Here's Snively's next level. Hope you like it, even though we all hate him
for what he's going to do. (Oh, in case you're wondering, Snively is
slightly insane.)
Disclaimer: I own the Snivel Walker and Scales.
Day 1, 10:00 PM
High above the planet orbited a great planetoid. Most people thought it no more than a second moon or satellite. However, it was in fact the abandoned space colony ARK. Deep within the darkened hallways of the colony, a lone figure in his walker cursed, suddenly realizing he was going the wrong way. A large elevator platform hovered up the huge shaft, stopping in front of a catwalk. The one using the elevator stepped on to the catwalk and stopped, checking his map for the hundredth time. Snively took a close look at the map he had taken up to the space colony with him, making sure he was reading it right. He would have made it to the control room much sooner if it weren't for the fact that he had ended up reading the map upside down and getting hopelessly lost for a few hours. But now, he was finally back on track. There was only a little more to go before he reached the control center. He sighed, hoping there would be stuff to blow up on the way to the control room, and went down the catwalk, entering the door at the end.
Stage 6: Lost Colony. Mission: Find the way to the colony's core.
Snively walked into a dark room. Of course, all the rooms in the ARK were dark, considering the colony had been shut down for the last fifty years. Snively flicked on the large lens on the front of the walker, the Power Laser doubling as a floodlight. He saw six Hunters with their guns pointed at him. He flicked the lights off and turned them back on. They were still there. "Damn. Wait, why am I angry? Now I get to blow shit up!" Happily, Snively reduced the Hunters to nuts and bolts and went through a corridor ahead. He went right, then left, following the hallway. He came to a room with a small ledge over a deep shaft. Hanging from the center of the shaft was a pulley. Snively hovered to the pulley and grabbed on, lowering down the shaft, between several nasty laser grids. The pulley stopped several meters above the floor, which had a series of lasers going horizontal over the shaft. He dropped from the pulley and carefully hovered down, dropping through holes in the laser grids. He exited the shaft and came to a long corridor. He was on a ledge above the floor of the big hallway, a floating platform hovering just before him. He stepped on the platform, which started moving down the hall. As he proceeded, Snively saw Beetles up ahead. He locked on and blasted them before they could shoot. He downed about a dozen Beetles before reaching the end of the hallway. He stepped off the platform and went through the door before him. He was now in a large room with some crates and a locked door on the right wall. After failing to blast the door open, Snively tried to figure out how to go through. He blasted all the crates out of frustration, because he hated having to go through puzzles. He was pleased to see a switch hidden underneath a crate. He stepped on the switch, unlocking the door. He went through it and found himself in another hallway like the one he had just used. To his right was a Rhino, charging towards him. Right as the robot tank was about to ram into him, Snively activated his boxing glove, smashing the machine. He saw several crates blocking the floating platform, so he destroyed them all before stepping on the lift. It moved forward, taking him down the long hallway. He had to blast several more Beetles before reaching the exit. He went through the door ahead and was in a room with a walkway running down the center of the room, pits of toxic waste on either side. On both sides of the walkway was a single floating platform. Snively walked to the end of the walkway and hovered to one of the platforms. It raised, taking him to the exit door. He went through it and entered a large square room with lots of wooden and metal crates along the floor and a large pillar in the center of the room. A bridge ran from the pillar to the wall, leading to a door. Snively looked for a way to get to the bridge. As he approached a couple of wooden boxes supporting an oddly shaped stack of metal boxes, a couple of Hawks swooped down. Snively blew the flying robots away and destroyed the wooden crates, dropping the metal ones to the floor. Realizing the metal crates now looked like a set of stairs; Snively hopped up the containers and hovered to the bridge. He went along the bridge and through the door, entering another long hallway with a floating platform. Two Hunters on the ledge before him fired