Sonic Adventure 3: The Robotnik Empire.
The Empire's actions are now to locate the Resistance base.
Knuckles, the best bounty hunter in the Empire was sent to keep an eye on the Prison Island area in case that the resistance is up to something.
Now with the Tornado, Sonic, Shadow and Tails arrived to Angel Island. If is safe there, it will be the new Resistance Base.
But Knuckles followed them. And Nack followed Knuckles.
And now that the emperor knows the location of the Resistance Base, He won't hesitate in attacking it.
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Chapter 4: Forbidden Memories.
Angel Coast.
Sonic and friends step on the sandy beach of Angel Island. Which is white as the milk. For now they need to decide their next move about where to go.
Shadow: This place is so lively.
Tails: The breeze feels great!
Sonic: Now we need to get to the peak of the highest mountain.
Shadow: What we're looking for?
Sonic: The Sky Sanctuary.
Tails: So... If it is on the peak of the central mountain, do we need to move on than staying here instead?
Sonic: Oh, yes. Let's go.
Sonic, Tails and Shadow take step to the Mushroom Hill, which leads to all the sections of the island.
Even Knuckles follows them in the area.
Knuckles: This place... Is so familiar... Like... I have been here before...
Even a little animal comes close to Knuckles. And after smelling him it starts jumping around in joy and love.
Knuckles: What is this animal doing?
Knuckles sits and pets the little animal.
Knuckles: This feels good. Like if I feel that all the things I have done for the emperor have been all wrong.
Knuckles enters in the deep chambers of his mind. Where he observes all the innocent lives he killed by the emperor's orders. All the moments where he was regarded by the emperor and admired by the empire soldiers.
He returns all the way back when he found the empire for the first time, when he woke up at Robotnik coast (Emerald Coast.) and was attacked by empire troops. The ones in charge of the area decided to take Knuckles to the emperor for his good fighting skills and made elite unit bounty hunter.
But before the moment he woke up......... Nothing.
Since the moment he arrived to the island and pet the animal a strange light started flashing.
A light from the past memories?
From his real past?
Knuckles reacts from that deep trance only to deny that light.
Knuckles: What?!?... Can't be!
Knuckles raises his fist setting his sight on the little animal. The animal looks at Knuckles with confusion and fear. Knuckles launches his fist, but this one misses on purpose making a deep hole on the ground.
Knuckles: Can't be! I'm Knuckles! Empire Elite Bounty Hunter! Not to have any mercy on any life! To only act at the emperor's word! That's it! When the resistance fools get what they're looking for, I'll kill them all without mercy!
Knuckles Stands and set movement to where Sonic and friends left off. Also Nack follows the Echidna. But now he is confused for what knuckles did.
Nack: This is strange. No life form had any care for Knuckles. And he replied his own position with such care! This is really weird. I better keep following him.
Nack follows Knuckles, which entered in a cave.
Tails glances at the deeps of the cave. They look like the rests of an ancient civilization. The place is flooded with water. Like if you were in an underwater temple.
Tails: What is this place? I s so enchanted!
Shadow: There is water everywhere!
Shadow lifts a little amount of water on his hands and drinks it.
Shadow: And is potable!
Sonic: Welcome to Hydrocity. The city of water.
Shadow: This is more that 10 times enough water fore the entire resistance!
Sonic: And there are more resources if you look the entire Island.
Tails: There are some strange marks, like this writings are some ancient language.
Sonic: These are the ruins of the civilization that flourished in this island more that 1 million years ago.
Shadow: So what we're looking for in this place?
Sonic: There is an exit here that connects to the place called Marble Garden. From there we can take some stairs to the Sky Sanctuary and get to the top of the mountain to the shrine.
Shadow: Which shrine?
Sonic: A shrine where lies an awesome power that might help us defeat the empire. (And get me home.)
Tails: I think I found the stairs!
Shadow: Right! I can see a light!
