Chapter 6 - Enter The Chaotix
Sonic, Shadow, and Tails had landed in the village with the two transports a half an hour earlier. Tails was taken to the medical hut and had his wound treated while Sonic and Shadow explained the situation to Sally and Knuckles. Shadow had to explain most of it, since Sonic wasn't there for half of the battle.
"This is terrible." said Sally. "Robotnik knows where Knothole is, he's got Rahn, and probably knows about the Sword of Chaos. *sigh* I don't think things can get any worse."
Sonic leaned back in the chair he was sitting in. "Well, we have two transports, so we should be able to evacuate before Robotnik even launches an assault, right?"
"That's assuming if you guys can get out of here in time. You may be able to fit your supplies into those things, but they can't carry out the entire village. We'd need at least ten transports to do that." said Knuckles.
Everyone nodded in agreement and sat in silence for a moment. All that could be heard were the noises of the village outside trying to get everything ready for evac.
"Listen..." said Knux. "I better head back to Angel Island. If Robotnik has found out about the Sword of Chaos, he's going to be sending troops there to fetch the Chaos Emeralds. Besides, I need to make sure Julie-Su and Rouge haven't killed eachother."
Sonic raised an eyebrow at that last statement. "They're still going at it?! I thought things would have cooled down between those two since Rouge started seeing Shadow here."
"Well, since Rouge decided to stay and help guard the master emerald, I think Julie-Su feels threatened about there being another woman on the island. Except for Tikal, but she doesn't really count. It's not really Rouge that I'm worried about though. It's Julie-Su going nuts over something stupid and sending Rouge to a hospital" stated Knuckles.
"Well, tell Rouge I said hi" said Shadow.
"No prob, see you guys later" Knuckles walked out the door leaving Sonic, Shadow, and Sally to go about their business.
Sonic looked over at Sally and noticed she was crying a little, nearly close to complete breakdown. Sonic walked over to her hugged her gently, just as she brokedown crying on his shoulder. Shadow took this as his cue to leave. He had to go prepare his things for evac anyway.
"I've got some things to take care of, so I'll catch you guys later" he stated, then walked out the door.
Sonic could tell why Sally was crying. Losing a long lost friend who you had just been reunited with the day before would be pretty harsh. He allowed Sally to let it all out until she was finished.
"Sonic?" she asked. "What are we going to do if Rahn attacks us? We can't destroy him, he's to important to our cause."
"Don't worry" said Sonic. "If we capture him, I'm sure Rotor will be able de-robotisize him without any problems" he said, trying to reasure his friend.
Sally sighed and hugged Sonic. "Thanks, Sonic" she said. "Listen, I need to start gathering my things, you should probably do the same."
"Alright, Sal. You sure you'll be okay?" he asked.
"Yes *sniff* yeah, I'll be fine" said Sally.
Sonic nodded, gave Sal a quick peck on the cheek, and tore out of the hut. Sally watched him go, then started gathering her belongings and putting them into the small crates and boxes to be loaded onto on of the transports.
'I really hope we can save him'
Sally let one more tear fall out, then proceeded with her packing her things.
Tails sat on the cold, metal table as the local doctor patched up his wound. Lucky for Tails, it wasn't that serious. But, he would have to be careful about what he was doing, or risk injuring it further. At that moment, Amy Rose walked in to check up on the young fox. The two had been dating for three months, so it didn't surprise Tails that she was the first one to visit him.
"Are you alright, Tails?" she asked.
"Ya, I'm fine. The wound isn't that serious. You all finished, Doc?" asked Tails
"Yup" said the doctor, who just finished putting the last bandage on Tails shoulder.
"Now remember; don't do any heavy lifting and check back with me everyday for the next week so I can see if I need to do anything more to it" stated the doctor as he left the room, leaving the two alone.
"You sure that your alright?" asked Amy again.
"I told you, I'm okay. The doctor gave me a clean bill of health" said Tails as he slid off the metal table.
"I'm just worried it might get infected or something. I mean, you got it in Robotropolis, and you of all people know how polluted that place is" stated Amy.
"Well, I very much doubt that I could have been infected by whatever is in that place, but..." Tails walked over to Amy, hugged her, and gave here a kiss on the cheek. "...thanks for caring."
Amy just smiled and embrace Tails in the same way. That's when Shadow walked in to check on Tails, carrying the rifle he had found in Robotropolis. Shadow saw the two and coughed, getting their attention and causing them to separate, both blushing a bright red.
"So.." started Shadow. "...what did the doc say?"
"The doctor says that I'm alright. Other than the nightmare I'm going to get after seeing Rahn, I should be okay" said Tails.
"That's good. I was wondering if you wanted to come with me to Rotors workshop and see what the deal is with this rifle here. I'm gonna need someone to translate the techno-babble that he's going to say" said Shadow.
Tails smiled and nodded. "Sure, I'm as interested in that thing as you are anyway"
"Can I come to?" asked Amy.
"I don't see why not, come right ahead" said Shadow. The three left the medical hut on the way to Rotors workshop, carrying the strange new weapon.
Knuckles arrived on the Floating Island with the use of the chaos control. He was glad Shadow had taught him that trick. Since Knuckles had the ability to use some the of master emeralds power, he didn't need a chaos emerald. It was also a lot easier than using one of the teleport devises. (You know, the little red teleporting things in Sonic & Knuckles that are in Sky Sanctuary) He had teleported to the Hidden Palace. Since the master emerald had been stolen twice from shrine isle, him and the Chaotix moved it back inside the Hidden Palce.
As he walked toward the chamber that held the master emerald and the super emeralds, he started hearing what sounded like fighting coming from the chamber. When he entered, he found Mighty, Espio, Vector, and Charmy playing poker on top of one the super emerald pedistals, and sure enough, over in the corner, was Julie-Su and Rouge argueing.
"Hey, Knuckles!" said Mighty waving at him, which also happened to be the same hand he had his cards in. The other three caught him flashing his cards at them, but said nothing.
"Hey, guys. What's going on?" asked Knuckles.
"Well, Vector here is almost broke, Charmy and me seem to be winning so far, and Mighty just flashed everyone his cards" said Espio.
"What! Aw, man!" yelled Mighty, slamming his cards on top of super emerald.
"That's not really what I meant. I was talking about those two over there" said Knuckles, pointing at Rouge and Juli-Su.
"Oh, them?" said Vector. "I have no idea."
"Something about using eachothers beauty supplies" added Charmy.
'Great' thought Knuckles. He walked over towards the two in an attempt to break them up. He was able to pick up loud and clear on what they were saying.
"That hair brush had all of your disgusting white fur all over it!" yelled Julie-Su.
"That's no excuse for you to take my favorite eye shadow. That bottle cost fifthteen mobiums, and you used it all!" yelled Rouge.
Knuckles just stood near them listening in, not knowing exactly what to do.
