I apologize again for how much the last chapter must have sucked. Really.
Here's a better one.
Disclaimer: I don't own jack but the Snivel Walker in this chapter. And
Scales.
Day 1, 7:00 PM (That's US time, not Egyptian time. In Egypt, it's around six.)
Snively grumbled and landed the pod, finally making it to the outskirts of his ruins/pyramid base. It had taken six hours to make a trip that should have only lasted half of an hour, causing him to get baked by the hot Egyptian sun. As he waited very impatiently for the walker/pod to repair itself, he opened up an access panel concealed in a wall and tried to type in the code to let him in safely. But seeing as how angry he already was, what with moving so slowly, getting a nasty sunburn, and getting fried by lightning, it's no wonder that Snively accidentally punched in the wrong code and activated his defenses. He screamed, his day getting even worse, and ran forward once the walker was fully healed, intending to take out his anger on some poor robots.
Stage 3: Sand Ocean. Mission: Return to hidden base.
Snively walked forward, dropping from the initial platform to a bridge below. He walked forward until the bridge stopped. Ahead of him was a rotating platform with a brazier in the center and two more platforms jutting from the side. The rotating platform was the only way he could continue. He hovered onto one of the platforms, waited until he was close to the platform leading away to the right, and hovered off. He landed on the platform to the right and walked down its length. At the end, he saw a ruined building ahead of him. He hoverd to a platform at the base of the building and got attacked by a Hawk. Nearly falling into the quicksand, Snively blasted the stupid robot to oblivion. He hopped up a series of platforms within the ruined building, reaching the top. He jumped from the top and hovered to a platform leading inside a building. Snively walked inside and was faced by severaql firing Hawks. He blasted the Hawks away, and saw he was at the edge of a chasm with a large pillar right in front of him. The pillar had dynamite packs attached to it. Snively locked on to the packs and blasted them, knocking down the pillar and allowing him to cross the pit. He went across and entered a room with a short set of stairs leading to a raised walkway. He went up the stairs and down the walkway, coming to a room that went sideways. There was another chasm and pillar to cross. Snively blasted down the pillar and walked across it. He came to a dead end, another pillar to his left. He blasted the packs on the pillar, making it a higher bridge across the chasm he had just crossed and letting him get to the upper level of the room. He walked across the pillar and turned right, jumping up some platforms and reaching a landing with swinging maces. He hovered over the maces and proceeded down the path. He came to yet another chasm, with some Hunters at the edge. He destroyed the Hunters, blasted down the pillar, and walked across the pit. He went down a ramp and was outside again. Straight ahead was a bridge leading to a floating platform. He walked across the bridge and hovered to the rotating platform, then hovered to a different platform, recalling it was the proper way to get to the pyramid in the center of the ruins. He saw several movign platforms aherad of him, going back and forth across the sand. Snively hovered across the platforms, careful not to misjudge the timing, and eventually came to a multi-tiered platform with a pillar and a fuel tank. Snively blew up the tank, giving him a stepping stone to reach the higher tier. From here, he was able to lock on to the charges on the pillar and blow them, knocking it over and providing him with a bridge. He walked across the bridge and reached a small walkway with two small platforms on either side and a rotating platform straight ahead. Two Hawks flew out of the sky, attacked, and were destroyed. Snively kept going and hovered on to the rotating platform. He hovered from there to a platform far to his left. He saw a moving platform coming towards him. He jumped onto the platform and let it carry him to two platforms by his left. One was a bridge, the other had two fences and was small. Snively hovered onto the small platform, and hovered from there to the bridge. He walked down the bridge and into a large area with an altar. He ignored it and hovered on to a moving platform ahead of him. He hovered from that platform to another one moving sideways, and jumped from that one to a bridge leading inside a building. Snively walked down the bridge and was attacked by five Hawks. He destroyed the robots and entered the building. He was on a platform with a chasm before him. At the other end of the room was a rigged pillar. Snively walked to the side of the pillar and blasted the dynamite packs on the pillar, causing it to fall over and form a bridge. Snively jumped onto the pillar and walked across. He dropped from the other end to a room full of priceless Egyptian vases from the Ramses Dynasty. Snively blasted them all to pieces and went forward. He walked up a short staircase and came to a courtyard with several pillars, a Rhino tank, an altar and some small pillars next to it. Snively blasted the Rhino and destroyed the small pillars, forming a set of small steps he jumped on to get to the top of the altar. He jumped and hovered from the top of the altar, going over a large fence and landing in a room filled with pillars over a quicksand pit. Snively carefully hovered from pillar to pillar, wary since he knew some of the pillars were triggered to sink if weight was placed on them. He landed on a ledge leading outside, on a path that had swinging maces. Snively hovered over the maces and went down the path. He walked down the long path, destroying some Hunters that got in his way, and saw another rotating platform. He hovered onto the platform as it