Chapter 6 - What happened to Tails - The Super Sonic race.
As the ship approached the Death Egg, it began to shake a little. It seemed odd but no-one realised one of them had yet to merge, the one who was currently piloting the spaceship, Tails!
"Er guys, does anyone know how to fly this thing?" asked Sonic, there was a long pause, "Well you better get ready cause it looks like we're about to crash!"
A very loud scream could be heard throughout the spaceship as it got nearer and nearer to the re-inforced wall of the Death Egg. And then so anti-climatically it happened. The ship crashed leaving a hole in the wall, patched up by the ship itself. The gang got out through the window.
"Looks like we're stuck here now. I can't believe no-one realised Tails would merge", Said Knuckles.
"There's bound to be a way back home somewhere on this space station", Said Sonic, "But back to the task at hand. Chaotix you go to the Satellite room and disable communications, the rest of us will follow Knuckles as he finds the emeralds".
"Why me?" asked Knuckles.
"'Cause, you can sense the emeralds can't you? You are a treasure hunter after all", Said Sonic. Knuckles Sighed.
"It's always me that has to so something emerald related. Just like the time in the Death chamber where I had to find the keys", said Knuckles.
"Are you going to complain all day, or night, I'm not sure up here. Or are you going to find the emeralds?" Said Amy, "In case you've forgotten time is against us".
"I guess so, follow me", Said Knuckles. The two teams split up, it wasn't long until Sonic and Knuckles found the chaos emeralds, Tails was at some computer console and there was Black wind watching over everything.
"So you managed to get up here. You're not going to take the emeralds away from me", Said black wind. Suddenly laser guns were pointed at Black winds head.
"Oh yes you are," said Tails turning towards him, "Sonic I've set off the self-destruct sequence, we have 30 mins to get out of here, back to Earth and the crystal palace entrance".
"Tails? What are you doing? Didn't you see us crash, we're stuck up here", Said Amy. Black wind laughed.
"Looks like your luck has run out. Only I have the means of getting back to Earth, and maybe Sonic if he figures it out", Said Black wind.
"Figure what out?" asked Amy.
"The Chaos emeralds, there's only one way I know of returning to Earth without a ship or a transporter", Said Sonic.
"You mean…" said Knuckles
"That's right Super Sonic!" said Sonic.
"But that means…oh…" said Amy.
"Yes, I can go super too, after all I'm Sonic's clone", Said Black Wind.
"Lucky for us there's a transporter", Said Tails, "At the other end of the space station, but we can make it"
"Hey why are you suddenly helping them anyway?" asked Black Wind.
"Have you still not figured it out. The Heroes from the good world, the one Eggman changed have merged with the ones from this one. I recently merged with this worlds me and well as you can see we're in the middle of something here", Said Tails.
"Middle? So I take it you've already placed bombs in the 4 other bases?" asked Black wind.
"Indeed we have. In, well, less the 30 minutes now all 5 generators will blow up. Sonic you'll need to infiltrate it alone. The rest of us can escape but we won't make it into the palace before the back-up comes on, you will, if you use Super Sonic", Said Tails.
"So the plan is, I get in while the shield is down and take out the back-up when I'm inside to let you guys in. Then we fix this mess by getting the real gems and going through with Metal Sonic's plan", Said Sonic.
"Exactly", Said Tails, "So come on guys we better get going"
"Do you really think I'll let you go that easily? And what do you mean when you say real gems? These are the Chaos emeralds", Said black wind.
"You are an idiot, like Eggman would give you the real Chaos emeralds? We know it's fake, we know the rest are all fake and they are in the crystal palace right now. You've been tricked", Said Knuckles.
"And that comes from a guys that's been tricked by Eggman, MANY times before", Said Sonic laughing.
"Sonic, if we weren't in a rush…." Said Knuckles angrily.
"Tricked? Well it doesn't matter, one simple call to Eggman and he'll lock down the crystal palace", Said Black wind running to the controls.
"That aint going to work, face it you lost. The Chaotix crew should've taken care of the communications satellite by now", Said Sonic, "Tails, find them and get the hell out of here now, you've already lost a good 5 minutes just talking here"
"Right", said Tails and the heroes left. Sonic wandered over to the emeralds.
"I chaos controlled with a fake, I'm sure I can turn super with them as well", said Sonic as the emerald began to glow around him.
"Well as you know, the emeralds have enough power for two. And I ain't going to let you reach the crystal palace first", Said Black Wind as the emeralds began to glow around him too.
"A good old fashioned race, my speciality", Said Sonic turning super.
"Mine too", Said Black wind turning super. Black winds super transformation was identical to Sonic's only he was Silver instead of gold. The two Super hedgehogs left the Death Egg through the window overlooking Earth, and the race began. Two Super hedgehogs rushing faster and faster towards the crystal palace. The friction between them and the air creating flames, flames which did not hurt their invincible bodies.
Meanwhile Tails and the gang reached the transporter with several minutes to spare, the used it and quickly landed near the crystal palace, near enough to see the Super hedgehogs but far from the palace's guard towers. Tails looked up an realised, they were both reaching their destination to soon, and if they reached there before the shield were down the force could kill even Super Sonic. He immediately reached for his radio.
"Sonic slow down. You still have to wait until the shield drops", Said Tails
"That's right", Said Super Sonic slowing down. Super Black Wind looked behind him and smiled.
"Looks like I won, as I suspected, not even the original Sonic can beat me", Said Black wind.
"Black Wind slow down, not even a super form can penetrate that shield, and that speed you'll crash into it killing yourself", Said Super Sonic.
"Nonsense, the good doctor will open the door for me, you just watch", Said Super Black wind.
"No he won't", Said Super Sonic, "Eggman is not like that!"
"You're just trying to trick me so you can win the race", said Super Black Wind speeding up. There was still 2 more minutes to go.
"This is your last chance, slow down or you'll get yourself killed", Said Super Sonic.
"No way am I giving up now", Said Black wind, "Doctor, it's me, bring down the shield I need to talk to you now". Nothing happened and he passed the point of no return, even the shield went down or he died.
"Doctor, what are you doing? Bring down the shield, I can't slow down at this speed", said Black Wind.
"Oh Black Wind haven't you realised yet, you're expendable. I'm not dropping this shield, not for Sonic", Said Eggman over some loud speakers. And that was that, Black wind crashed into the shield and despite being Super he splattered into the shield, blood and guts everywhere.
"Eggman you heartless monster, I'll make you pay for that", Said Super Sonic. As the timer ran into it's final five seconds Super Sonic made he final decent. As the timer reached zero and the 5 large explosions could be seen and heard Sonic passed the threshold and entered the crystal palace.
Sonic found himself inside the palace. He took a moment to look back on what happened. Black wind trusted Eggman and paid the ultimate price, and it was almost nearly him as well. He quickly turned and headed to the back-up generator. He stopped and called to Illumina who appeared inside the base at the same time. He gave her six of the seven Emeralds, keeping one to stop the explosion.
"I hope that'll keep Maginaryworld alive for long enough", Said Sonic.
"Don't worry about it, concentrate on getting the rest inside and stopping Eggman. Good luck", said Illumina, "And Don't forget I can't get back here until you drop the shields again, and you'll need me to take the preciousstone back"
Sonic nodded as Illumina disappeared into a vortex. He looked ahead and ran towards the Back-up generator. Everyone is counting on me; Eggman went too far this time. He's going to pay for everything he's done if my name isn't Sonic the hedgehog.