(Sorry it's a short chap. I do not own Sonic…etc.)
Flip Card 2:
Name: Egg Carrier 3
Age: Twenty four hours
Size: (Big to say the least.)
Job description: Eggman's latest battleship. Possess twice the destructive power as the two previous Egg Carrier's.
By now, the G.U.N back up the President had been promised had arrived. The Egg Carrier 3's sensors had picked them up even before the President knew they were on their way. A thick swarm of beetle bots, Flying Dog attack units and flight capable Hot shot frames. The finest troops G.U.N had the immediate area had gathered here, and Eggman wasn't even the slightest bit worried. In fact, he'd been waiting for this very moment so he could show all his enemies at once the colossal magnitude of his genius.
Energy gauges at full, Eggman sneered and smacked his hand down on a button marked…FIRE.
Sonic came to a screeching halt when he noticed a sound groaning through the air and simultaneously the ships deck below his feet began to vibrate. At the front end of the ship, at its red triangular end, large gears in within the ship itself began to turn and the mechanism divided the triangle, parted both half's to one side, revealing the interior. Sonic had seen this before Eggman had fired a similar weapon before. When the X-tornado, which was still in the shop, confronted the giant ship for the second time.
But this was different, jutting right out of the middle of this concealed weapon was a narrow chrome metal spike and a metal cylinder surrounding it, feeding itself back into the ships' interior.
The metal spike within looked very familiar. Sonic recognized it at once as a scaled down version of the pinnacle of the Eclipse Cannon, the destructive weapon onboard the space colony ARK. A grey spike with a fat end, that began to glow bright blue, bolts of lightning like flashes lancing from the spike to the outside cylinder surrounding it. Each level towards its point began to light up and burn with energy as final both halves of the triangular metal end of Egg Carrier had each swung to one side.
"Oh this can not end well." He stated as a bright flare sprung to life within the weapon, blaring with intense white light.
The second air craft carrier caught in it's wake tried to receded out of the line of fire, but was moving far too slow, the blast flew right past it and the ship literally disintegrated. All the G.U.N robots flying straight at the Egg Carrier were caught and they two disappeared, as if replaced by smouldering remains that fell down through like the air like black snow.
The President was left staring in horror as the entire force he'd summoned, disappeared in a flash. Like they'd never even been there. The beam finally subsided and the cannon powered down, a great deal of steal rising from the grey point. There was a groaning and the two doors slid shut with a loud clank.
"Doctor." Decoe began, looking over the destructive results of the cannon fire on his screen. "I didn't even know that weapon had been installed." Eggman pressed his fingers together, a wide grin on his face.
"While on ARK, I took the liberty of copying the Eclipse Cannon's basic design blueprints. I wasn't able to reproduce an exact copy of it, but this size a weapon is far more practical for my needs." This new cannon was a welcome edition to his Egg Carrier. It required far less energy than the original, even through the beam it fared was by far less powerful. Still, this power had limitations. Eggman had been unsuccessful in creating more than one duplicate cannon and even then he had to wait at least five hours in-between firing times for the weapon to cool down.
"There is still one air craft carrier left doctor." Becoe stated as the doctor sat in his chair, drumming his fingers. "Should I have Emerl attack?"
Eggman looked up briefly toward the ship floating on the ocean below, displayed on the main screen.
"Why waste the time and effort?" He asked, dismissing it. His ship was by far superior to that outdated piece of junk. It couldn't do anything to him now.
"What about the Hedgehog Doctor?" The robotic henchman asked again, looking up from his station. "According to our sensors, he's still on the ship. As well as the other intruders." Eggman had nearly forgotten about them, overjoyed to see his cannon finally in operation. "Emerl can handle Sonic I'm certain of that. I'll just have my other boys clean up the rest." He pressed a button on his arm rest and activated a com signal. "Attention E1000 series robots, Sigma, Tau and Theta. We have guests, deal with them."
"We'll give them a warm welcome sir, you can count on that!"
"Call in Giant Wing." The President said, his eyes never leaving the massive Egg Carrier 3 before them. Everyone around him simply stopped and stared, as if they were unsure of the order. Topaz hesitated and then approached.
"But sir." She began. "Giant wing isn't fully operational yet." The President turned to give her a glare. His eyes filled with fear.
"We have no choice. I want Giant wing here, NOW!"
