Maverick, please don't kill Chao-lin! If you do you'll be no better than Snively! Anyway, here's the next chapter. I don't know if you'll see it before the deadline, just DON'T HURT THE PRESIDENTIAL CHAO! Disclaimer: I own the Snivel Walker, Scales, and this storyline even though it is admittedly based on Sonic Adventure 2.

Day 2, 8:50 AM

After a night's rest, the operation began. Claiming information from some contacts of hers, Rouge took the other two to a place that had not one, but three Super Emeralds in storage. Prison Island, the former Alcatraz. The island had been abandoned as a prison and claimed by GUN as a secondary base. Due to terraforming, the island was now much larger and covered in jungle. The old prison was somewhere in the jungle, converted into an armory. The main base was at the northern tip of the island, near a large harbor full of warships. On the beach of this same harbor, Snively looked down at Rouge from his walker. They had teleported behind GUN's defenses and were now preparing to steal the Emeralds. "Rouge, are you sure- " "For the last time, yes I'm sure the Emeralds are here!" Rouge snapped. "They're hidden in the facility, under top security. I'll handle it, of course." Scales walked back to her teammates. Her eyes had turned red on their arrival here, her hatred coming to the surface. "They haven't spotted us yet." She reported, struggling against the urge to run into the base and kill the soldiers. "Good, that gives us time to go over the plan!" Rouge and Scales groaned. Snively loved hearing himself talk, and tot hat end had explained the plan a dozen times already. "I'll cross the harbor and cause a distraction, allowing you two to sneak around the beach unnoticed and meet me at the base. From there, we will split up. I will escape to the southwest end of the island and wait for you two. Rouge, you will enter the base, infiltrate the holding area, and get the Super Emeralds." He turned to Scales and tossed a large package labeled "Snively Bombom" at her. "Scales, you will head towards the old prison, where they keep the armory. Plant these explosives all around the jungle on the way, and set the master bomb outside the armory. When Rouge has grabbed the Emeralds, we can set the bombs off and obliterate the entire island, erasing our tracks. Now, we only have one chance at this, so if either of you fail it's straight to the roboticizer with you girls!" With that, the criminal headed towards a ship in the harbor. Rouge grimaced. "What an asshole!" Scales shrugged. "His threat doesn't really mean much to me, half of my body is machine already. I doubt the roboticizer will be able to roboticize the other half, my DNA code is erratic, kept in tune only with the Chaos Emerald I possess." Rouge sighed. "Would that I could be as confident about my well- being. Come on, let's go."

Stage 7: Weapons Bed. Mission: Rush into the military base.

