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Shadow stared back at the slowly-gaining Black Crystal, desperately trying to think of a way to increase the speed of the Tornado 2. Then he had it, but he knew he couldn't pull it off - he was still far too weak.
"Sonic, this plane flies using a Chaos Emerald as its power supply, doesn't it?" Sonic nodded, and Shadow continued. "Use the Chaos Control!" He was too weak to do it himself still; it took a lot of energy to Chaos Control, energy he didn't have. Sonic didn't reply, except with a single shout.
"Chaos Control!"
An instant later, the plane was in the air over their destination, Black Crystal now far behind.
"Good thinking, Shadow!" Sonic said, at about the same time as Tails asked
"What was that?!"
Sonic leaned sideways to see past Shadow and reply.
"I used Chaos Control! We're ahead of him now!"
Tails nodded and turned his attention back to piloting. Just for a fraction of a second, all energy had been diverted from his plane's systems, and now he wasn't sure they were responding properly. It handled okay for a minute or two, then suddenly began to respond as though an extra weight had been added to it. He estimated the phantom weight to be a little greater than Sonic's - not enough to really alter the plane's performance much; in fact, it was likely that no-one but him, who knew his plane intimately, would have noticed it. But it was worrying nonetheless - what would he do if it got worse?
Tails brought the plane down to the area his scanners registered the Emerald to have appeared, transforming it back to biplane mode. As he did, the phantom weight seemed to disappear, the plane responding as normal to his commands. A relief, but also a worry; if it appeared and disappeared like that, who was to say it wouldn't reappear again, greater than before, at a time when he needed maximum performance?
Tails glanced at the Emerald detector to check their location - and gasped. Two Emeralds, one of them moving, blurred with a small secondary power source! There was only one thing he knew of that gave a signal like that!
"Uhh... Sonic?" Tails called as he swung his plane about to land.
"What?"
"I... I'm registering a second Emerald - and a smaller energy focus with it! I think... I think you just taught Crystal a new trick!" It explained the phantom weight; there really had been an extra weight, probably hanging onto the bottom of the aeroplane where he couldn't detect it while it got its bearings. There was a blank spot in the Emerald radar near the plane, so that the Emerald that served as a power supply wouldn't interfere with the readings - and Black Crystal had hidden in that!
"I just showed that thing how to Chaos Control?!" Sonic's voice was incredulous, and Tails didn't blame him.
"I think so! Sonic, take this and get going! It's a race between you and him now!" Tails threw something back to him, Sonic's hand flashing out and grabbing it faster than most people would think possible. It was a small radio receiver, about the size of a little mobile phone. Sonic knew that Tails would have a duplicate in the cockpit so that they could keep in contact.
"Good luck!" Tails yelled as Sonic dropped from the plane, landing already running, and shot off. Tails brought the plane down behind him, and stared at the radar screen, ready to relay instructions to Sonic.
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Shadow stared back at the slowly-gaining Black Crystal, desperately trying to think of a way to increase the speed of the Tornado 2. Then he had it, but he knew he couldn't pull it off - he was still far too weak.
"Sonic, this plane flies using a Chaos Emerald as its power supply, doesn't it?" Sonic nodded, and Shadow continued. "Use the Chaos Control!" He was too weak to do it himself still; it took a lot of energy to Chaos Control, energy he didn't have. Sonic didn't reply, except with a single shout.
"Chaos Control!"
An instant later, the plane was in the air over their destination, Black Crystal now far behind.
"Good thinking, Shadow!" Sonic said, at about the same time as Tails asked
"What was that?!"
Sonic leaned sideways to see past Shadow and reply.
"I used Chaos Control! We're ahead of him now!"
Tails nodded and turned his attention back to piloting. Just for a fraction of a second, all energy had been diverted from his plane's systems, and now he wasn't sure they were responding properly. It handled okay for a minute or two, then suddenly began to respond as though an extra weight had been added to it. He estimated the phantom weight to be a little greater than Sonic's - not enough to really alter the plane's performance much; in fact, it was likely that no-one but him, who knew his plane intimately, would have noticed it. But it was worrying nonetheless - what would he do if it got worse?
Tails brought the plane down to the area his scanners registered the Emerald to have appeared, transforming it back to biplane mode. As he did, the phantom weight seemed to disappear, the plane responding as normal to his commands. A relief, but also a worry; if it appeared and disappeared like that, who was to say it wouldn't reappear again, greater than before, at a time when he needed maximum performance?
Tails glanced at the Emerald detector to check their location - and gasped. Two Emeralds, one of them moving, blurred with a small secondary power source! There was only one thing he knew of that gave a signal like that!
"Uhh... Sonic?" Tails called as he swung his plane about to land.
"What?"
"I... I'm registering a second Emerald - and a smaller energy focus with it! I think... I think you just taught Crystal a new trick!" It explained the phantom weight; there really had been an extra weight, probably hanging onto the bottom of the aeroplane where he couldn't detect it while it got its bearings. There was a blank spot in the Emerald radar near the plane, so that the Emerald that served as a power supply wouldn't interfere with the readings - and Black Crystal had hidden in that!
"I just showed that thing how to Chaos Control?!" Sonic's voice was incredulous, and Tails didn't blame him.
"I think so! Sonic, take this and get going! It's a race between you and him now!" Tails threw something back to him, Sonic's hand flashing out and grabbing it faster than most people would think possible. It was a small radio receiver, about the size of a little mobile phone. Sonic knew that Tails would have a duplicate in the cockpit so that they could keep in contact.
"Good luck!" Tails yelled as Sonic dropped from the plane, landing already running, and shot off. Tails brought the plane down behind him, and stared at the radar screen, ready to relay instructions to Sonic.