sung by, and jumped off on the other side, onto a path lined with tall imposing statues of Egyptian gods, all of which had their faces ripped off and replaced with renditions of Snively. He grinned proudly as he walked by the mammoth copies of himself, eager for when statues like these would be scattered all around the world. The path ended in a set of jump plates. Snively walked on to the jump plates and was launched on to a path ahead, leaping over quicksand and a large pit of fire. He walked down the path ahead and was inside another building. A giant chasm was blocking his path, numerous pillars in several positions across the void. Snively grimaced and locked on to the pillar on the ledge right next to him, setting off the charges. The pillar fell over, hitting a platform with another pillar on it. Snively jumped onto and walked across the pillar, detonating the charges on the one ahead of him and forming a bridge to the right. He jumped on the pilalr and walked across it, stopping in front of the next pillar. He blew the charges, and the pillar fell, stopping on a platform to his left. Snively jumped on the pillar and walked across, blasting the packs on the next pillar and causing it to fall tot he left, stopping on a platform with the next pillar. He went across the bridge and blasted the charges on the pillar, causing it to fall to the right and make a bridge to the exit. Snively walked across the bridge and out into the fresh night air. He walked down the pillar-lined walkway before him and was ambushed by a dozen Hunters. As the robots fired, Snively shook but returned shots, destroying the robots. He continued down the walkway, up some stairs at the end, and came to a platform built into the side of the pyramid! He had made it! Right in front of him was the entrance into the base. Hovering in the middle of the platform was the Goal Ring. Snively walked through the Goal Ring, ending the level.
(STAGE CLEAR. RANK A.)
After easily getting through the locked door inside, Snively took the elevator down to the pyramid core, going across the circular quicksand pit and entering his inner sanctum. Ignoring the greetings from his robot slaves and offers of massages or food, Snively took his walker straight to the command center. It was a chamber that had once been the tomb of a great pharoah. Snively had taken all the treasure when he had claimed the pyramid and dumped the mummy of the dead king into the quicksand pit. He had radically revamped the tomb. It was now a long, rectangular hallway. A walkway lined with more statues that had his face on them lined the walkway. At the end of the walkway was a huge console with multiple screens. Behind the console was a grated area filled with pistons and other cool machinery, the reactor that powered the entire facility. A circular platform in front of the console was Snively's personal teleporter, currently turned off. The mad freak jumped down from his walker and activated the console, checking for the news. He had every important news broadcast in the world TiVo'ed so he could watch it at leisure and fast forward through the boring commercials. He turned on the TiVo device and selected CNN news. He fast forwarded at hyper speed through all the boring stuff, such as the execution of Barney, the cancellation of Teletubbies, Tails Prower's catching a blue whale by accident on his most recent fishing trip, Shadow the Hedgehog getting arrested and Scales stealing a Super Emerald, proof positive of Chaos Fusion.wait! He stopped and rewound, playing the news clipping. The canine anchorperson began. "In CNN breaking news, we have a shocking discovery! World'renowned hero Shadow the Hedgehog has been arrested earlier today by the military organization GUN. They gave no comment on what crime he committed and whether or not he did indeed escape from the military at one point by jumping out of a helicopter and using a wingflap to street board through the city of San Franscisco. What is know is that he is currently being transported to the former island of Alcatraz, nowadays known as Prison Island, where he will be held pending a military trial. What crime has this great hero committed to get himself caught by the planet's greatest security organization? Will he be proven innocent? And will this camera-shy hegehog ever let us give him an interview? Thank you, and now for sports-" Somebody offscreen handed the anchorperson a piece of paper. "What's this?" She looked at the paper. "Oh my! This just in, a strange lizard has broken into the San Fransisco Federal Reserve Bank and taken what is reported to be a Super Emerald. GUN forces have forbidden police to interfere, saying that this lizard is an escaped convict from their holding cells. What is this lizard's reason for stealing the priceless Super Emerald? Why-" Snively turned off the TV. "So, Scales has already started. Why do we need the Super Emeralds, I wonder? And what is on the ARK?" Snively asked himself. He accessed the files on the ARK he had copied from the Robotnik family database. He was disappointed to find nothing he didn't already know, that it had been made by his former employer's grandmother and was responsible for many scientific and technological achievements. There was a slight mention of a secret project, but nothing else. Frustrated, he turned on the teleporter and set it for the coordinates of the ARK. The circle started glowing, primed and ready. He walked back along the walkway to his walker and got in. He piloted the machine into the circle and waited as the teleportation sequence began. He didn't know what awaited him on the space colony ARK, but he would soon find out.
So how was this chapter? I hope it wasn't too bad. Please review and tell me what you thought of it. If you're worried about this not being too interesting, next chapter we finally have Scales' first chapter. We will finally have some more plot development! Woo!
