HEBM - PART VII
THE RWERVIUMS'S SECOND VOW
The grand RSupremor plummeted to the sun's vast gravity and spilled into the corona. From there it traveled within the sun towards the center or core. Any normal organism would've died just an hour ago when the RSupremor was still 100,000s of miles away from the sun but now Sonic, Tails and Knuckles were lighgrecized and were able to withstand the sun's temperature and light, however, they weren't able to bear the G forces. The RSupremor decelerated tremendously trying to cancel out the effect the sun's gravity had. The net effect was bearable for the passengers but just barely. Even Lighthead, Gore, Robotar and Orlo had a little trouble withstanding the effects. Once the RSupremor came to a stop, Lighthead began to brief Mobius' greatest heroes of what was to come.
Back on Mobius, Rotor crept up to the crashed site eager to unfold his strategy. This was now his only chance. He would have to somehow gather enough energy to activate the thunderlaser that is if he could find out how to. With the thunderlaser activated, it would destroy any and hopefully all terrebots nearby.
Once Rotor arrived, he quickly realized that the Supremor was still alive. The lights were still on and a low toned hum signified that it was indeed operational. He had no need for his flashlight. Rotor raced down the lit halls in search for the main control room while the others fought off the perfidious terrebots threatening all inhabitants of Knothole.
Finally, he reached what was known as the control room and scoured for what may be the controls to activate the thunderlaser. Everyone was now inside the Supremor and it was all up to Rotor to be rid of the terrebot threat with one swift of a click. The terrebots took scant time to get to the Supremor. Rotor fiddled with the controls until finally he noticed what was what appeared to be a key slot to activate the thunder laser. Rotor took out a tool that was used to pic locks and began trying to override it. Once the terrebots were only a half mile from the Supremor, Rotor had it figured… The thunderlaser beamed to life. Rotor was able to calculate that being in the Supremor while the thunderlaser going off would be safe.
Finally, when the terrebots were right where the Supremor was and the timing couldn't of been better, the thunderlaser shot forth and ignited everything within a ½ mile radius of the Supremor with a luminescent blue followed by a great explosion. The explosion, rocked the Supremor a bit as if in an earthquake. Yet as Rotor predicted, the Supremor's shields were strong enough to repel its own blast, making it even stronger.
Once everything cleared, all the Freedom Fighters made their way out of the Supremor and were shocked to see the new look. Everything within a ½ mile radius was GONE. There was nothing left but a barren wasteland. Nothing of the terrebots remains were seen either. Fortunately, Knothole was just a mile away and was left unscathed. When everyone spotted Rotor, they eagerly rushed up to him and gave him a very warm hug and congrats for doing his part. Without him, they would have been crushed by the onslaught of terrebots. Rotor in turn then walked up to Trevor and gave him a warm thank you for helping out with the threat.
"You should join us."
"I'm sorry but I can't. Perhaps we will meet another day." Without saying another word, he simply vanished out of nowhere. All the remaining Freedom Fighters made their way back to Knothole.
"Welcome to Lighgretron or what you call it as the sun. We are glad that you have decided to help us because your efforts against the Star X Conquerors will be most needed because we need all we can get." Gore looked at his boss whom was speaking and then at the freedom fighters as if they were now part of them. This sent shivers up Sonic, Tails and Knuckles spines but they didn't notice.
"Ok, how long do we have until they get here?"
"We have approximately 17.4 hours until they get here. By then we hope you will be ready for the invasion."
"I don't get it. Why not just point the RSupremor thing at their direction and fire, blowing them to bits?"
"Because we now suspect they are immune to that attack. It worked last time but now we fear that they will have evolved to absorb even the bedlam cannon at 100% optimum power. I'm sure they have prepared for such a scenario and that's why we have a new weapon. The Dark Light Bomb, a 2 mile in diameter sphere that is capable of conducing a black hole right on the spot. You've experienced this before the last time you were on one of our ships."