"I'm surprised you only have to get one bottle of that gunk a month. You put on enough eye shadow to paint an entire house!"yelled Julie-Su.
"That's it!!!" Rouge tackled Julie-Su to the ground and started pulling on here hair.
"Alright!" yelled Vector. "Cat fight!" The other three Chaotix turned and watched, knowing better to get in the middle of that.
Both Julie-Su and Rouge rolled along the ground closer to the emerald pedistals, clawing, kicking, and pulling hair the whole way. Julie-Su got the upper hand by smacking Rouge across the face, causing her to daze a little. Julie then turned around and grabbed the chair Vector was sitting in.
"Can I borrow this Chair, Vector. Thanks." she said as she pulled out from under him.
Vector fell on the floor and rubbed his back. "Uh...sure?"
When Rouge got up, it was to late to dodge the chair that Julie-Su swung at her. The force of the blow busted the chair and sent Rouge flying into the master emerald, causing it to fall from it's pedistal and onto the ground with a loud thud.
"Uh oh..." said the Chaotix. Julie-Su went completely pale, realizing what she had just done, and Rouge just rubbed her aching head, not quite realizing what just happened.
"AAAHHHGGG!!!" screamed Knuckles as he ran towards his master emerald and tried to put it back up on the pedistal. The other four Chaotix assisted Knuckles in putting the master emerald in it's proper place. After that was done, Knuckles glared at Julie-Su, who was still standing there with the broken chair in her hands, still kind of pale and sporting a childish grin.
"Heh heh heh....whoopsies"
Knuckles was about to scorn Julie-Su, but a small ball of light came out of the master emerald and took the form of an echidna.
"What's going on?" asked Tikal. "I was taking a nap when there was this earthquake, what happened?"
Knuckle pointed to Julie-Su. "That happened."
Tikal looked over to Julie-Su, still holding the broken chair. Then she noticed Rouge slowly getting up. Tikal sighed and shook her head. "Not this again?" she said.
"I still can't get used to her popping out of the emerald like that" whispered Vector to Espio.
"I know, it still creeps me out" whispered Espio.
"Listen," said Knuckles, getting everyones attention. "I'll get after your two later" he said pointed at Julie-Su and Rouge. "But right at the moment, we may have a major crisis on our hands" Knuckles started to tell everyone about what has been going on in Knothole, and about the Sword of Chaos.
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Shadow, Tails, and Amy arrived at Rotors hut and Knocked on the door. They didn't have to wait long for the portly walrus to answer.
"Hey, guys! What brings you here?" asked Rotor.
Rotor stepped aside to allow the three in. Inside the workshop was hundreds of mechanical componants, circuit boards, wires, taken apart hover bike engines, and tools all cluttered about.
"Rotor, you really need to clean this place up! It's like a tornado blew threw here and came back!" said Amy.
"Ya, well, I kind of like it all cluttered everwhere" said Rotor. "So, what do you guys want anyway?"
Shadow brought the imperial sniper rifle in front of him to show Rotor. "We've found this in Robotropolis, and we were wondering if you could take a good look at it" said Shadow.
Rotor picked up from Shadow's hand and started looking at it. He noticed that the casing was not screwed on like Robotniks other weapons, but it was welded shut, like somebody didn't want anyone to figure out how to duplicate such a weapon. He then started pressing a few of the buttons on the top near the top of the weapon. That's when the weapon fired. The rifle fired at one of the hover bike engines that were lying around and completely vaporized it. There was nothing left of it. The four just looked were the engine used to be and their mouths were nearly on the ground.
"Rotor, what the heack did you do!" yelled Shadow.
"I must have set the gun on it's maximum setting." Rotor opened a side panel on the weapon and a weapon statis screen appeared, you know, like on a video camera. "Wow! It fired on max setting, and it still as 98% power!" said Rotor.
"What, but that one energy shot had to have been, like, thirty lasers firing all at once on maximum setting!" yelled Tails.
Rotor set the weapon down on a counter and turned it off. "I tell you what, guys. I'll take a look at it once I get my stuff ready for evacuation. I suggest you guys go and do the same" said Rotor.
"Okay, thanks Rotor" said Shadow. Amy and Tails said goodbye as well, and the three left. Shadow walked Amy and Tails back to their hut so they could get their things ready as well. Shadow just couldn't get the scene of the vaporizing engine out of his head. He was walking back to his hut when he came to a conclusion.
'Robotnik couldn't have produced a weapon like that. Even with the weapons he took from the ARK, he couldn't make a rifle that powerful. He must have some outside benefactor helping him. But who could it be?" Shadow dwelled on this thought as he walked inside his hut and begin packing his things.
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"So, that's what has been going on in Knothole" finished Knuckles. All the Chaotix, save Tikal, were surprised by what Knuckles had said.
"Wow" said Charmy. "I didn't know that the chaos emeralds were meant for that purpose."
"So..." started Tikal. "the 'true' controller has been found."
"The only problem is that he's been robotisized" said Rouge.
"That's why we have to be on guard. Robotnik, at some point, is going to send Rahn here to retreive the chaos emeralds. We can't let him have them. So, we are all gonna split up into groups around the island" said Knuckles. "Vector and Espio, you guys take the area around shrine isle, that's one of the closest spots to the hidden palace."
"You've got it boss!" said Espio as he and Vector ran off to shrine isle.
"Mighty and Charmy, you guys take lava reef, in case he comes in through the cave under the island" directed Knuckles.
"Sure thing!" sad Charmy, as he and Mighty headed towards lave reef. When they left, another creature appeared from the master emerald. Chaos. Chaos stared at Tikal for a moment before she nodded her head.
"Of course you can help Chaos. Why don't you patrol around around the coast of the island, so if he lands on the coast, he'll have to go through you first" said Tikal.
Chaos nodded and took the form of a puddle before dissappearing between the cracks in the floor.
"Funny, I didn't think he would be listening. Now, the rest of us will stay here and guard the chaos emeralds. Hopefully, Rahn won't get this far into the island"
"Do you think he'd go after the master and super emeralds?" asked Julie-Su.
'Probably not" said Rouge. "He's only going to need the chaos emeralds to make that sword. After that, he could control the super and master emeralds, so why even bother stealing them?"
"Hey, nobody asked you, Dracula!" yelled Julie-Su.
"Why you little...." Rouge started to stalk over to Julie-Su, but Knuckles stepped in between the two.
"Listen, we all need eachothers full cooperation if we are going to see this through. So save your argueing for later!" said Knuckles. Julie-Su and Rouge crossed their arms and stalked to opposite sides of the chamber, not saying a word.
"I wish they'd just grow up" said Tikal.
"Well, don't expect that to happen too soon" said Knuckles. They then proceeded to keep their eyes and ears open for Rahn.
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Back in Robotropolis, Rahn was giving Robotnik a full rundown of what happened in hangar 15. Robotnik listened intently. He was angry that Sonic, Shadow, and Tails managed to escape with two 'new' hover transports and that Rahn had destroyed a third and severly damaged a fourth. But, he let it slide.