Snively was on a large aircraft carrier, with dozens upon dozens of deactivated Hunters sitting on the deck. Eager for some target practice, Snively started locking on and blowing up the Hunters two dozen at a time. As he proceeded, blowing up all the robots, he saw personnel rushing across the deck, trying to get inside before he could reach them. "Oh no you don't! Nobody escapes Dr. Snively!" He started shooting the soldiers, blowing them to pieces with each cannon or laser blast. He cackled and continued with his robot slaughter, leaving the bloodstained deck behind him. He saw some Blue Eagles fly overhead, dropping bombs as they passed. Snively's walker rumbled as it was damaged by the heavy payload, but was still quite functional. As the trio of fighters veered around and came back for another bombing run, Snively targeted the lead fighter and fired his laser blaster, killing the pilot. The plane spun out of control and crashed into the control tower of the carrier, causing a huge explosion. Pieces of flaming shrapnel flew all around, some of them hitting inert robots and destroying them. Others shredded through the remaining two fighters, causing them to explode in the air and create more shrapnel. The rapid pieces of metal flew through the air, piercing some of the large cylindrical fuel tanks and rupturing them. The resulting explosions could be seen all the way across the harbor. Snively laughed in maniacal glee as the exploding fuel tanks set off a chain reaction, destroying all the other fuel tanks on the ship and causing explosion after explosion. When it all stopped, the entire aircraft carrier was a mess, full of holes and liable to sink at any moment. The only thing to remain unharmed by the horrible devastation had been Snively. Pleased with his evil deeds, Snively walked to the end of the creaking and tilting aircraft carrier, looking out and seeing a catwalk over the water. He jumped from the edge of the aircraft carrier and hovered to the platform. He started forward, paused, and turned around. Locking on to an ammunition bay he could see through one of the ship's gaping holes, Snively backed all the way to the end of the long catwalk, keeping the intended area in his locked sights, and fired a laser blast. He immediately turned around and hovered to the nearest platform to his right. He landed just as the laser blast hit the ammunitions bay. The ship went up in an incredible blast, sinking beneath the waves as a burning hunk of metal. Snively grinned. "I SO love blowing things up." He got back to business and hovered to another platform, jumping on a spring there and landing on a catwalk. He went down the catwalk, shooting the large group of Hawks that swooped down at him. At the end of the catwalk, he could see a platform with several iron crates at the near end, blocking his path. Snively blew up the crates with his cannon and hovered across, proceeding down the catwalk until it ended. He saw a low platform ahead and hovered to it. There was a spring on the side, aiming up at a higher catwalk. He bounced off the spring and landed on the catwalk. As he started forward, some Blue Eagles flew towards them. He targeted and blasted them out of the sky before they could drop their bombs. He kept going and was blocked by a wall of crates. He blasted them down and went forward, stopping at a spring at the base of a tall platform. He bounced off the spring and landed on the platform. He walked forward and jumped off the edge of the platform, hovering to the catwalk ahead and below. He went down the catwalk, blasting every Hawk, Beetle, and Hornet he could see, before finding himself turning right and heading towards another aircraft carrier. He got to the end of the catwalk, a pulley in front of him. He grabbed the pulley and was raised up, facing the deck of the carrier. He jumped from the pulley and hovered to the aircraft carrier. He landed, and was pleased to see all the potential kills on the ship. There were loads of fuel tanks, lots of deactivated Hunters, and a dozen or so unoccupied fighter jets. He started down the carrier, blasting all the Hunters to scrap and blowing up ever fighter jet he could see. When he saw a trio of piloted Blue Eagles heading for him, Snively saw another chance for mayhem. He shot the lead plane, causing it to crash into the control tower. The shrapnel flew out from the explosion, killing the other two pilots. However, instead of just exploding, the planes were sent careening into separate fuel tanks, beginning the deadly chain reaction that annihilated everything on the surface of the ship except for Snively. He went to the end of the carrier and hovered to the next catwalk far below. He walked a ways down the catwalk before turning around to see the heavily damaged carrier. He targeted the ammunitions bay through one of the holes in the hull and fired, completely and needlessly destroying the carrier and sinking the ship beneath the waves. He laughed and hovered off the catwalk, landing on a moving platform. He waited until the platform got close to a stationary one and jumped off, hitting a spring and landing on a higher catwalk. He went down it, blasting at the Hawks that tried to shoot him, and came to the end of the catwalk, next to a metal crate. Across the gap was the next catwalk, the edge blocked by a row of iron crates under a row of metal crates Snively blasted away the iron crates, dropping the metal ones to ground level. He jumped on the metal crate next to him and hovered across the gap, landing on one of the metal crates. He dropped down and walked down the catwalk, his way blocked by a wall of iron crates. He destroyed the crates, revealing a spring at the base of a tall platform. He bounced off the spring and landed on the platform. He jumped off the other end and hovered to the next catwalk, heading across it and destroying all the enemies foolish enough to challenge him. After jumping over several more gaps and utilizing a couple of other moving platforms, Snively turned left and eventually came to another aircraft carrier. Rubbing his hands in glee, Snively grabbed the pulley and hovered to the deck. He was immensely disappointed and angry to find that there were no deactivated robots. Instead, there were lots of giant spinning maces. Not happy, he looked for a way over or around the maces. He was pleased to see several pulleys placed around the carrier. He hovered over the closest mace and grabbed the pulley, rising over the maces. He let go and hovered over several sets of maces, dropping and grabbing the next pulley. He repeated this pattern a few more times before seeing a trio of incoming Blue Eagles when he reached the height of the next pulley. He blasted the lead plane, sending it crashing into the control tower. The other two fighters avoided the explosion and flew closer, trying to get the doctor in their sights. Snively quickly locked on to the fighters and fired his laser blaster, sending the planes into the fuel tanks, as he had hoped. Snively was especially happy as the surface of the carrier went up in flames, seeing as how he had a bird's eye view of the destruction. When the multiple explosions were finally over, he hovered from the pulley and landed at the end of the carrier. He jumped off and hovered again, heading for a platform. As he neared it, he saw a lone Blue Eagle shooting towards him, probably wanting revenge for the death of his comrades. The doctor blasted the fighter into the sea and landed on the platform. He spun around and targeted the ammunition bay of the aircraft carrier through a hole in its hull. He fired his laser blaster, hitting the ammo and blowing up the ship, sending what was left of it to the bottom of the harbor. He hovered from the end, landing on a catwalk. He walked along the catwalk, destroying the Hawks that swooped down on him. He got to the end of the catwalk and saw another one ahead and to the right. He hovered to the catwalk and followed the brief span to its end, a pair of springs on the right side, aiming for a higher catwalk. Snively bounced off the spring and walked down the catwalk, bouncing off another set of springs on the side and landing on another catwalk, this one a bit longer. He moved faster when he saw what was at its end. From the end of a slightly elevated platform at the end of the catwalk was a bridge leading to a pier. The pier led up some stairs to a platform jutting out of the sea. Right on the platform was the entrance to the huge GUN base! Right on the slightly elevated platform was the Goal Ring, guarded by a pair of Rhinos. Snively blasted the Rhinos from the end of the catwalk, then jumped on to the platform. He walked through the Goal Ring, ending the level.