"Ah yea. I remember that." Knuckles spoke up.
"We plan to have weapon fully charged up in a few hours."
"Waitaminnit… this dark light bomb won't affect Mobius in any way, will it?
"No, it won't. Mobius is in the opposite direction from where they are coming from. If Mobius were in the same location from where the Star X Conquerors were coming from, then I'm afraid we would have not choice but to destroy it with the dark light bomb."
Suddenly… "Attention Dr Lighthead! This is Orlo speaking! I have found something requiring your presence right now! Meet me in the main control room immediately!"
"Excuse us." Lighthead and Gore left the room and headed to the control room. Once they were out of sight, Knuckles spoke up. By now, their appearance returned to normal.
"Ok this is too weird. I say we continue with our main objective and get the Master Emerald back to the Floating Island. All we have to do is touch it, and it will take us back to the Floating Island."
"Gotcha, Knux but how to we get through that force field?"
"I haven't figured that part out yet."
Back at Knothole, it was dark and everyone was preparing to goto sleep. The moon hang over being a quarter full and illuminated the forest below in a soft white light. Sally sat in bed wishing that she could somehow communicate with Sonic and company somehow. If only she could, she thought… what she would say.
From the outside, a lone figure crept to Knothole, clutching to his wounds and then fell down to the ground. Sally heard this and decided to investigate. She grabbed a flash light and went outside. Once she saw who it was, she screamed. It appeared to be Sonic and not looking good at all.
Millions of questions rushed through Sally's head. How could this be? If he were back, where were Knuckles and Tails? Would he be ok? Within a couple minutes, Rotor and Bunnie appeared running to Sally's location to see what was going on and they too were shocked to see Sonic dead or almost dead. Rotor ran back and got a stretcher to carry him in back to the infirmary.
The next morning was one of complete mystery and dread. Everyone was clueless as to what was going on. Nothing had made sense. Sonic had not awaken yet but was showing signs of stability but still in critical condition. Once everyone had left, he opened his eyes and from beneath the air mask, came a laughter of great evil that lasted for over a minute. Once finished, he simply faded off to sleep. No one heard this from outside.
Knuckles looked desperately around for a way to get around the field surrounding the Master Chaos Emerald while Sonic and Tails kept a watchful eye out for Lighthead or any of his cohorts to come back and so far it appeared fine but Knuckles was thwarted. There seemed to be no way around the force field.
He punched it.
No avail. The field flung his arm forth and he landed on his back on the floor. Sonic helped up his echidna friend and they decided to stop before Lighthead got back. They didn't want to know the consequences if they were caught trying to escape. Just then they did return with Orlo whom Sonic, Knuckles and Tails never saw before. He was the same height as Sonic and this frightened him a bit. There was no other human his same size other than Snively, and of course this was no human. Humans couldn't live on the sun.
"Greetings. I do not recall meeting you but Lighthead has greatly informed me of you. I will grow familiar to know you personally now that there is a great threat on the horizon, a threat capable of eliminating the sun and transforming its existence into a great explosion of extravagant magnitudes. If they succeed in doing this, your sun along with your planet be wiped away by the shear power that the Star X Conquerors possess. That is why we are very greatful that you are here to help finally be rid of this bestowed nuisance. Their real names are the Rwerviums yet now we just call them the Star X Conquerors
We have just gotten word that they are within Venus's orbit or what used to be Venus' orbit rather and will be here in just one hour time."
"Waitaminnit… how can we help? Can't your mini crafts of doom take them out?"
"We have just released 80% of all of our defense crafts into their direction and we approximate that they have found them right about now. We also estimate that the SMDCs will only limit their resources to half. The other half will have to be taken out by the rest of the 20% being the AMDCs and us. Robotar will be flying the Xavant and we will have the black hole generator ready to fire by then. Once that phase has been initiated the remaining Star X Conquerors will either begin absorbing the sun or infiltrating the RSupremor and that is where you come in. Your job is to make sure that they don't absorb the Master Emerald's power. Their power to use the inner dimensions is already powerful enough. We don't need that multiplying a hundred fold. Plus we need that emerald to defend the RSupremor from their attack."
