Dr Zachary stood before the Drakon Emperor Den-Izen in his Throne Room back
on the Drakon homeworld. He had returned to the Drakon as it was with them
that his loyalty lay. He was a weak old Echidna, and knew that they'd kill
him if he ever thought about betraying them.
"You have done well, Dr Zachary." Emperor Den-Izen said. "But I must ask why you returned to us."
"I am loyal only to you, Emperor." Zachary said.
"But the Echidna are your people."
Zachary stood there for a bit, then grew angry. "My people. My people! Tell me, would my people leave me in the hands of their enemy for as long as they did? Would my people believe me dead and forget about me?" Zachary spat. "I have no people. I'm the last of my kind."
The Emperor sat forward. "Indeed you soon shall be, Dr Zachary. You have made your decision, there is no turning back from this point on, you do know that?"
Dr Zachary looked towards the floor. "I do."
"Good." Emperor Den-Izen said, getting out of his chair. "Don't worry." He said, walking over to Zachary. "After tomorrow the Echidna will be nothing but a fading memory."
The Emperor walked past Zachary and on out of the Throne Room, leaving Dr Zachary behind.
Zachary stood there for a while as the remaining Drakon left the room. Zachary sighed inwardly to himself as he watched them leave. He stood by himself for a brief moment, then begun to walk towards the door.
"You sure are a weird one, Echidna." A voice said.
"After all this time, Shrillin." Zachary said turning around. "I thought you would have begun to understand me." Zachary watched as a huge reptile appeared from the shadows.
"Oh I never said I didn't understand you." Shrillin said. "I merely commented on you being weird."
Dr Zachary stared at Shrillin for a while, then smiled.
The reptiles full name was Shrillin-Cisor. He was a 7 foot tall Alligator that had arrived on Mobius along with the Drakon, as his race lived on the Drakon's homeworld.
Shrillin looked down on Zachary and grinned to show a very impressive array of razor sharp teeth. "You know your race will die, Zachary. There will be nothing left when the Drakon are through. And even if some survived, they would be hunted and killed when the Drakon help the Dragon's of Mobius to return." Shrillin said. "The Echidna will be no more." He added.
Dr Zachary looked up at the over grown lizard, then turned away. Without saying a word, Dr Zachary left the Throne Room, leaving Shrillin-Cisor by himself.
"Was it something I said?" Shrillin snarled to himself.
* * * *
The Echidna Guard lay unconscious on the floor. Those that hadn't been beaten unconscious lay on the ground because they had taken a full on energy blast, from one of their own Guardian Robots!
"Yeeoww!" Eading said, as he sat up and rubbed his head. "I didn't know that a blast from a Guardian Robot could pack such a punch!" He then slowly got to his feet.
"Careful, Eading. You shouldn't be getting up so quickly." Came the voice of Amass as he flew to his side. "You should rest and-!"
"I know you mean well Kid." Eading said, cutting him off. "But I'll be all right. I've been hit by harder things than that blast, like my Mother for starters. Only thing that I wont be able to shake off for a while is this blasted headache!" He said, as he held his throbbing head.
He then looked at the rest of the Echidna Guard lying on the floor, and then back at Amass.
"How come you ain't out cold, Kid?" Eading asked.
Amass smiled as he pulled Eading's sword towards him. "Me and Whida found a little place to hide. We didn't get hit by any of the blast. We then watched the Drakon leave, and Dr Zachary went with them. I sent Whida to get some help."
"Ah crap!" he said, simply.
"We were betrayed?" Came a voice.
Eading and Amass turned to see Imarac up on his elbows. "Dr Zachary betrayed us?" He asked.
"It would appear so, Boss." Amass said.
Imarac sat up very slowly. As he did so he rubbed the back of his neck. "That bastard! Betraying his own people, his own race, to the enemy." He mumbled half to himself, and then looked up at Eading and Amass. Eading and Amass looked straight back at him.
Imarac sighed, "Wake everyone up." He said simply, then he got up and looked around. Then walked over to Sheila.
Eading watched Imarac, frowned, and got up to check on the others. Amass flew along after him.