"You did an excellent job, Rahn. I hope, however, you will do better in the future. But for now, go and recharge. You'll want to be at full strengh tomorrow when you go to Angel Island" said Robotnik.
"Yes, indeed I will. I will see you tommorrow then, sir" said Rahn, saluting his master. He turned and left the command center on his way to an area were he could recharge himself. He didn't really have to, the advanced power system that was inside him only needed to be recharged every ten days. This way, he could be more efficient with his tasks and not have to take breaks to recharge. He got halfway down the hallway when he was stopped by Robo-Knux.
"Greetings, Mechabot Seven. I trust that you are doing well?" said Robo-Knux.
"What do you want, R.K.?" said Rahn.
"Oh, nothing. I just talked with Metal Sonic. He says that you gave him a good thrashing in hangar 15 after he tried to insult you. Is this true?" asked R.K.
Rahn smirked his evil grin and cackled. "Yes, it is true. That robot is such an idiot, letting his guard down to yell stupid insults. There was just something inside my head that said 'attack,' so I did."
"Well, I, for one, am glad you did. I hate that retarded robot, he just can't accept that fact that we are both superior over him" said Robo-Knux.
"He does seem to have a problem overlooking those kind of details, doesn't he?" said Rahn.
"Yes, he certainly does. Well, I just want to say that anybody that trashes Mecha like you did, is a friend of mine" said Robo-Knux.
"Really? Would the hedgehog happen to fall into that category, because I've heard of him beating Mecha twice as bad as I did?" said Rahn.
"Pfft! They day that I become friends with Sonic The Hedgehog, is the day that this city is turned into a smoldering crater" said Robo-Knux.
"Well put. Now, if you'll excuse me Robo-Knux, I need to recharge for tomorrow." Rahn left down a the corridor, leaving the crimson robot alone. Robo-Knux just watched Rahn go, not bothering to move until the robian was out of site. After standing there a bit longer, he turned around and stalked up to the command center to carry out his evening duties.
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Morning had finally dawned upon the village of Knothole. Everyone had woken up early so that they could get an early start and pack up the remaining supplies and other things they were going to take with them. Most of the village was in the cafeteria eating their breakfast. Most of the senior freedom fighters were there at their usual table in the corner, most still depressed about what happened to Rahn.
"How did everyone sleep last night?" asked Bunnie. Almost all the freedom fighters growned, and Tails head just dropped his head right on the table.
"I slept pretty good" said Amy. Everyone was stunned by that remark. Amy had the more useless junk next to Rotor, but she managed to pack it all last night. Everone was surprised she wasn't tired after all that.
Sally started looking around the cafeteria for Rotor, but couldn't spot him. He's usuall there before anyone else in the morning. "Hey, has anyone seen Rotor?" asked Sally.
"Last time I saw him was when I gave him that weird sniper rifle last night" said Shadow. Right on cue, Rotor walked into the cafeteria. He had black rings under his eyes and looked like heck, basically. He went up to the tray line and put the entire pot of coffee on his tray, grabbing a paper cup on his way to where the others were sitting.
"Geez, Rotor. What happened to you. You look like you just came back from the Great War!" said Sonic.
"Well..." said Rotor sitting down. "I was up last night tinkering with that rifle. And what I found dang near chilled me to the bone" he said.
"What did you find?" asked Sally.
"Well, when I opened up the casing, which was difficult because it was welded, I found all kinds of wiring, capacitors, and microships. There were also many kinds of devises that I couldn't even identify. Whoever made that thing, it definitely wasn't Robotnik" said Rotor. He then poured some coffee from the pot into the cup, then proceeded to down the whole pot of coffee.
"Well, I for one ain't gonna stick around here and let Robotnik play target practice with one of those things on me, so I'm gonna start getting things ready for this afternoon" said Bunnie. She walked out of the cafeteria leaving the others.
"Rotor, did you find out anything else?" asked Sally.
"Well, the rifle is a sniper rifle, right? Regular sniper rifles are built for only that purpose, sniping. This thing, however, can be used as both a standard rifle and sniper rifle. Shadow, that mode I had fired it on last night, you know, when I vaporized my hoverbike engine? That was the sniper mode" said Rotor.
"Man!" said Shadow. "Talk about over kill!"
"Wait, did you say that that thing vaporized and enitre hover bike engine?!" said Sonic.
"If it did that to a machine, it probably will have the same effect on a living thing; maybe even worse" said Tails, almost at a whisper.
Sally nodded her head. She didn't need to tell anyone that there was going to be a long and difficult road ahead from here on out. "Listen, everyone. We need to get back to work on the evacuation. Once we've settled down in a spot to build a new village, we'll see what Robtnik is up to with these weapons." Everyone agreed and went their separate ways, off to finish the tedious task of evacutating Knothole.
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Rahn flew out of Robotropolis in route to the Floating Island. Using satelite photos of the planet, he was able to determine the islands location. He determined that he would be on Angel Island within just a few short hours. Rahn also had the emerald of power to guide him. It was getting brighter the closer he got to the chaos emeralds. Rahn grinned, and put his internal hover engine to full power.
(two hours later)
Rahn saw the island in his sights. For some reason, Rahn thought to was a beautiful site to behold. Realizing what he was thinking, Rahn quickly shook his head and disregarded the thought. He wasn't supposed to see it as beautiful, just another object to destroy. As he came closer to the island, he stopped abruptly and scanned the island. His internal radar picked up the chaos emeralds inside the inactive volcano of the island, in the place called hidden palace. He also detected the super and master emeralds, but those weren't what he was after.
Rahn then started scanning for any mobian lifesigns. He found two were in the caves below the island near one of the entrances that led inside. They were an armadillo and a bee. He also detected two more lifeforms on a smaller island floating in front of the volcano, an alligator and a chamelion. Then, he picked up the four in the hidden palace, three echidnas and one bat.
"This is just to easy" said Rahn. "There is absolutly nobody on the coastline of the island. I'll be able to get the jump on them, no problem!" He flew towards the islands sand white beach and landed. He scanned the area again to make sure nobody was there before he walked into the jungle up ahead.
For thirty minutes, Rahn walked through the jungle, using his sword to cut threw some of the thick vines and leaves. He finally came upon a puddel of water and his scanners went off. They determined that the water had a large lifeform swimming around. 'How's that possible? Nothing but small fish could swim in a puddle of that size.'
That's when the water came alive and a claw like hand smacked him into a nearby tree. Rahn got back up and looked himself over. A few dents, nothing major. He looked back towards the water and saw it take shape into a five foot tall water monster. Chaos. Rahn has been informed of this creature, and the abilities it had. That's why Rahn was ready for him.