(STAGE CLEAR. RANK A.)

Snively went across the bridge, up the stairs, and on to the big platform next to the entrance of the base. Rouge and Scales were waiting for him. Just as he reached them, all three could hear a fairly loud gasp. They turned around and saw a tall yet fat man who had emerged from the jungle just a minute ago. He had lanky arms and legs, an egg-shaped body, a nice red jacket and black pants/shoes, goggles, a bald head and dark glasses. He also had a big bushy mustache. Snively grinned maliciously. "Robotnik, my old teacher! What are you doing here?" He pulled a nasty- looking gun from his glove compartment as the well-known scientist stammered incoherently, greatly frightened. "Scales, Rouge, get going. I'll kill this lardball and meet you at the rendezvous point." A little apprehensive, Rouge and Scales ran off. Snively sneered and advanced for Robotnik, forcing the large man towards the edge of the platform. "Now old man, let's finish what I should have ended years ago, shall we?" Snively asked, about to pull the trigger when he heard a loud clunk. He turned around and saw a large walker that looked kind of like a familiar red and pink plane at the other end of the platform. Its design was similar to his own, with a bazooka over the engine intake, hover jets on the legs, and a swiveling laser blaster. Strangely, this one had a Chao seated behind the blaster. The walker was piloted by one of his least favorite enemies, Amy Rose, the creation of Professor Big. Snively turned around and was naturally surprised to see Amy. "What? Amy? What are you doing here? Can't you see I'm trying to kill my old mentor here?" Amy started towards Snively. "Don't you dare hurt the doctor, Snively!" The evil scientist sighed and put the gun. "Fine, you want to play? Let's play! But I warn you; you're going to regret it. Robotnik, stay out of our way, I'll kill you later." Robotnik gulped and ran to the sidelines to watch. Snively rushed towards Amy, confident her girly little machine couldn't stand up to his walker.

AMY

Snively ran towards Amy. She fired a shot from her cannon. The evil doctor moved out of the way and locked on to her. Amy tried to run away as he fired a laser blast, but it chased after her and hit. The walker shuddered. Amy jumped, using the Boosters to hover over a surprised Snively. Angel spun around, locked onto Snively, and fired. Snively's walker was hit. As Amy landed, Snively turned around and hit her with his boxing glove, damaging her Passion. Amy responded with a strike from a hammer that sprang out of a panel on the front of the walker, just below the engine nozzle. They exchanged several hits with the glove and hammer before moving away from one another. Angel tried to lock on to Snively again, but he ran out of the way of the targeting laser. When he tried to lock onto them, Amy used the same strategy, running away from the laser. Snively shot at her several times with his cannon. Amy avoided most of the shots, but got hit twice, to her discomfort. She rapidly fired a dozen shots in a tight radius; hoping one of them would hit Snively. The evil doctor had tried dodging the first shot, but by moving away, six or so of the other shots struck him. Snively started getting angry. He pressed a few buttons on his control panel. A few slots opened up on the back of his legs. Several rockets launched from them, homing in on Amy. Surprised, she ran away as the rockets exploded behind her. Snively started preparing to fire again. Angel locked onto him and fired a laser blast while he was launching the rockets, hitting him and causing the walker to lurch. As Amy dodged the rockets, Snively growled and shouted, "No more games!" He slammed his fist into a button on the control panel. The lens on the front of the walker glowed and fired an incredibly huge and powerful laser, sweeping it around the area until it struck Amy's walker. She and Angel screamed as the Power Laser tore through their walker's hull, wrecking it. Wracked with small explosions, the Passion fell over. The force fields flickering off, Angel and Amy were roughly dumped onto the ground. Amy moaned and looked up in fear as Snively's walker came over and loomed over them. The evil doctor giggled. "Well, it's been fun, but now it's time to-" He paused, noticing a blinking light on his control panel, indicating he was being called by either Rouge or Scales, maybe even both. He scowled and looked down on Amy and the Chao. "Well, I'll let you off this time, but next time we meet, I'll finish this!" His walker's legs folded up, the machine transforming into his hoverpod. He flew away, disappearing behind the building.

And so ends the last Snively level we'll see for a while. (Thank god.) Tune in next time as Rouge attempts to steal the Super Emeralds!