Sonic: There is the Marble Garden.
Tails: Let's go!
Knuckles enters to the Hydrocity ruins. Once inside he feels a familiar fresh breeze.
Knuckles: What is this place?
He turns to the walls where he glances at the drawings and marks.
Knuckles: What the...
He reacts in sense of surprise as he sees echidnas drawn on the walls doing rites and ceremonies. Those echidnas look just like him.
Knuckles: What is the meaning of this!... Oh!
Knuckles keeps silence as he watches the drawing of a beautiful female echidna praying to a huge green emerald. The look of the echidna enchants knuckles to the deep of his soul with a feeling that he has seen that echidna before.
Knuckles: ......... Nonsense!
He punches his own face to wake up.
Knuckles: Stay focused in your mission! Bring pride to the emperor and annihilate the resistance! I must hurry!
As Knuckles leaves the ruins, Nack steps closer to the wall and glances at the wall with the female echidna.
Nack: This is even weirder. Knuckles is not like himself like in other missions. There is something perturbing him. Maybe... This girl. But who is she?... Never mind. Just follow Knuckles and keep him under control.
Nack follows Knuckles.
There must be something about the strange girl... and the huge emerald...
Marble Garden
Shadow is being amazed each time by the exotic places on the island. They hold very much history that you can listen if you open your heart to the spirits wandering around.
Tails: This place feels like is gonna talk to you about the events and history around here.
Shadow: Is this the Marble Garden?
Sonic: The Marble Garden is the surface ruins of a big place where the people here made temples for their gods and places to live. But now... is just a little piece of history.
Tails: You seem to know about this place, he Sonic?
Sonic: Just open your heart and you'll listen about the history of this place.
Tails: Hmmmmm! (concentrating.) The only thing they're telling me is that I got a headache!
Shadow: I only can hear the sound of my stomach acids.
Sonic: Well, the faster we get to the top, the faster we return to the base. So let's go!
Shadow and Tails follow Sonic to the stairs of the temple connecting to the Sky Sanctuary.
Knuckles gets to the Marble Garden and walks around surveying the area.
He feels certain compassion for a little hut.
He enters in the hut and glances the interior. It is so familiar.
Knuckles: Huh? What's this?
He finds a little book on the floor that says.
My Dairy
-Knuckles-
Knuckles: A dairy with my name?!
He opens the dairy and check one page.
"August 29.
This is awesome! Today I'm 7 and my parents are making a wonderful birthday party!
Also the elder is teaching me advanced martial arts techniques!
I can't wait to tell this to Tikal!
And maybe I'm getting a Chao for proving that I'm already responsible!
My own Chao, How nice!"
Knuckles' mind fills with confusion as he reads the page.
Knuckles: Did I wrote this?
Knuckles drops the dairy on the ground rejecting such moment.
Knuckles: This can't be true! I must kill them now!
Knuckles runs to the Sky Sanctuary.
Nack enters in the hut and reads the dairy.
Nack: ......... Can this be the Knuckles I know? ......... Gotta get him before he does something bad.
Nack rushes following Knuckles to the Sky Sanctuary.
Sky Sanctuary
Sonic Tails and Shadow are taking step in the stairs in the Sky Sanctuary connecting to the Shrine.
Sonic: Right after these stairs we'll be in the Shrine. The place I need to look for if we want to confirm that this island is safe.
Tails: The drawings are concentrated on this area.
Shadow: And this is a pretty beautiful view of the entire island.
Sonic: Let's go to the top!
But when they just made 1 step, a hard familiar voice stopped them.
Knuckles: Hold your step resistance fools!
Sonic: Knuckles! Good timing. Do you know if the Master Emerald is still there?
Shadow: Looks like the emperor sent his personal pet to the action.
Sonic: Wait a second. He works for the empire?
Shadow: He murdered much innocent lives. Including resistance's
Sonic: No! This can't be! He lives here in this island!