Stumbling, ever so slightly, Imarac made his way over to the were the Sheila lay. Looking down on her he gritted his teeth. "I hope that bastards sure of the side he picked, because next time I see him I know which side going to be on."
* * * *
Pochamac stared at the Chaos Emeralds as they floated around the Master Emerald in his chambers.. With their combined power he could finally put a stop to all the enemies that threatened his people. And then, when that had all been taken care of, he would use the power of the Chaos Emeralds to help his allies.
Pochamac smiled as he thought of the countless things he could do with the power he now had, but his smiled dampened as he thought about the conversation he had had with his daughter.
Pochamac lowered his head and sighed inwardly. He had dismissed the words of his daughter as if they came from common Echidna, and she was nearly all he had left.
Pochamac put his head in his hand. Was he a bad king? Did he really want to help his people, or was it because of him that they needed to be helped?
His bodyguard, and nephew, Braven Rain came in. "My King, we've received no word from either Prince Brightstarr and Prince Knuckles since they left for the emerald mine. I request that scouts can be sent in order to find out what happened to them."
Pochamac stared up at Braven and sighed. "I've asked you repeatedly to call me Uncle, Braven."
Braven stood there a little uneasily, but he didn't say a word.
"Very well." Pochamac said, looking away from him. "Leave Brightstarr and Knuckles alone. They can take care of themselves. Besides, they know were to find us if they need help."
Braven nodded slightly. "Also, Whida has informed us that while we where in the Chaos Sanctuary some Drakon came through the Mobius Ring and attacked. Luckily they where met by the Echidna Guard and seen off. But not before they took someone back through with them."
"One of the Guard?" Pochamac asked.
"No. The Drakon left with Dr Zachary." Braven said.
Pochamac's eyes widened a little. "The poor soul. Not long after we rescue him from the Drakon do they abduct him again."
"Apparently not." Braven said, gritting his teeth.
"What do you mean? Explain." The King commanded.
"Dr Zachary left with the Drakon forces willingly." Braven said. "They had come for him. He fired on the Echidna Guard so that he could escape. He wanted to go back."
"Betrayal!" Pochamac whispered.
Just then Giser walked into the room. "Milord." He said, bowing slightly. "I believe I have found a way to use the Chaos Emeralds as a power source for the device called the Chaos Cannon I created." Giser walked into the room a little further, followed by a few other Echidna. "If it is okay with you I wish to take the Chaos Emeralds to the Command Room and study them further there."
Pochamac nodded and then turned away. "I will join you there later. Right now I will - I will rest for a while." He said heading for his bed. "I have a lot to think about."
* * * *
Knuckles' dinosaur charged after the Kohenyu herd that ran not that far ahead of him. Turning in his saddle he glanced at the Echidna that followed him, cheering to themselves.
They charged at the Kohenyu in perfect formation, taking up positions on either side of the fleeing Kohenyu, stooping them from running erratically and keeping them in control of where they wanted the Kohenyu to run.
Knuckles glanced up quickly at the two Echidna that where riding flying dinosaurs, then looked sidelong at the Echidna riding the dinosaur beside him.
"Yukon, old buddy. Through me a spear." Knuckles shouted above the noise of the stampede.
Yukon obediently threw his spear across to Knuckles, who caught it. Yukon then pulled out a net and smiled. "I always wanted to see if you could actually take a Kohenyu down with a net." He said, his faded purple dreadlocks bouncing up and down.
"Brightstarr took down four before." Knuckles shouted smiling.
Yukon sniggered to himself. "Guess I'll have to beat that." He continued to laugh as he looked ahead of him. In front of him there was the Kohenyu, in simpler terms, in front of them there was dinner.
Knuckles also turned back to the stampede in front of him and raised the spear in his right hand.
Then suddenly there was a pink flash up ahead. The light intensified, causing him to shut his eyes. When he reopened them something that hadn't been there was now in the equation.
Behind him there was still his fellow Echidna, and they were chasing what was in front of them, which was a stampede of Kohenyu. But now, in front of them, stood two figures.
The Kohenyu, startled by the flash of pink light, actually shifted up a gear. Knuckles, now panicking for the safety of the two Mobians up ahead, spurred his dinosaur into a faster stride.
"There's two Mobians ahead." Yukon shouted. "I can't make out who they are- !"