on Snively, damaging the walker. Angrily, the deranged villain blasted away both Hunters and stepped on the platform, whisked down the hallway. He blasted every Beetle in sight, and got off on a platform filling the rest of the hallway's floor. Ahead of him was a platform too high to jump onto and two lifts at the bottom. Snively jumped on one of the lifts, which elevated to the top of the platform. He got off and walked forward, dropping to a bridge placed over a huge abyss. At the end of the bridge was a floating platform. Snively stepped on the platform, which lowered into the abyss. As he went down, Beetles, Hornets, and Hawks flew at him. Taking action, Snively blasted the flying robots whenever one made a pass at him, eventually getting to the bottom. Well, not really the bottom of the abyss, but the bottom of the elevator's descent. He stepped off the elevator platform and onto a catwalk. It turned right, leading to another platform. Snively walked on and was elevated to another short catwalk. He walked to the end, seeing a series of platforms ahead of him. He hovered across the platforms, careful not to lose his step and fall into the chasm. He had a few close calls when some Hornets flew at him from the darkness, shooting their homing missiles and nearly knocking him from the sky, but he made it. He hovered from the last platform to a door. He entered the door and found himself in a smaller chasm, with a door at a slightly lower level at the other end. He started to hover across the gap, noticing too late that the door was locked. He was relieved to see a Beetle floating right in front of the door. He blasted it, unlocking the door. It opened as he approached, and he went through. He was in yet another chasm, at the beginning of a long series of catwalks and gaps. Groaning, he started walking across the long and twisting circuit of catwalks, hovering over the gaps and shooting all the irritating enemies he saw before entering another room. It was more of a corridor, really, curving right up ahead. A Rhino charged out of the shadows and slammed the walker, nearly knocking it over. Snively furiously shot it with his cannon and went down the corridor. He came to the end, and was forced to go across a catwalk over another chasm. At the end of the catwalk was a floating platform. He stepped on the platform and descended into the void, shooting the numerous enemies that swarmed him in the darkness. At the bottom, he saw another long series of catwalks, gaps, and enemies. After reluctantly crossing the vast expanse of walkways with holes in them, Snively found a door and entered it, going through a long hallway and entering a room with a very high ceiling. A floating platform sat in the middle of the room. Snively grunted and jumped to the platform, which started raising him to the top of the room. He blasted the Hornets, Hawks, and Beetles lurking in the chamber before finally reaching the top. There was a door. Unfortunately, it was broken. Snively was this close to throwing a dangerous tantrum when he saw a dynamite pack strapped to the door. Grinning, he blasted the explosive, blowing the door open. He walked through and started screaming. He was in yet another chasm. He was so sick of them. Very disgruntled, he walked along the catwalk and onto the platform. As it went down, he started blasting everything that he thought moved, often hitting nothing but the wall. After taking out his rage and some robots and the walls of the pit, he saw another sequence of catwalks and holes below him. Oh no, he wasn't going to take anymore of this! He jumped off the platform while it was still overlooking the area and activated his jet engines, hovering to the door at the end of the room. He landed, only to find the door was broken and there was no dynamite pack in sight. He looked behind him and saw a missile pointed right at the door. He grinned. Even better than dynamite packs! He walked around the missiles and stomped the launch switch, firing the missile at the door and destroying it. Cackling, Snively went forward. Inside was one last really long hallway with a floating platform. He stepped on the platform and was whisked down the hallway, shooting at every Hornet and Hawk he saw, also blasting several harmless power conduits because he thought they were threatening him, stopping in front of a door. He passed through the door and was in a big room with a walkway between two toxic pits. At the other end was a door leading to the safer sections of the colony, much closer to the control room. The Goal Ring floated in front of the door. Snively walked through, ending the level.
(STAGE CLEAR. RANK A.)