Knuckles hearing the those words launches his big curled fist directly to Sonic.
Knuckles: Shut up!!
The hard punch launches Sonic to the air and he gets to the top of the stairs. Knuckles grabs Sonic and throws him directly to the wall where he deals a continues waves of punches
Knuckles: Haaaaaaaaaaa!!!
Sonic: Knuckles! This is not what you think! This is not you! You must stop!
Knuckles: This island has driven me insane! And now is time to kill the first resistance fool. You!
Knuckles raises his big fist ready to crush Sonic's skull.
But at the moment when his rage increases to very high levels, a strange but familiar female voice yells at Knuckles.
Mysterious voice: Stop! Don't hurt him any more!
Knuckles fist stops just 1 inch before hitting Sonic.
Knuckles turns around very slowly, and what he sees is a huge green emerald surrounded by 7 emeralds. The green emerald looks just like the one on the wall of Hydrocity
Mysterious voice: You know in the deep of your soul that you know me.
Knuckles's fists move into a relaxed position
Knuckles: That's right...... You're Tikal...!
Tikal regains physical presence.
Tikal: I know everything that happened to you before this moment. You have been tricked all this time. You belong here. Protecting the Master Emerald frim anyone who wishes to harm it.
Knuckles: How... How can I know that this is my real past?
Tikal: The light in you mid that represents your past is being blocked by the darkness in your heart. You got that darkness since you joined the empire. This light should erease that darkness.
A warm bright light flashes from the Master Emerald. As it blinds everyone, it doesn't blind Knuckles.
Tikal: You used to live here in Angel Island. Your duty as the guardian was assigned to you even before you were born.
Tikal takes Knuckles in a flash back to the time when the tribe there was a big tribe. Before the incident... The chaos.
Tikal: Our tribe always had a deep connection with our gods. Even the Master Emeralds and the 7 Emeralds are their creation to protect us. I was in charge of praying to the emerald. When one day my prayers got to the deeps of the Master Emerald. And he appeared. Chaos.
Knuckles: Chaos! The guardian sent by the gods!
Tikal: Exactly. When our tribe got into a war against other tribes, my father tried to use the power of the Emeralds to give infinite power to his army. I knew that this power is not to be used to ring harm to the world. So I tried to stop him. They were stringer than me and I got defeated easily. Chaos protected the power, but the hate in his heart grew so strong that the power turned bad. I understood the secret of the power and used it to seal Chaos inside the deeps of the master emerald.
Knuckles: That's why we're protecting it!
Tikal: My husband and son decided to make the entire family the guardian's clan. Centuries have passed. And now you're the last guardian.
Knuckles: Then how I forgot al this?
Tikal: After everyone in the village died you were the only one who survived.
Knuckles: Even my parents?!?
Tikal: Yes. Only you survived. You grew up and decided to explore the world. You made a raft to explore the sea.
Knuckles: Yes... And a storm attacked the raft. And I woke up on Robotnik coast! I had amnesia all this time!
Tikal: Now you're back and regained your past to fulfill your destiny as the last guardian.
Knuckles: But all those innocent people...
Tikal: You'll have live with it.
Shadow: So Knuckles wasn't bad after all...
Sonic: Now we confirmed that this island is safe.
Knuckles: Shadow... Is there any way I can compensate all the innocent people I killed?
Shadow: Well, we were looking for a new base, and this island seems perfect. So how about...
Knuckles: Yes. They can come. I'll try my best to protect all those innocent people as a resistance member!
Tails: Yeah! Knuckles is now one of us!
From all the joy and relief, there is someone interrupting the scene with a little sarcastic clapping.
Nack: Bravo! Bravo! Looks like you found who you really are and joined the resistance.
Knuckles: Nack! If you're to stop us! You'll pay for it!
Nack: Calm down. I'll make no harm. I'm also looking for a challenge. So I'll let you all go for now and let the resistance grow strong. But I need to tell you something first.
