Author's Note: I'm sorry I took so long, I've been chopping up this chapter and putting it toghter so many times. I also got around to considering the reveiws, bah, I spell everyone's names wrong! (I can't get the damned Ant's! I spelt Tails' father name wrong and the fic was about him! I think I spelt Legion seven ways in Chapter one) I'm sorry! This was a long set up chapter...and this is a set up story for a series I'm doing...gah, I have a long way to go...
--------------------------Heart to No Heart Four: Saved by Who?
Julie-Su looked at him for a long time, just into those violet eyes before she looked down at the ground. Something was rushing though her throat and she spat right in front of his thick shoes. " You're...not Knuckles, " She said softly, though her voice was weak from shock. She raised her head again and tried to lunge forward, those chains clinking together before she screamed. " You're not KNUCKLES! "
The Echidna in front of her moved back shocked by her remark. " J-Julie-Su! Its me! It is!"
The voice was there, the stutter that he had around her, a shy voice which had enough firmness behind it to get his point across. Julie-Su simply turned her head, it was all she could do in those confines. A huff came across her lips before she said. " Your eyes...they aren't the same..."
Lien-Da shook her head and walked over to Knuckles, pulling him towards her with that devious smile still on her muzzle. " Forget about her for a moment, you'll have all the time in the world to catch up after the takeover."
Julie-Su looked back for a moment. " Takeover?"
"Of the Floating Island...and the surrounding land!" Lien-Da said that causally before checking back to her radio and yelling into it. " How long until impact?"
A male voice answer on the other end shortly after. " Fifteen minutes! We'll be landing in Northern Mobius." He confirmed before the connection was broken.
Julie-Su's eyes widened, the only way the Floating Island would be landing in that area would be if..." The island is falling?!?" How could the island be falling...that could only mean the Master Emerald was gone! No...its only been a few hours since she was knocked out, no one could've stole it in that amount of time.
Lien-Da lead Knuckles over to the door, the male Echidna only gave a weak halfhearted wave over his shoulder before slipping though the door. " Yes, its all part of the plan. We can't give you the details, no time you know..." They left soon afterward, the doors closing suddenly behind them.
Julie-Su looked at the chains around her wrists and started to pull at them though they hurt. She needed to find a way out of here...she needed to find one fast.
------Outside Legion Headquarters, 11 Minutes to Impact
"That woman's going to be the death of us!" Vector grumbled looking out from where the Chaotix were hiding behind a dumpster. Vector also learned that he hated the smell of everything around him, which he didn't pay attention to with the absence of his walkman.
Espio nodded towards Vector before looking down at his watch (which was conveniently placed there to further the plot n_n). " Quite literally too, we have 10 minutes and no one here has a plan!"
Vector turned back to look at Espio with a growl. " Who says we don't have a plan?"
"So what is your plan?"
Espio, Charmy, and Mighty gathered around him while Vector thought. It didn't take the croc long before he looked back down at them with a grin. " I'd like to pass!"
A groan was spread thoughout the group before Charmy nodded lightly to them. " Well I gotta plan! " He hovered up into the air, the size of a regular bee so the Legionaries couldn't see him. He scouted out the entrance and seen two guards there, and then an alley and with windows on the other side. A grin came across the bee's face and he hovered back down to explain. " We're going to rush them!"
"And THAT'S your plan?!?" Mighty burster into chuckles before he was promptly smacked by Charmy. " Hey!"
"I'm not finished yet! " Charmy beamed before he pointed towards the two guards who looked like they were falling asleep at their posts. " Espio, you can take them right? " Espio nodded and he continued. " Mighty can burst though the door. I fly though the window and cut the power..."
Espio interrupted him for a moment. " Cut the power for what? "
Charmy folded his arms over his chest and motioned over to the guards as an example, both were laced with metal gear in their dreads and arms. " The Legion's greatest weapons are their machinery, without it they won't be able to track us! We'll meet up and then split up to find Julie-Su and get outta there!"