"Its Tikal!" Knuckles shouted in horror. "She's with a hedgehog, I think. They're going to be killed!"
But there was nothing that could be done. No one here was that fast that they could snatch the two of them out of their in time. Knuckles almost turned away when Yukon cried out. "Knuckles. Look!"
Knuckles turned back to see a blue streak run at the approaching Kohenyu, then jump up on top of one of them. It was the hedgehog. It had grabbed Tikal and got her out of harms way, but not entirely.
The hedgehog, with incredible agility, jumped from Kohenyu to Kohenyu, not even breaking a sweat pulling Tikal along for the ride.
Just as soon as the whole spectacle had started it stopped as the hedgehog leaped onto a small landing with Tikal, and sat down watching the remaining Kohenyu continue to stampede past.
Knuckles and the Echidna watched in utter disbelief as their dinosaurs run behind the Kohenyu in the dust they had kicked up. As the stampede moved on into the distance, the Echidna reached the rock formation Tikal and the hedgehog where on and begun to dismount their dinosaurs.
Knuckles dismounted his dinosaur and looked up at Tikal. "Tikal!" Knuckles shouted. "What are you doing here? The hunting grounds are dangerous!"
Other Echidna begun to gather around the rock formation. Knuckles glanced at them as they approached, then looked back up at Tikal. "Does your father know you're so far from the city?" He shouted up at her.
An Echidna called Otent walked up behind Knuckles carrying a bow and arrow. He looked just like every other Echidna except that he had two of his dreadlocks pinned up. "I can't be sure with all the dust, but I could have sworn I saw the hedgehog grab Tikal and get her out of harms way." He said.
Knuckles barely looked around at him as he watched Tikal kneel down. He gripped his staff with two hands, awaiting her explanation.
"I'm not in the mood to explain anything right now, Knuckles." She shouted down at him. "But I will allow you to escort us safely back to the city."
Knuckles gritted his teeth. He hated being left out in the dark with stuff, and was about to shout at Tikal when he noticed the hedgehog. It was suddenly staring at him with two green eyes.
"Knuckles?" Sonic the hedgehog said. "It is you! We were just talking five minutes ago, back at the base." Sonic leaned forwards. "How can you be here in the ancient past?"
All the Echidna stood silent, mouths open and their eyes wide as they stared. The hedgehog had spoke. No hedgehog could speak, they where to primitive. Hedgehog's hadn't evolved that far up the evolutionary ladder yet. But then if that was true, then what was this?
"The Hedgehog just spoke." An Echidna behind Knuckles proclaimed.
"But, but that's impossible." Said a second.
Knuckles grew angry. To much was going on here and he still didn't have the slightest idea what. First Tikal just appears in front of a herd of stampeding Kohenyu, then she was whisked out of the way by this blue hedgehog without breaking a sweat. And now the hedgehog had spoke. Hedgehog's don't speak! "You think we have met before?" Knuckles said.
Sonic stood up and stared down at Knuckles as if he had just asked him a stupid question. "You don't know me?" He said, he then put his hands on his hips. "This is getting way to weird."
Knuckles stared up at the hedgehog for a while. Unnoticed behind him one of the flying dinosaur riders landed. The Echidna dismounted and ran over to Knuckles. "Knuckles come quickly!" The Echidna shouted. "It's the intruders." He said.
Knuckles turned to him. The hedgehog would have to be explained later. He looked at the young Echidna, he looked petrified. Looking at the other Echidna he gritted his teeth. He looked up at Tikal and then ran in the direction the young Echidna had come from. "Stay here!" He shouted at Tikal as he ran off. The other Echidna turned and followed him.
Tikal turned to Sonic, only to find him already staring at her. Her eyes met his and suddenly a weird feeling came over her. It momentarily made her nauseous, but at the same time, made her feel like she had done it before. She couldn't explain it, but there was something about Sonic's eyes.
She turned away from Sonic's stare, closed her eyes and rubbed her forehead. The feeling went. She stood there for a few seconds, then jumped down the rock side. "Come on." She said, reaching the bottom.
"Way ahead of you." Sonic said following her down. The two of them then ran after the Echidna.