Shadow: Is it about the base?
Nack: ......... Right now it's being under attack by 3 empire carriers... If you don't hurry they will die.
Shadow: Rouge! Espio!
Tails: We won't be able to get there in time on the tornado!
Shadow: What can we do?!?
Sonic: We'll use the power.
Shadow: what?!?
Sonic: The power of the heart.
Knuckles: You're gonna use the emeralds power?!?
Tails: But how?!?
Sonic: Just open your heart.
Everything is ready for the power.
Shadow: Sonic! I'll help!
Sonic: But Shadow...
Shadow: You know you'll need help. And if something happens to the resistance... I'll be god dammed cursed within my soul forever. And face the grief again and again...
Sonic: ......... All right. Just stand aside me.
Knuckles: Everything is ready to go!
Shadow: What now Sonic?
Sonic: Just open your heart to the power. Desire how much you want to save the resistance.
The 2 close their eyes and concentrate. The emeralds begin reacting to their desires and start glimmering with a deep light touching their hearts.
The emeralds lift up and spin around them in a fast rhythm. The emeralds start centering to the 2 hedgehogs and basically incrassating in their hearts.
The power charges them up. Sonic's blue hair turn golden-yellow, and Shadow's black hair turns silver gray.
Knuckles: This power is incredible!
Tails: Did Sonic knew all this?!?
Super Sonic: Tails. We'll be going first to take care of the empire.
Hyper Shadow: You take the Tornado and show the escape vessels te way to here.
Tails: Got it!
Knuckles: I'll stay here and help the ones getting here!
Super Sonic: We're counting on you guys!
Hyper Shadow: Nack... Thank you.
Nack: Save those words when the emperor is finally defeated. Next time we meet we may be enemies.
Super Sonic: Prepare to feel the power of Super Sonic and Hyper Shadow!
Both hedgehogs set way back to the resistance base.
Tails returns to the Tornado and returns to the base.
The countdown for the resistance fate is ticking fast.
Next chapter: Saving the Resistance
The Empire's actions are now to locate the Resistance base.
Knuckles, the best bounty hunter in the Empire was sent to keep an eye on the Prison Island area in case that the resistance is up to something.
Now with the Tornado, Sonic, Shadow and Tails arrived to Angel Island. If is safe there, it will be the new Resistance Base.
But Knuckles followed them. And Nack followed Knuckles.
And now that the emperor knows the location of the Resistance Base, He won't hesitate in attacking it.
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Chapter 4: Forbidden Memories.
Angel Coast.
Sonic and friends step on the sandy beach of Angel Island. Which is white as the milk. For now they need to decide their next move about where to go.
Shadow: This place is so lively.
Tails: The breeze feels great!
Sonic: Now we need to get to the peak of the highest mountain.
Shadow: What we're looking for?
Sonic: The Sky Sanctuary.
Tails: So... If it is on the peak of the central mountain, do we need to move on than staying here instead?
Sonic: Oh, yes. Let's go.
Sonic, Tails and Shadow take step to the Mushroom Hill, which leads to all the sections of the island.
Even Knuckles follows them in the area.
Knuckles: This place... Is so familiar... Like... I have been here before...
Even a little animal comes close to Knuckles. And after smelling him it starts jumping around in joy and love.
Knuckles: What is this animal doing?
Knuckles sits and pets the little animal.
Knuckles: This feels good. Like if I feel that all the things I have done for the emperor have been all wrong.
Knuckles enters in the deep chambers of his mind. Where he observes all the innocent lives he killed by the emperor's orders. All the moments where he was regarded by the emperor and admired by the empire soldiers.
He returns all the way back when he found the empire for the first time, when he woke up at Robotnik coast (Emerald Coast.) and was attacked by empire troops. The ones in charge of the area decided to take Knuckles to the emperor for his good fighting skills and made elite unit bounty hunter.
But before the moment he woke up......... Nothing.
