War for the Chaos Emeralds!
PART 3: E-1000 attacks!
(Tails and Amy were just sitting in the Emerald Hill base, when a large robot smashed through the wall, demanding the Blue Emerald that Tails has!)
Robot: #I'm E-1000, The next model in the E-series, and therefore the BEST. My sensors show you've got a Chaos emerald with you...#
Tails: Uh.uh...uhhh..
E-1000:. #Surrender it to me NOW!#
Tails: Grr. No WAY! You'll NEVER get the emerald!
E-1000: #Give me the blue Emerald. This is your LAST chance.#
Tails: NEVER!
E-1000: #If that's what you WANT. I guess I'll just have to take it by FORCE.#
(E-1000 swings his right arm up very quickly, pointing it in Tails' direction. He opens his hand to reveal a laser blaster on his palm. He begins to rapidly fire loads of laser blasts.)
WHOOSH!- PYOW! PYOW! PYOW! PYOW! PYOW! PYOW! PYOW! PYOW!
Tails: AAAGH!
PYOW! PYOW! PYOW! PYOW! PYOW!
(Tails dodges left to right with the emerald, avoiding the lasers. As he leaps out of the way of one, he lands right in the line of another.)
PYOW! PYOW! PYOW! PYOW! PYOW! - ZAT!!
Tails: Uh oh.-AAARGH!!!
(Tails is sent flying a few feet back, sending the Blue emerald flying through the air towards E-1000)
Tails: Ughh...
(E-1000 tidily snatches the emerald from the air)
SWASH!
E-1000: # Now do you see how POINTLESS it is to oppose me?#
(The top part of E-1000's body separates from above his waist. After rising by about a foot, it stops.)
VZZZ...
E-1000: #Now to FINISH this...#
PHRUMM!
(A beam is fired between the two parts of his body, and E-1000 places the emerald into it. The emerald remains floating in the beam for about a second, before the emerald vanishes.)
VZZZ..-TSHOWW!!
Amy: The Emerald! It's GONE.
Tails: He ABSORBED it!!!!
(E-1000's body fits back together. Almost immediately after, a voice is transmitted to E-1000.)
Voice: E-1000! Good job! Now, return to base!
E-1000: #Yes, Master!#
(E-1000 charges up the jet pack/cannon on his back, blasts off into the sky, and shoots off. Tails is still lying on the floor, half sitting up.)
Tails: No..NO.
Amy: Who was that who contacted him, anyway?
Tails: I don't know. but it sounded familiar.
Amy: If that thing gets the Chaos emeralds, there's no telling WHAT might happen!
Tails: Then there's only one thing to do. Get the emeralds FIRST. Amy- are you coming along?
Amy: Well, I guess so.
Tails: We should call Knuckles, too. He seems to know his way around the Chaos emeralds quite well- after all, they used to belong on his island.
(A few minutes later, Tails and Amy are in the tornado, flying up towards the floating island)
Tails: Almost there!
Amy: Can you hear that?
Tails: No. what was it?
Amy: I don't know- it sounded like some kind of buzzing.
Tails: It was probably just the engine. Anyway, we're almost there now.
(About 30 metres behind them, a swarm of about 50 Balkiry badniks is steadily flying towards them)
Tails: Just a few more minutes..
(one of the Balkiry fires a small fireball, narrowly missing Amy's head)
FWOOMPH!
Amy: -AAAGH!!! BADNIKS!!
Tails: Oh no!.......Amy. can YOU fly the plane?
Amy: Err, do I have a CHOICE?
Tails: Not exactly! Not unless you wanna be badnik bait!
Amy: Ok.
(Tails jumps out of the front seat and jumps onto the wings of the plane, whilst Amy leaps forward into the front seat and begins to fly the plane)
Tails: Ok, Amy? Now see if you can circle around so that we're flying into them!
Amy: Are you INSANE?
Tails: No! If you fly closer, I can try and FIGHT them!
(They turn back, and head towards the badniks)
Tails: OK Amy! Try and stay level now!
Amy: I'll try.-AAAAAAAAAAAGH!!
(The badniks are now flying around the plane)
Tails: Hold on, Amy!
(Tails leaps up and kicks one, destroying it)
DOOSH!
Amy: Yeah!
Tails: No- it's no good. I can't take them down one at a time. Ohhh- if only I had my card reader with me.
(Tails remembers leaving it on his desk in his room, along with all his cards)
Tails: Looks like we need a new strategy.
Amy: Like what?
Tails: Hmm.. If only I'd installed more weapons in the Tornado. That's IT! TORNADO!
Amy: Whuh?
Tails: If we can make some kind of tornado, all the badniks'll be dragged in and crash into each other!