The Echidna came to a stop up ahead at a cliff side. They stared down at a Drakon ship that had landed down below.
"There's only one of them." Yukon said. "This could be our chance."
Knuckles looked at Yukon and nodded. "No one move until I give the word." He said staring down at the Drakon ship.
He stood there for a bit when he was suddenly aware that something blue was standing next to him. He glanced sidelong to see that the hedgehog had taken up a position next to him. "S-something's emerging!" The hedgehog said, watching as the ship opened up.
All the Echidna and Sonic watched as the Drakon ship opened up.
"On no!" Sonic shouted in shock. "It's a Drakon Prosecutor!"
* * * *
At that very moment, in the Sacred Emerald Mine, Prince Brightstarr stepped on the skull of a Drakon Prosecutor crushing it. He then stepped back and stared at it. He couldn't believe it. Other Echidna gathered around to take a look.
He had been sent here to search for any more Chaos Emeralds that may have survived the cave-in that was caused in the mine sometime ago by his late father. But he had only found them destroyed. Surprisingly though the raw emeralds were okay.
Prince Brightstarr would have left then, if he had not found some long dead Drakon soldiers. But on inspection of the dead Drakon Brightstarr had found this.
Bending forwards he reached into the Drakon's helmet and pulled out a small spine with its bone tail still intact. The mighty Drakon where nothing more than small fish. Their bodies where robotic. No wonder they were so tough, they were bloody robots.
Brightstarr's face screwed up with anger. He pulled his arm back and threw the Drakon bones at the cave wall as hard as he could. "The bastards!" Brightstarr shouted. "The cheating Bastards!" So many Echidna had died fighting the Drakon, and now Brightstarr finally realized that their deaths had been in vain. Brightstarr clenched his hand and punched the ground in anger, causing it to crack.
An Echidna called Efoze walked up to Prince Brightstarr. "We should make are way back to Megaopolis." He said in a soothing tone. "Pochamac must hear of this."
Brightstarr looked up at Efoze and nodded. "I'll leave." He said turning towards the exit. "I want the rest of you to gather these dead bodies and bury them deep within the mine, then return to the city."
The remaining Echidna looked at each other, and then at the dead Drakon. They then watched as the Prince walked back out the way they had come in.
"You have done well, Dr Zachary." Emperor Den-Izen said. "But I must ask why you returned to us."
"I am loyal only to you, Emperor." Zachary said.
"But the Echidna are your people."
Zachary stood there for a bit, then grew angry. "My people. My people! Tell me, would my people leave me in the hands of their enemy for as long as they did? Would my people believe me dead and forget about me?" Zachary spat. "I have no people. I'm the last of my kind."
The Emperor sat forward. "Indeed you soon shall be, Dr Zachary. You have made your decision, there is no turning back from this point on, you do know that?"
Dr Zachary looked towards the floor. "I do."
"Good." Emperor Den-Izen said, getting out of his chair. "Don't worry." He said, walking over to Zachary. "After tomorrow the Echidna will be nothing but a fading memory."
The Emperor walked past Zachary and on out of the Throne Room, leaving Dr Zachary behind.
Zachary stood there for a while as the remaining Drakon left the room. Zachary sighed inwardly to himself as he watched them leave. He stood by himself for a brief moment, then begun to walk towards the door.
"You sure are a weird one, Echidna." A voice said.
"After all this time, Shrillin." Zachary said turning around. "I thought you would have begun to understand me." Zachary watched as a huge reptile appeared from the shadows.
"Oh I never said I didn't understand you." Shrillin said. "I merely commented on you being weird."
Dr Zachary stared at Shrillin for a while, then smiled.
The reptiles full name was Shrillin-Cisor. He was a 7 foot tall Alligator that had arrived on Mobius along with the Drakon, as his race lived on the Drakon's homeworld.
Shrillin looked down on Zachary and grinned to show a very impressive array of razor sharp teeth. "You know your race will die, Zachary. There will be nothing left when the Drakon are through. And even if some survived, they would be hunted and killed when the Drakon help the Dragon's of Mobius to return." Shrillin said. "The Echidna will be no more." He added.