After wandering a little longer through the interior of the colony, Snively found the control room at last, built into a big shaft going straight through the middle of the giant space station. A catwalk led over the abyss to the controls in the center of the room, featuring a huge and complex control panel and inactive holographic screen, and in the very center of the cylindrical mass, a pillar with seven sockets in it. A tube- like mechanism was positioned over the center of the pillar, the purpose it served unreadable. Snively was pleased to see Scales was standing on the cylindrical mass, holding the green Super Emerald. "Ah, Snively, you're here at last. What took you so long?" she asked. Snively grimaced and got out of the walker, holding the gray Super Emerald. "That's none of your business! And you are to refer to me as Master, not Snively!" he hissed. Scales sighed and rolled her eyes. "Fine. Master, I see you brought the Super Emerald as I requested. Do you have any others?" Snively shook his head. "No, I ran into a bit of trouble getting back to my base. I didn't have time to start tracking down Super Emeralds. Anyway, I'm the one giving orders around here, not you! Tell me, why do we need the Super Emeralds? And what is this wish you are talking about?" Scales sighed, starting to wish she had picked somebody else to help her. Then again, what were the chances she'd find someone as evil yet slightly crazy as Snively? "Well, Snively.I mean, Master, as you know, the space colony ARK was run and constructed by Dr. Maria Robotnik, the greatest genius in over a hundred years." "Ahem! Second greatest, you mean." Said Snively, patting his chest. Scales rolled her eyes, thinking to herself that Dr. Maria would have wiped the floor with him in the intellect and personality category. "Right, the second greatest genius in over a century. Anyway, while she did achieve several miraculous discoveries through the use of Chaos energy, few people knew another achievement of hers. The government contract that allowed Maria to keep supplying the colony and keeping it in operation also required her to create a powerful weapon to be used for national defense, just in case a war broke out. The weapon was to be used as a sort of bluff, much like the nukes in the Cold War. It seemed pointless, since it didn't look like there would be a war anytime soon. But the politicians back then were a bit paranoiac, so the weapon was built." "Tell me about the weapon! Get to the point!" Snively said eagerly. Scales growled under her breath. "The weapon was a powerful machine capable of mass destruction, fueled by both the Chaos reactor core and the seven Super Emeralds, which were then in the colony's collection of finds. It is called the Eclipse Cannon. When fully charged, the cannon is capable of firing at a numerous level of settings, each ranging from a different level of power." "What are the ranges?" asked Snively. "At the lowest setting, the cannon can make a crater the size of Tokyo in its target. At the highest setting, the cannon is capable of blowing up an entire planet." Scales explained. Snively started drooling in ecstasy. "A weapon capable of blowing up an entire planet! Oh, where is it? Wherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewhere? " Scales smiled. "You're standing in it." Snively blinked, surprised, and peered around the room. "If you want to use the cannon immediately, I'm afraid you will be disappointed. The only way to activate the cannon is to collect all the Super Emeralds." So saying this, Scales spun around and slammed the Emerald into a socket on the central pillar. Lights all over the colony flickered to life. The buttons on the control panel blinked and activated. Several cool circular holographic displays activated on multiple levels on the control tower. A blue beam shot from the device over the pillar, going inside of the machinery. "Please give me the gray Emerald." Snively tossed it over to Scales. She inserted it into another socket. The two Emeralds glowed, reacting to each other's presence. "Once we have enough Super Emeralds, you can harness the Eclipse Cannon's