Shadow cooled off and everyone's sight returned to normal.
"Behold, the Hidden Palace Zone of Moria..." Shadow said dramatically.
"It's an action stage..." Tails pointed out. In front of them was a complete stage of ramps, loops, badniks, and rings.
"oooooooooooooOOOOOOOooooooooo..." Sonic said. "I wanna complete it!" Sonic jumped towards the starting ramp, but Shadow grabbed one of Sonic's blades and he fell to the floor.
"No, Sonic... We're going this way..." Shadow pointed to the walkway that ran along side the level.
"That's no fun!" Sonic said as sat up and crossed his arms. Shadow rolled his eyes.
"Let's go everyone..." Shadow said and he started dragging Sonic behind him. They continued down the walkway that led down the side of the level. Upon passing a very large statue, a door came into view.
"NO!!!" Charmy yelled.
"Charmy, No!" Shadow yelled as Charmy ran into the room. Everyone followed and entered the room. Charmy was kneeling before a large sarcophagus, weeping. Shadow walked over and read the inscription on the stone tablet.
"Number One: Billy, Lord of the Hidden Palace Zone of Moria with the high score of 35250 and rank A..."
"Who cares about him? They broke my Britney Spears CD!" The shards of the disc lay in front of him. Charmy began to weep uncontrollably now. Shadow looked around the room and noticed and small notepad on the ground. He picked it up and began reading the most recent installment.
"We mustn't linger..." Espio whispered to Knuckles.
"Why?" Knuckles asked.
"You know... If you don't do anything for awhile you start doing stuff that you can't control."
"Like what?"
"Look..." Espio pointed to the ground in front of Knuckles. Knuckles looked down to see his foot tapping.
"AHH!" Knuckles shook his leg to make it stop. "Freaky..."
"They have taken the bridge, you know the one that's really long." Shadow read aloud. "They have locked and sealed all of the doors. Only by adding water can you open them, of course if your reading this, you probably figured it out... We have barred the gates, but it..." Shadow turned the page, but there wasn't a next one.
"Well?" Tails said. He began to yawn and pat his hand over his mouth repeatedly.
"It's happening to Tails also..." Espio whispered to Knuckles
"Hold on..." Shadow searched around for any paper that has been written on. Shadow sees writing on the ground and pulls out a magnifying glass to see better. "Okay, here's the rest... it did not hold. One is no chasing me and I must flee for my life." Shadow said as he walked around the room. "I fear that my attacker of cold steel will catch me soon, for I tire from exhaustion..." Shadow continued as he started walking up the wall. "Oh no! I have been caught, what is to become of me..." Shadow said. He was standing on the ceiling, looking at the burn mark the came after that sentence. Shadow looked up (or down I suppose) and noticed where he was. He fell and landed on his head.
Suddenly, Sonic's theme song began to play very loudly and echoed throughout the walls of Hidden Palace Zone of Moria. Everyone turned to see Sonic playing it on an electric guitar that was connected to a very large amp.
"SONIC!!!" Shadow tried yelling over the music, "TURN IT OFF!!!"
"TURN IT UP???" Sonic yelled. "OKAY!!!" Sonic reached over and spun the volume knob. The song was extremely loud as Sonic continued to play. Then it stopped... only the twangy sound from the guitar could be heard with Sonic singing. "Huh?" Sonic looked over to see Tails over at the wall with the plug in his hand.
"SONIC!!! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?!" Shadow yelled in his face. Sonic wiped all the spit off his face and stared Shadow in the eye.
"What??? Oh, yeah... We're supposed to travel quietly. Oops, forgot." Sonic said.
"ooooooooooooooooo..." Shadow groaned as his eye began to twitch. He started stepping towards Sonic with big, angry eyes.
"Uh, Shadow?" Sonic said, stepping back. "You okay your foaming at the mouth." Shadow lunged at him, but Knuckles, Tails, Espio, Charmy, Vector, Pepper, and Berry grabbed him and held him back. "Let... me... GO!!!" Shadow commanded, fighting to get free. "I won't kill him... I just want to cause him paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiin..." Shadow said as he stared wide-eyed at Sonic.
"Your lucking they holding me back!!!" Sonic said shaking his fist. Everyone looked over to him with an eyebrow raised. "Oh, um... Never mind..."
"Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease, let me hurt him!" Shadow said.
"Shadow! Calm down!" Tails ordered. He slapped Shadow in the face.
"No, Tails... Like this." Vector said. "Get a hold of your self man!" He said in an Irish accent. Vector slapped Shadow in the face.
"Your both doing it wrong..." Knuckles cut in. "Like this... What the hell is wrong with you?! Get a grip!" Knuckles said as he repeatedly slapped Shadow's face back and forth.
"Thanks, I needed that..." Shadow said calmly.
"See?" Knuckles said. Sonic put the guitar down and stepped away from that area. Shadow turned around to the group, but heard drums playing this time. He whirled around and was about to strike at Sonic, but he was standing there looking out into space. The drumming quickened in pace. Vector ran to the door and looked out.
(In Super Slow Motion)
Vector bent backwards all the way as an arrow flew just about an inch above him.
(Back to Normal Speed)
Vector returned to the upright position and turned around.
"Thanks a lot..." Tails said with the arrow sticking in his eye.
"Oops!" Vector said. He slammed the door closed and stuck broomsticks in between the large handles to keep them from opening. Tails brought over a few chairs and propped them underneath the handles. Knuckles got a couch and set it against the door. Vector grabbed the king size bed and threw up in the pile. Charmy took up a large table and added it to the pile.
"Let's see them get through that!" Charmy said with a smirk. SMASH! The doors flung open, tossing the blocking objects everywhere.
"You just had to say it didn't you..." Shadow said to him. Badniks poured into the room and charged for them. The machines drew closer and closer, ready to attack the Friendship. One machine with a spiked ball and chain drew its weapon back and thrust it toward Sonic.
"WAIT!!!" Sonic yelled. Everyone stopped dead in their tracks and looked at him. "We can't fight without some music..." Sonic walked over to a rather large stereo and pushed play on the CD player. The song "Bodies" (by Drowning Pool) began to play. "Okay, now were ready..." Everyone turned back to their opponents and the battle began.
Knuckles and Espio fight side-by-side in the center of the room, taking on most of the enemy force. Shadow was fighting alone near the back, protecting the Chao while Charmy was off by himself, destroying in a savage rage.
"BREAK MY BRITNEY SPEARS CD WILL YOU?!?!" Charmy yelled. "TAKE THAT!!!" Tails was with Sonic, fighting the machines as they came. Sonic was trying to do a homing attack, but couldn't seem to hit anyone.
"Oww..." Sonic wined. "I hit the wall again..." Soon the room began to clear and only parts of machine lay in waste to the ground. Suddenly, the wall where the door stood came crashing down. In the over the rubble stood the boss... BIG FOOT! Dun, Dun, Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun!
"Egad, not him! It's bad enough I had to fight him once!" Sonic yelled. The robot whirled to face Sonic and started towards him. Sonic dashed away screaming like a little girl.
"Damn!" Knuckles said. He was trying to make his way to Sonic, but more badniks arrived along with Big Foot.
"Somebody help me!" Sonic yelled. He was hiding behind a pillar that was being fired upon with chain guns and missiles.
"Greatest hero in the world and he wants our help?" Charmy asked, helping Tails tear apart another machine. Tails shrugged his shoulders and tugged again, ripping off the head.
"I'm coming Sonic!" Knuckles yelled running towards him.
"Eew Knuckles... That's sick!" Sonic said in disgust. Everyone sweatdropped. Even Sonic sweatdropped too, just because everyone else was doing it. Sonic noticed that the gunfire had stopped and peaked around the corner.
"Where'd he go?" Suddenly, a missile was fired at Sonic from the side. Knuckles jumped in the way and punched the missile to the side.
"HAHA!" Knuckles laughed looking back to Sonic. "I'm so good!" Sonic eyes widened and he pointed behind Knuckles. Knuckles turned around only to blown back from the missile exploding in front of him. Sonic ran over to Knuckles yelling his name.
"Wake up!" Sonic yelled. He grabbed Knuckles by the face and shook him violently. "Wake up! Hello?" Sonic slapped him in the face really hard.
"Uh what?" Knuckles snapped back to consciousness.
"Yes!" Sonic yelled triumphantly. A large rock fell from the ceiling and hit Knuckles on the head, knocking him out again.