"What the hell was that?" Amy asked herself as the ground beneath her feet finally stopped shaking. The entire ship just seemed to lurch to backwards all of the sudden. The others, Tails and those two from the Government, Bean and Bark had gone on ahead. Sonic was racing around doing what he did best; winging it.
The pink hedgehog hadn't seen Rouge or Omega since they got on board. Now alone, she'd wandered into a cargo bay full of giant metal crates and boxes, several large iron hooks used for the loading the unloading of heavy objects hung from the ceiling on huge steal chains. She had found plenty of robot parts scattered around, so Sonic or one of the others had been through here already.
"Intruder, prepare to die!" Something shouted from above and Amy snapped around, her hammer already in hand. She looked up, to see a dark, streamlined shape sanding on top of the pile of containers.
E1003: Sigma was humanoid in appearance, with a long lance protruding from its left arm. Most of the metal armour covering its arms and legs was a steal grey with the Eggman Empire logo branded onto the left chest plate. In the middle of its head was a single black visor eye with a red centre. Amy barley had enough time to dodge as the robot leapt down, driving his lance forward, nearly catching her arm. Using the momentum, she swung her hammer around, the blunt instrument smashing into the robot's back.
Sigma rebounded off the floor, swinging a leg around, a kick landed directly against her side, knocking her sideways. No where near as fast as Sonic, he wasn't able to defend herself as Sigma dived in with a punch to the face.
He rolled a few feet, finally coming to a stop, her eyes forced closed. This robot was surprisingly strong and fast, but she knew she could take it. Using her hammer for support, she pushed herself to her feet, ready to carry on.
Sigma held the blade of the lance across his body, before charging. Using the pole of her hammer to block the attacks and swings, the pink hedgehog tried her best to defend herself. It became apparent that Sigma had a significant advantage of speed, but to achieve this however, it lacked any notable defensive abilities. Amy knew all she had to do to beat this thing was get several good whacks in.
"Doctor!" Becoe began. "I'm reading a massive object approaching us from the north-west. It's rivalling the Egg Carrier in size." Eggman shot forward in his chair.
"What..." He demanded, but his mouth hung open as the main screen flipped on again, instantly activated as soon as some colossal object breached a one miles perimeter around the ship. A thick bank of cloud was pushing its way toward them, like some terrible storm about to break over their heads. From within the veil, they could see the dark silhouette of a shape beginning to form as it got closer and closer. "… on earth is that?" Eggman continued, turning to the main screen as some colossal vessal that rivalled the Egg Carrier 3 in size began to burst through the clouds.
Project Giant Wing had finally been revealed, G.U.N had spent months perfecting the technology they'd salvaged from the Egg fleet to create this, a giant flying battleship of their own. As it finally pushed its way out of the clouds, its true shape was finally revealed, a colossal arched disc with turrets placed upon large platform stations along the higher outside level. A large, spike like centre directly in the middle, lancing both up and down, missile launcher bays riddled its large bulk. Several jagged spikes, each one over fifty foot in length, jutted out from the dome on the top. A large series of parallel windows marked were the bridge lay, shielded by a row of turrets. G.U.N's G symbol as painted on the side. A series of large wings, riveted to the main bulk ran around the outside edge.
By the vessels huge size and shape, it was apparent it was designed to remain permanently in the air, very much like Angel Island. Four giant levitation engines, only recently developed were attached to its underside, keeping the bronze giant hovering above the ocean. The Captain, A high ranking military officer had Eggman's floating ship in his sights. Every combat system on the ship had Egg Carrier locked into it's crosshairs.
"Holly crap!" Sonic declared, staring at the giant from the deck of the Egg Carrier. This was what they'd done with all that stuff they'd dragged from the Egg Fleet's graveyard?
"It seems they busied themselves with the salvage from the Egg fleet sir." Becoe announced, the Egg Carrier's scanners studying the giant ship in front of them. Eggman clenched both fists; he didn't want to be reminded of that whole fiasco.
"Whatever contraption they've come up with." He began, narrowing his eyes in anger. "It's still a poor imitation of my genius." He turned back to them, anger, but a hint of envy in the eyes behind his glasses. "Blow that grotesque machine out of the sky!"
Missiles filled the sky as the two giant flying fortresses exchanged fire and within moments of the battle commencing, it became clear that the two of them were evenly matched. That infuriated Eggman even more, that something convinced by those inferior G.U.N scientists could match own creation. The President watched the battle from the deck of the final air craft carrier as it began to pull away to what the captain believed to be a safe distance.