Chaos came toward him with it's claws stretched out spinning like a tornado. Rahn quickly jumped over the attack and sliced Chaos across the head, causing him to form back into a puddle for a few seconds. Rahn took this time to reach for something inside his matter buckle. He pulled out a small gun. By the time Chaos reformed himself, Rahn fired the gun. A copper extention cord shot out and landed inside Chaos. "Nighty night." Rahn pulled the trigger and hundreds of volts of electricity surged through Chaos. Chaos's agonizing scream could be heard throughout the entire island.
Finally, the electricty in the gun was spent, and Rahn dropped it. Chaos had reformed back into his puddle state, but didn't move. He was knocked out cold. "So much for that. Now, off to the hidden palace" said Rahn. He activated his hover skates, and tore off further into the island interior.
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Everyone inside the hidden palace woke up when they heard the terrible scream of Chaos. Tikal sat up from where she was sleeping and gasped in fright.
"What the heck was that!?" asked Rouge.
"It...it...it was Chaos! He was crying in pain......and then he..he was silenced" said Tikal.
"Is he dead?" asked Knuckles.
"No, he's just unconcious" said Tikal. " I think that it's safe to say that your friend has arrived, Knuckles."
Knuckles got up from where he was sleeping and ran over to his watch, which doubled as a communicator. He picked it up and pressed the button on the side. "Guys, are you there?"
"We're here Knuckles" said Espio. "Same here" came Mighty.
"Did you guys hear Chaos scream?" asked Knuckles.
"Ya, I thought my eardrums were gonna explode" said Mighty.
"Be on guard you guys. I think our buddy, Rahn, just made his presence known" said Knuckles.
"You've got it, Knux" said Espio. "Over and, AGH!" Espio was cut off.
"Espio? Espio, are you there? Vector?" No reply. Then a voice finally came in over the speaker, but it wasn't Espio's or Vector's.
"You might as well start gift wrapping those chaos emeralds, because I'm coming after you next." The last thing Knuckles heard was the sound of Espio's communicator being crushed.
"Mighty, Charmy! Get your tails back up to hidden palace, now!!!"
"You've got it, Knux. See you in a few minutes" said Charmy.
Knuckles turned off his communicator and turned towards the others.
"What do we do now?" asked Julie. Knuckles sighed and looked her in the eye. "I don't know."
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Rahn dropped what was left of Espios communicator. He looked back towards the two chaotix. Both were still surprised that he got the drop on them. They were expecting him to come up the side of shrine isle that faced towards the coast. Instead, he came up the side facing the mountain and gave them both a sizeable kick in the head.
Vector got up, still rubbing his head, and brought out his walkman.
"Your going down ya creep!" Vector pointed the walkman at Rahn and played his favorite heavy metal song on full blast. Even with the headphones on, it was still very loud. Espio quickly covered his ears, but Rahn didn't catch on quickly enough. The music that Vector was playing caused Rahn hearing to short out, making him scream an agonizing screech. Vectors music had destroyed Rahn's hearing receptors.
Sparks started to shoot out of the side of his head. However, since the music wasn't bothering him anymore now that he couldn't hear, he swiftly leapt forward, with a vengence, and kneed Vector in the stomach. Vector dropped the walkman and doubled over on Rahn's knee. Rahn lifted his elbow and brought it down on to the back of Vectors neck, sending him flying behind Rahn, and knocking him unconcious.
Rahn swiftly crushed the walkman with his foot and proceeded to look for the chamelion. However, he wasn't able to find him. 'No matter' thought Rahn. 'I know exactly how to find him.' Rahn did the robotic equivilent of closeing his eyes and his mind to wander for a second. He sought out the chamelions mind and tried to home in on it. He found him. Espio was right behind him, and about to hit him. Rahn simply brought his fist behind him and hit Espio right between the eyes, then spun around and kicked Espio right in the side, nearly sending him flying off shrine isle. Espio was out, and his camouflage had dissappeared.
"I think you two have learned your lesson now, don't mess with a pychic mechabot."
Rahn left for the entrance into the mountain, leaving behind the two unconcious chaotix.
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"You think that Rahn got to Vector and Espio?" asked Charmy as they entered the hidden palace.
"I hope not. If Espio's gone, then I won't have anyone to argue with anymore" said Mighty.
All the sudden, the two heard a noise behind them. They both looked at eachother puzzled, then looked behind them. Sure enough, there was Rahn, skating right towards them.
"Might, I think that's him!" yelled Charmy.
"And you'd be right, floor it!!!" Mighty and Charmy put on the speed and made a mad dash towards the chamber were Knux and the others were at. Charmy looked behind himself again and saw Rahn beginning to draw a sword out from behind him.
"I think we need to go a little faster!" said Charmy. Mighty looked behind himself and saw what Charmy was talking about. "Don't worry!" he said. "We're almost there! Then it will be six to one!"
Charmy and Mighty ran as fast as they could, but ran was rapidly catching up to them. Finally, they made it to the master emerald chamber. Knuckles noticed them enter and walked up to them.
"Hey guys, what took ya?" Knuckles question was answered when a photon burst was fired between him and his friend, blowing the three back.
"What was that?" asked Julie-Su.
"That would be me" came a voice from the entrance to the chamber. The three females looked towards the enrance and saw a robot with a poncho and flat-rimmed hat pointing a weapon at them with his right hand, and holding a double-bladed sword in the other.
"Allow me to introduce myself..." he said, putting the weapon back in his matter buckle. "My name is Rahn, Mechabot Seven."
Julie-Su leaned over to Tikal. "This is Rahn? Shouldn't be to much of a problem to take out." Tikal didn't acknowledge her. She just curiously stared at Rahn. The only robot she had ever seen was E-102 Gamma, so this was still new to her.
"If you hand over the chaos emeralds quietly, then maybe I won't kill you" said Rahn in his coldest sounding voice.
"You might as well get ready for a fight, because you ain't getting them!" yelled Julie-Su.
"Is that right? Well then, why don't you show me what you've got!"
By now, Knuckles, Charmy, and Mighty had gotten up. Knuckles could see what Julie-Su was about to do and tried to stop her.
"Julie, wait, don't fight him!" Julie-Su turned towards Knuckles with an angry look on her face. "WHAT!!! Come on, Knux. He's just asking for a butt kicking!" she yelled.
Knuckles and the others walked next to Julie-Su. "Listen. Sonic and Shadow told me what Rahn is capable of doing, and he is not to be taken lightly. If we fight him, all of us do at the same time" said Knuckles. Julie-Su agreed, reluctantly.
"Six of you against one of me? You must be weaker that I thought" said Rahn.
"Believe me....your going to have your hands full dealing with us" said Knuckles.
"I hardly think so..." said Rahn as the six chaotix came towards him, ready to battle.