power and form a legacy of your own. You could even take over the world, if you wish." "Of course that's what I wish!" said Snively eagerly. "We'll get the rest of the Emeralds, and then the whole world will belong to the Snively Empire! Bwahahahahahaha!" "Do you really think it'll be that easy?" asked a voice from behind them. Snively spun around and saw Rouge. "Eh? The bat from before? What are you doing here?" he asked. "And how long have you been standing there?" "The entire time." said the white bat. Snively whirled around again. "Why didn't you tell me she was right there?!" Snively bellowed at Scales. She tried to keep a straight face. "You didn't ask, Master." Rouge cleared her throat. "As I was saying, it won't be as easy as you think to find the rest of the Emeralds. They're in many different places, and you'll need help finding and retrieving them." "And you're offering to help?" Snively asked sarcastically. "Of course. I'm Rouge the Bat, the world's greatest treasure hunter and jewel thief. I've taken some of the world's most priceless gemstones for my collection." Rouge said proudly. "Oh really? Why do you think somebody such as myself should work with someone the likes of you?" Snively asked pompously. Rouge pulled the dark blue Super Emerald from her dimension pocket. "Because I have a Super Emerald already!" she said. Snively gasped. "Give it to me!" He tried to grab the Emerald from her hands. She held it out of his reach, dangling it above his head. He was too short to grab it from her, so it was rather comedic to see him jumping up and down, trying to grab the jewel. Scales struggled not to laugh. "You can have the Super Emerald if you let me help you guys find the others." Said Rouge firmly. Snively made a few more halfhearted leaps, then gave up. "Fine! You can help! Just give me the Emerald already!" "Okay." Rouge threw the Super Emerald to Scales, who placed it in another socket on the pillar. Snively scowled, angry that she hadn't given it directly to him. "Now, how about we talk more about this in the morning? It's pretty late, and I'm sure even evil geniuses need their sleep." Placated by her compliment, Snively changed his tune. A little. "Rest, of course, I'm sure we could all use some sleep before our big day tomorrow! For tomorrow is the beginning of the end! Muhahahahahahaha! Come on, laugh with me! Muhahahahahahaha!" Scales and Rouge looked at each, rolled their eyes, and started halfheartedly following Snively's lead. In the back of her mind, Scales couldn't help liking Rouge. She seemed to be a hell of a lot better a companion than Snively would be. Perhaps they could be friends, once this was all over. After her mission was accomplished, and Snively was done away with.
And so, the Dark team has united! Or have they? Each member seems to have their own agenda. We know Snively's, and have a hint about Scales' but what exactly is Rouge trying to do? Oh well, we won't find out for a while. In any case, stay tuned for the next action-packed chapter of the Dark Story!
Day 1, 10:00 PM
High above the planet orbited a great planetoid. Most people thought it no more than a second moon or satellite. However, it was in fact the abandoned space colony ARK. Deep within the darkened hallways of the colony, a lone figure in his walker cursed, suddenly realizing he was going the wrong way. A large elevator platform hovered up the huge shaft, stopping in front of a catwalk. The one using the elevator stepped on to the catwalk and stopped, checking his map for the hundredth time. Snively took a close look at the map he had taken up to the space colony with him, making sure he was reading it right. He would have made it to the control room much sooner if it weren't for the fact that he had ended up reading the map upside down and getting hopelessly lost for a few hours. But now, he was finally back on track. There was only a little more to go before he reached the control center. He sighed, hoping there would be stuff to blow up on the way to the control room, and went down the catwalk, entering the door at the end.
Stage 6: Lost Colony. Mission: Find the way to the colony's core.