Day 1, 7:00 PM (That's US time, not Egyptian time. In Egypt, it's around six.)
Snively grumbled and landed the pod, finally making it to the outskirts of his ruins/pyramid base. It had taken six hours to make a trip that should have only lasted half of an hour, causing him to get baked by the hot Egyptian sun. As he waited very impatiently for the walker/pod to repair itself, he opened up an access panel concealed in a wall and tried to type in the code to let him in safely. But seeing as how angry he already was, what with moving so slowly, getting a nasty sunburn, and getting fried by lightning, it's no wonder that Snively accidentally punched in the wrong code and activated his defenses. He screamed, his day getting even worse, and ran forward once the walker was fully healed, intending to take out his anger on some poor robots.
Stage 3: Sand Ocean. Mission: Return to hidden base.
Snively walked forward, dropping from the initial platform to a bridge below. He walked forward until the bridge stopped. Ahead of him was a rotating platform with a brazier in the center and two more platforms jutting from the side. The rotating platform was the only way he could continue. He hovered onto one of the platforms, waited until he was close to the platform leading away to the right, and hovered off. He landed on the platform to the right and walked down its length. At the end, he saw a ruined building ahead of him. He hoverd to a platform at the base of the building and got attacked by a Hawk. Nearly falling into the quicksand, Snively blasted the stupid robot to oblivion. He hopped up a series of platforms within the ruined building, reaching the top. He jumped from the top and hovered to a platform leading inside a building. Snively walked inside and was faced by severaql firing Hawks. He blasted the Hawks away, and saw he was at the edge of a chasm with a large pillar right in front of him. The pillar had dynamite packs attached to it. Snively locked on to the packs and blasted them, knocking down the pillar and allowing him to cross the pit. He went across and entered a room with a short set of stairs leading to a raised walkway. He went up the stairs and down the walkway, coming to a room that went sideways. There was another chasm and pillar to cross. Snively blasted down the pillar and walked across it. He came to a dead end, another pillar to his left. He blasted the packs on the pillar, making it a higher bridge across the chasm he had just crossed and letting him get to the upper level of the room. He walked across the pillar and turned right, jumping up some platforms and reaching a landing with swinging maces. He hovered over the maces and proceeded down the path. He came to yet another chasm, with some Hunters at the edge. He destroyed the Hunters, blasted down the pillar, and walked across the pit. He went down a ramp and was outside again. Straight ahead was a bridge leading to a floating platform. He walked across the bridge and hovered to the rotating platform, then hovered to a different platform, recalling it was the proper way to get to the pyramid in the center of the ruins. He saw several movign platforms aherad of him, going back and forth across the sand. Snively hovered across the platforms, careful not to misjudge the timing, and eventually came to a multi-tiered platform with a pillar and a fuel tank. Snively blew up the tank, giving him a stepping stone to reach the higher tier. From here, he was able to lock on to the charges on the pillar and blow them, knocking it over and providing him with a bridge. He walked across the bridge and reached a small walkway with two small platforms on either side and a rotating platform straight ahead. Two Hawks flew out of the sky, attacked, and were destroyed. Snively kept going and hovered on to the rotating platform. He hovered from there to a platform far to his left. He saw a moving platform coming towards him. He jumped onto the platform and let it carry him to two platforms by his left. One was a bridge, the other had two fences and was small. Snively hovered onto the small platform, and hovered from there to the bridge. He walked down the bridge and into a large area with an altar. He ignored it and hovered on to a moving platform ahead of him. He hovered from that platform to another one moving sideways, and jumped from that one to a bridge leading inside a building. Snively walked down the bridge and was attacked by five Hawks. He destroyed the robots and entered the building. He was on a platform with a chasm before him. At the other end of the room was a rigged pillar. Snively walked to the side of the pillar and blasted the dynamite packs on the pillar, causing it to fall over and form a bridge. Snively jumped onto the pillar and walked across. He dropped from the other end to a room full of priceless Egyptian vases from the Ramses Dynasty. Snively blasted them all to pieces and went forward. He walked up a short staircase and came to a courtyard with several pillars, a Rhino tank, an altar and some small pillars next to it. Snively blasted the Rhino and destroyed the small pillars, forming a set of small steps he jumped on to get to the top of the altar. He jumped and hovered from the top of the altar, going over a large fence and landing in a room filled with pillars over a quicksand pit. Snively carefully hovered from pillar to pillar, wary since he knew some of the pillars were triggered to sink if weight was placed on them. He landed on a ledge leading outside, on a path that had swinging maces. Snively hovered over the maces and went down the path. He walked down the long path, destroying some Hunters that got in his way, and saw another rotating platform. He hovered onto the platform as it sung by, and jumped off on the other side, onto a path lined with tall imposing statues