Since the moment he arrived to the island and pet the animal a strange light started flashing.
A light from the past memories?
From his real past?
Knuckles reacts from that deep trance only to deny that light.
Knuckles: What?!?... Can't be!
Knuckles raises his fist setting his sight on the little animal. The animal looks at Knuckles with confusion and fear. Knuckles launches his fist, but this one misses on purpose making a deep hole on the ground.
Knuckles: Can't be! I'm Knuckles! Empire Elite Bounty Hunter! Not to have any mercy on any life! To only act at the emperor's word! That's it! When the resistance fools get what they're looking for, I'll kill them all without mercy!
Knuckles Stands and set movement to where Sonic and friends left off. Also Nack follows the Echidna. But now he is confused for what knuckles did.
Nack: This is strange. No life form had any care for Knuckles. And he replied his own position with such care! This is really weird. I better keep following him.
Nack follows Knuckles, which entered in a cave.
Tails glances at the deeps of the cave. They look like the rests of an ancient civilization. The place is flooded with water. Like if you were in an underwater temple.
Tails: What is this place? I s so enchanted!
Shadow: There is water everywhere!
Shadow lifts a little amount of water on his hands and drinks it.
Shadow: And is potable!
Sonic: Welcome to Hydrocity. The city of water.
Shadow: This is more that 10 times enough water fore the entire resistance!
Sonic: And there are more resources if you look the entire Island.
Tails: There are some strange marks, like this writings are some ancient language.
Sonic: These are the ruins of the civilization that flourished in this island more that 1 million years ago.
Shadow: So what we're looking for in this place?
Sonic: There is an exit here that connects to the place called Marble Garden. From there we can take some stairs to the Sky Sanctuary and get to the top of the mountain to the shrine.
Shadow: Which shrine?
Sonic: A shrine where lies an awesome power that might help us defeat the empire. (And get me home.)
Tails: I think I found the stairs!
Shadow: Right! I can see a light!
Sonic: There is the Marble Garden.
Tails: Let's go!
Knuckles enters to the Hydrocity ruins. Once inside he feels a familiar fresh breeze.
Knuckles: What is this place?
He turns to the walls where he glances at the drawings and marks.
Knuckles: What the...
He reacts in sense of surprise as he sees echidnas drawn on the walls doing rites and ceremonies. Those echidnas look just like him.
Knuckles: What is the meaning of this!... Oh!
Knuckles keeps silence as he watches the drawing of a beautiful female echidna praying to a huge green emerald. The look of the echidna enchants knuckles to the deep of his soul with a feeling that he has seen that echidna before.
Knuckles: ......... Nonsense!
He punches his own face to wake up.
Knuckles: Stay focused in your mission! Bring pride to the emperor and annihilate the resistance! I must hurry!
As Knuckles leaves the ruins, Nack steps closer to the wall and glances at the wall with the female echidna.
Nack: This is even weirder. Knuckles is not like himself like in other missions. There is something perturbing him. Maybe... This girl. But who is she?... Never mind. Just follow Knuckles and keep him under control.
Nack follows Knuckles.
There must be something about the strange girl... and the huge emerald...
Marble Garden
Shadow is being amazed each time by the exotic places on the island. They hold very much history that you can listen if you open your heart to the spirits wandering around.
Tails: This place feels like is gonna talk to you about the events and history around here.
Shadow: Is this the Marble Garden?
Sonic: The Marble Garden is the surface ruins of a big place where the people here made temples for their gods and places to live. But now... is just a little piece of history.
Tails: You seem to know about this place, he Sonic?
Sonic: Just open your heart and you'll listen about the history of this place.
Tails: Hmmmmm! (concentrating.) The only thing they're telling me is that I got a headache!
Shadow: I only can hear the sound of my stomach acids.
Sonic: Well, the faster we get to the top, the faster we return to the base. So let's go!
Shadow and Tails follow Sonic to the stairs of the temple connecting to the Sky Sanctuary.