Amy: Oh no.you're not getting ME to do that.
Tails: I'll fly again- move aside, Amy!
Amy: Ok.
Tails: Hold on to something!
(Amy does up her seatbelt)
Tails: Now, let's just hope this works!
(Tails begins to fly in large circles, slowly getting faster and faster)
WHOOSH-WHOOSH-WHOOSH-WHOOSH-WHOOSH-WHOOSHWHOOSHWHOOSH!
Amy: Whoooa!
Tails: Just hang in there!
WHOOSHWHOOSHWHOOSHWHOOSHWHOOSHWHOOSH-
Amy: Ohhh, I'm going to be SICK.
Tails: Just a little more!
(Tails turns on the rocket boosts on the side of the Tornado plane)
BWOOOOOOSH!
Amy: AAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!
Tails: Almost.. Got. it..
(Tails pushes a lever forward, and the tornado speeds up just a little bit more)
Tails: THERE! Now, for the final part.
Amy: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH! Lemme OUT, Tails!
(Tails tilts the plane so that it's flying on its side, causing a spiral draft, which gradually forms a vortex, and eventually a tornado)
WHOOOOOOO-OOOO-OOOOOOOSH!!!
Tails: We need to pull out before it reaches full power, or the badniks'll hit US!
(Tails turns a sharp left, pulling them out of the whirlwind, and flies back towards the floating island. The badniks collide and explode)
PHWOMPH!.....K-BWOOOOMMmmm...
Amy: That was a close one.
Tails: Yeah- let's go find Knuckles. Maybe he can help us find the emeralds.
(They land on the island's surface, in the central Echidna village.)
Amy: I wonder where everyone IS?
Tails: I dunno. It DOES look kinda DESERTED.
Amy: We'd better try and LOOK for them.
Tails: Hang on- I think I heard something.
(Amy listens carefully)
Amy: Hey, I hear it too!
Tails: Sounds like it came from the emerald chamber!
(Tails and Amy rush down into the islands tunnel system, and into the emerald Chamber. They see Knuckles, giving a speech to the rest of the echidnas.)
Knuckles: OK, this is EXACTLY the kind of emergency we've been PREPARING for! There's NO need to panic! As long as we can get the seven Chaos Emeralds, our island might still SURVIVE!!
Tails & Amy: Huh?! TO BE CONTINUED.
(Tails and Amy were just sitting in the Emerald Hill base, when a large robot smashed through the wall, demanding the Blue Emerald that Tails has!)
Robot: #I'm E-1000, The next model in the E-series, and therefore the BEST. My sensors show you've got a Chaos emerald with you...#
Tails: Uh.uh...uhhh..
E-1000:. #Surrender it to me NOW!#
Tails: Grr. No WAY! You'll NEVER get the emerald!
E-1000: #Give me the blue Emerald. This is your LAST chance.#
Tails: NEVER!
E-1000: #If that's what you WANT. I guess I'll just have to take it by FORCE.#
(E-1000 swings his right arm up very quickly, pointing it in Tails' direction. He opens his hand to reveal a laser blaster on his palm. He begins to rapidly fire loads of laser blasts.)
WHOOSH!- PYOW! PYOW! PYOW! PYOW! PYOW! PYOW! PYOW! PYOW!
Tails: AAAGH!
PYOW! PYOW! PYOW! PYOW! PYOW!
(Tails dodges left to right with the emerald, avoiding the lasers. As he leaps out of the way of one, he lands right in the line of another.)
PYOW! PYOW! PYOW! PYOW! PYOW! - ZAT!!
Tails: Uh oh.-AAARGH!!!
(Tails is sent flying a few feet back, sending the Blue emerald flying through the air towards E-1000)
Tails: Ughh...
(E-1000 tidily snatches the emerald from the air)
SWASH!
E-1000: # Now do you see how POINTLESS it is to oppose me?#
(The top part of E-1000's body separates from above his waist. After rising by about a foot, it stops.)
VZZZ...
E-1000: #Now to FINISH this...#
PHRUMM!
(A beam is fired between the two parts of his body, and E-1000 places the emerald into it. The emerald remains floating in the beam for about a second, before the emerald vanishes.)
VZZZ..-TSHOWW!!
Amy: The Emerald! It's GONE.
Tails: He ABSORBED it!!!!
(E-1000's body fits back together. Almost immediately after, a voice is transmitted to E-1000.)
Voice: E-1000! Good job! Now, return to base!
E-1000: #Yes, Master!#
(E-1000 charges up the jet pack/cannon on his back, blasts off into the sky, and shoots off. Tails is still lying on the floor, half sitting up.)