Snively walked into a dark room. Of course, all the rooms in the ARK were dark, considering the colony had been shut down for the last fifty years. Snively flicked on the large lens on the front of the walker, the Power Laser doubling as a floodlight. He saw six Hunters with their guns pointed at him. He flicked the lights off and turned them back on. They were still there. "Damn. Wait, why am I angry? Now I get to blow shit up!" Happily, Snively reduced the Hunters to nuts and bolts and went through a corridor ahead. He went right, then left, following the hallway. He came to a room with a small ledge over a deep shaft. Hanging from the center of the shaft was a pulley. Snively hovered to the pulley and grabbed on, lowering down the shaft, between several nasty laser grids. The pulley stopped several meters above the floor, which had a series of lasers going horizontal over the shaft. He dropped from the pulley and carefully hovered down, dropping through holes in the laser grids. He exited the shaft and came to a long corridor. He was on a ledge above the floor of the big hallway, a floating platform hovering just before him. He stepped on the platform, which started moving down the hall. As he proceeded, Snively saw Beetles up ahead. He locked on and blasted them before they could shoot. He downed about a dozen Beetles before reaching the end of the hallway. He stepped off the platform and went through the door before him. He was now in a large room with some crates and a locked door on the right wall. After failing to blast the door open, Snively tried to figure out how to go through. He blasted all the crates out of frustration, because he hated having to go through puzzles. He was pleased to see a switch hidden underneath a crate. He stepped on the switch, unlocking the door. He went through it and found himself in another hallway like the one he had just used. To his right was a Rhino, charging towards him. Right as the robot tank was about to ram into him, Snively activated his boxing glove, smashing the machine. He saw several crates blocking the floating platform, so he destroyed them all before stepping on the lift. It moved forward, taking him down the long hallway. He had to blast several more Beetles before reaching the exit. He went through the door ahead and was in a room with a walkway running down the center of the room, pits of toxic waste on either side. On both sides of the walkway was a single floating platform. Snively walked to the end of the walkway and hovered to one of the platforms. It raised, taking him to the exit door. He went through it and entered a large square room with lots of wooden and metal crates along the floor and a large pillar in the center of the room. A bridge ran from the pillar to the wall, leading to a door. Snively looked for a way to get to the bridge. As he approached a couple of wooden boxes supporting an oddly shaped stack of metal boxes, a couple of Hawks swooped down. Snively blew the flying robots away and destroyed the wooden crates, dropping the metal ones to the floor. Realizing the metal crates now looked like a set of stairs; Snively hopped up the containers and hovered to the bridge. He went along the bridge and through the door, entering another long hallway with a floating platform. Two Hunters on the ledge before him fired on Snively, damaging the walker. Angrily, the deranged villain blasted away both Hunters and stepped on the platform, whisked down the hallway. He blasted every Beetle in sight, and got off on a platform filling the rest of the hallway's floor. Ahead of him was a platform too high to jump onto and two lifts at the bottom. Snively jumped on one of the lifts, which elevated to the top of the platform. He got off and walked forward, dropping to a bridge placed over a huge abyss. At the end of the bridge was a floating platform. Snively stepped on the platform, which lowered into the abyss. As he went down, Beetles, Hornets, and Hawks flew at him. Taking action, Snively blasted the flying robots whenever one made a pass at him, eventually getting to the bottom. Well, not really the bottom of the abyss, but the bottom of the elevator's descent. He stepped off the elevator platform and onto a catwalk. It turned right, leading to another platform. Snively walked on and was elevated to another short catwalk. He walked to the end, seeing a series of platforms ahead of him. He hovered across the platforms, careful not to lose his step and fall into the chasm. He had a few close calls when some Hornets flew at him from the darkness, shooting their homing missiles and nearly knocking him from the sky, but he made it. He hovered from the last platform to a door. He entered the door and found himself in a smaller chasm, with a door at a slightly lower level at the other end. He started to hover across the gap, noticing too late that the door was locked. He was relieved to see a Beetle floating right in front of the door. He blasted it, unlocking the door. It opened as he approached, and he went through. He was in yet