Chapter 14 – Break In

You couldn't have got a bigger explosion if you had set off a firework in a petrol station. The force of it blew me into the air but a quick spin of my tails brought me under control as I gaped at the scene. A very large and most unfriendly looking root had decided to intervene into our fight by blowing off the main door to the base. It fired at Klim with a large laser gun but he appeared to dodge it easily. Landing quickly I jumped into the fight with a powerful strike in the robot's side. It wobbled slightly before Klim ploughed into its front knocking it over. That guy was definitely good.

"Looks like this one is a lot tougher than the rest." shouted Klim as I watched the robot get up again.

Klim was so busy shouting at me he didn't notice the robot firing again. The laser shot struck him in the side and I cringed slightly as it did. However what happened next was not what I had expected.

"Chew on this!" cried Klim as he used the purple emerald to create a tornado and blow the robot backwards into the base and out of sight.

Damn! Klim sure was a strong person not to collapse at that hit. Still he looked a badly hurt.

"Klim!" I yelled as I jogged over to him, "That looked rough. Lemme help you."

"No!" shouted Klim quickly as he pushed me away, "Save your strength for later."

I was, to say the least, totally shocked by this. Klim took a few steps forward but I cut him off quickly.

"Forget Eggman, you're more important!" I said firmly taking out my green emerald.

Klim sighed and seemed to understand what I said. I quickly focused a bit of energy into Klim and healed his wound.

"Thanks." he said rather half heartedly as he walked round me.

"No problem." I replied as I followed after him.

Entering the base it we both saw the robot that had blown up the door. It lay on the ground looking totally dead. Klim walked over to it and kicked it in the head.

"Error! Warning error!" it said as it sparked into life again.

"Dammit Klim look what you did!" I yelled at him.

Klim spun on the bot and yelled.

"I'll give you and error you heap of junk!" he cried giving the robot another sharp kick to the head.

The robot gave another bleep and shut down completely. I started to shake my head.

"Klim please be careful!" I urged.

"Yeah whatever." he replied.

I walked slightly behind Klim as we carried on into the base. Not because I was scared, I was just being cautious. We couldn't afford any slip ups and Klim seemed intent on causing no end of trouble. However trouble seemed to find us as another two robots like the one at the gate decided to introduce themselves to Klim. I watched him charge forward at one of them and quickly spun my attention to the other. A shot grazed my right ear before I could dodge and I cringed a bit.

"Damn you!" I cried launching myself forwards.

As I charged forwards a few more shots came my way but a quick spin of my tails sent my flying out of the way of them. The moment I was in range I let of a upwards Time Slash swipe with my sword. To anyone around actually watching my body would have become a white blur as I spun at almost the speed of time itself and launched another downwards Time Slash move forming a huge X on the robot. As I stopped and jumped back it started to fizzle and a laser gun dropped off its left arm. The right arm still worked though and it started firing even in its beaten state. I stepped to the side as a blast of ice shot up around me. I didn't even wait for the blast to charge this time as I dove forward in an Ice Breaker move. The tunnel of ice followed my strike as I dove my sword into the robots innards. It crackled slightly and stopped allowing me to catapult myself upwards with a back flip and jam my sword into the robots head. That was enough and the robot collapsed to the ground with a clang. It was now that I felt an explosion to my side and looked over to see the robot Klim had been attack had been reduced to a flaming corpse. I grinned broadly at him.

"Nice job." said Klim nodding down the corridor, "Let's get moving."

"Jeez Klim slow down…" I muttered to myself as I followed him.

The next corridor brought us even more robotic joy as this time a different robot stood in our way. It was built in the normal robot style but was a lot larger and covered in metal plates that stuck out like spikes. As it eyed both of us carefully so was I. This robot was different and we had to find a weak point to concentrate on. The last thing we wanted was to rush into….