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*whew* My longest chapter yet. Sorry if this chapter was boring to anybody. But look on the bright side, nice big fight scene in the next chapter. There should be only three chapters left, so keep reading to find out what happens. Oh, and as always, please send in your reveiws. Thanx
Rahn (Mechabot VII)
Sonic, Shadow, and Tails had landed in the village with the two transports a half an hour earlier. Tails was taken to the medical hut and had his wound treated while Sonic and Shadow explained the situation to Sally and Knuckles. Shadow had to explain most of it, since Sonic wasn't there for half of the battle.
"This is terrible." said Sally. "Robotnik knows where Knothole is, he's got Rahn, and probably knows about the Sword of Chaos. *sigh* I don't think things can get any worse."
Sonic leaned back in the chair he was sitting in. "Well, we have two transports, so we should be able to evacuate before Robotnik even launches an assault, right?"
"That's assuming if you guys can get out of here in time. You may be able to fit your supplies into those things, but they can't carry out the entire village. We'd need at least ten transports to do that." said Knuckles.
Everyone nodded in agreement and sat in silence for a moment. All that could be heard were the noises of the village outside trying to get everything ready for evac.
"Listen..." said Knux. "I better head back to Angel Island. If Robotnik has found out about the Sword of Chaos, he's going to be sending troops there to fetch the Chaos Emeralds. Besides, I need to make sure Julie-Su and Rouge haven't killed eachother."
Sonic raised an eyebrow at that last statement. "They're still going at it?! I thought things would have cooled down between those two since Rouge started seeing Shadow here."
"Well, since Rouge decided to stay and help guard the master emerald, I think Julie-Su feels threatened about there being another woman on the island. Except for Tikal, but she doesn't really count. It's not really Rouge that I'm worried about though. It's Julie-Su going nuts over something stupid and sending Rouge to a hospital" stated Knuckles.
"Well, tell Rouge I said hi" said Shadow.
"No prob, see you guys later" Knuckles walked out the door leaving Sonic, Shadow, and Sally to go about their business.
Sonic looked over at Sally and noticed she was crying a little, nearly close to complete breakdown. Sonic walked over to her hugged her gently, just as she brokedown crying on his shoulder. Shadow took this as his cue to leave. He had to go prepare his things for evac anyway.
"I've got some things to take care of, so I'll catch you guys later" he stated, then walked out the door.
Sonic could tell why Sally was crying. Losing a long lost friend who you had just been reunited with the day before would be pretty harsh. He allowed Sally to let it all out until she was finished.
"Sonic?" she asked. "What are we going to do if Rahn attacks us? We can't destroy him, he's to important to our cause."
"Don't worry" said Sonic. "If we capture him, I'm sure Rotor will be able de-robotisize him without any problems" he said, trying to reasure his friend.
Sally sighed and hugged Sonic. "Thanks, Sonic" she said. "Listen, I need to start gathering my things, you should probably do the same."
"Alright, Sal. You sure you'll be okay?" he asked.
"Yes *sniff* yeah, I'll be fine" said Sally.
Sonic nodded, gave Sal a quick peck on the cheek, and tore out of the hut. Sally watched him go, then started gathering her belongings and putting them into the small crates and boxes to be loaded onto on of the transports.
'I really hope we can save him'
Sally let one more tear fall out, then proceeded with her packing her things.
Tails sat on the cold, metal table as the local doctor patched up his wound. Lucky for Tails, it wasn't that serious. But, he would have to be careful about what he was doing, or risk injuring it further. At that moment, Amy Rose walked in to check up on the young fox. The two had been dating for three months, so it didn't surprise Tails that she was the first one to visit him.
"Are you alright, Tails?" she asked.
"Ya, I'm fine. The wound isn't that serious. You all finished, Doc?" asked Tails
"Yup" said the doctor, who just finished putting the last bandage on Tails shoulder.
"Now remember; don't do any heavy lifting and check back with me everyday for the next week so I can see if I need to do anything more to it" stated the doctor as he left the room, leaving the two alone.
"You sure that your alright?" asked Amy again.
"I told you, I'm okay. The doctor gave me a clean bill of health" said Tails as he slid off the metal table.
"I'm just worried it might get infected or something. I mean, you got it in Robotropolis, and you of all people know how polluted that place is" stated Amy.
"Well, I very much doubt that I could have been infected by whatever is in that place, but..." Tails walked over to Amy, hugged her, and gave here a kiss on the cheek. "...thanks for caring."
Amy just smiled and embrace Tails in the same way. That's when Shadow walked in to check on Tails, carrying the rifle he had found in Robotropolis. Shadow saw the two and coughed, getting their attention and causing them to separate, both blushing a bright red.
"So.." started Shadow. "...what did the doc say?"
"The doctor says that I'm alright. Other than the nightmare I'm going to get after seeing Rahn, I should be okay" said Tails.
"That's good. I was wondering if you wanted to come with me to Rotors workshop and see what the deal is with this rifle here. I'm gonna need someone to translate the techno-babble that he's going to say" said Shadow.
Tails smiled and nodded. "Sure, I'm as interested in that thing as you are anyway"
"Can I come to?" asked Amy.
"I don't see why not, come right ahead" said Shadow. The three left the medical hut on the way to Rotors workshop, carrying the strange new weapon.
Knuckles arrived on the Floating Island with the use of the chaos control. He was glad Shadow had taught him that trick. Since Knuckles had the ability to use some the of master emeralds power, he didn't need a chaos emerald. It was also a lot easier than using one of the teleport devises. (You know, the little red teleporting things in Sonic & Knuckles that are in Sky Sanctuary) He had teleported to the Hidden Palace. Since the master emerald had been stolen twice from shrine isle, him and the Chaotix moved it back inside the Hidden Palce.
As he walked toward the chamber that held the master emerald and the super emeralds, he started hearing what sounded like fighting coming from the chamber. When he entered, he found Mighty, Espio, Vector, and Charmy playing poker on top of one the super emerald pedistals, and sure enough, over in the corner, was Julie-Su and Rouge argueing.
"Hey, Knuckles!" said Mighty waving at him, which also happened to be the same hand he had his cards in. The other three caught him flashing his cards at them, but said nothing.
"Hey, guys. What's going on?" asked Knuckles.
"Well, Vector here is almost broke, Charmy and me seem to be winning so far, and Mighty just flashed everyone his cards" said Espio.
"What! Aw, man!" yelled Mighty, slamming his cards on top of super emerald.
"That's not really what I meant. I was talking about those two over there" said Knuckles, pointing at Rouge and Juli-Su.
"Oh, them?" said Vector. "I have no idea."
"Something about using eachothers beauty supplies" added Charmy.
'Great' thought Knuckles. He walked over towards the two in an attempt to break them up. He was able to pick up loud and clear on what they were saying.
"That hair brush had all of your disgusting white fur all over it!" yelled Julie-Su.
"That's no excuse for you to take my favorite eye shadow. That bottle cost fifthteen mobiums, and you used it all!" yelled Rouge.
Knuckles just stood near them listening in, not knowing exactly what to do.
"I'm surprised you only have to get one bottle of that gunk a month. You put on enough eye shadow to paint an entire house!"yelled Julie-Su.