another chasm, at the beginning of a long series of catwalks and gaps. Groaning, he started walking across the long and twisting circuit of catwalks, hovering over the gaps and shooting all the irritating enemies he saw before entering another room. It was more of a corridor, really, curving right up ahead. A Rhino charged out of the shadows and slammed the walker, nearly knocking it over. Snively furiously shot it with his cannon and went down the corridor. He came to the end, and was forced to go across a catwalk over another chasm. At the end of the catwalk was a floating platform. He stepped on the platform and descended into the void, shooting the numerous enemies that swarmed him in the darkness. At the bottom, he saw another long series of catwalks, gaps, and enemies. After reluctantly crossing the vast expanse of walkways with holes in them, Snively found a door and entered it, going through a long hallway and entering a room with a very high ceiling. A floating platform sat in the middle of the room. Snively grunted and jumped to the platform, which started raising him to the top of the room. He blasted the Hornets, Hawks, and Beetles lurking in the chamber before finally reaching the top. There was a door. Unfortunately, it was broken. Snively was this close to throwing a dangerous tantrum when he saw a dynamite pack strapped to the door. Grinning, he blasted the explosive, blowing the door open. He walked through and started screaming. He was in yet another chasm. He was so sick of them. Very disgruntled, he walked along the catwalk and onto the platform. As it went down, he started blasting everything that he thought moved, often hitting nothing but the wall. After taking out his rage and some robots and the walls of the pit, he saw another sequence of catwalks and holes below him. Oh no, he wasn't going to take anymore of this! He jumped off the platform while it was still overlooking the area and activated his jet engines, hovering to the door at the end of the room. He landed, only to find the door was broken and there was no dynamite pack in sight. He looked behind him and saw a missile pointed right at the door. He grinned. Even better than dynamite packs! He walked around the missiles and stomped the launch switch, firing the missile at the door and destroying it. Cackling, Snively went forward. Inside was one last really long hallway with a floating platform. He stepped on the platform and was whisked down the hallway, shooting at every Hornet and Hawk he saw, also blasting several harmless power conduits because he thought they were threatening him, stopping in front of a door. He passed through the door and was in a big room with a walkway between two toxic pits. At the other end was a door leading to the safer sections of the colony, much closer to the control room. The Goal Ring floated in front of the door. Snively walked through, ending the level.
(STAGE CLEAR. RANK A.)
After wandering a little longer through the interior of the colony, Snively found the control room at last, built into a big shaft going straight through the middle of the giant space station. A catwalk led over the abyss to the controls in the center of the room, featuring a huge and complex control panel and inactive holographic screen, and in the very center of the cylindrical mass, a pillar with seven sockets in it. A tube- like mechanism was positioned over the center of the pillar, the purpose it served unreadable. Snively was pleased to see Scales was standing on the cylindrical mass, holding the green Super Emerald. "Ah, Snively, you're here at last. What took you so long?" she asked. Snively grimaced and got out of the walker, holding the gray Super Emerald. "That's none of your business! And you are to refer to me as Master, not Snively!" he hissed. Scales sighed and rolled her eyes. "Fine. Master, I see you brought the Super Emerald as I requested. Do you have any others?" Snively shook his head. "No, I ran into a bit of trouble getting back to my base. I didn't have time to start tracking down Super Emeralds. Anyway, I'm the one giving orders around here, not you! Tell me, why do we need the Super Emeralds? And what is this wish you are talking about?" Scales sighed, starting to wish she had picked somebody else to help her. Then again, what were the chances she'd find someone as evil yet slightly crazy as Snively? "Well, Snively.I mean, Master, as you know, the space colony ARK was run and constructed by Dr. Maria Robotnik, the greatest genius in over a hundred years." "Ahem! Second greatest, you mean." Said Snively, patting his chest. Scales rolled her eyes, thinking to herself that Dr. Maria would have wiped the floor with him in the intellect and personality category. "Right, the second greatest genius in over a century. Anyway, while she did achieve several miraculous discoveries through the use of Chaos energy, few people knew another achievement of hers. The government contract that allowed Maria to keep supplying the colony and keeping it in operation also required her to create a