"Whoa… what is this about manipulating inner dimensions?" Knuckles asked.
"Well… the universe is composed of 11 dimensions. Each dimension is a type of direction. As you may know 3rd dimension includes depth and the fourth time. The fifth through eleventh dimensions are not as abundant as the first four and are known as the inner dimensions because they are within the primary four."
"Oh boy since when did this become a science class?"
"Quiet Sonic, let him explain."
"And so these 'inner' dimensions can be manipulated. They can use these dimensions to teleport, appear invisible, change shape and appearance… many things. That's what makes this race extremely dangerous."
"That's what the inner dimensions are?"
"They are really small and are curled up upon each other creating the fabric of space as we know. They're simply everywhere. Others have been known to control them but few can master them. Some can use them to conduct telekinesis and other paranormal phenomenon."
Meanwhile, only 56 million miles away from the sun and traveling at ¼ the speed of light were the Rwerviums or Star X Conquerors. Light from the sun shined from behind. The SMDCs, programmed and automated by C.H.A.O.S flew in an awkward but symmetrical formation. Once they were only 5 miles from the oncoming fleet, they broke off into four groups and made attempts to encircle the threat. At this time, a barrage of laser fire flew forth in all directions from both the SMDCs and Star X Conquerors. Yet there were literally trillions of Star X Conqueror fighters to just a few million SMDCs, they seemed to be doing relatively well. Their guide of C.H.A.O.S led them away from peril and calculated on the spot when and where to strike as well as evade enemy fire at the same time but there was still a vast strength in numbers the Rwerviums had that Lighthead did not.
The dog fight was colossal. Such a scene could be seen from Mobius if in the right place at the right time yet few witnessed the what could be the biggest space battle in all the galaxy. Those that did would decribe as follow. A pulsing yellow and while mass in the sky. At night, dim ambient light from this battle could be seen. Any natural human pilot would be dazed instantly if sent out to this massive blob of a fire hole. They would know for sure they would be shot up on the spot if lacking the proper fighter and combat skills. But neither side of this battle did. The SMDCs and Rwerviums fought with great power and agility. SMDCs fell and so did Rwerviums but it was still apparent that each side was maxed out.
But now the Star X Conquerors had a new strategy. With now 1/3 of their forces destroyed, they decided to avoid the SMDCs all together and head straight to the sun. The SMDCs were not able to go as fast and could only travel at maximum 1/12 the speed of light. The remaining Rwerviums… still about 1.4 trillion would only take just a half hour to reach the RSupremor.
Robotar set forth alone in the Xavant, armed to the teeth with weaponry and defense mechanisms. It was the best manned/unmanned craft Lighthead had and in case they blew it up, Robotar would be able to battle without for he did not need air.
The Xavant flew forth a great speeds into the direction of the RSupremor's adversary and within only 10 minutes, he could see them however he could travel twice as fast as them. The Star X Conquerors also could see him and began firing but Robotar was prepared for this. Using scant hyperspaces, he was able to very quickly evade each and every blast and fire at the same time. From the Rwervium's perspective, he would appear and fire for a split second and then disappear to a different location and fire again. This threw them off, so they decided to ignore Robotar and continue forth.
But Robotar wasn't done yet. "Oh no you don't." Robotar flipped a few switches and then a missile located in the front hummed to life and began to glow a bright green in the front. It was a jewel. A very big one. It was a chaos bomb. Once fully charged, Robotar pressed a button with aggression, launching the chaos bomb in their direction.
"Robotar to boss. I have launched the chaos bomb but I'm afraid it is in your direction. Its security code is 9KWX4RR7Q if you wish to deactivate it or alter its course."
"Very well, Robotar. I need you back here then pronto."