Vector shook his head to that. " You're forgetting about the rock we're standing on...its like...falling!"
Espio finished that off. " We get Julie-Su back, Lien-Da will come looking for her...when we get her, we get the Master Emerald!" He looked back towards his watch and stepped forward. " Okay, eight minutes...lets move!"
------Inner Legion Headquarters, Seven Minutes until Impact
Lien-Da and Knuckles were heading towards the lowest point of the island, which was called the point Closest to Hell because of its unpleasant location. They stepped into the elevator which lead to those warmer points of the island and it closed behind them. The only thing to keep them company was the slow humming of the elevator as it started its miles long trip towards the Point Closest to Hell.
Lien-Da looked over to Knuckles and grinned, her arms folding against her chest before she leaned off towards the side. " We pulled it off, its amazing how everything's coming together in the end. "
Knuckles nodded to that, looking back to the ceiling of the elevator when he noticed the lights flickering. " I told you that it was going to work, Kommissar. My plans never fail!" An all knowing grin came to his muzzle before he laughed.
" Better yet, no one will expect that its their own dear guardian would be the one who would set them up for a total shutd-"
At that moment, the lights to the elevator had shut down and the elevator slowly came to a stop. The two Echidna were confused, but then Lien-Da made her way to the control panel to the elevator and kicked it. " Work damnit! This is not the time for a malfunction!"
Lien-Da said every swear that she could think of to high Aurora to try and get the elevator in motion while Knuckles thought. He muttered one word, which seemed to be the most level thing he said since his 'resurrection' . " The Chaotix...they're here..." He walked over to the control panel of the elevator and put his paw on it, pressing down before his eyes tightly closed. There was a brief silence before the humming of the elevator started so the elevator could get back in motion. " They came for Julie-Su..." He looked back towards Lien-Da after starting the elevator on his own energy.
"Let them have her, its not going to help them..."
-----Holding Cells, Four Minutes Until Impact
Julie-Su was singing to herself to pass the time while she thought of a way to get out of those cuffs keeping her pinned against a wall. " Gunna take my blaster...and mess Lien-Da up..." She smirked a little, but then the lights went out in the cell.
That gave her an idea, so she leaned forward with her eyes tightly closed until she felt a sharp click coming from her wrists which made her fall forward on her stomach. She stood up, now free from the restraints and rubbed her wrists. " Electric powered restraints...not one of the Legion's better ideas.." She noted and headed towards the door of the cell to open it.
She was stopped by the sound of something moving though the vents, some mutters and curses and then some voices.
"Is she down there or not Vector?"
"How should I know? I can't see a thing!"
"I can't see a thing past your big as-"
"Lay off that Espio!"
"My fat wha-?"
The argument was cut off when the vent overhead suddenly gave way and Vector, Espio, and Mighty landed on the floor behind Julie-Su. Charmy hovered over them with a sigh while they tried to get to their feet. " She is right here!"
Julie-Su slowly turned around with her arms folded over her chest. " I don't need your help gettin' out of here!"
Vector locked eyes with her for a moment before standing up to face her. " Oh gee Julie-Su. If you would've just called and told us you were okay, we wouldn't have came!...Oh yeah, you couldn't have because you were captured by your crazy sister!"
"Well I wouldn't mind her keeping me if I knew you were comming!" She shot back and turned to the cell door, pushing it open now that the power was out. She yelled without looking over her shoulder. " Lets get out of here! The Island's-"
" We know, but what can we do about it?" Espio said looking back at his watch...three minutes until contact.
Vector looked at Julie-Su again before he cleared his throat suddenly. " Nothin'...not right now..."
"I know something you can do Vector..." Mighty said as a matter of fact.
"Huh?"
"How about getting off of us?!?"
Vector chuckled a little and stepped off Mighty and Espio's backs, then helped them up. " Sorry 'bout that..."
-----Haven, Two Minutes Until Impact
"What on earth are they doing?"