Giant Wing had surpassed all his expectations but he knew that it could not compare to the weapon Eggman had fired from his ship. Their only hope was that Giant wing dealt enough damage quickly enough to knock the weapon offline.
Batting the lance aside, her hammer impacted the robot across the head, knocking it down. Sigma, using a single hand to propel itself upwards again, slashed her across the face with the tip of its lance. A single red line ran up the pink hedgehog's face, a painful sting spreading across her cheek.
In retaliation, she brought her hammer up, the edge catching Sigma on the chin. The Android went flying into the air and attacking advantage of the situation, Amy leapt up into the air, hammer held over her head and swung down, battering the robot back down into the floor. There was a loud thud as Sigma's limp body hit the floor. It didn't get up again.
Amy paused to catch her breath, letting her guard down for a split second. Long enough for Sigma to push itself up swing around and land two very strong punches into Amy's shoulders.
After that blow, the pink hedgehog found it an amazingly hard trail to twist her arms enough to avoid its attacks, even more so to launch one of her own. Somehow she managed to spin her entire body around, the entire length of her hammer impacting the robot across the back. That was a major blow as part of his metal skin broke off, thick streams of oil leaking from the wound. Almost as if enraged, Sigma attacked with new speed and ferocity.
"The Egg Carrier has been badly damaged." Decoe stated, stating the obvious conclusion from the reports that flashed up on his screens. "We can't afford to take another hit like that." The frown on Eggman's face deepened, his fists clenched by his sides, his cheeks turning slowly red in anger "We have to retreat sir." They could almost see the ends of the hairs on his moustache curling up in frustration and rage.
"Alright fine." He finally managed to say. "But let's give them a parting gift before we go." His fingers had already gained control of the Egg Carrier's missile systems. The miniature Eclipse cannon was still out, cooling down, but he could certainly do a great deal of damage to that pathetic fortress without it.
Eggman had been saving five 'super missiles' just for an occasion like this. He had been planning to use them on Sonic, but right now he was far more inclined to use them on that eyesore.
"INCOMING!" There was a sudden moment of silence, a high pitched whistle passing through the air and then the missiles impacted. Giant wing, thrown by the impact of nearly three missiles Eggman had spent most of his spare time on, lurched to the side tittering dangerously close to loosing its balance and tipping over. Just about every crewman on board as knocked completely off their feet and the ships' weapons systems flew offline.
Amy faulted and Sigma grabbed his lance, reading a powerful dive that would impale her head. Before he could however, several shuriken flew across the room, sinking into his arm, pinning it to his body. Another projectile flew out of the air, landing at Sigma's feet. Looking down, the robot could see it was a round black metal ball with a lit fuse attached. There was a loud beep and it exploded, sending him flying into the air, come face to face with huge fist attached the muscular arm of a polar bear.
"You took your sweet time." Amy commented dryly as what was left of Sigma fell to the floor, the head rolling to a stop next to her feet. Espio retracted his shuriken, adding them back into his arsenal.
Bean, being a master of explosives, looked rather pleased with himself and with the explosion his bomb had caused. Bark cleaned the oil and robotic fragments off his glove.
"There's nothing more we can do from in here." Bark replied. "Security robots are everywhere, we have to get off the ship before they catch us." There was a loud sonic boom and Sonic slid into the room, his soap shoes making a loud squeaking sound as he put on the brakes.
"So there you guys are." He said with a wide grin. "Come on, I think it's time we vacated the premise'." He blinked, suddenly noticing the bloody gash down Amy's face. "Amy what happened to you?" Sonic asked; genuine concern in his voice as he examined the cut on her face. Amy held her hand to it, finding a crimson stain on her glove.
"It's nothing." She said, but she didn't not sound very convincing. Sonic simply brushed her hand aside and took a close look for himself. The cut luckily wasn't too deep or long and would probably heal up in a few days, but she probably needed to get her covered up before it got infected.
There was a sudden, loud groaning sound that resonated up through the floor of the ship, making the soles of their feet shake.
"Time to move people!" Bark stated. "Let's get out off here while the getting's good!"
Target designate, Cream
Age: 6
Sex: female
Species: Mobian Rabbit
Description: Friend…ERROR. DOES NOT COMPUTE.