"Knuckles?" Sonic said. He lifted up his eyelids to reveal the following message in the his eyes:
Out Cold - Be back in 5 min.
Big Foot walked up behind them. Sonic had no choice but to run, but ended up cornering himself in a... well, a corner obviously! Big Foot's chain gun pointed at Sonic and the ears reopened to release missiles. The pilot pulled the trigger, but only a clicking noise could be heard.
"Ahahahahahahaha! Your out of ammo!" Sonic stuck his tongue out at the machine.
"Oh yeah!" The cockpit was opened and the pilot was standing there. "Take this!" He pulled out a javelin and lunged it at Sonic.
"Huh?" Sonic didn't have time to react, the - just a note, its not that he didn't have time to react because it happened so fast... It's because this is what he was thinking, ([javelin is thrown] Sonic's thought(s) = Man, I forgot to set the VCR to tape DBZ while I was on this trip... Ice cream...) - The javelin struck him down, going through his mid-right chest and out the left side of his back.
"Yes! I got him!" The pilot yelled. The rest of the Friendship looked over to see the startling sight Sonic dying. Sonic began making weird psycho faces such as @_@ and X_O. Shadow in particular was the most effected, knowing that the only chance to destroy the Chaotic Emerald was dying before his eyes.
"AAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!" Charmy yelled. He and the rest of the Friendship began to fight harder and more viciously. They destroyed everything and now were heading to destroy Big Foot. They closed in looking angrily at him. Pepper and Berry jumped on his back. The pilot moved the machine erratically to shake them off, but could not.
"oooOOOooo... What's this?" Berry pushed a button on the back and the words 'Self Destruct' began blinking on it. The two chao jumped off the machine and they all watched it explode. After the amazing fireworks display, they turned to Sonic who was trying to make his way toward them, holding the javelin from the front and in the back with each hand. They rushed over to him.
"Sonic, you shouldn't try to move." Knuckles said.
"I... I - " Sonic began. "I'm Okay!" It turned out to be two pieces of it being held to his front and back with his hands. Everyone grabbed a weapon and started toward Sonic with angry faces. "Hey guys, I was just kidding..." Sonic stepped back as they approached slowly. Then they jumped at him and did thing to violent for the rating of this story.
"Behold, the Hidden Palace Zone of Moria..." Shadow said dramatically.
"It's an action stage..." Tails pointed out. In front of them was a complete stage of ramps, loops, badniks, and rings.
"oooooooooooooOOOOOOOooooooooo..." Sonic said. "I wanna complete it!" Sonic jumped towards the starting ramp, but Shadow grabbed one of Sonic's blades and he fell to the floor.
"No, Sonic... We're going this way..." Shadow pointed to the walkway that ran along side the level.
"That's no fun!" Sonic said as sat up and crossed his arms. Shadow rolled his eyes.
"Let's go everyone..." Shadow said and he started dragging Sonic behind him. They continued down the walkway that led down the side of the level. Upon passing a very large statue, a door came into view.
"NO!!!" Charmy yelled.
"Charmy, No!" Shadow yelled as Charmy ran into the room. Everyone followed and entered the room. Charmy was kneeling before a large sarcophagus, weeping. Shadow walked over and read the inscription on the stone tablet.
"Number One: Billy, Lord of the Hidden Palace Zone of Moria with the high score of 35250 and rank A..."
"Who cares about him? They broke my Britney Spears CD!" The shards of the disc lay in front of him. Charmy began to weep uncontrollably now. Shadow looked around the room and noticed and small notepad on the ground. He picked it up and began reading the most recent installment.
"We mustn't linger..." Espio whispered to Knuckles.
"Why?" Knuckles asked.
"You know... If you don't do anything for awhile you start doing stuff that you can't control."
"Like what?"
"Look..." Espio pointed to the ground in front of Knuckles. Knuckles looked down to see his foot tapping.
"AHH!" Knuckles shook his leg to make it stop. "Freaky..."
"They have taken the bridge, you know the one that's really long." Shadow read aloud. "They have locked and sealed all of the doors. Only by adding water can you open them, of course if your reading this, you probably figured it out... We have barred the gates, but it..." Shadow turned the page, but there wasn't a next one.
"Well?" Tails said. He began to yawn and pat his hand over his mouth repeatedly.