There was complete Panic among the people at Haven, the Brotherhood were making final preparations before making contact with lower Mobius. Locke was looking at the screen in front of him which showed a ground Camera planted on Mobius' surface which showed the Floating Island coming down at an alarming rate. His purple eyes narrowed seeing something at the tip of the island. He heard someone walking up beside him, but he just ignored it and started to zoom in on the object.
"Locke, all you can do is watch and you have no clue what's going to happen to the people here!"
A smaller ungloved hand came over his which made him grimace, especially at the gold wedding band which was on her hand. He slowly turned to face Lara-Le. " What? I'm trying to figure out what that blurb there is..." He motioned off to the screen, pointing to a blue and red dot on the screen.
Lara-Le moved to the side and pressed a button on the control panel which made it quickly zoom into the two blurs: Lien-Da and Knuckles who were on the Point closest to hell. Locke was amazed she knew that off the bat, she could tell though he said nothing. " Do you have a plan? "
" Why don't you? " She smirked a little.
" I don't even know what's going on..." Locke admitted with a sign.
Lara-Le looked back to the screen, she was looking at Knuckles who stepped to the edge of the platform which made up that remove spot. He was looking down at the area they were going to impact with his purple eyes, which flashed green for a moment before returning. Lara-Le blinked lightly before she spoke. " I do..."
"What? H-"
" That machine...the Chaos Syphon...we need it! " She remembered something from before and looked down at the control panel, Locke had ran off to tell the brotherhood to retrieve the Machine. It was a conversation she had with Knuckles last week. Dimitri represents a serious threat to my Children! ...Her eyes closed and she sighed.
" I was worried about the baby, but it was him I should've looked after..."
-----Point Closest to Hell, One Minute Until Impact
"Knuckles, do it!"
The Echidna looked back to Lien-Da and then down at the ground which was coming up on them fast before his eyes closed. Thousands of lives depended on him, let alone the Dark Legion and Lien-Da. His gloves moved into the air above him surrounded in a green glow which soon surrounded the whole area. The green spread though the whole island, turning everything into this brilliant color while he concentrated. He only seen one other mobian do this, and he wasn't all too well soon afterward. Lets Pray this works or we're all dead!
----Outside Dark Legion Headquarters, 50 seconds to Impact
The Chaotix made it out of Legion HQ and were heading towards Echindaopolis unsure of what was going to happen next. Julie-Su looked over her shoulder and seen the area behind them was...disappearing and screamed in fear. She only seen that one time before, when the Legion blasted the island and sent Echindaopolis into another dimension. She wasn't watching where she was heading, and tripped over a fallen tree, landing on her knees paralyzed for a moment. Unfortunately she didn't have a moment since this strange green light was coming up fast on her.
----Haven
The Brotherhood was certain that they couldn't protect the whole island from impact and this new threat, but at least they could protect the people in Echindaopolis while they thought of a new plan. A force field will surround Echindaopolis at the moment of impact and protect everyone inside from the impact. Locke and Lara-Le both silently prayed that Knuckles would be alright where they were in the Echinda safehold since he was so low on the island. They just got him back, and didn't want to lose him again.
----Outskirts of Echindaopolis
Julie-Su couldn't move, she blamed it on her knee which was slightly pained from her fall, but she was actually scared of what was going to happen to them now. Her eyes tightly closed she at least pushed herself to her feet, or thought she did, but the wind was blowing too hard for her to be sitting. She felt a rough vibration which caused her to open her eyes. She was being carried by someone, and the green light which was destroying everything was closing in on them.
She forced herself to look up at who save her, and to her surprise " You!" She gasped...
"Now its time for you to shut up and let me save us both!" Vector yelled about the noise of the screaming Echidnas in Echindaopolis and the cries of the Chaotix to get them across the borders of Echindaopolis now.
----Haven
Sabre was the one who yelled it, from where he was on the upper levels of Haven. " Its started! "
----
Vector dove for the borders of the city just as the forcefield made it up.
A shinning white light blinded his view which signaled the coming of the forcefield over the city.
