DISCLAIMER: SONIC BELONGS TO ME. . . MINE MINE MINE! GO AWAY, SEGA! GET YOUR OWN!

Sorry I took so long in updating my fanfic! I'm just lazy, ya know. . . Oh, well! I don't want to disappoint so here is the 2 year awaited chapter 4! YAY!

Chapter 4: Judge, Jury, and Executioner

Everyone looked on in amazement at the Chaos Emerald that Strider just produced. It was the white one, and it projected a prism on the floor. He passed it to Tails, who fumbled with it for a second before getting a firm grip. "Where did you get this?" Tails said as he stared into the Emerald. "I was forced to retrieve it from a G.U.N. outpost," Strider replied, "Dark Rex would have gotten to it otherwise." Knuckles nodded and said, "I agree. The military shouldn't be trusted with that kind of power." Sonic jumped to his feet. "Ok, guys! Let's go find the rest of the Chaos Emeralds before that Dark guy gets any stronger!" he said. Amy was finally overcome by the excitement of the situation and sat down to clear her head. "Sonic, we can't just rush out to fight this guy. . . we don't even know anything about him, besides his name!" "That's not entirely accurate," said Strider. "I know where Dark Rex came from." After an awkward silence, Sonic started to tap his foot. "Well? Tell us already!" he said. Strider cleared his throat.

"A long time ago, the guardian of the Master Emerald found out how to tap into its almost limitless resource of power. He became enthralled in its might, and would have used it to conquer the world. Fortunately, he wasn't able to control this new power, and was thrust into a parallel dimension known as 'subspace'. He just recently found a way out of subspace and now plans to wreak havoc on the world."

Strider folded his arms. Tails smiled and said, "Wow! That's amazing! How do you know all this?" "Does it matter?" Sonic said impatiently. "We kinda have a world to save!" Knuckles stepped forth. "Okay," he said, "If we split up into two groups, we will have a better chance of getting all the Emeralds. Strider and I will be one group, and Sonic, Tails and Amy will be in the other." Amy jumped up excitedly and threw her arms around Sonic. "Yay! I get to travel with my Soniku!" She yelled. "Hey, Amy, it's bad enough that you're coming, but do you have to yell right next to my EAR?" Sonic replied. "Oops. . ." Amy said as she sheepishly let Sonic go. He nodded to her and said, "Thanks." Amy started to bounce around the room.

"YAY! MY SONIKU THANKED ME!"

Tails shook his head and sighed. "It's gonna be a long day," he said.

Dark Rex was floating over the newly rebuilt Prison Island, where the Master Emerald told him that a Chaos Emerald was located. He looked down at its defenses, and the troops looked like ants from this height.

"Humph. Pathetic insects."

Dark Rex then started to drop altitude, and flew right through their airfield, destroying all the jets parked on it at the time. From the air, it looked like a line of explosives were set off. The soldiers started to scramble, and the defense robots were activated. The automated jets took off after Dark Rex, but Rex suddenly burst forward, the resulting shock wave threw off the auto-jets and caused them to crash into the ocean. Rex then did a U-turn and hovered over the soldiers. He began to speak.

"Pathetic life forms. I, Dark Rex, have found you guilty and have come to sentence you for your crimes."

One of the soldiers spoke up. "Guilty? What have we done?" she said. "Heh, are you so ignorant?!" Rex replied, "You have soiled this planet with your pathetic existence." His eyes widened in anticipation.

"Aha! There it is!" He formed one of his arms into a large tentacle, and thrust it through the base. When it emerged, it was wrapped around the yellow Chaos Emerald. "Don't let him get it!" One of the captains yelled. The soldiers opened fire, but their lasers just bounced off their target. Dark Rex laughed. "Fire the automated defense lasers!" the captain yelled. Two huge turrets emerged and began firing. The energy surrounded Dark Rex, and everyone assumed he was destroyed. They all cheered and celebrated.

But then the energy turned black.

Everyone looked at the large, dark sphere above their heads, and a wave of terror over took them. The energy began to shrink as Dark Rex's body emerged from within, unhurt. Rex held the energy up over his head and smiled.

"I find you guilty of not being worthy to exist. Your sentence. . ."

Everyone look on in horror as Rex threw the huge ball of power right through the middle of the island. It traveled through the base, until it hit the power station inside with a huge explosion. The island started to explode violently and eventually sunk, sending a tsunami hurtling towards the mainland.

"Is death."

Sonic, Amy, and the rest of the gang were getting ready to leave, when Knuckles happened to catch a glimpse of something out the window. "Uh. . . guys?" He said nervously. "What's up, Knucklehead?" Sonic replied, as he went to go see what Knuckles was looking at. What Sonic saw next made his jaw drop. The largest wave he had ever seen was hurtling towards Station Square.

"It's gonna be a VERY long day. . ." Tails said. Strider pointed to the train station. "If we can make it to the train in time, we can use that to out-run the water!" he yelled. Sonic grabbed Tails and Amy and jumped out the window while Strider and Knuckles ran along side. When they reached the station, they found that everyone else had the same idea. Hundreds of people were fighting to get on the train at the same time, and a riot was about to ensue. "Ok, bad idea. . ." Strider said nervously. "Wait," Sonic said. "Remember the old Egg Carrier floating outside the city?" "Right!" Tails yelled happily. "We'll be safe in there!" Tails flew above everyone and yelled down at them. "Everyone! Follow me if you want to live!" "The fox yelling a Terminator quote is right!" A random guy said. They all followed Sonic and co. out to the Egg Carrier. Soaked from having to wade through high tide, they climbed in and Tails shut all the automated doors. Everyone waited in the big lobby for the wave to hit. "It's a good thing the Egg Carrier eventually washed up on shore," Knuckles said, "Or we'd be dead." Sonic nodded and was about to say something, but the Carrier was jolted suddenly, and everyone lost their balance. Knuckles tried to stand.

"We're. . . moving?!" he said.

Outside, The Tsunami hit the carrier and pushed it along Station Square, eventually lodging it between two skyscrapers. The crowd started to panic, and it only got worse as one of the corpses of a victim trapped outside washed past a window. All was chaos. Suddenly, a sound of stretching metal was heard, along with a shattering sound. "Tails!" Sonic yelled over the sound of the Tsunami, "What is that noise?" Tails looked at the status monitor and started to panic. "What's up, Tails?" Sonic said, sensing the tension on Tails' face.

"The water pressure outside is too much! The hull is gonna rupture!" he replied.

To be continued. . .

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