers bring the Emeralds out from what appeared to be a large blast crater near the base of the hotel.
As soon as Red Sonic and Mina arrived, the four of them were about to engage GUN when one of the soldiers, obviously a leader, said, "STOP! Take one step and your furry friend in our cyber-soldier's hand gets her windpipe crushed!"
Teila looked at the four of them with a pleading look, and mouthed, "Get them!" The robot then squeezed a bit harder, causing her to wince.
"ALRIGHT!" Sonic said. "You can have the Emeralds! Just let her go!"
"Packbell Beta...hold her until we get out of here," the soldier said. "And throw us that Emerald she has in her possession!"
The robot, now recognized as Packbell Beta, reached in the pocket of her jeans and extracted the Emerald, paying no heed to the fact that the Emerald was burning him. He then threw it towards the GUN soldiers, who immediately put it in some kind of anti-gravity carrying unit.
As a group of soldiers carried the Emeralds and boarded a large craft, which later took off, the leader then said, "We have what we came for...eliminate that furry scum!"
Packbell Beta looked back towards Teila and began to squeeze even harder. But soon found himself letting go when something rocketed past him, slicing off his hand with a lightsaber. He looked and saw the armored form of Amy Rose.
"Nice work, Ames," Red Sonic said, as he and Sonic ran and got Teila and Tyreke out of harms way.
Amy decided to deactivate her armor, and then drew upon the Descendancy Powers to cause the Armor of the Gamemaster to appear on her. She then drew the Sword of the Gamemaster she carried.
"Ames, where's Anthony?" Lazer said, readying his own sword.
"Still out cold," Amy said. "We had to go to Relm, the world in his mind, to fight the Dark Gamemaster again."
"I'll ask about that later," Lazer said, turning his attention towards Packbell Beta, who has now reattached his hand and readied a blaster. "Let's take care of Packy..."
"It's not Packy...it's a duplicate GUN made, something I overheard as I was coming out," Amy explained. "But let's take care of him anyway..."
BOSS STAGE: PACKBELL BETA
CHARACTERS: Gamemaster Amy/Lazer
MUSIC: "Fight with Seymour" from Final Fantasy X
Packbell Beta fired upon both Amy and Lazer, but Amy deflected the shots with her sword and Lazer managed to dodge the shots. Both them then managed to get in close to slash at Beta, but found their swords missing the mark as Beta jumped backwards.
Beta then ran forward and attempted to knock both of them down, but both of them sidestepped the bot and slashed at him with their swords. Both swords hit their mark and two large gashes appeared on the side of the robot. Beta, however, wasn't fazed and turned back towards them and opened fire. Amy had to raise a Force Barrier to block the shots, and Lazer returned fire with a couple of firey blasts of his own, drawing upon the red Emeralds within him. Beta ended up taking the full force of the blasts, and dropped to the ground, seemingly deactivated.
Sonic and Red Sonic ran back up to them as soon as they saw Beta fall. "You guys alright?" Sonic asked.
"We're fine, Sonic," Amy said, deactivating the Descendancy Powers and reverting to her original armor.
"I'm just glad that wasn't the real Packbell," Lazer said.
"GUYS! LOOK OUT!!!" Red Sonic said, as he and Sonic tackled Amy and Lazer to the ground to get them out of harm's way as two shots from a now recovered Beta just missed the lot of them.
Beta then trained his aim on the four of them. However...just as he was about to fire, he was soon beheaded by a figure that seemed to appear out of nowhere. As it happened...the four of them recognized the figure...
"Anth?" Sonic said.
It was Anthony...however, something was different. Anthony was in the Armor of the Gamemaster, drawing upon the Descendancy Powers...however, the Armor and his Sword both appeared to be slightly glowing with a light bluish light. Anthony sheathed his sword and then looked back towards the rest of the group.
"Anthony...what happened to you..." Amy asked, surprised at the fact his armor was glowing.
Anthony looked down at his Armor and said, "I guess its true power came out finally." He then looked towards the leader of the soldiers, who was cursing the failure of Beta and the fact the other soldiers left him behind. He then used a Paralysis power to hold him still, even to the point where his jaw was locked so he couldn't bite down on a cyanide capsule.
After extracting the capsule, Anthony unfroze the soldier's jaw and grabbed him by the neck, lifting him high. "Alright, you...I want answers. You're obviously not GUN...and you want the Emeralds for something major. So spill...who are you and what do you want with the Emeralds?"
"I'll die before I tell you anything..." the soldier said.
"Guess again..." Anthony said, and his eyes began to glow. The soldier began to convulse as he felt Anthony invade his mind. Suddenly, Anthony's eyes stopped glowing and the soldier went limp. Anthony then dropped the soldier to the ground and nodded as if he realized something. "So...Tikal was right..."
It was at that time when Sally, Knuckles, Rouge, and the rest of the group arrived at the hotel. Teila had recovered and was currently being comforted by Tyreke. Those who just arrived were shocked at Anthony's appearance. "Anthony...what happened to you?" Sally asked.
"I'll explain later, Sal..." Anthony said, looking at the crater leading into the former Freedom Fighter base. "We have something more important to discuss. And since we have a quick route to the base now, let's use it."