The Data the new Emerl had absorbed from the old one was obviously corrupted. The word Friend, which was not in his databanks was mentioned frequently throughout, along with them strong memories of the small girl playing in gardens, offering the original Emerl flowers chains.
Eggman would have to erase this data as soon as possible, it must be infecting his system with a virus because he found himself relating to these memories like they were his own. He looked up. The Egg Carrier was preparing jet mode. He would have to return inside. He paused to rexaime the most stranger memory the orginal Emerl had, the one were the rabbit girl had discovered him lying in a bush all alone and strangly how good it felt to have a friend, before leaving.
"Jump?!" Amy exclaimed, shortly before Sonic grabbed her around the waist and somersaulted over the edge down towards the ocean, Espio following close behind. The pink hedgehog's long scream following her down. Having no intention of being caught on the vessel before it left, Bark tightened his scraff around his neck, not wanting to loose it on the way down. Bean simply took one look as the distance between him and the ocean and shook his head violently.
"Are you insane? There's not a chance in hell I'm…" Bark simply reached over, tucked the duck under one arm and jumped. A girlish scream erupting from the duck's beak as the two of them plummeted down towards the surface of the sea. Just before they hit, Bark clenched his nose with his free hand and closed his eyes. Bean wasn't as wise, his scream dealing him a mouth full of water as they broke the surface.
The loud groaning of thousands of gears echoing through the air, the two side wings of the Egg Carrier began to slowly move, sliding outwards from their original positions, twisting a whole ninety degrees to become horizontally flat. The thrusters back engines, at the same time arched down several hundred feet below the sky deck. This was jet mode, where the Egg Carrier became a more streamlined vessel, allowing greater speed to be achieved.
Eggman hadn't to run away, especially from that pathetic military force G.U.N, but with all his ammunition used up, his main cannon out of action and significant damage done to his ship, he had little option. Still, it was only a minor defeat. Soon, once he had all seven chaos emeralds, his Egg Carrier would have unlimited destructive power. With two, it could wipe out an entire G.U.N army. With all seven he could dominate the entire world in a heart beat.
The transformation from hover mode to jet mode complete, every single engine on the Egg Carrier kicked in and within moments, the giant vessel rocketed away. Rapidly gaining speed as it became smaller and smaller, a dot on the horizon.
"This isn't over." Eggman snarled over his shoulder. "I'll be back!"
Giant wing lacked the speed to catch up with them, but also had been badly damaged, so it remained hanging in the air. Two pillars of smoke raising from the areas the missiles had impacted.
"Damage report!" The captain stuttered, pushing himself back into his chair. Everything that hadn't been bolted down had been knocked over, including most of the desks, leaving the bridge in a complete and utter mess.
"Weapons and main thrusters systems are offline." Someone shouted amongst the chaos. "We're loosing power to the levitation systems as well. An estimated thirty minutes left of propelled movement." Repairs, obviously, were drastically needed. The captain removed his hand and cleaned the back of his neck with his hankie.
"Return to base for maintenance work." He declared. "Send a message to the President's ship stating that we'll re-commence pursuit of the Eggman Empire once all systems are up and running again."
"Aye sir."
Sonic and Amy watched the Egg Carrier disappear as they floated in the sea below, both her quills matted, sticking to their backs.
"I don't think that'll stop him." Amy began. "Eggman's taken worst beatings and always come back." Sonic nodded in agreement, his eyes widened as he suddenly remembered something.
"Wait, what about Tails and the others?" He began almost in a panicked rush.
"Hey Sonic, up here!" Shouted a voice, the blue hedgehog looked to see Tails hovering in the air above them, his tails spinning behind him. Rouge and Omega were there as well, the bat sitting on the robot's large shoulder with Omega himself hung in the air in hover mode. Several pairs of helicopter blades protruding from his waist, his legs tucked away underneath him.
"Oh well that's fine." Sonic put with a grin. "Just one more thing though." Amy blinked.
"What's that?" The smile vanished from the blue hedgehog's face and he began splashing around in the splash like some frightened infant.
"GET ME OUT OF THE WATER!"
(In Chris' voice)
Just like old times. It's Chaos Emerald hunting time, Sonic's beaten Eggman to them before and he can do it again. But dose the new Emerl pose a problem? Find out next time on Sonic X, The hunt is on. Don't miss it!