Chapter 5: The beginning of the end
"First we need to get Tamy over to your house." Jasmine said. "Any ideas?"
"One, but we'll need to be lucky. First you need some clothes." They got some clothes, then went out the back of the place to figure out the plan. "Now this was in 'The Sting' part two, so nobody knows about it! Now as I recall, Jackie Gleeson..." Anyway, once Knuckles got through the plan to Jasmine and they fixed up the problems, they were ready to go. They walked to Tamy's house, ignoring the 'new girl' stares, and rang the doorbell. Tamy answered ("Déjà vu." Kamy commentated) and Jasmine hit her with a black thing they got from Centerway. "I still don't see why I didn't think of that before. Lotto, what was I thinking?" Knuckles said.
They dragged her to the altar where the Master Emerald was situated.
"Okay," Knuckles said, after dragging Tamy there. "We'll need to amplify the grey and purple Chaos Emerald's power in two ways. First we wait until Tamy wakes up. Wanna play Super Mario?"
"I dunno, which one?" Jasmine asked.
"Bros. 3."
"I am SO there!" And so, they played Super Mario until Tamy woke up. "How did you manage to support yourself with the raccoon tail so well?" Jasmine asked. Knuckles sucked at flying in Mario games!
"It wasn't Knuckles." Knuckles said, and Jasmine understood. It wasn't Knuckles flying, it was Kamy! She didn't have much to say, so she said "Sweet." And at that point Tamy woke up.
"Ow," she said, rubbing her noggin. "My head hurts. Kamy, what am I doing here?"
"Long story, just follow what I say, okay?" Knuckles said, regaining control.
"O...Kay...what do we do?"
"Grab that grey emerald and meet us at the crater."
They did so. When they were all there, they had the Master Emerald and the purple and grey Chaos Emeralds.
"Okay, now point the Chaos Emeralds at the Master Emerald, and it'll do the rest." They did, and then purple and grey beams of light came from their respectful Emeralds, and hit the Master Emerald, making it glow. The Master Emerald fired a beam of green light towards the crater, making it glow too. "This would be cool if I wasn't being blinded!" Tamy said, still holding on to the grey emerald. Then about a thousand beams of light shot out of the edges of the crater. They met in the canter, equally meeting the depth of the crater. Then a huge beam of light hit them all, and Sonic, who had become a male hedgehog once more, was thankful that he had put a video camera outside the crater.
Taking off the unnecessary and in some cases humiliating clothes, they stretched. "Whew, that feels better. I was getting tired of that female body." Knuckles said, stretching as he brought the Master Emerald over to the altar, balancing the Chaos Emeralds on top.
"So let me guess," Tails said, feeling like he had just fallen asleep after eating too many potato chips, "We're going to storm Amy's place and take the gun?"
"What did you think we were going to do, eat salad?" Sonic said, picking up the video camera.
When they got there, although it didn't look different, when they tried to open the door, the fell. And fell... and fell... and fe- oh wait, they landed. And it hurt. "You got that right." Knuckles said, rubbing his butt. Then a screen on the wall turned on, showing Amy.
"So, you planned to beat me, huh?" She sneered.
"Yes," Tails said, rather confidently. "We even know how."
"Really? Shadow, Cream and Rouge are in other rooms. Beat them first. However you must beat them alone."
"Seems simple enough. Let's go!" Sonic went through the door, followed by Tails and Knuckles. Behind it was...
"Shadow?" Sonic said, backing off a bit. Then a blast of light hit him (Shadow, not Sonic) and he grew. He got a cloak from nowhere, his top two quills turned into yellow fins, and he gained a general human shape. "Wait, I recognise that..." Tails said, steeping forward. "You're Bass!" Shadow/Bass nodded, and became a beam of light, disappearing into Tails' pocket (wherever that is). A tune started to play, and Tails took out his Game Boy Advance. The Battle Chip Challenge had turned on, and it seemed that Amy had planned for this.
A large TV turned on, showing the battle. Tails was sucked into the TV, and the battle began. The beginning showed this:
Operator: TAIL
Navi: NormNavX
Next to it, strangely enough, was a picture of Tails. Sonic knew this was wrong, because he saw Tails play this game, a picture of Chaud usually appears there. Below that was Shadow/Bass, with a screen like this:
Operator: SHAD
Navi: BassGS
Then the battle started, showing the NormNavX on the left, in the middle of three red-bordered tiles made of ice. On the right was BassGS in an identical setup, except the borders for his were blue.