"It's happening to Tails also..." Espio whispered to Knuckles
"Hold on..." Shadow searched around for any paper that has been written on. Shadow sees writing on the ground and pulls out a magnifying glass to see better. "Okay, here's the rest... it did not hold. One is no chasing me and I must flee for my life." Shadow said as he walked around the room. "I fear that my attacker of cold steel will catch me soon, for I tire from exhaustion..." Shadow continued as he started walking up the wall. "Oh no! I have been caught, what is to become of me..." Shadow said. He was standing on the ceiling, looking at the burn mark the came after that sentence. Shadow looked up (or down I suppose) and noticed where he was. He fell and landed on his head.
Suddenly, Sonic's theme song began to play very loudly and echoed throughout the walls of Hidden Palace Zone of Moria. Everyone turned to see Sonic playing it on an electric guitar that was connected to a very large amp.
"SONIC!!!" Shadow tried yelling over the music, "TURN IT OFF!!!"
"TURN IT UP???" Sonic yelled. "OKAY!!!" Sonic reached over and spun the volume knob. The song was extremely loud as Sonic continued to play. Then it stopped... only the twangy sound from the guitar could be heard with Sonic singing. "Huh?" Sonic looked over to see Tails over at the wall with the plug in his hand.
"SONIC!!! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?!" Shadow yelled in his face. Sonic wiped all the spit off his face and stared Shadow in the eye.
"What??? Oh, yeah... We're supposed to travel quietly. Oops, forgot." Sonic said.
"ooooooooooooooooo..." Shadow groaned as his eye began to twitch. He started stepping towards Sonic with big, angry eyes.
"Uh, Shadow?" Sonic said, stepping back. "You okay your foaming at the mouth." Shadow lunged at him, but Knuckles, Tails, Espio, Charmy, Vector, Pepper, and Berry grabbed him and held him back. "Let... me... GO!!!" Shadow commanded, fighting to get free. "I won't kill him... I just want to cause him paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiin..." Shadow said as he stared wide-eyed at Sonic.
"Your lucking they holding me back!!!" Sonic said shaking his fist. Everyone looked over to him with an eyebrow raised. "Oh, um... Never mind..."
"Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease, let me hurt him!" Shadow said.
"Shadow! Calm down!" Tails ordered. He slapped Shadow in the face.
"No, Tails... Like this." Vector said. "Get a hold of your self man!" He said in an Irish accent. Vector slapped Shadow in the face.
"Your both doing it wrong..." Knuckles cut in. "Like this... What the hell is wrong with you?! Get a grip!" Knuckles said as he repeatedly slapped Shadow's face back and forth.
"Thanks, I needed that..." Shadow said calmly.
"See?" Knuckles said. Sonic put the guitar down and stepped away from that area. Shadow turned around to the group, but heard drums playing this time. He whirled around and was about to strike at Sonic, but he was standing there looking out into space. The drumming quickened in pace. Vector ran to the door and looked out.
(In Super Slow Motion)
Vector bent backwards all the way as an arrow flew just about an inch above him.
(Back to Normal Speed)
Vector returned to the upright position and turned around.
"Thanks a lot..." Tails said with the arrow sticking in his eye.
"Oops!" Vector said. He slammed the door closed and stuck broomsticks in between the large handles to keep them from opening. Tails brought over a few chairs and propped them underneath the handles. Knuckles got a couch and set it against the door. Vector grabbed the king size bed and threw up in the pile. Charmy took up a large table and added it to the pile.
"Let's see them get through that!" Charmy said with a smirk. SMASH! The doors flung open, tossing the blocking objects everywhere.
"You just had to say it didn't you..." Shadow said to him. Badniks poured into the room and charged for them. The machines drew closer and closer, ready to attack the Friendship. One machine with a spiked ball and chain drew its weapon back and thrust it toward Sonic.
"WAIT!!!" Sonic yelled. Everyone stopped dead in their tracks and looked at him. "We can't fight without some music..." Sonic walked over to a rather large stereo and pushed play on the CD player. The song "Bodies" (by Drowning Pool) began to play. "Okay, now were ready..." Everyone turned back to their opponents and the battle began.
Knuckles and Espio fight side-by-side in the center of the room, taking on most of the enemy force. Shadow was fighting alone near the back, protecting the Chao while Charmy was off by himself, destroying in a savage rage.