Knuckles gets to the Marble Garden and walks around surveying the area.
He feels certain compassion for a little hut.
He enters in the hut and glances the interior. It is so familiar.
Knuckles: Huh? What's this?
He finds a little book on the floor that says.
My Dairy
-Knuckles-
Knuckles: A dairy with my name?!
He opens the dairy and check one page.
"August 29.
This is awesome! Today I'm 7 and my parents are making a wonderful birthday party!
Also the elder is teaching me advanced martial arts techniques!
I can't wait to tell this to Tikal!
And maybe I'm getting a Chao for proving that I'm already responsible!
My own Chao, How nice!"
Knuckles' mind fills with confusion as he reads the page.
Knuckles: Did I wrote this?
Knuckles drops the dairy on the ground rejecting such moment.
Knuckles: This can't be true! I must kill them now!
Knuckles runs to the Sky Sanctuary.
Nack enters in the hut and reads the dairy.
Nack: ......... Can this be the Knuckles I know? ......... Gotta get him before he does something bad.
Nack rushes following Knuckles to the Sky Sanctuary.
Sky Sanctuary
Sonic Tails and Shadow are taking step in the stairs in the Sky Sanctuary connecting to the Shrine.
Sonic: Right after these stairs we'll be in the Shrine. The place I need to look for if we want to confirm that this island is safe.
Tails: The drawings are concentrated on this area.
Shadow: And this is a pretty beautiful view of the entire island.
Sonic: Let's go to the top!
But when they just made 1 step, a hard familiar voice stopped them.
Knuckles: Hold your step resistance fools!
Sonic: Knuckles! Good timing. Do you know if the Master Emerald is still there?
Shadow: Looks like the emperor sent his personal pet to the action.
Sonic: Wait a second. He works for the empire?
Shadow: He murdered much innocent lives. Including resistance's
Sonic: No! This can't be! He lives here in this island!
Knuckles hearing the those words launches his big curled fist directly to Sonic.
Knuckles: Shut up!!
The hard punch launches Sonic to the air and he gets to the top of the stairs. Knuckles grabs Sonic and throws him directly to the wall where he deals a continues waves of punches
Knuckles: Haaaaaaaaaaa!!!
Sonic: Knuckles! This is not what you think! This is not you! You must stop!
Knuckles: This island has driven me insane! And now is time to kill the first resistance fool. You!
Knuckles raises his big fist ready to crush Sonic's skull.
But at the moment when his rage increases to very high levels, a strange but familiar female voice yells at Knuckles.
Mysterious voice: Stop! Don't hurt him any more!
Knuckles fist stops just 1 inch before hitting Sonic.
Knuckles turns around very slowly, and what he sees is a huge green emerald surrounded by 7 emeralds. The green emerald looks just like the one on the wall of Hydrocity
Mysterious voice: You know in the deep of your soul that you know me.
Knuckles's fists move into a relaxed position
Knuckles: That's right...... You're Tikal...!
Tikal regains physical presence.
Tikal: I know everything that happened to you before this moment. You have been tricked all this time. You belong here. Protecting the Master Emerald frim anyone who wishes to harm it.
Knuckles: How... How can I know that this is my real past?
Tikal: The light in you mid that represents your past is being blocked by the darkness in your heart. You got that darkness since you joined the empire. This light should erease that darkness.
A warm bright light flashes from the Master Emerald. As it blinds everyone, it doesn't blind Knuckles.
Tikal: You used to live here in Angel Island. Your duty as the guardian was assigned to you even before you were born.
Tikal takes Knuckles in a flash back to the time when the tribe there was a big tribe. Before the incident... The chaos.
Tikal: Our tribe always had a deep connection with our gods. Even the Master Emeralds and the 7 Emeralds are their creation to protect us. I was in charge of praying to the emerald. When one day my prayers got to the deeps of the Master Emerald. And he appeared. Chaos.