The residents of Echindaopolis could see a blinding white light from their bubble of protection made by the Brotherhood. There was no rumbling impact though the whole island, just that light which remained there for who knew how long.
Lien-Da just smirked looking on, her plan was finally falling together....
----------------To Be Continued
--------------------------Heart to No Heart Four: Saved by Who?
Julie-Su looked at him for a long time, just into those violet eyes before she looked down at the ground. Something was rushing though her throat and she spat right in front of his thick shoes. " You're...not Knuckles, " She said softly, though her voice was weak from shock. She raised her head again and tried to lunge forward, those chains clinking together before she screamed. " You're not KNUCKLES! "
The Echidna in front of her moved back shocked by her remark. " J-Julie-Su! Its me! It is!"
The voice was there, the stutter that he had around her, a shy voice which had enough firmness behind it to get his point across. Julie-Su simply turned her head, it was all she could do in those confines. A huff came across her lips before she said. " Your eyes...they aren't the same..."
Lien-Da shook her head and walked over to Knuckles, pulling him towards her with that devious smile still on her muzzle. " Forget about her for a moment, you'll have all the time in the world to catch up after the takeover."
Julie-Su looked back for a moment. " Takeover?"
"Of the Floating Island...and the surrounding land!" Lien-Da said that causally before checking back to her radio and yelling into it. " How long until impact?"
A male voice answer on the other end shortly after. " Fifteen minutes! We'll be landing in Northern Mobius." He confirmed before the connection was broken.
Julie-Su's eyes widened, the only way the Floating Island would be landing in that area would be if..." The island is falling?!?" How could the island be falling...that could only mean the Master Emerald was gone! No...its only been a few hours since she was knocked out, no one could've stole it in that amount of time.
Lien-Da lead Knuckles over to the door, the male Echidna only gave a weak halfhearted wave over his shoulder before slipping though the door. " Yes, its all part of the plan. We can't give you the details, no time you know..." They left soon afterward, the doors closing suddenly behind them.
Julie-Su looked at the chains around her wrists and started to pull at them though they hurt. She needed to find a way out of here...she needed to find one fast.
------Outside Legion Headquarters, 11 Minutes to Impact
"That woman's going to be the death of us!" Vector grumbled looking out from where the Chaotix were hiding behind a dumpster. Vector also learned that he hated the smell of everything around him, which he didn't pay attention to with the absence of his walkman.
Espio nodded towards Vector before looking down at his watch (which was conveniently placed there to further the plot n_n). " Quite literally too, we have 10 minutes and no one here has a plan!"
Vector turned back to look at Espio with a growl. " Who says we don't have a plan?"
"So what is your plan?"
Espio, Charmy, and Mighty gathered around him while Vector thought. It didn't take the croc long before he looked back down at them with a grin. " I'd like to pass!"
A groan was spread thoughout the group before Charmy nodded lightly to them. " Well I gotta plan! " He hovered up into the air, the size of a regular bee so the Legionaries couldn't see him. He scouted out the entrance and seen two guards there, and then an alley and with windows on the other side. A grin came across the bee's face and he hovered back down to explain. " We're going to rush them!"
"And THAT'S your plan?!?" Mighty burster into chuckles before he was promptly smacked by Charmy. " Hey!"
"I'm not finished yet! " Charmy beamed before he pointed towards the two guards who looked like they were falling asleep at their posts. " Espio, you can take them right? " Espio nodded and he continued. " Mighty can burst though the door. I fly though the window and cut the power..."
Espio interrupted him for a moment. " Cut the power for what? "
Charmy folded his arms over his chest and motioned over to the guards as an example, both were laced with metal gear in their dreads and arms. " The Legion's greatest weapons are their machinery, without it they won't be able to track us! We'll meet up and then split up to find Julie-Su and get outta there!"
Vector shook his head to that. " You're forgetting about the rock we're standing on...its like...falling!"
Espio finished that off. " We get Julie-Su back, Lien-Da will come looking for her...when we get her, we get the Master Emerald!" He looked back towards his watch and stepped forward. " Okay, eight minutes...lets move!"