of Egyptian gods, all of which had their faces ripped off and replaced with renditions of Snively. He grinned proudly as he walked by the mammoth copies of himself, eager for when statues like these would be scattered all around the world. The path ended in a set of jump plates. Snively walked on to the jump plates and was launched on to a path ahead, leaping over quicksand and a large pit of fire. He walked down the path ahead and was inside another building. A giant chasm was blocking his path, numerous pillars in several positions across the void. Snively grimaced and locked on to the pillar on the ledge right next to him, setting off the charges. The pillar fell over, hitting a platform with another pillar on it. Snively jumped onto and walked across the pillar, detonating the charges on the one ahead of him and forming a bridge to the right. He jumped on the pilalr and walked across it, stopping in front of the next pillar. He blew the charges, and the pillar fell, stopping on a platform to his left. Snively jumped on the pillar and walked across, blasting the packs on the next pillar and causing it to fall tot he left, stopping on a platform with the next pillar. He went across the bridge and blasted the charges on the pillar, causing it to fall to the right and make a bridge to the exit. Snively walked across the bridge and out into the fresh night air. He walked down the pillar-lined walkway before him and was ambushed by a dozen Hunters. As the robots fired, Snively shook but returned shots, destroying the robots. He continued down the walkway, up some stairs at the end, and came to a platform built into the side of the pyramid! He had made it! Right in front of him was the entrance into the base. Hovering in the middle of the platform was the Goal Ring. Snively walked through the Goal Ring, ending the level.
(STAGE CLEAR. RANK A.)
After easily getting through the locked door inside, Snively took the elevator down to the pyramid core, going across the circular quicksand pit and entering his inner sanctum. Ignoring the greetings from his robot slaves and offers of massages or food, Snively took his walker straight to the command center. It was a chamber that had once been the tomb of a great pharoah. Snively had taken all the treasure when he had claimed the pyramid and dumped the mummy of the dead king into the quicksand pit. He had radically revamped the tomb. It was now a long, rectangular hallway. A walkway lined with more statues that had his face on them lined the walkway. At the end of the walkway was a huge console with multiple screens. Behind the console was a grated area filled with pistons and other cool machinery, the reactor that powered the entire facility. A circular platform in front of the console was Snively's personal teleporter, currently turned off. The mad freak jumped down from his walker and activated the console, checking for the news. He had every important news broadcast in the world TiVo'ed so he could watch it at leisure and fast forward through the boring commercials. He turned on the TiVo device and selected CNN news. He fast forwarded at hyper speed through all the boring stuff, such as the execution of Barney, the cancellation of Teletubbies, Tails Prower's catching a blue whale by accident on his most recent fishing trip, Shadow the Hedgehog getting arrested and Scales stealing a Super Emerald, proof positive of Chaos Fusion.wait! He stopped and rewound, playing the news clipping. The canine anchorperson began. "In CNN breaking news, we have a shocking discovery! World'renowned hero Shadow the Hedgehog has been arrested earlier today by the military organization GUN. They gave no comment on what crime he committed and whether or not he did indeed escape from the military at one point by jumping out of a helicopter and using a wingflap to street board through the city of San Franscisco. What is know is that he is currently being transported to the former island of Alcatraz, nowadays known as Prison Island, where he will be held pending a military trial. What crime has this great hero committed to get himself caught by the planet's greatest security organization? Will he be proven innocent? And will this camera-shy hegehog ever let us give him an interview? Thank you, and now for sports-" Somebody offscreen handed the anchorperson a piece of paper. "What's this?" She looked at the paper. "Oh my! This just in, a strange lizard has broken into the San Fransisco Federal Reserve Bank and taken what is reported to be a Super Emerald. GUN forces have forbidden police to interfere, saying that this lizard is an escaped convict from their holding cells. What is this lizard's reason for stealing the priceless Super Emerald? Why-" Snively turned off the TV. "So, Scales has already started. Why do we need the Super Emeralds, I wonder? And what is on the ARK?" Snively asked himself. He accessed the files on the ARK he had copied from the Robotnik family database. He was disappointed to find nothing he didn't already know, that it had been made by his former employer's grandmother and was responsible for many scientific and technological achievements. There was a slight mention of a secret project, but nothing else. Frustrated, he turned on the teleporter and set it for the coordinates of the ARK. The circle started glowing, primed and ready. He walked back along the walkway to his walker and got in. He piloted the machine into the circle and waited as the teleportation sequence began. He didn't know what awaited him on the space colony ARK, but he would soon find out.
So how was this chapter? I hope it wasn't too bad. Please review and tell me what you thought of it. If you're worried about this not being too interesting, next chapter we finally have Scales' first chapter. We will finally have some more plot development! Woo!