Knuckles: Chaos! The guardian sent by the gods!
Tikal: Exactly. When our tribe got into a war against other tribes, my father tried to use the power of the Emeralds to give infinite power to his army. I knew that this power is not to be used to ring harm to the world. So I tried to stop him. They were stringer than me and I got defeated easily. Chaos protected the power, but the hate in his heart grew so strong that the power turned bad. I understood the secret of the power and used it to seal Chaos inside the deeps of the master emerald.
Knuckles: That's why we're protecting it!
Tikal: My husband and son decided to make the entire family the guardian's clan. Centuries have passed. And now you're the last guardian.
Knuckles: Then how I forgot al this?
Tikal: After everyone in the village died you were the only one who survived.
Knuckles: Even my parents?!?
Tikal: Yes. Only you survived. You grew up and decided to explore the world. You made a raft to explore the sea.
Knuckles: Yes... And a storm attacked the raft. And I woke up on Robotnik coast! I had amnesia all this time!
Tikal: Now you're back and regained your past to fulfill your destiny as the last guardian.
Knuckles: But all those innocent people...
Tikal: You'll have live with it.
Shadow: So Knuckles wasn't bad after all...
Sonic: Now we confirmed that this island is safe.
Knuckles: Shadow... Is there any way I can compensate all the innocent people I killed?
Shadow: Well, we were looking for a new base, and this island seems perfect. So how about...
Knuckles: Yes. They can come. I'll try my best to protect all those innocent people as a resistance member!
Tails: Yeah! Knuckles is now one of us!
From all the joy and relief, there is someone interrupting the scene with a little sarcastic clapping.
Nack: Bravo! Bravo! Looks like you found who you really are and joined the resistance.
Knuckles: Nack! If you're to stop us! You'll pay for it!
Nack: Calm down. I'll make no harm. I'm also looking for a challenge. So I'll let you all go for now and let the resistance grow strong. But I need to tell you something first.
Shadow: Is it about the base?
Nack: ......... Right now it's being under attack by 3 empire carriers... If you don't hurry they will die.
Shadow: Rouge! Espio!
Tails: We won't be able to get there in time on the tornado!
Shadow: What can we do?!?
Sonic: We'll use the power.
Shadow: what?!?
Sonic: The power of the heart.
Knuckles: You're gonna use the emeralds power?!?
Tails: But how?!?
Sonic: Just open your heart.
Everything is ready for the power.
Shadow: Sonic! I'll help!
Sonic: But Shadow...
Shadow: You know you'll need help. And if something happens to the resistance... I'll be god dammed cursed within my soul forever. And face the grief again and again...
Sonic: ......... All right. Just stand aside me.
Knuckles: Everything is ready to go!
Shadow: What now Sonic?
Sonic: Just open your heart to the power. Desire how much you want to save the resistance.
The 2 close their eyes and concentrate. The emeralds begin reacting to their desires and start glimmering with a deep light touching their hearts.
The emeralds lift up and spin around them in a fast rhythm. The emeralds start centering to the 2 hedgehogs and basically incrassating in their hearts.
The power charges them up. Sonic's blue hair turn golden-yellow, and Shadow's black hair turns silver gray.
Knuckles: This power is incredible!
Tails: Did Sonic knew all this?!?
Super Sonic: Tails. We'll be going first to take care of the empire.
Hyper Shadow: You take the Tornado and show the escape vessels te way to here.
Tails: Got it!
Knuckles: I'll stay here and help the ones getting here!
Super Sonic: We're counting on you guys!
Hyper Shadow: Nack... Thank you.
Nack: Save those words when the emperor is finally defeated. Next time we meet we may be enemies.
Super Sonic: Prepare to feel the power of Super Sonic and Hyper Shadow!
Both hedgehogs set way back to the resistance base.
Tails returns to the Tornado and returns to the base.
The countdown for the resistance fate is ticking fast.
Next chapter: Saving the Resistance