Thanks again for the reviews. Describing Shadow's brain trauma as 'massive' is an understatement. You know how he has a Green Chaos Emerald? He calls it purple. I warn you, the next chapter's pretty weird. Just go along with it, okay?
Chapter 3: trapped somewhere
"This place used to be cool..." Knuckles said, wandering around. He was right, it used to be cooler, now it's just... pink. Like most times when something was wrong, there was a thunderstorm. The rest was pink. The walls were pink, the roads were pink, even the sea was pink. It disgusted him. He put on his sunglasses to protect him from the overwhelming pinkness, and looked around. There weren't many interesting things to look at, other than a huge statue of Sonic. That was, until he got hungry. The area, beside the pink, was just like Station Square. In place of the only McDonalds in Station Square, there was a huge castle, pink like the rest. It had a darker pink at the top, and was overrun with guards.
"O...kay..." Knuckles said, kind of confused that a castle had been there and he didn't notice. It did seem sort of familiar, but he didn't recognise it. He walked along the path, but when he got to the arch, it was barred shut. "Well phooey." Knuckles grumbled, and looked for another way through. There were a few vines, but he probably couldn't climb them. "Hey, wait..." Knuckles looked at his knuckles (god, I'm so witty...) and remembered the spikes. He lodged them into the cliff face and began to climb. He then used them to cut the vines, because they needed some pruning. He then jumped off, and got over the arch. There was a clock, but it seemed to be broken, it said 00:00. He looked straight ahead, and saw a rock. He could break it, so he did. There was a hole in the wall behind it.
He went through the hole, because he could, and looked around. It had water coming out of the top of the walls, it seemed, and the rest was blue, kind of signalling that he could take of his glasses. When he did, he saw that, on the other end of the room, was a young boy. He was wearing a green tunic and funny hat, and was playing a small brown wind instrument. He also looked familiar, but that didn't stop Knuckles from smashing him so hard in the back that he broke through the wall, and broke his spine. Knuckles went over to where the boy was standing, and saw a golden image of three triangles, one on the tips of the other two. There was an inscription in the middle of the three triangles, something about showing loyalty to the royal family.
Knuckles didn't have time for any family, so he just yelled at the ground. "Listen, I don't know why I'm doing this, but I don't have time for any old family except mine!" Then he heard laughing. In about two seconds an enormous human woman came out of the fountain in front of him. She had long pink hair, and was wearing nothing but vines. Then she spoke. "Greetings. I am the Great-" "Can it lady!" Knuckles butted in. "I'm pretty sure you've got something for me, so hurry up and give it already!" "Okay, okay, just calm down. Here." "I bomb your country!" "Huh?" "Sorry, just got bored." "Okay... Here." Knuckles then was surrounded by a green light, and suddenly felt stronger.
"I have given you Din's-"
"Shut up, I'll figure it out myself."
"Fine. Where's the kid?"
"I punched him and shot him out the wall."
"Oh. Okay." She then retreated into the fountain. Knuckles left, and put on his sunglasses.
When he got out, he examined the next path into the castle. There were two guards there, a sloped cliff edge, and one just off of the arch, facing the top of the aforementioned arch. Knuckles walked up the cliff edge (it was just that easy) and examined the front yard of the castle. Not a guard in sight there, but there was one near a wall, and two guarding the normal entry. "Hmm... Pretty tight security, I don't know if I can get in. Wait a minute..." He used the recently installed zoom-in function on his sunglasses and found that near the lone guard, were bricks on the wall. Perfectly placed on there. "How strangely convenient." He ran past the arch, over to the furthermost wall and climbed up the bricks.
Like any castle at this time, the drawbridge was up. "Guess I'll find another way in. I'll let the current tell me where." He jumped in the moat and after a few seconds found a way out of there. He also found a way in the castle. He jumped in the hole where water was coming from and found himself inside the castle. There he found a note pinned to the wall. 'Note to all guards: Security will be doubled at night. If you have any problems with this, too bad. Signed, Frank' "Well phooey. Oh well, time to wait outside." He went outside and watched the moon. It may have looked midnight, but it only took about two minutes to become dawn. He went back in and examined the guards' movement. He then moved in such directions that he was left unnoticed.
Strangely enough, the guards all looked identical. But that didn't deter him from heading through. The cash in one of the rooms didn't even distract him. But anyway, when he got through, he found a huge courtyard. Okay it wasn't THAT big, but it was still sort of big. Anyway, at the far end were two more identical guards, but these were wearing more expensive-looking suits. Knuckles was stopped by them.
"Nobody visits Kamy without special permission!" the left one said, holding out his spear.
"Hey, which one of you is Frank?"
"That's me." The right one said. "Why?"
"Someone put offensive graffiti about you outside. Thought you should know."
"WHAT? I'll show them!" Frank ran off, in the general direction of the left wall. Knuckles noticed pictures of Mario characters in the room above the spot Frank hit.
"Hey, this I gotta see! I've got a collection of photos of offensive graffiti about people!" The other one ran off in the direction of the right wall. That left Knuckles able to talk to Kamy.
Nobody but Amy had really got a good look at Kamy, and you could definitely see the resemblance between her and Amy. She seemed a little shorter than Knuckles, slightly confusing him, her kind of being him. She also wore the same dress as Amy, as well as the same gloves, bracelets and shoes. Kamy's dreadlocks had been fashioned in a similar way to Amy's hair, and she was wearing a headband. She was rather attractive, but Knuckles wasn't really in the mood to admire his former body as a clone of Amy. "Okay Kamy, explain!"
"What?" Kamy was pretty confused. "You want me to explain the castle?"
"Not at that point, but I am kind of curious."
"It's from a Legend of Zelda game."
"Which one? The original?"
"No."
"Adventure of Link?"
"No."
"A Link to the Past?
"No."
"Link's Awakening?"
"No."
"... I'm lost."
"Never have a conversation about video games with someone who hasn't bought any since 1996. Ocarina of Time."
"Oh yeah, I saw Amy playing that game. Anyway, I want my body back!"
"Only if you let me change it in any way I want first."
"No!"
"What about if you let me decorate your house however I want?"
"No!"
After about 2 hours of arguing, they came to an agreement somehow.
"Okay, so I give you your body back, under the conditions that you don't change back, and I can butt in anytime I want."
"Okay, deal."
See, I told you! 'Somehow'!
"Besides, you can't turn back anyway." Kamy said, stepping off the throne.
"Why?" Knuckles asked, slightly confused. "All I have to do is use the Grey and Purple Emerald combo..."
"That's just the thing. I accidentally locked the Emeralds in the closet and lost the key.
"WHAT!?"
"It doesn't matter anyway, Amy would turn you back anyway."
"Good point. Now let me on, it's almost time to get up!"
"Okay, I'll explore your mind while waiting."
So now we know where Knuckles is, and he's got something good out of this conversation: His body! But will he be able to get by masquerading? He IS a dumb guy... Oh and here's the video game lo-down. Amy has the games I have, Tails has the games I want plus some others, and Knuckles has the ones released before 1996 that nobody buys any more. Anyway, review! And don't worry, I'm getting started on the next chapter right away!