At first it looked like the chaos bomb would catch up with the Star X Conquerors but they weren't stupid. Upon seeing it heading their way and tracking their every move, they all initiated a cloak, sending the bomb in front of them and tracking ahead.
"Thi- is R-b---r. –e—r—t –e m—s-e –m—ia-ely."
"You are breaking up, Robotar. Repeat." Same result.
The Chaos Bomb was on a collision course to the RSupremor and Lighthead did not know. However he did know that something was wrong. He released all remaining AMDCs to patrol around the RSupremor.
"Black hole generator now 75% charged."
"Good Orlo. Remind our most recent additions to the RSupremor to be fully ready for the invasion."
"I still say this is crazy. There's no way we can beat these guys but then again, they say if they penetrate into the sun, they can destroy it."
"I think that's load of bull. Nothing can destroy the sun."
"I dunno Sonic. Maybe, but I wouldn't be so doubtful. I think we need to be ready for the worst."
"How do you they expect us to fight off these guys exactly?!"
Orlo then steps into the room with the three heroes. "That's what I'm here to inform you of.
"Your purpose as of now to make sure they don't get to the Master Emerald. They do not know we have it but once they do, it is imperative they not get it. We will take care of everything else."
"So, whats going on now?" Sonic asked.
"As we speak, we have lost word from Robotar. We don't know what he's been up to. Right now, there are AMDCs patrolling the outer perimeter of the RSupremor. That's is all. We wish you luck for when they get inside."
"That's all?!"
"Oh yes, one more thing. Be careful."
"GORE! Get in here now!" Dr Lighthead bellowed and soon after his assistant trudging in on the double to see what his boss needed. It sounded of distress…
"Gore. Did Robotar send you a briefing?"
"Yes."
"Good. The RSupremor has detected a chaos bomb approaching here."
"What? It hasn't hit them yet?"
"No. C.H.A.O.S has detected that it is front of the Star X Conquerors!"
"Oh no! Well… he has given me the security code to deactivate it. Its 9KWX4RR7Q. There's no problem."
"Ok." Lighthead goes to the appropriate control panel and enters the 8 digit code to then take control of the chaos bomb but something was awry.
"Gore… the code is supposed to only have 6 digits… not 8."
"What? That's what told me! That's what I wrote down!"
"I see. See if you can establish a com link with him. If not… then I'll have to go to plan B."
"Will do. Gore to Robotar. That code you sent us is incorrect. We need to know the real one."
"I did send you the correct one. The one I just launched was marked with the same exact coding."
"AARRRRRRGH!!! Enough of this. I'll take of this myself. C.H.A.O.S redirect and slow down the chaos bomb currently approaching here."
"No such missile found."
"IMPOSSIBLE! Robotar has informed me he launched a chaos bomb in this direction!" Robotar, also hearing the discussion between Lighthead and C.H.A.O.S was bewildered. C.H.A.O.S was a super sentient computer. How could he not know of the chaos bomb? Could he have popped a gasket or was there really no chaos bomb heading in the RSupremor's direction?
"Boss, I know I sent in the direction of the RSupremor. I have no idea what's going on. There was no explosion so it must've missed them.
"Foreign cloaked fighters detected within 20 miles radius. Location bearing 322x 54y 124z from core. ETA in 4 minutes." C.H.A.O.S, now detecting the Star X Conquerors, took control of the AMDCs and piloted them towards the threat in hopes to destroy the rest. The rest of the SMDCs were still on their way back to the RSupremor with still a good 80% of them remaining. Still ½ of the Star Xs remained.
Lighthead and Gore watched outside as their forces went to do battle once again with laser fire and all sorts of weaponry blasting away. It was unfortunately not a great spectacle to be observed because of the light from the sun was too extreme. Sonic, Tails and Knuckles were ready or at least thought they were to protect the Master Emerald.