"That's it!!!" Rouge tackled Julie-Su to the ground and started pulling on here hair.
"Alright!" yelled Vector. "Cat fight!" The other three Chaotix turned and watched, knowing better to get in the middle of that.
Both Julie-Su and Rouge rolled along the ground closer to the emerald pedistals, clawing, kicking, and pulling hair the whole way. Julie-Su got the upper hand by smacking Rouge across the face, causing her to daze a little. Julie then turned around and grabbed the chair Vector was sitting in.
"Can I borrow this Chair, Vector. Thanks." she said as she pulled out from under him.
Vector fell on the floor and rubbed his back. "Uh...sure?"
When Rouge got up, it was to late to dodge the chair that Julie-Su swung at her. The force of the blow busted the chair and sent Rouge flying into the master emerald, causing it to fall from it's pedistal and onto the ground with a loud thud.
"Uh oh..." said the Chaotix. Julie-Su went completely pale, realizing what she had just done, and Rouge just rubbed her aching head, not quite realizing what just happened.
"AAAHHHGGG!!!" screamed Knuckles as he ran towards his master emerald and tried to put it back up on the pedistal. The other four Chaotix assisted Knuckles in putting the master emerald in it's proper place. After that was done, Knuckles glared at Julie-Su, who was still standing there with the broken chair in her hands, still kind of pale and sporting a childish grin.
"Heh heh heh....whoopsies"
Knuckles was about to scorn Julie-Su, but a small ball of light came out of the master emerald and took the form of an echidna.
"What's going on?" asked Tikal. "I was taking a nap when there was this earthquake, what happened?"
Knuckle pointed to Julie-Su. "That happened."
Tikal looked over to Julie-Su, still holding the broken chair. Then she noticed Rouge slowly getting up. Tikal sighed and shook her head. "Not this again?" she said.
"I still can't get used to her popping out of the emerald like that" whispered Vector to Espio.
"I know, it still creeps me out" whispered Espio.
"Listen," said Knuckles, getting everyones attention. "I'll get after your two later" he said pointed at Julie-Su and Rouge. "But right at the moment, we may have a major crisis on our hands" Knuckles started to tell everyone about what has been going on in Knothole, and about the Sword of Chaos.
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Shadow, Tails, and Amy arrived at Rotors hut and Knocked on the door. They didn't have to wait long for the portly walrus to answer.
"Hey, guys! What brings you here?" asked Rotor.
Rotor stepped aside to allow the three in. Inside the workshop was hundreds of mechanical componants, circuit boards, wires, taken apart hover bike engines, and tools all cluttered about.
"Rotor, you really need to clean this place up! It's like a tornado blew threw here and came back!" said Amy.
"Ya, well, I kind of like it all cluttered everwhere" said Rotor. "So, what do you guys want anyway?"
Shadow brought the imperial sniper rifle in front of him to show Rotor. "We've found this in Robotropolis, and we were wondering if you could take a good look at it" said Shadow.
Rotor picked up from Shadow's hand and started looking at it. He noticed that the casing was not screwed on like Robotniks other weapons, but it was welded shut, like somebody didn't want anyone to figure out how to duplicate such a weapon. He then started pressing a few of the buttons on the top near the top of the weapon. That's when the weapon fired. The rifle fired at one of the hover bike engines that were lying around and completely vaporized it. There was nothing left of it. The four just looked were the engine used to be and their mouths were nearly on the ground.
"Rotor, what the heack did you do!" yelled Shadow.
"I must have set the gun on it's maximum setting." Rotor opened a side panel on the weapon and a weapon statis screen appeared, you know, like on a video camera. "Wow! It fired on max setting, and it still as 98% power!" said Rotor.
"What, but that one energy shot had to have been, like, thirty lasers firing all at once on maximum setting!" yelled Tails.
Rotor set the weapon down on a counter and turned it off. "I tell you what, guys. I'll take a look at it once I get my stuff ready for evacuation. I suggest you guys go and do the same" said Rotor.
"Okay, thanks Rotor" said Shadow. Amy and Tails said goodbye as well, and the three left. Shadow walked Amy and Tails back to their hut so they could get their things ready as well. Shadow just couldn't get the scene of the vaporizing engine out of his head. He was walking back to his hut when he came to a conclusion.
'Robotnik couldn't have produced a weapon like that. Even with the weapons he took from the ARK, he couldn't make a rifle that powerful. He must have some outside benefactor helping him. But who could it be?" Shadow dwelled on this thought as he walked inside his hut and begin packing his things.
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"So, that's what has been going on in Knothole" finished Knuckles. All the Chaotix, save Tikal, were surprised by what Knuckles had said.
"Wow" said Charmy. "I didn't know that the chaos emeralds were meant for that purpose."
"So..." started Tikal. "the 'true' controller has been found."
"The only problem is that he's been robotisized" said Rouge.
"That's why we have to be on guard. Robotnik, at some point, is going to send Rahn here to retreive the chaos emeralds. We can't let him have them. So, we are all gonna split up into groups around the island" said Knuckles. "Vector and Espio, you guys take the area around shrine isle, that's one of the closest spots to the hidden palace."
"You've got it boss!" said Espio as he and Vector ran off to shrine isle.
"Mighty and Charmy, you guys take lava reef, in case he comes in through the cave under the island" directed Knuckles.
"Sure thing!" sad Charmy, as he and Mighty headed towards lave reef. When they left, another creature appeared from the master emerald. Chaos. Chaos stared at Tikal for a moment before she nodded her head.
"Of course you can help Chaos. Why don't you patrol around around the coast of the island, so if he lands on the coast, he'll have to go through you first" said Tikal.
Chaos nodded and took the form of a puddle before dissappearing between the cracks in the floor.
"Funny, I didn't think he would be listening. Now, the rest of us will stay here and guard the chaos emeralds. Hopefully, Rahn won't get this far into the island"
"Do you think he'd go after the master and super emeralds?" asked Julie-Su.
'Probably not" said Rouge. "He's only going to need the chaos emeralds to make that sword. After that, he could control the super and master emeralds, so why even bother stealing them?"
"Hey, nobody asked you, Dracula!" yelled Julie-Su.
"Why you little...." Rouge started to stalk over to Julie-Su, but Knuckles stepped in between the two.
"Listen, we all need eachothers full cooperation if we are going to see this through. So save your argueing for later!" said Knuckles. Julie-Su and Rouge crossed their arms and stalked to opposite sides of the chamber, not saying a word.
"I wish they'd just grow up" said Tikal.
"Well, don't expect that to happen too soon" said Knuckles. They then proceeded to keep their eyes and ears open for Rahn.
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Back in Robotropolis, Rahn was giving Robotnik a full rundown of what happened in hangar 15. Robotnik listened intently. He was angry that Sonic, Shadow, and Tails managed to escape with two 'new' hover transports and that Rahn had destroyed a third and severly damaged a fourth. But, he let it slide.