Knowing how the game works a bit, Sonic moved over to the Game Boy. A table on the bottom showed the chips that were going to be used. "I've seen both these setups before," Sonic said, looking at the screen. "Tails is using a Sparker, Magbomb3, and a Candle2. Shadow's using, in reverse order, a MindBendr, AquaBlde, and- oh no, Dropdown!" "What's bad about that?" Knuckles asked. "Dropdown makes the user invincible for a turn, and by the looks of it Shadow has one on both front slots! It only has 60 HP, and it could be deleted by Sparker, but it's a bit of a gamble." The turn started, and Tails went first, launching his Sparker. It hit, and brought Shadow to 720 HP, also bringing MindBendr to 20, AquaBlde to 30 and deleting Dropdown. Then Tails went again.
Tails launched a MagBomb3, and it hit again. This brought Shadow to 670 HP, and took out the other two chips. "Since Candle2 heals, it won't do anything." Sonic explained, and he was right. "Slot in!" Was heard, and suddenly the arena changed to a light green, smooth surface. "Oh no, there goes Tails' edge." Sonic said, concerned. "Shadow used Repair, and it turned the arena to a normal one." Then it was Shadow's turn, but he couldn't do anything! "Huh? Sonic, why isn't Shadow killing?" Knuckles asked. "MagBomb3 stunned him as well as made this turn a living hell for him." "Oh." Then Tails shot Shadow with a Charge Shot, taking him down to 640. Then it was turn two, time for a new set of chips.
"Shadow's using another Dropdown, a HeroSwrd, and a VarSwrd. Tails is using his Sparker, I don't recognise the middle one and the Candle2 again." It began, and Tails shot his Sparker. It hit, but it didn't take out anything! "Why didn't it annihilate?" Knux asked Sonic. "Ice arenas power up electricity. Since the arena's normal now, so is the attack power." "That's bad." "Yes. Yes it is." Sonic said, as Shadow used Dropdown, making him invincible. Then, Tails used the mystery chip. "What's Poltergeist do?" "I don't know. Let's watch." The Sparker and Dropdown stopped guarding, and three items hit Shadow, and took him right down to 340! "Wow." "Let's ask later." Then Shadow used the HeroSwrd, causing 250 points of damage, leaving Tails at 450. Then Tails used the Candle chip, healing him 70 points. The VarSwrd missed. Shadow used his main attack, leaving Tails at 480 and damaging all the chips. Then the revenge of the Charge Shot brought Shadow to 310 and took out the HeroSwrd.
Third turn. "Shadow's using blank, blank and MagBomb3. Tails is using the Sparker, MagBomb3 and Candle2. He likes the candles." Hit 1. Missed. Hit two. Stunned Shadow and damaged MagBomb. Hit 3, the MagBomb damages all Tails' chips and stuns him too. Candle2 heals Tails, brings him to 520. "They're both stunned this turn, right?" Knuckles asked. "Yep." Sonic answered. Shadow couldn't move, but Tails could. "We'll ask later too." MagBomb is knocked out, Shadow's down to 250. Next turn. "Shadow's using Dropdown, blank and blank. Tails is using Sparker, Poultergeist and Candle2." Sparker hit and knocked out Dropdown. Then Poltergeist hit. Sparker was taken out, and Shadow went down to 50, losing 150 damage. The Candle healed Tails, Shadow used his attack and brought Tails to 540. Next turn Shadow's beaten by the Sparker. Then, out of the screen, Tails and Shadow fall out. "That was a good match." Tails said, and Shadow started talking. "I was offered a deal by Amy. I would be turned back to normal, but I had to defend her. I failed, but I defended her. I'm off."
"That was awesome Tails, but I don't get some stuff." Sonic asked. "What's with Poultergeist?" "I got it recently. It takes away the guard chips and causes 150 for each one taken." "And how did you attack when stunned?" "Two reasons: Sparker protected me, and Candle2 heals stuns and HP. On to the next room!"
Yay! I found a use for the 1st chapter filler! Next, they face eitherRouge or Cream, but how does she help Amy? Review please, but I'm going to start the next chapter now!