Lighthead, Gore and Orlo all stood in the main control center to only wait and see what would happen for time being. Some Star X forces went straight to the sun while others did battle with the RSupremor, orbiting close to the sun. The RSupremor's size was still tremendous in comparison to the Star X's forces but there was still intimidation on both sides. While Lighthead had the quality, the Star Xs had the quantity. He would just have to hope it'd be enough to fully stop them and so far they did not know of anything of the Master Emerald. By now, the AMDCs had destroyed most of the smaller Star X ships. There were, however, still billions of larger crafts left.
Unbeknownst to C.H.A.O.S a somewhat larger piloted Star X craft had crashed into the RSupremor deliberately. The Rwervium inside the craft vanished and reappeared within the main control room before Lighthead instantly. It was very tall and irregulary structured. Its texture was indescribable and bore a transparent shade of dark red.
It spoke telepathically… "I am the Rwervium Elite or as you prefer, the Star X Conqueror Leader." Everyone within the room could 'hear' what it was saying. "We have returned just as I said before and this time, we WILL have your star.. Within a couple hours your sun will be no more."
"I am afraid I cannot allow that. My home will not be converted to some resource you desire. Just as before, you cannot expect to win over me."
"You cannot expect to defeat us. Our intellect and abilities are far incomprehensible to you."
"I doubt that. I'm fully aware of your powers. My AMDCs will overcome your horde destined to destroy our home."
"You still do not understand. Still after two centuries you do not know of our true purpose in this operation? We need every star's hydrogen in the galaxy to convert to Nuersosnivasium to power our main ship, the Megaplex to get back to our proper time, 31 billion years into the future from when we mistakenly used the Eraos Emerald. Our miniplex ships are specifically designed for this operation Once then, we will not bother you."
"Is there no other way? I simply cannot let you carry out that operation."
"There is no other way in this time period. The only other way is through the ways of the Eraos Emerald."
"The Eraos Emerald?"
"It is an emerald in our time capable of fulfilling ANY desire. All that is required is to place a hand on it and simply imagine what you truly desire and instantly it will come before you. This can be done as often as you like, however, the same thing cannot be desired if it has already been desired. This extravagant gem was said to be evolved after the universe was truly done expanding which is still another 20 billion years from now."
Sonic and co. could also hear via their minds the Star X Leader. This baffled Knuckles. Eraos Emerald? Another emerald? Better than the chaos emeralds, super emeralds and master emerald? He knew there were a lineage of the chaos emeralds but he never quite knew for sure what it all meant. There were the chaos emeralds, on the bottom capable of transforming he and Sonics yet no one else. Then there were the super emeralds, capable of yet transforming Sonic and Knuckles and this time Tails. The Master Emerald was said to regulate the gravity and that there was one in the heart of every body yet now that has been disproven. The Master Emerald as Knuckles knew took control of the all the lower emeralds… but now he was hearing of an even higher emerald? How could this be?
"And so once the universe is fully evolved, the eraos emerald becomes visible and is located at the very center. Waitaminnit… I believe I sense of some energy flow from aboard this ship that could be very useful."
Lighthead was horrified. It was too soon. "The only energy flow you speak of is that of the sun."
"No. This is different. Much different." The Star X Leader went into an odd stance and appeared to communicate with the others of its species. Even though, Lighthead or Gore could not pick up the telepathy this time, they had a very grim idea what he was saying. Once he was finished, he returned to a normal stance and spoke telepathically once again.
"It has been done. Shortly my forces will be here and your main power sources, the sun and the one you secretly have installed on this ship will be ours."
That was all he wanted to know. "Orlo, warn the freedom fighters! Quickly!" Orlo did so by pressing a button, sounding an alarm to their location. Soon after, more forces of Star Xs appeared suddenly and began making their way to Master Emerald.