Dr Zachary looked up at the over grown lizard, then turned away. Without saying a word, Dr Zachary left the Throne Room, leaving Shrillin-Cisor by himself.
"Was it something I said?" Shrillin snarled to himself.
* * * *
The Echidna Guard lay unconscious on the floor. Those that hadn't been beaten unconscious lay on the ground because they had taken a full on energy blast, from one of their own Guardian Robots!
"Yeeoww!" Eading said, as he sat up and rubbed his head. "I didn't know that a blast from a Guardian Robot could pack such a punch!" He then slowly got to his feet.
"Careful, Eading. You shouldn't be getting up so quickly." Came the voice of Amass as he flew to his side. "You should rest and-!"
"I know you mean well Kid." Eading said, cutting him off. "But I'll be all right. I've been hit by harder things than that blast, like my Mother for starters. Only thing that I wont be able to shake off for a while is this blasted headache!" He said, as he held his throbbing head.
He then looked at the rest of the Echidna Guard lying on the floor, and then back at Amass.
"How come you ain't out cold, Kid?" Eading asked.
Amass smiled as he pulled Eading's sword towards him. "Me and Whida found a little place to hide. We didn't get hit by any of the blast. We then watched the Drakon leave, and Dr Zachary went with them. I sent Whida to get some help."
"Ah crap!" he said, simply.
"We were betrayed?" Came a voice.
Eading and Amass turned to see Imarac up on his elbows. "Dr Zachary betrayed us?" He asked.
"It would appear so, Boss." Amass said.
Imarac sat up very slowly. As he did so he rubbed the back of his neck. "That bastard! Betraying his own people, his own race, to the enemy." He mumbled half to himself, and then looked up at Eading and Amass. Eading and Amass looked straight back at him.
Imarac sighed, "Wake everyone up." He said simply, then he got up and looked around. Then walked over to Sheila.
Eading watched Imarac, frowned, and got up to check on the others. Amass flew along after him.
Stumbling, ever so slightly, Imarac made his way over to the were the Sheila lay. Looking down on her he gritted his teeth. "I hope that bastards sure of the side he picked, because next time I see him I know which side going to be on."
* * * *
Pochamac stared at the Chaos Emeralds as they floated around the Master Emerald in his chambers.. With their combined power he could finally put a stop to all the enemies that threatened his people. And then, when that had all been taken care of, he would use the power of the Chaos Emeralds to help his allies.
Pochamac smiled as he thought of the countless things he could do with the power he now had, but his smiled dampened as he thought about the conversation he had had with his daughter.
Pochamac lowered his head and sighed inwardly. He had dismissed the words of his daughter as if they came from common Echidna, and she was nearly all he had left.
Pochamac put his head in his hand. Was he a bad king? Did he really want to help his people, or was it because of him that they needed to be helped?
His bodyguard, and nephew, Braven Rain came in. "My King, we've received no word from either Prince Brightstarr and Prince Knuckles since they left for the emerald mine. I request that scouts can be sent in order to find out what happened to them."
Pochamac stared up at Braven and sighed. "I've asked you repeatedly to call me Uncle, Braven."
Braven stood there a little uneasily, but he didn't say a word.
"Very well." Pochamac said, looking away from him. "Leave Brightstarr and Knuckles alone. They can take care of themselves. Besides, they know were to find us if they need help."
Braven nodded slightly. "Also, Whida has informed us that while we where in the Chaos Sanctuary some Drakon came through the Mobius Ring and attacked. Luckily they where met by the Echidna Guard and seen off. But not before they took someone back through with them."
"One of the Guard?" Pochamac asked.
"No. The Drakon left with Dr Zachary." Braven said.
Pochamac's eyes widened a little. "The poor soul. Not long after we rescue him from the Drakon do they abduct him again."
"Apparently not." Braven said, gritting his teeth.
"What do you mean? Explain." The King commanded.
"Dr Zachary left with the Drakon forces willingly." Braven said. "They had come for him. He fired on the Echidna Guard so that he could escape. He wanted to go back."
"Betrayal!" Pochamac whispered.
Just then Giser walked into the room. "Milord." He said, bowing slightly. "I believe I have found a way to use the Chaos Emeralds as a power source for the device called the Chaos Cannon I created." Giser walked into the room a little further, followed by a few other Echidna. "If it is okay with you I wish to take the Chaos Emeralds to the Command Room and study them further there."
