Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters mentioned except for two that I will include in this chapter.

You will understand more of this story if you read my other story, 'The Gems of Power'.

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~~~~~TAILS

I was sitting there at Sonic's house, resting my sore feet on the footstool while I watched TV from a very comfortable position on the couch. I was watching some sort of kung-fu movie and the main character had just beat up three guys at once. He was walking towards a old warehouse when...

"We interrupt this movie for a special announcement." I groaned. "We have received word that a strange army of robots is heading towards the city. The police have tried to stop the progress of the robots, but the guns strangely have no effect on the machines. The robots are spherical in shape and have lasers. They are extremely dangerous, and if they cannot be routed then the city will have to evacuate."

"Sonic! Come in here and take a look at this!" I yelled to Sonic, who was in the kitchen.

"What is it bud?" He looked at the TV. "Oh man, not them again!"

"What are we going to do? We could barely take care of one, so how are we going to take out an army?"

"I think it's time to call up one of our friends," Sonic said as he picked up a phone book.

"Who are you calling?" I asked.

"A certain green hedgehog who helped us out before," Sonic replied.

~~~~~GARION

I lit a candle with the flick of my hand as I walked over to the ringing phone.

"It had better not be another salesman," I said to myself, "or I might break the phone again."

I picked up the phone. "Hello?"

"Hi, is this Garion?" Sonic's voice asked.

"Sure is," I replied. "What's up Sonic?"

"Did you see the news on the TV?"

"Sorry man, I was busy training with my Chaos Emerald. What's going on?"

"A group of robots is heading towards the city. They are a special type, and can only be destroyed by fire."

"Oh, so you want my help?" I asked.

"No, actually I was wondering if you knew of any shops around here that sell flame throwers."

"WHAT!?" I yelled.

"Just kidding. Yeah, we need your help. Will you do it?"

"Yeah," I said. "I'll be at the army in about five minutes."

"Great. Good luck to you," Sonic said.

I hung up and went over to my friend, Rolm, who was reading a book. "Hey, we need to destroy a robot army. You interested?"

"Sounds like fun," he said as he closed the book. "Count me in."

He grabbed his purple chaos emerald off the table and I grabbed my red one. He gave back the gray chaos emerald instead of the purple one when he had to return the emeralds he stole in the last adventure we had. (Talk about a long and confusing sentence!) He said the gray one still gave him the creeps whenever he looked at it, and that he liked to use the purple one anyway. I didn't have a problem with this, since I know how much I like to use my red emerald.

We ran out the door and used our emeralds to go many times faster what we normally could. I raced along close to Sonic's speed and Rolm used the purple emerald of wind to fly behind me. In no time we saw the strangely shaped robots flying ahead of us. I raced around them to get near the front of the group. There were only twenty or thirty of them, but it was enough to call a small army. Rolm flew far above the robots and hovered near the middle of the group. I made my way to the front and looked at him. I gave him the OK signal, which he returned back to me. I took off my black sunglasses and summoned as much power as I could into the Chaos Emerald. It began to shine and hum loudly until a ray of fire shot out of it towards Rolm. Rolm used his emerald to make the flames burn hotter and he blew them in a huge wave over the group of robots. They all melted on the spot. Rolm flew down and landed next to me.

"That was excellent, Garion!" he said.

"You didn't do too bad yourself. That was all too easy. Maybe we should go and trash Eggman's base for fun," I suggested as I put my sunglasses back on.

Rolm laughed and we started walking away from the mess, talking.

"So, do you think that Eggman will try to use this type of robot again?" Rolm asked.

"Well, he knows that it works against Sonic and Tails, but it isn't going to get by us!" I said.

"Yeah! It doesn't matter whether or not he makes any more! We will just trash em again if he does!"

I hadn't even seen any of it. I hadn't seen the robot, the laser it fired, or Rolm getting hit. I just kept on walking and suddenly noticed that Rolm wasn't beside me. I turned around and realized what had happened. I ran forward in such a rage that my sunglasses shattered on my face. My eyes burned with such a fury that they might have by themselves killed the robot. But I didn't care. I summoned all my energy and nuked the melting pile of metal. I watched as it shrunk and shrunk and shrunk until it completely evaporated. I walked back over to Rolm's side to find that he was hurt pretty badly. The laser had gone right through his chest, and it was a miracle that he hadn't died right away.

"Hang on Rolm, I'll get you to a hospital," I said.

"G...Garion...I might...not...make it," he stated as he looked around slowly, as though unsure of his surroundings.

"Don't say things like that! You're going to be fine," I reassured him. "Just stay awake for me."

"Al...Alright," he said.

"Don't talk. Just relax, but stay awake, OK?" I rushed forward as fast as I could with him in my arms as I headed for the hospital.

Eggman...

You will pay for this...

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