------Inner Legion Headquarters, Seven Minutes until Impact
Lien-Da and Knuckles were heading towards the lowest point of the island, which was called the point Closest to Hell because of its unpleasant location. They stepped into the elevator which lead to those warmer points of the island and it closed behind them. The only thing to keep them company was the slow humming of the elevator as it started its miles long trip towards the Point Closest to Hell.
Lien-Da looked over to Knuckles and grinned, her arms folding against her chest before she leaned off towards the side. " We pulled it off, its amazing how everything's coming together in the end. "
Knuckles nodded to that, looking back to the ceiling of the elevator when he noticed the lights flickering. " I told you that it was going to work, Kommissar. My plans never fail!" An all knowing grin came to his muzzle before he laughed.
" Better yet, no one will expect that its their own dear guardian would be the one who would set them up for a total shutd-"
At that moment, the lights to the elevator had shut down and the elevator slowly came to a stop. The two Echidna were confused, but then Lien-Da made her way to the control panel to the elevator and kicked it. " Work damnit! This is not the time for a malfunction!"
Lien-Da said every swear that she could think of to high Aurora to try and get the elevator in motion while Knuckles thought. He muttered one word, which seemed to be the most level thing he said since his 'resurrection' . " The Chaotix...they're here..." He walked over to the control panel of the elevator and put his paw on it, pressing down before his eyes tightly closed. There was a brief silence before the humming of the elevator started so the elevator could get back in motion. " They came for Julie-Su..." He looked back towards Lien-Da after starting the elevator on his own energy.
"Let them have her, its not going to help them..."
-----Holding Cells, Four Minutes Until Impact
Julie-Su was singing to herself to pass the time while she thought of a way to get out of those cuffs keeping her pinned against a wall. " Gunna take my blaster...and mess Lien-Da up..." She smirked a little, but then the lights went out in the cell.
That gave her an idea, so she leaned forward with her eyes tightly closed until she felt a sharp click coming from her wrists which made her fall forward on her stomach. She stood up, now free from the restraints and rubbed her wrists. " Electric powered restraints...not one of the Legion's better ideas.." She noted and headed towards the door of the cell to open it.
She was stopped by the sound of something moving though the vents, some mutters and curses and then some voices.
"Is she down there or not Vector?"
"How should I know? I can't see a thing!"
"I can't see a thing past your big as-"
"Lay off that Espio!"
"My fat wha-?"
The argument was cut off when the vent overhead suddenly gave way and Vector, Espio, and Mighty landed on the floor behind Julie-Su. Charmy hovered over them with a sigh while they tried to get to their feet. " She is right here!"
Julie-Su slowly turned around with her arms folded over her chest. " I don't need your help gettin' out of here!"
Vector locked eyes with her for a moment before standing up to face her. " Oh gee Julie-Su. If you would've just called and told us you were okay, we wouldn't have came!...Oh yeah, you couldn't have because you were captured by your crazy sister!"
"Well I wouldn't mind her keeping me if I knew you were comming!" She shot back and turned to the cell door, pushing it open now that the power was out. She yelled without looking over her shoulder. " Lets get out of here! The Island's-"
" We know, but what can we do about it?" Espio said looking back at his watch...three minutes until contact.
Vector looked at Julie-Su again before he cleared his throat suddenly. " Nothin'...not right now..."
"I know something you can do Vector..." Mighty said as a matter of fact.
"Huh?"
"How about getting off of us?!?"
Vector chuckled a little and stepped off Mighty and Espio's backs, then helped them up. " Sorry 'bout that..."
-----Haven, Two Minutes Until Impact
"What on earth are they doing?"
There was complete Panic among the people at Haven, the Brotherhood were making final preparations before making contact with lower Mobius. Locke was looking at the screen in front of him which showed a ground Camera planted on Mobius' surface which showed the Floating Island coming down at an alarming rate. His purple eyes narrowed seeing something at the tip of the island. He heard someone walking up beside him, but he just ignored it and started to zoom in on the object.