My careful planning was thrown to the dogs right then as Klim charged the robot with his spear held out in front of him. A few meters before he got to it though a large blue shield appeared around the robot. Klim hit it fully force and bounced backwards away from the robot. As Klim hit the floor the shield faded and I took the opening. A quick swipe of my sword sent a huge energy wave at the robot. It hit full force in the robots torso knocking it back a few feet however the attacked only seemed to cause superficial damage. I cursed under my breath but had little time to do anything else as it opened fire on Klim. The sound of its machine gun echoed around the corridor. Klim, however, wasn't caught napping and skipped back a bit before drawing his yellow emerald and sending a huge lightning bolt at the bot. I was awe struck myself as the bolt seemed to do nothing also. The sound of the robots machine gun brought me back to reality as did Klim's scream. The green emerald was in my hand a second later and a bright green flash filled the area healing Klim's wounds but also energizing us both. I decided to try the robots rear and, as Klim launched a Deathspike at the robot, I dived round it. I was quickly rewarded by almost catching a missile in my teeth but luckily I managed to roll out of its way causing the missile to hit the wall behind me.

I looked up just in time to see Klim pile driving his way through the robots shield with some sort of fan move. The move tore into the robot and I cringed and looked away and bits of metal and circuit boards went flying. I looked back to see Klim standing in the middle of a pile of rubble.

"I really need a vacation." he said sweating.

"When we're done you can have a big one." I said walking over to him, "But not yet, come on."

Behind the robots remains, near where the missile had hit, we found a large door. We cautiously opened it and walked into the next room. It looked like a laboratory. Tubes lined the walls and other lab equipment lined the walls but the centre was clear except for one thing, Kat!

"That's far enough intruders!" he sneered as a group of chao behind him started cheering.

"KAT?! What are you doing here?!" cried Klim.

I raised an eyebrow as Kat appeared to be shocked that Klim knew his name.

"I'll ask the question! What are you doing the Great Robotnik's base?!" demanded Kat.

"Rescuing you, you stupid moggy!" I said as I took a few steps forward to join Klim.

"Don't take another step." instructed Kat.

He had now taken his yo-yo out and was casually throwing it up and down by his side. I glared at it and then at Kat. What was going on?

"What's going on Kat?" said Klim voicing my thought, "Why are you working for Robotnik?"

"Why am I working for him?" asked Kat, "You should know that!"

"No we don't!" I aid firmly, "But I seriously do not like this new attitude. Klim think Robotnik did something to him? Brainwashing maybe?"

"There's a strong chance." replied as he drew his spear.

I blinked hard. Surely he could be thinking…

"Klim what are you doing? Surely you can't be thinking…"

"Lynx what choice do we have?" he replied, "It's obvious that Kat's on Robotnik's side for some reason. And if we don't get through all our work will have been for nothing. As much as I don't want to, we have to….there's no other way."

Klim turned back to face Kat.

"Kat this is your last chance. Let us through." he said.

"Never! I serve Robotnik and I'll stop you right here! Chao attack!" cried Kat.

The chaos behind Kat suddenly leapt into the fry drawing their spears as they went. A familiar cry went up.

"Banzai!" cried one chao.

I looked at Klim to see he was already into thing and quickly drew my sword. If fighting was the only way out then it was the only way. As much as I wished it wasn't. Leaping forwards I clubbed the chao that had cried out with the end of my sword handle. The chao hit the floor hard and bounced into another that was advancing. The pair flew across the room and hit the opposite wall. For such a weak attack it had been effective. A chao went sailing across the room in front of me and I looked over at Klim for a moment. It was only a short glance though as three chao came at me. I used the yelled a congrats at Klim as I used the side of my sword as a bat to smash the three chao away. One flew left, one right and the final one also went left right into his friend as I took a few strong swings at them.

It was then that I heard a scream from Klim but had no time to follow it up a group of four more chao's came at me. I took a quick step backwards and raised my sword behind me. As I did I drew my cyan emerald and heard a voice in my head.

"Guardian." it said.