Pochamac nodded and then turned away. "I will join you there later. Right now I will - I will rest for a while." He said heading for his bed. "I have a lot to think about."
* * * *
Knuckles' dinosaur charged after the Kohenyu herd that ran not that far ahead of him. Turning in his saddle he glanced at the Echidna that followed him, cheering to themselves.
They charged at the Kohenyu in perfect formation, taking up positions on either side of the fleeing Kohenyu, stooping them from running erratically and keeping them in control of where they wanted the Kohenyu to run.
Knuckles glanced up quickly at the two Echidna that where riding flying dinosaurs, then looked sidelong at the Echidna riding the dinosaur beside him.
"Yukon, old buddy. Through me a spear." Knuckles shouted above the noise of the stampede.
Yukon obediently threw his spear across to Knuckles, who caught it. Yukon then pulled out a net and smiled. "I always wanted to see if you could actually take a Kohenyu down with a net." He said, his faded purple dreadlocks bouncing up and down.
"Brightstarr took down four before." Knuckles shouted smiling.
Yukon sniggered to himself. "Guess I'll have to beat that." He continued to laugh as he looked ahead of him. In front of him there was the Kohenyu, in simpler terms, in front of them there was dinner.
Knuckles also turned back to the stampede in front of him and raised the spear in his right hand.
Then suddenly there was a pink flash up ahead. The light intensified, causing him to shut his eyes. When he reopened them something that hadn't been there was now in the equation.
Behind him there was still his fellow Echidna, and they were chasing what was in front of them, which was a stampede of Kohenyu. But now, in front of them, stood two figures.
The Kohenyu, startled by the flash of pink light, actually shifted up a gear. Knuckles, now panicking for the safety of the two Mobians up ahead, spurred his dinosaur into a faster stride.
"There's two Mobians ahead." Yukon shouted. "I can't make out who they are- !"
"Its Tikal!" Knuckles shouted in horror. "She's with a hedgehog, I think. They're going to be killed!"
But there was nothing that could be done. No one here was that fast that they could snatch the two of them out of their in time. Knuckles almost turned away when Yukon cried out. "Knuckles. Look!"
Knuckles turned back to see a blue streak run at the approaching Kohenyu, then jump up on top of one of them. It was the hedgehog. It had grabbed Tikal and got her out of harms way, but not entirely.
The hedgehog, with incredible agility, jumped from Kohenyu to Kohenyu, not even breaking a sweat pulling Tikal along for the ride.
Just as soon as the whole spectacle had started it stopped as the hedgehog leaped onto a small landing with Tikal, and sat down watching the remaining Kohenyu continue to stampede past.
Knuckles and the Echidna watched in utter disbelief as their dinosaurs run behind the Kohenyu in the dust they had kicked up. As the stampede moved on into the distance, the Echidna reached the rock formation Tikal and the hedgehog where on and begun to dismount their dinosaurs.
Knuckles dismounted his dinosaur and looked up at Tikal. "Tikal!" Knuckles shouted. "What are you doing here? The hunting grounds are dangerous!"
Other Echidna begun to gather around the rock formation. Knuckles glanced at them as they approached, then looked back up at Tikal. "Does your father know you're so far from the city?" He shouted up at her.
An Echidna called Otent walked up behind Knuckles carrying a bow and arrow. He looked just like every other Echidna except that he had two of his dreadlocks pinned up. "I can't be sure with all the dust, but I could have sworn I saw the hedgehog grab Tikal and get her out of harms way." He said.
Knuckles barely looked around at him as he watched Tikal kneel down. He gripped his staff with two hands, awaiting her explanation.
"I'm not in the mood to explain anything right now, Knuckles." She shouted down at him. "But I will allow you to escort us safely back to the city."
Knuckles gritted his teeth. He hated being left out in the dark with stuff, and was about to shout at Tikal when he noticed the hedgehog. It was suddenly staring at him with two green eyes.
"Knuckles?" Sonic the hedgehog said. "It is you! We were just talking five minutes ago, back at the base." Sonic leaned forwards. "How can you be here in the ancient past?"