"You did an excellent job, Rahn. I hope, however, you will do better in the future. But for now, go and recharge. You'll want to be at full strengh tomorrow when you go to Angel Island" said Robotnik.
"Yes, indeed I will. I will see you tommorrow then, sir" said Rahn, saluting his master. He turned and left the command center on his way to an area were he could recharge himself. He didn't really have to, the advanced power system that was inside him only needed to be recharged every ten days. This way, he could be more efficient with his tasks and not have to take breaks to recharge. He got halfway down the hallway when he was stopped by Robo-Knux.
"Greetings, Mechabot Seven. I trust that you are doing well?" said Robo-Knux.
"What do you want, R.K.?" said Rahn.
"Oh, nothing. I just talked with Metal Sonic. He says that you gave him a good thrashing in hangar 15 after he tried to insult you. Is this true?" asked R.K.
Rahn smirked his evil grin and cackled. "Yes, it is true. That robot is such an idiot, letting his guard down to yell stupid insults. There was just something inside my head that said 'attack,' so I did."
"Well, I, for one, am glad you did. I hate that retarded robot, he just can't accept that fact that we are both superior over him" said Robo-Knux.
"He does seem to have a problem overlooking those kind of details, doesn't he?" said Rahn.
"Yes, he certainly does. Well, I just want to say that anybody that trashes Mecha like you did, is a friend of mine" said Robo-Knux.
"Really? Would the hedgehog happen to fall into that category, because I've heard of him beating Mecha twice as bad as I did?" said Rahn.
"Pfft! They day that I become friends with Sonic The Hedgehog, is the day that this city is turned into a smoldering crater" said Robo-Knux.
"Well put. Now, if you'll excuse me Robo-Knux, I need to recharge for tomorrow." Rahn left down a the corridor, leaving the crimson robot alone. Robo-Knux just watched Rahn go, not bothering to move until the robian was out of site. After standing there a bit longer, he turned around and stalked up to the command center to carry out his evening duties.
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Morning had finally dawned upon the village of Knothole. Everyone had woken up early so that they could get an early start and pack up the remaining supplies and other things they were going to take with them. Most of the village was in the cafeteria eating their breakfast. Most of the senior freedom fighters were there at their usual table in the corner, most still depressed about what happened to Rahn.
"How did everyone sleep last night?" asked Bunnie. Almost all the freedom fighters growned, and Tails head just dropped his head right on the table.
"I slept pretty good" said Amy. Everyone was stunned by that remark. Amy had the more useless junk next to Rotor, but she managed to pack it all last night. Everone was surprised she wasn't tired after all that.
Sally started looking around the cafeteria for Rotor, but couldn't spot him. He's usuall there before anyone else in the morning. "Hey, has anyone seen Rotor?" asked Sally.
"Last time I saw him was when I gave him that weird sniper rifle last night" said Shadow. Right on cue, Rotor walked into the cafeteria. He had black rings under his eyes and looked like heck, basically. He went up to the tray line and put the entire pot of coffee on his tray, grabbing a paper cup on his way to where the others were sitting.
"Geez, Rotor. What happened to you. You look like you just came back from the Great War!" said Sonic.
"Well..." said Rotor sitting down. "I was up last night tinkering with that rifle. And what I found dang near chilled me to the bone" he said.
"What did you find?" asked Sally.
"Well, when I opened up the casing, which was difficult because it was welded, I found all kinds of wiring, capacitors, and microships. There were also many kinds of devises that I couldn't even identify. Whoever made that thing, it definitely wasn't Robotnik" said Rotor. He then poured some coffee from the pot into the cup, then proceeded to down the whole pot of coffee.
"Well, I for one ain't gonna stick around here and let Robotnik play target practice with one of those things on me, so I'm gonna start getting things ready for this afternoon" said Bunnie. She walked out of the cafeteria leaving the others.
"Rotor, did you find out anything else?" asked Sally.
"Well, the rifle is a sniper rifle, right? Regular sniper rifles are built for only that purpose, sniping. This thing, however, can be used as both a standard rifle and sniper rifle. Shadow, that mode I had fired it on last night, you know, when I vaporized my hoverbike engine? That was the sniper mode" said Rotor.
"Man!" said Shadow. "Talk about over kill!"
"Wait, did you say that that thing vaporized and enitre hover bike engine?!" said Sonic.
"If it did that to a machine, it probably will have the same effect on a living thing; maybe even worse" said Tails, almost at a whisper.
Sally nodded her head. She didn't need to tell anyone that there was going to be a long and difficult road ahead from here on out. "Listen, everyone. We need to get back to work on the evacuation. Once we've settled down in a spot to build a new village, we'll see what Robtnik is up to with these weapons." Everyone agreed and went their separate ways, off to finish the tedious task of evacutating Knothole.
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Rahn flew out of Robotropolis in route to the Floating Island. Using satelite photos of the planet, he was able to determine the islands location. He determined that he would be on Angel Island within just a few short hours. Rahn also had the emerald of power to guide him. It was getting brighter the closer he got to the chaos emeralds. Rahn grinned, and put his internal hover engine to full power.
(two hours later)
Rahn saw the island in his sights. For some reason, Rahn thought to was a beautiful site to behold. Realizing what he was thinking, Rahn quickly shook his head and disregarded the thought. He wasn't supposed to see it as beautiful, just another object to destroy. As he came closer to the island, he stopped abruptly and scanned the island. His internal radar picked up the chaos emeralds inside the inactive volcano of the island, in the place called hidden palace. He also detected the super and master emeralds, but those weren't what he was after.
Rahn then started scanning for any mobian lifesigns. He found two were in the caves below the island near one of the entrances that led inside. They were an armadillo and a bee. He also detected two more lifeforms on a smaller island floating in front of the volcano, an alligator and a chamelion. Then, he picked up the four in the hidden palace, three echidnas and one bat.
"This is just to easy" said Rahn. "There is absolutly nobody on the coastline of the island. I'll be able to get the jump on them, no problem!" He flew towards the islands sand white beach and landed. He scanned the area again to make sure nobody was there before he walked into the jungle up ahead.
For thirty minutes, Rahn walked through the jungle, using his sword to cut threw some of the thick vines and leaves. He finally came upon a puddel of water and his scanners went off. They determined that the water had a large lifeform swimming around. 'How's that possible? Nothing but small fish could swim in a puddle of that size.'
That's when the water came alive and a claw like hand smacked him into a nearby tree. Rahn got back up and looked himself over. A few dents, nothing major. He looked back towards the water and saw it take shape into a five foot tall water monster. Chaos. Rahn has been informed of this creature, and the abilities it had. That's why Rahn was ready for him.