powerful weapon to be used for national defense, just in case a war broke out. The weapon was to be used as a sort of bluff, much like the nukes in the Cold War. It seemed pointless, since it didn't look like there would be a war anytime soon. But the politicians back then were a bit paranoiac, so the weapon was built." "Tell me about the weapon! Get to the point!" Snively said eagerly. Scales growled under her breath. "The weapon was a powerful machine capable of mass destruction, fueled by both the Chaos reactor core and the seven Super Emeralds, which were then in the colony's collection of finds. It is called the Eclipse Cannon. When fully charged, the cannon is capable of firing at a numerous level of settings, each ranging from a different level of power." "What are the ranges?" asked Snively. "At the lowest setting, the cannon can make a crater the size of Tokyo in its target. At the highest setting, the cannon is capable of blowing up an entire planet." Scales explained. Snively started drooling in ecstasy. "A weapon capable of blowing up an entire planet! Oh, where is it? Wherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewherewhere? " Scales smiled. "You're standing in it." Snively blinked, surprised, and peered around the room. "If you want to use the cannon immediately, I'm afraid you will be disappointed. The only way to activate the cannon is to collect all the Super Emeralds." So saying this, Scales spun around and slammed the Emerald into a socket on the central pillar. Lights all over the colony flickered to life. The buttons on the control panel blinked and activated. Several cool circular holographic displays activated on multiple levels on the control tower. A blue beam shot from the device over the pillar, going inside of the machinery. "Please give me the gray Emerald." Snively tossed it over to Scales. She inserted it into another socket. The two Emeralds glowed, reacting to each other's presence. "Once we have enough Super Emeralds, you can harness the Eclipse Cannon's power and form a legacy of your own. You could even take over the world, if you wish." "Of course that's what I wish!" said Snively eagerly. "We'll get the rest of the Emeralds, and then the whole world will belong to the Snively Empire! Bwahahahahahaha!" "Do you really think it'll be that easy?" asked a voice from behind them. Snively spun around and saw Rouge. "Eh? The bat from before? What are you doing here?" he asked. "And how long have you been standing there?" "The entire time." said the white bat. Snively whirled around again. "Why didn't you tell me she was right there?!" Snively bellowed at Scales. She tried to keep a straight face. "You didn't ask, Master." Rouge cleared her throat. "As I was saying, it won't be as easy as you think to find the rest of the Emeralds. They're in many different places, and you'll need help finding and retrieving them." "And you're offering to help?" Snively asked sarcastically. "Of course. I'm Rouge the Bat, the world's greatest treasure hunter and jewel thief. I've taken some of the world's most priceless gemstones for my collection." Rouge said proudly. "Oh really? Why do you think somebody such as myself should work with someone the likes of you?" Snively asked pompously. Rouge pulled the dark blue Super Emerald from her dimension pocket. "Because I have a Super Emerald already!" she said. Snively gasped. "Give it to me!" He tried to grab the Emerald from her hands. She held it out of his reach, dangling it above his head. He was too short to grab it from her, so it was rather comedic to see him jumping up and down, trying to grab the jewel. Scales struggled not to laugh. "You can have the Super Emerald if you let me help you guys find the others." Said Rouge firmly. Snively made a few more halfhearted leaps, then gave up. "Fine! You can help! Just give me the Emerald already!" "Okay." Rouge threw the Super Emerald to Scales, who placed it in another socket on the pillar. Snively scowled, angry that she hadn't given it directly to him. "Now, how about we talk more about this in the morning? It's pretty late, and I'm sure even evil geniuses need their sleep." Placated by her compliment, Snively changed his tune. A little. "Rest, of course, I'm sure we could all use some sleep before our big day tomorrow! For tomorrow is the beginning of the end! Muhahahahahahaha! Come on, laugh with me! Muhahahahahahaha!" Scales and Rouge looked at each, rolled their eyes, and started halfheartedly following Snively's lead. In the back of her mind, Scales couldn't help liking Rouge. She seemed to be a hell of a lot better a companion than Snively would be. Perhaps they could be friends, once this was all over. After her mission was accomplished, and Snively was done away with.
And so, the Dark team has united! Or have they? Each member seems to have their own agenda. We know Snively's, and have a hint about Scales' but what exactly is Rouge trying to do? Oh well, we won't find out for a while. In any case, stay tuned for the next action-packed chapter of the Dark Story!