"I need your help." I replied.

"I thought as much."

"Thank you."

I instantly felt a surge of energy run through me. It was just like before in the floating palace when I had attacked Jynx. Damn I wish I could forget that! I surge of ice built up around me and with a step backwards I flung my sword forwards. The ice around me formed up in a split second and hurtled across the room. I had to admit I liked my new Ice Breaker move. The blast of ice shot across the room quickly turned the attacking chao into small ice statues. The blast however was unaffected by the small obstacles and continued on across the room with its full energy before smashing into the far wall. The whole area around the wall was suddenly frozen solid, it looked like some sort of ice garden.

I took the opportunity to glance over the room. All the chaos were either knocked out or frozen, thanks to me, but something else caught me eye. Klim stood in a fighting stance facing off against Kat. Klim was speaking.

"Kat please don't make us do this!" he said, "Leave Robotnik and join us again."

"Ha!" snarled Kat in reply, "You don't even know who's on top do you?!"

"Huh?" replied Klim.

Klim's answer came quickly though as in a red flash Kat changed. He turned from his usual red colour to a bright orange and seemed to glow. I was so gob smacked I was frozen to the spot like the chao around me.

"KAT?!" cried Klim in shock.

"That'll be SUPER KAT to you punk!" cried Kat as he darted at Klim.

Klim must have been as gob smacked as me because he didn't move as Kat knocked him to the floor. This brought him round quickly and he jumped to his feet only to fall over again as Kat wrapped up in the string from his yo-yo. It was then that Kat spun and darted towards me. I snapped out of my shock and readied my sword. Kat got to me and started to lay out a flurry of fast frying pan strikes at me. If I hadn't been able to slow down time slightly there would have been no way I could have blocked them all but due to my time skills I could. Kat appeared to notice this and took a few steps back. I was about to go after him when suddenly a fireball appeared in mid air and, with a fast frying pan stroke, Kat sent it flying across the room at me. I had no time to dodge this attack and the fireball struck me straight in the chest.

My body went stiff as it hit and I slumped to the ground. My entire body felt like it was being ripped apart. The pain was even worst than when I had stabbed myself in the mountains. The mountains! When Kat had tried to infuse my blade with fire to defeat that yeti! It had reacted strongly against it and Kat must have remembered. I could feel the cyan emerald screaming in my head but I couldn't scream myself. My throat had closed up and I found it hard to even breath. I couldn't even get to my green emerald. I could hear Klim and Kat talking but the words made no sense. My fur felt crisp and charred on my flesh and slowly things started to black out. It was then that a huge explosion rocked the air in the room. It ruffled my tails and brought me slightly back to reality. Another two voices had joined Klim's and Kat's.

"It's our job to protect the purple emerald. The best way we figured we could do that was to come along."

JYNX?!

"You got a bit of a head start on us though."

KLIME?!

My mind suddenly came alive again. The pain was still there but I felt slightly more alert. A few moments passed but they seemed to last forever. More speech was said and then I felt someone touch my shoulder. I felt myself being rolled over and then a familiar face was looking down at me.

"Lynx?!" said Jynx as he looked down at me.

I tried to respond but I couldn't.

"Hold still there Lynx. Everything's gonna be ok."

I felt Jynx running his hand over my front looking at the injury. I whimpered softly as he did feeling the pain slightly more as his hand brushed over the wound. He cringed a few times as he examined me.

"This is bad. Very bad." he muttered to himself.

"J….J….x." I managed to say quietly.

Jynx quickly flicked back to my head and lowered his ear to my mouth.

"Em….ald." I said.

Jynx quickly bolted upright. He ducked out of view for a moment and returned holding the green emerald. He looked at it for a second and then turned to me.

"Hold on Lynx." he said as a bright flash filled the room.