Chaos came toward him with it's claws stretched out spinning like a tornado. Rahn quickly jumped over the attack and sliced Chaos across the head, causing him to form back into a puddle for a few seconds. Rahn took this time to reach for something inside his matter buckle. He pulled out a small gun. By the time Chaos reformed himself, Rahn fired the gun. A copper extention cord shot out and landed inside Chaos. "Nighty night." Rahn pulled the trigger and hundreds of volts of electricity surged through Chaos. Chaos's agonizing scream could be heard throughout the entire island.
Finally, the electricty in the gun was spent, and Rahn dropped it. Chaos had reformed back into his puddle state, but didn't move. He was knocked out cold. "So much for that. Now, off to the hidden palace" said Rahn. He activated his hover skates, and tore off further into the island interior.
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Everyone inside the hidden palace woke up when they heard the terrible scream of Chaos. Tikal sat up from where she was sleeping and gasped in fright.
"What the heck was that!?" asked Rouge.
"It...it...it was Chaos! He was crying in pain......and then he..he was silenced" said Tikal.
"Is he dead?" asked Knuckles.
"No, he's just unconcious" said Tikal. " I think that it's safe to say that your friend has arrived, Knuckles."
Knuckles got up from where he was sleeping and ran over to his watch, which doubled as a communicator. He picked it up and pressed the button on the side. "Guys, are you there?"
"We're here Knuckles" said Espio. "Same here" came Mighty.
"Did you guys hear Chaos scream?" asked Knuckles.
"Ya, I thought my eardrums were gonna explode" said Mighty.
"Be on guard you guys. I think our buddy, Rahn, just made his presence known" said Knuckles.
"You've got it, Knux" said Espio. "Over and, AGH!" Espio was cut off.
"Espio? Espio, are you there? Vector?" No reply. Then a voice finally came in over the speaker, but it wasn't Espio's or Vector's.
"You might as well start gift wrapping those chaos emeralds, because I'm coming after you next." The last thing Knuckles heard was the sound of Espio's communicator being crushed.
"Mighty, Charmy! Get your tails back up to hidden palace, now!!!"
"You've got it, Knux. See you in a few minutes" said Charmy.
Knuckles turned off his communicator and turned towards the others.
"What do we do now?" asked Julie. Knuckles sighed and looked her in the eye. "I don't know."
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Rahn dropped what was left of Espios communicator. He looked back towards the two chaotix. Both were still surprised that he got the drop on them. They were expecting him to come up the side of shrine isle that faced towards the coast. Instead, he came up the side facing the mountain and gave them both a sizeable kick in the head.
Vector got up, still rubbing his head, and brought out his walkman.
"Your going down ya creep!" Vector pointed the walkman at Rahn and played his favorite heavy metal song on full blast. Even with the headphones on, it was still very loud. Espio quickly covered his ears, but Rahn didn't catch on quickly enough. The music that Vector was playing caused Rahn hearing to short out, making him scream an agonizing screech. Vectors music had destroyed Rahn's hearing receptors.
Sparks started to shoot out of the side of his head. However, since the music wasn't bothering him anymore now that he couldn't hear, he swiftly leapt forward, with a vengence, and kneed Vector in the stomach. Vector dropped the walkman and doubled over on Rahn's knee. Rahn lifted his elbow and brought it down on to the back of Vectors neck, sending him flying behind Rahn, and knocking him unconcious.
Rahn swiftly crushed the walkman with his foot and proceeded to look for the chamelion. However, he wasn't able to find him. 'No matter' thought Rahn. 'I know exactly how to find him.' Rahn did the robotic equivilent of closeing his eyes and his mind to wander for a second. He sought out the chamelions mind and tried to home in on it. He found him. Espio was right behind him, and about to hit him. Rahn simply brought his fist behind him and hit Espio right between the eyes, then spun around and kicked Espio right in the side, nearly sending him flying off shrine isle. Espio was out, and his camouflage had dissappeared.
"I think you two have learned your lesson now, don't mess with a pychic mechabot."
Rahn left for the entrance into the mountain, leaving behind the two unconcious chaotix.
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"You think that Rahn got to Vector and Espio?" asked Charmy as they entered the hidden palace.
"I hope not. If Espio's gone, then I won't have anyone to argue with anymore" said Mighty.
All the sudden, the two heard a noise behind them. They both looked at eachother puzzled, then looked behind them. Sure enough, there was Rahn, skating right towards them.
"Might, I think that's him!" yelled Charmy.
"And you'd be right, floor it!!!" Mighty and Charmy put on the speed and made a mad dash towards the chamber were Knux and the others were at. Charmy looked behind himself again and saw Rahn beginning to draw a sword out from behind him.
"I think we need to go a little faster!" said Charmy. Mighty looked behind himself and saw what Charmy was talking about. "Don't worry!" he said. "We're almost there! Then it will be six to one!"
Charmy and Mighty ran as fast as they could, but ran was rapidly catching up to them. Finally, they made it to the master emerald chamber. Knuckles noticed them enter and walked up to them.
"Hey guys, what took ya?" Knuckles question was answered when a photon burst was fired between him and his friend, blowing the three back.
"What was that?" asked Julie-Su.
"That would be me" came a voice from the entrance to the chamber. The three females looked towards the enrance and saw a robot with a poncho and flat-rimmed hat pointing a weapon at them with his right hand, and holding a double-bladed sword in the other.
"Allow me to introduce myself..." he said, putting the weapon back in his matter buckle. "My name is Rahn, Mechabot Seven."
Julie-Su leaned over to Tikal. "This is Rahn? Shouldn't be to much of a problem to take out." Tikal didn't acknowledge her. She just curiously stared at Rahn. The only robot she had ever seen was E-102 Gamma, so this was still new to her.
"If you hand over the chaos emeralds quietly, then maybe I won't kill you" said Rahn in his coldest sounding voice.
"You might as well get ready for a fight, because you ain't getting them!" yelled Julie-Su.
"Is that right? Well then, why don't you show me what you've got!"
By now, Knuckles, Charmy, and Mighty had gotten up. Knuckles could see what Julie-Su was about to do and tried to stop her.
"Julie, wait, don't fight him!" Julie-Su turned towards Knuckles with an angry look on her face. "WHAT!!! Come on, Knux. He's just asking for a butt kicking!" she yelled.
Knuckles and the others walked next to Julie-Su. "Listen. Sonic and Shadow told me what Rahn is capable of doing, and he is not to be taken lightly. If we fight him, all of us do at the same time" said Knuckles. Julie-Su agreed, reluctantly.
"Six of you against one of me? You must be weaker that I thought" said Rahn.
"Believe me....your going to have your hands full dealing with us" said Knuckles.
"I hardly think so..." said Rahn as the six chaotix came towards him, ready to battle.
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*whew* My longest chapter yet. Sorry if this chapter was boring to anybody. But look on the bright side, nice big fight scene in the next chapter. There should be only three chapters left, so keep reading to find out what happens. Oh, and as always, please send in your reveiws. Thanx
Rahn (Mechabot VII)