Chapter Five
Sonic ran over to the edge of the ship and stood on the side while holding on a rope near him. Eggmans ship had moved to its battle stand and now both ships were side by side with cannons at the ready. Eggman did the same as Sonic and now the two were glaring at each other with hate.
"Prepare to be sunk Eggbutt! Omega, fire the cannons!" Sonic called out very loudly then the first few cannons were lit.
Cannonballs flew across and hit Eggmans ship, making some serious damage to the sides. The SS Empire was slowly filling up with water on the lower decks but this didn't seem to bother Eggman as he ordered his robots to fire back.
"Silver now, stop those cannonballs from hitting us." Sonic quickly called out as he watched the balls come flying at his ship.
Silver nodded and used his powers to make the balls stop in the air then threw them back at Eggmans ship, causing more damage to it. Eggman was now starting to panic as his ship was not only damaged more so by the heroes-turned-pirates but also filling up with more water and sinking slowly.
"What do we do Captain?" Mephiles asked as he stood beside Eggman and looking out at the enemy ship with a deep frown.
"Fire the laser beams, I would love to see them stop that." Eggman ordered with a low hateful tone as he slowly began to smirk sinisterly at Sonic.
"Shadow, you know you were practicing with force-fields right?" Sonic asked as he watched the laser guns appear and charging up to fire at them.
"If you are wondering if I have mastered it to a high degree in order to cover this entire ship then my answer to you is yes I can do that but I want a different job on this ship." Shadow smirked as he decided to make a deal to got a role change.
Of course he would't actually allow their ship to get blown up but Sonic didn't need to know that.
"Oh fine just do it." Sonic sighed with a shake of his head then jumped down and stood a little away from the edge.
Shadow smirked and got up on the edge of the ship where Sonic once stood then closed his eyes to concentrate. Chaos energy began to leave Shadows body, surrouning the entire ship and just in time too. The lasers fired but the shots rebounded and were now heading towards Eggmans ship.
"Abandon ship now!" Eggman shouted in horror as he watched the scene play out briefly.
Mephiles grabbed Eggman and dragged him to a life boat that Metal Sonic was quickly lowering down into the water fast. He pushed Eggman off the ship and watched as he fell into the boat then jumped down in it too. The laser beams hit the ship and it exploded where they hit. The lifeboat was pushed out to sea from the shockwaves of the impact and Metal Sonic only just managed to jump off the ship and land inside the boat as the ship got hit.
"Ha we win, you can stop the force-field Shads!" Sonic called out with a bright tone of voice.
Shadow nodded a little tiredly, cancelled the force-field then jumped down with a slight wobble when he landed and stood next to Sonic. Sonic ordered Eclipse to guide Shadow to the sleeping quarters to rest up while he and Silver deal with Eggman, Mephiles and Metal Sonic.
"Silver lower us both down so I can talk to Eggman." Sonic ordered with a grin at Silver.
Silver nodded and used his powers to levitated himself and Sonic over to Eggmans small lifeboat. They hovered a little above them and beside the boat.
"What do you want hedgehog, to rub our defeat in our faces?" Eggman spat with a grumpy look.
"Oh no, you three will be our prisoners until further notice since we won the battle. Silver capture them and put them in our holding cells. Omega will be the one to watch you three and report any problems with you all. I wouldn't upset him though because he will shoot at you." Sonic grinned with high amusement in his voice.
Silver did as told and soon Eggman, Mephiles and Metal Sonic were locked up in one of the holding cells together with Omega pointing missile guns at them. Sonic was once again at the wheel and was smiling happily at a job well done. An hour into sailing his stomach growled from being empty so he figured now was a great time to grab some food.
"Break time. I wonder what Knuckles and Blaze cooked for our supper." Sonic said with a cheerful tone then ordered all to the dining area for supper, putting the ship on auto-pilot.
Yep Sonic had a bang up to date ship that he just turned into an old looking pirate ship before collecting his friends. He did have a state of the art Sat-Nav system inbuilt into the steering wheel but wanted to have the full pirate experience. It was always off and would remain off until a very life and death situation occurred.