All of the rest of Star Xs were either fighting off the AMDCs, converting the sun's hydrogen to their own personal fuel cells or scouring the RSupremor for the unknown energy source. Fortunately, most were outside however Sonic, Tails and Knuckles would have to be ready for their most powerful opponent yet. The converter ships were so far having no problem draining the sun's energy. Even though one would make virtually no difference, a little over a trillion did. Lighthead could tell they were so far succeeding with taking over the sun. There wasn't much time. Gore and Orlo knew that as well. Robotar finally made his way back to the RSupremor. Lighthead had asked him to take care of the miniplex ships while half of the AMDCs patrolled the RSupremor and half the sun. It wouldn't be long now.
Robotar used his hyperspace ability to literally jump around the sun, destroying the miniplex ships. Swarms of AMDCs did the same. Meanwhile, back within the giant circular room, the threesome became overly anxious.
"Oh boy. The sound of that alarm does not make my day one bit." Sonic said eerily.
"Just stay calm guys. Try to be ready for whatever comes within here. We can do this." Knuckles reassured.
"I can't wait until all of this is over."
"Me too, Tails. Me too."
Suddenly, C.H.A.O.S spoke not only into the main control room, but throughout the entire 13920 miles in diameter jellyfish ship. "Serial code 34093115 known as the CHAOS Bomb detected within vicinity. Control has been utilized and has directed to current threat. Point of impact within 4.45 minutes. All subjects within ship should be ready to brace for impact at that time."
Robotar, also receiving the message within the Xavant, queried his boss of what C.H.A.O.S had just said. "What is going on? How come the CHAOS Bomb is just now reaching the RSupremor?"
"It is because of what I believe to be the disruptor field, Robotar. The disruptor field, as you know repels any unauthorized inanimate objects away from the RSupremor. Since the security code did not work, the disruptor field repelled it before C.H.A.O.S could detect it. And now it has returned because of Lighgretron's gravity."
The Star X Leader, upon hearing C.H.A.O.S's warning did what it could to call off the attack. The miniplexes began making their way from the sun back to their mother ship, about 2 lightyears away. However the Star X Leader remained on the RSupremor is search of the source of energy it detected earlier.
Then it happened. The CHAOS Bomb homed in the closest miniplex ship and detonated. The explosion was tremendous. A green luminous sphere of light grew from the point of impact, devastating everything in its way except for the sun and RSupremor. This was no walk in the park for the RSupremor though. The black hole generator suffered major damage along with the disruptor field. The sun itself also was acting normally. The number of sunspots had grown more than 10000 fold. Coronas flew out more than 50 times farther than usual.
The Star X Leader could tell that while that most got away, there were still several lost. Once it finally could tell where the location was of the energy source, it used the 6th interior dimension to transport itself to that particular location.
Sonic, Tails and Knuckles all turned to see their enemy threatening to destroy all life in the solar system. They were shocked to see an opponent that was responsible for the supernovas of 1000s of other stars within the galaxy. The Star X Leader shifted its gaze from the three opposing itself to the core. There it was. They all knew that the leader knew of the Master Emerald now was planning to get it.
Knuckles was first. He drew back his fists and glided as fast as he could at the invader. Sonic joined in followed by Tails. Only problem was, they all went through it. The creature appeared to laugh and shifted its gaze back to the Master Emerald and looked more closely at it. What appeared to be its eyes widened in amusement. It spoke telepathically, "It can't be. It's… It's the Eraos Emerald! Before it fully evolved! Its shape, form all exact. How it gets to the center of the universe is beyond me but this will surely provide the necessary power to return back to our time!" The Star X Leader walked through force field surrounding it, disabling and slowly crept up to the pedestal that held it.
It was now or never. The triple threat revved up to the Master Emerald and all laid a hand on top the of it. Nothing happened. Then it dawned on Knuckles. The Star X Leader had also placed some sort of appendage on it. Sonic spin dashed up behind the translucent creature, inside him and came out through what appeared to be the creature's mouth, seemingly did harm and landed on top of the Master Emerald. The Star X Leader quickly turned around but found it gone. It then reappeared quickly in front of Lighthead before disappearing, "We will return again! I promise you! Not until we have fulfilled our necessity will we be over with you!"