"Locke, all you can do is watch and you have no clue what's going to happen to the people here!"
A smaller ungloved hand came over his which made him grimace, especially at the gold wedding band which was on her hand. He slowly turned to face Lara-Le. " What? I'm trying to figure out what that blurb there is..." He motioned off to the screen, pointing to a blue and red dot on the screen.
Lara-Le moved to the side and pressed a button on the control panel which made it quickly zoom into the two blurs: Lien-Da and Knuckles who were on the Point closest to hell. Locke was amazed she knew that off the bat, she could tell though he said nothing. " Do you have a plan? "
" Why don't you? " She smirked a little.
" I don't even know what's going on..." Locke admitted with a sign.
Lara-Le looked back to the screen, she was looking at Knuckles who stepped to the edge of the platform which made up that remove spot. He was looking down at the area they were going to impact with his purple eyes, which flashed green for a moment before returning. Lara-Le blinked lightly before she spoke. " I do..."
"What? H-"
" That machine...the Chaos Syphon...we need it! " She remembered something from before and looked down at the control panel, Locke had ran off to tell the brotherhood to retrieve the Machine. It was a conversation she had with Knuckles last week. Dimitri represents a serious threat to my Children! ...Her eyes closed and she sighed.
" I was worried about the baby, but it was him I should've looked after..."
-----Point Closest to Hell, One Minute Until Impact
"Knuckles, do it!"
The Echidna looked back to Lien-Da and then down at the ground which was coming up on them fast before his eyes closed. Thousands of lives depended on him, let alone the Dark Legion and Lien-Da. His gloves moved into the air above him surrounded in a green glow which soon surrounded the whole area. The green spread though the whole island, turning everything into this brilliant color while he concentrated. He only seen one other mobian do this, and he wasn't all too well soon afterward. Lets Pray this works or we're all dead!
----Outside Dark Legion Headquarters, 50 seconds to Impact
The Chaotix made it out of Legion HQ and were heading towards Echindaopolis unsure of what was going to happen next. Julie-Su looked over her shoulder and seen the area behind them was...disappearing and screamed in fear. She only seen that one time before, when the Legion blasted the island and sent Echindaopolis into another dimension. She wasn't watching where she was heading, and tripped over a fallen tree, landing on her knees paralyzed for a moment. Unfortunately she didn't have a moment since this strange green light was coming up fast on her.
----Haven
The Brotherhood was certain that they couldn't protect the whole island from impact and this new threat, but at least they could protect the people in Echindaopolis while they thought of a new plan. A force field will surround Echindaopolis at the moment of impact and protect everyone inside from the impact. Locke and Lara-Le both silently prayed that Knuckles would be alright where they were in the Echinda safehold since he was so low on the island. They just got him back, and didn't want to lose him again.
----Outskirts of Echindaopolis
Julie-Su couldn't move, she blamed it on her knee which was slightly pained from her fall, but she was actually scared of what was going to happen to them now. Her eyes tightly closed she at least pushed herself to her feet, or thought she did, but the wind was blowing too hard for her to be sitting. She felt a rough vibration which caused her to open her eyes. She was being carried by someone, and the green light which was destroying everything was closing in on them.
She forced herself to look up at who save her, and to her surprise " You!" She gasped...
"Now its time for you to shut up and let me save us both!" Vector yelled about the noise of the screaming Echidnas in Echindaopolis and the cries of the Chaotix to get them across the borders of Echindaopolis now.
----Haven
Sabre was the one who yelled it, from where he was on the upper levels of Haven. " Its started! "
----
Vector dove for the borders of the city just as the forcefield made it up.
A shinning white light blinded his view which signaled the coming of the forcefield over the city.
The residents of Echindaopolis could see a blinding white light from their bubble of protection made by the Brotherhood. There was no rumbling impact though the whole island, just that light which remained there for who knew how long.
Lien-Da just smirked looking on, her plan was finally falling together....
----------------To Be Continued