I felt the energy surge through me but there was more to it. The emerald's power was boosted by Jynx's magic. The energy was way more intense than anything I had been able to do before. The pain in my chest quickly vanished but still the energy poured into me. I started to feel refreshed, as if I'd just taken a long walk in the winter air. I found myself able to move again and with a quick movement sprung to my feet, much to the surprise of Jynx. I looked down at myself to see my fur glowing slightly but it was quickly fading. I shot my hand to my side and my sword flew from the ground to my open hand. Jynx got up from the ground and threw my green emerald at me. I caught it quickly and put it away.

"Thanks Jynx." I said.

"Thank me later, they need our help." he replied.

I looked over at Klim and Klime fighting Kat. As I watched Klim performed a Deathspike on Kat and Klime took the opportunity to rush forwards only to be tripped by Kat's yo-yo string. Klime cut the string with his daggers but as he got up he received a strike from Kat's pan sending him to the floor again. I was about to move as a huge ball of energy shot past me and hit the ground right in front of Kat throwing him backwards against the wall.

"Get off my brother!" cried Jynx as he stepped up beside me.

Brother?! What was that about? Were those two brother? But Klime had told me that originally he hadn't known Jynx! Had they been separated at birth or something? That's if they ever were brother, maybe Jynx meant it in a close friend was like Sonic and Tails? Kat suddenly broke my train of though.

"Four on one eh? Think I'll even the odd!" he said pushing something on his belt, "I need backup."

A door suddenly opened in the far wall and two robots flew out of it, one blue on red. As they came to a stop next to Kat I blinked in shock. It was Metal Sonic and Metal Knuckles. Perfect just what we need are some more stupid Sonic and Knuckles clones! The two robots looked at me with a glare so I glared back.

"We'll take the Kat." said Klime pointing at Klim.

Perfect leave the dumb robots to us I thought to myself. As Klime and Klim raced at Kat again the two robots rushed at Jynx and myself. I quickly spun to the side as did Jynx making the robots shoot between us. They separated and I found Metal Knuckles coming after me. I took a step to the side and spun throwing my tails round me. The first tail struck Metal Knuckles firmly across its chest and didn't do anything. However, the other eight piling into the first gave so much force it stopped Metal Knuckles dead and sent him flying back against the wall. The robot hit the wall with its back and cracked it badly but didn't really appear to be damaged. It came at me again and I stood my ground. As it got closer I suddenly swung my sword upwards knocking it into the air. I looked up to suddenly see Klime fly into the fight and hit Metal Knuckles while he was airborne. The robot flew across the room and hit the wall again causing part of it to crumble. Klime landed and looked at me.

"Lynx you gotta go! Kat just took off into that room and Klim followed him. He'll need you're help. Don't worry myself and Jynx will finish these imposters and join you as soon as we can." said Klime quickly.

"You got it! Hurry and be careful!" I replied.

"Just go!" I heard Jynx shout and he blasted Metal Sonic with a large bolt of energy.

I couldn't argue so I turned and ran for the other room. I ran through the door and along a corridor. I heard a couple of voices up ahead, Kat and Klim. I increased my speed using my tails to hurtle me down the corridor. The voices became clearer as I got closer.

…which is precisely why I came in here." said Kat's voice.

Damn something was going down. What was in this room? It was then that the pair came into view. Klim was staggering back from one of Kat's attacks. I quickly drew my green emerald and let its energy flow through me.

"Hold on Klim!" I yelled as I let the energy go in his direction.

As I raced into the room Klim started to glow. Suddenly the glow stopped but the energy was still flowing. Where was the energy going?

"Lynx you can't use your emerald here! That machine absorbs all powers and attacks by the Chaos Emerald." said Klim recovering slightly.

It was then that I spotted the large machine at the back of the room. It had a green glow around it like Klim had had. I quickly stopped the energy from the green emerald and the glow disappeared. So THAT'S why Kat had come in here.

"If that so then lets get rid of it!" I said.

"I'm afraid I won't let you do that." replied Kat as he stepped between us and the machine, "This ends now, you're history."