War for the Chaos Emeralds! PART 1: Survival.

(Night time. Tails is sitting at a desk in his room, writing in a diary. It reads: )

Diary: "It's been three whole weeks since anyone last saw Sonic. He still isn't back from space. I hope he's OK. He just has to come back soon. He HAS to. I really don't know how I survived. from what I've heard on the news, the Cosmic Angel blew up- and I think I was on it when it happened. The last thing I remember was being hit in the head with a laser, and then I woke up in the Mystic Ruins with the blue Chaos Emerald next to me. Oh, I miss Sonic so much. Where are you, Sonic?"

(Tails begins to quietly cry.)

Tails: I don't *sniff* get it though.. I had all the emeralds WITH me..*sniff* b-but when I woke up, there was only one.. The explosion must've thrown me back to the planet.

(Tails closes his diary)

Tails: I WILL find Sonic. Even if I spend the rest of my life searching.

(Tails gets in bed and goes to sleep.)

(6AM, The next morning..)

Amy: Tails! Come quickly!

Tails: Hmmm-.......whuuuh?

(Amy bursts in through the door)

Amy: Tails! Something's going on in the chemical plant zone!

Tails: I thought they sorted that place out YEARS ago!

Amy: I know! But all of a sudden, it's just started churning out poison again!

Tails: (Putting on his shoes) I guess I'd better sort this out..

(Tails is flying along, on his way to the chemical plant zone)

Tails: *sigh* The chemical plant zone. the first place me and Sonic shut Robotnik down. And now, with Sonic away, it starts up again. Maybe this is a sign..maybe I'm starting over..on my own.

(Tails arrives at the scene, outside a large factory that is spewing out loads of mega mack) Reporter: Tails! You're here!

Tails: Uh huh! I'm on it!

(Tails breaks down the main door and enters)

KRUNNG!!

Tails: Whoa!

(Tails looks down, and sees that the floor and ceiling of the factory has crumbled away, leaving a huge, empty chasm leading down into the darkness..)

Tails: Hmmm...

(All that remains of the factory is a large empty room, presumably bottomless..)

Tails: If this place is empty, how can it be churning out so much toxic goop? It doesn't make any sense! There must be some kind of power source, or ANYTHING- hey, what's that?

(He looks across the room, and spots a strange object- it looks a lot like the Biolizard's life support pack, but it is hooked up to the wall and the red part in the centre is MUCH larger- It's clearly some kind of generator. Above it is a large pipe, sticking out of the wall)

Tails: That must be providing the factory with energy! But how did it GET here? I need to find a way to get across to it and DESTROY it! I think it's just a BIT to far for me to fly.

(Tails looks about, and sees a chain with a metal ring linked onto the end. Not too far from that is a platform held up with a chain.)

Tails: I think I could make it from that platform..

(Tails leaps up and flies across to the chain. Grabbing hold, he leaps across to the suspended platform)

Tails: Whew! Made it!

(All of a sudden, the chain holding the platform up snaps!)

TCHAKK!

Tails: NO!

(Tails leaps up and grabs the chain - above the bit where it snapped, obviously)

Tails: Huh..that was a close one!-Whuh-oh.

(Tails looks up, and sees that the chain is coiled around a wheel, which begins to turn- and rapidly lower the chain at falling speed!)

--(Insert clattering chain noises here- trying to type that sound effect is just too hard!)

Tails: AAAAH!

(Tails quickly pulls off a semi-spindash, launching the chain upwards, and knotting it around the part of the chain before the wheel, stopping it dead.)

CHUNNG!

Tails: Whew.heh.. I think I can fly over to the generator from here!

(Tails looks over to the generator, and sees a small robot emerge from the pipe- I'll post some pictures of it on my site another time, because I hate describing robots- anyway, it has laser cannons on it's arms, OK?)

Tails: HUH?!

(It fires a laser at the ceiling above Tails, causing a barrage of rocks to fall down towards him)

Tails: Uh oh!-NO! I HAVE to destroy that generator!!!

(As the rocks fall towards Tails, he does another semi-spindash, causing the chain to whirl round in circles)

WHOOSH-WHOOSH-WHOOSH-WHOOSHWOOSHWOOSH!!

Tails: Ready..

...

Tails: NOW!!

(At just the right time, Tails swings into one of the falling rocks and smacks it straight towards the generator. The rotation of the chain Tails is on starts to slow down.)

Tails: JACKPOT!!!

(The rock flies straight into the generator, shattering the red glass surface. Smoke begins to billow from it.)

Tails: Oops..

FWA-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

Tails: AAAAAH!

(The chain Tails is holding is destroyed, sending Tails plummeting into the darkness. The robot is blasted back through the pipe, and, unknown to Tails, a green Chaos Emerald is thrown from the generator, into the clouds of grey and black smoke.)

NEXT: THE RETURN OF..