Tails: No..NO.
Amy: Who was that who contacted him, anyway?
Tails: I don't know. but it sounded familiar.
Amy: If that thing gets the Chaos emeralds, there's no telling WHAT might happen!
Tails: Then there's only one thing to do. Get the emeralds FIRST. Amy- are you coming along?
Amy: Well, I guess so.
Tails: We should call Knuckles, too. He seems to know his way around the Chaos emeralds quite well- after all, they used to belong on his island.
(A few minutes later, Tails and Amy are in the tornado, flying up towards the floating island)
Tails: Almost there!
Amy: Can you hear that?
Tails: No. what was it?
Amy: I don't know- it sounded like some kind of buzzing.
Tails: It was probably just the engine. Anyway, we're almost there now.
(About 30 metres behind them, a swarm of about 50 Balkiry badniks is steadily flying towards them)
Tails: Just a few more minutes..
(one of the Balkiry fires a small fireball, narrowly missing Amy's head)
FWOOMPH!
Amy: -AAAGH!!! BADNIKS!!
Tails: Oh no!.......Amy. can YOU fly the plane?
Amy: Err, do I have a CHOICE?
Tails: Not exactly! Not unless you wanna be badnik bait!
Amy: Ok.
(Tails jumps out of the front seat and jumps onto the wings of the plane, whilst Amy leaps forward into the front seat and begins to fly the plane)
Tails: Ok, Amy? Now see if you can circle around so that we're flying into them!
Amy: Are you INSANE?
Tails: No! If you fly closer, I can try and FIGHT them!
(They turn back, and head towards the badniks)
Tails: OK Amy! Try and stay level now!
Amy: I'll try.-AAAAAAAAAAAGH!!
(The badniks are now flying around the plane)
Tails: Hold on, Amy!
(Tails leaps up and kicks one, destroying it)
DOOSH!
Amy: Yeah!
Tails: No- it's no good. I can't take them down one at a time. Ohhh- if only I had my card reader with me.
(Tails remembers leaving it on his desk in his room, along with all his cards)
Tails: Looks like we need a new strategy.
Amy: Like what?
Tails: Hmm.. If only I'd installed more weapons in the Tornado. That's IT! TORNADO!
Amy: Whuh?
Tails: If we can make some kind of tornado, all the badniks'll be dragged in and crash into each other!
Amy: Oh no.you're not getting ME to do that.
Tails: I'll fly again- move aside, Amy!
Amy: Ok.
Tails: Hold on to something!
(Amy does up her seatbelt)
Tails: Now, let's just hope this works!
(Tails begins to fly in large circles, slowly getting faster and faster)
WHOOSH-WHOOSH-WHOOSH-WHOOSH-WHOOSH-WHOOSHWHOOSHWHOOSH!
Amy: Whoooa!
Tails: Just hang in there!
WHOOSHWHOOSHWHOOSHWHOOSHWHOOSHWHOOSH-
Amy: Ohhh, I'm going to be SICK.
Tails: Just a little more!
(Tails turns on the rocket boosts on the side of the Tornado plane)
BWOOOOOOSH!
Amy: AAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!
Tails: Almost.. Got. it..
(Tails pushes a lever forward, and the tornado speeds up just a little bit more)
Tails: THERE! Now, for the final part.
Amy: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH! Lemme OUT, Tails!
(Tails tilts the plane so that it's flying on its side, causing a spiral draft, which gradually forms a vortex, and eventually a tornado)
WHOOOOOOO-OOOO-OOOOOOOSH!!!
Tails: We need to pull out before it reaches full power, or the badniks'll hit US!
(Tails turns a sharp left, pulling them out of the whirlwind, and flies back towards the floating island. The badniks collide and explode)
PHWOMPH!.....K-BWOOOOMMmmm...
Amy: That was a close one.
Tails: Yeah- let's go find Knuckles. Maybe he can help us find the emeralds.
(They land on the island's surface, in the central Echidna village.)
Amy: I wonder where everyone IS?
Tails: I dunno. It DOES look kinda DESERTED.
Amy: We'd better try and LOOK for them.
Tails: Hang on- I think I heard something.
(Amy listens carefully)
Amy: Hey, I hear it too!
Tails: Sounds like it came from the emerald chamber!
(Tails and Amy rush down into the islands tunnel system, and into the emerald Chamber. They see Knuckles, giving a speech to the rest of the echidnas.)
Knuckles: OK, this is EXACTLY the kind of emergency we've been PREPARING for! There's NO need to panic! As long as we can get the seven Chaos Emeralds, our island might still SURVIVE!!
Tails & Amy: Huh?! TO BE CONTINUED.