"BREAK MY BRITNEY SPEARS CD WILL YOU?!?!" Charmy yelled. "TAKE THAT!!!" Tails was with Sonic, fighting the machines as they came. Sonic was trying to do a homing attack, but couldn't seem to hit anyone.
"Oww..." Sonic wined. "I hit the wall again..." Soon the room began to clear and only parts of machine lay in waste to the ground. Suddenly, the wall where the door stood came crashing down. In the over the rubble stood the boss... BIG FOOT! Dun, Dun, Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun!
"Egad, not him! It's bad enough I had to fight him once!" Sonic yelled. The robot whirled to face Sonic and started towards him. Sonic dashed away screaming like a little girl.
"Damn!" Knuckles said. He was trying to make his way to Sonic, but more badniks arrived along with Big Foot.
"Somebody help me!" Sonic yelled. He was hiding behind a pillar that was being fired upon with chain guns and missiles.
"Greatest hero in the world and he wants our help?" Charmy asked, helping Tails tear apart another machine. Tails shrugged his shoulders and tugged again, ripping off the head.
"I'm coming Sonic!" Knuckles yelled running towards him.
"Eew Knuckles... That's sick!" Sonic said in disgust. Everyone sweatdropped. Even Sonic sweatdropped too, just because everyone else was doing it. Sonic noticed that the gunfire had stopped and peaked around the corner.
"Where'd he go?" Suddenly, a missile was fired at Sonic from the side. Knuckles jumped in the way and punched the missile to the side.
"HAHA!" Knuckles laughed looking back to Sonic. "I'm so good!" Sonic eyes widened and he pointed behind Knuckles. Knuckles turned around only to blown back from the missile exploding in front of him. Sonic ran over to Knuckles yelling his name.
"Wake up!" Sonic yelled. He grabbed Knuckles by the face and shook him violently. "Wake up! Hello?" Sonic slapped him in the face really hard.
"Uh what?" Knuckles snapped back to consciousness.
"Yes!" Sonic yelled triumphantly. A large rock fell from the ceiling and hit Knuckles on the head, knocking him out again.
"Knuckles?" Sonic said. He lifted up his eyelids to reveal the following message in the his eyes:
Out Cold - Be back in 5 min.
Big Foot walked up behind them. Sonic had no choice but to run, but ended up cornering himself in a... well, a corner obviously! Big Foot's chain gun pointed at Sonic and the ears reopened to release missiles. The pilot pulled the trigger, but only a clicking noise could be heard.
"Ahahahahahahaha! Your out of ammo!" Sonic stuck his tongue out at the machine.
"Oh yeah!" The cockpit was opened and the pilot was standing there. "Take this!" He pulled out a javelin and lunged it at Sonic.
"Huh?" Sonic didn't have time to react, the - just a note, its not that he didn't have time to react because it happened so fast... It's because this is what he was thinking, ([javelin is thrown] Sonic's thought(s) = Man, I forgot to set the VCR to tape DBZ while I was on this trip... Ice cream...) - The javelin struck him down, going through his mid-right chest and out the left side of his back.
"Yes! I got him!" The pilot yelled. The rest of the Friendship looked over to see the startling sight Sonic dying. Sonic began making weird psycho faces such as @_@ and X_O. Shadow in particular was the most effected, knowing that the only chance to destroy the Chaotic Emerald was dying before his eyes.
"AAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!" Charmy yelled. He and the rest of the Friendship began to fight harder and more viciously. They destroyed everything and now were heading to destroy Big Foot. They closed in looking angrily at him. Pepper and Berry jumped on his back. The pilot moved the machine erratically to shake them off, but could not.
"oooOOOooo... What's this?" Berry pushed a button on the back and the words 'Self Destruct' began blinking on it. The two chao jumped off the machine and they all watched it explode. After the amazing fireworks display, they turned to Sonic who was trying to make his way toward them, holding the javelin from the front and in the back with each hand. They rushed over to him.
"Sonic, you shouldn't try to move." Knuckles said.
"I... I - " Sonic began. "I'm Okay!" It turned out to be two pieces of it being held to his front and back with his hands. Everyone grabbed a weapon and started toward Sonic with angry faces. "Hey guys, I was just kidding..." Sonic stepped back as they approached slowly. Then they jumped at him and did thing to violent for the rating of this story.