All the Echidna stood silent, mouths open and their eyes wide as they stared. The hedgehog had spoke. No hedgehog could speak, they where to primitive. Hedgehog's hadn't evolved that far up the evolutionary ladder yet. But then if that was true, then what was this?
"The Hedgehog just spoke." An Echidna behind Knuckles proclaimed.
"But, but that's impossible." Said a second.
Knuckles grew angry. To much was going on here and he still didn't have the slightest idea what. First Tikal just appears in front of a herd of stampeding Kohenyu, then she was whisked out of the way by this blue hedgehog without breaking a sweat. And now the hedgehog had spoke. Hedgehog's don't speak! "You think we have met before?" Knuckles said.
Sonic stood up and stared down at Knuckles as if he had just asked him a stupid question. "You don't know me?" He said, he then put his hands on his hips. "This is getting way to weird."
Knuckles stared up at the hedgehog for a while. Unnoticed behind him one of the flying dinosaur riders landed. The Echidna dismounted and ran over to Knuckles. "Knuckles come quickly!" The Echidna shouted. "It's the intruders." He said.
Knuckles turned to him. The hedgehog would have to be explained later. He looked at the young Echidna, he looked petrified. Looking at the other Echidna he gritted his teeth. He looked up at Tikal and then ran in the direction the young Echidna had come from. "Stay here!" He shouted at Tikal as he ran off. The other Echidna turned and followed him.
Tikal turned to Sonic, only to find him already staring at her. Her eyes met his and suddenly a weird feeling came over her. It momentarily made her nauseous, but at the same time, made her feel like she had done it before. She couldn't explain it, but there was something about Sonic's eyes.
She turned away from Sonic's stare, closed her eyes and rubbed her forehead. The feeling went. She stood there for a few seconds, then jumped down the rock side. "Come on." She said, reaching the bottom.
"Way ahead of you." Sonic said following her down. The two of them then ran after the Echidna.
The Echidna came to a stop up ahead at a cliff side. They stared down at a Drakon ship that had landed down below.
"There's only one of them." Yukon said. "This could be our chance."
Knuckles looked at Yukon and nodded. "No one move until I give the word." He said staring down at the Drakon ship.
He stood there for a bit when he was suddenly aware that something blue was standing next to him. He glanced sidelong to see that the hedgehog had taken up a position next to him. "S-something's emerging!" The hedgehog said, watching as the ship opened up.
All the Echidna and Sonic watched as the Drakon ship opened up.
"On no!" Sonic shouted in shock. "It's a Drakon Prosecutor!"
* * * *
At that very moment, in the Sacred Emerald Mine, Prince Brightstarr stepped on the skull of a Drakon Prosecutor crushing it. He then stepped back and stared at it. He couldn't believe it. Other Echidna gathered around to take a look.
He had been sent here to search for any more Chaos Emeralds that may have survived the cave-in that was caused in the mine sometime ago by his late father. But he had only found them destroyed. Surprisingly though the raw emeralds were okay.
Prince Brightstarr would have left then, if he had not found some long dead Drakon soldiers. But on inspection of the dead Drakon Brightstarr had found this.
Bending forwards he reached into the Drakon's helmet and pulled out a small spine with its bone tail still intact. The mighty Drakon where nothing more than small fish. Their bodies where robotic. No wonder they were so tough, they were bloody robots.
Brightstarr's face screwed up with anger. He pulled his arm back and threw the Drakon bones at the cave wall as hard as he could. "The bastards!" Brightstarr shouted. "The cheating Bastards!" So many Echidna had died fighting the Drakon, and now Brightstarr finally realized that their deaths had been in vain. Brightstarr clenched his hand and punched the ground in anger, causing it to crack.
An Echidna called Efoze walked up to Prince Brightstarr. "We should make are way back to Megaopolis." He said in a soothing tone. "Pochamac must hear of this."
Brightstarr looked up at Efoze and nodded. "I'll leave." He said turning towards the exit. "I want the rest of you to gather these dead bodies and bury them deep within the mine, then return to the city."
The remaining Echidna looked at each other, and then at the dead Drakon. They then watched as the Prince walked back out the way they had come in.