Sonic Battle 2

Chapter 2: The New Quest—To Find the Chaos Emeralds (what else is new?)

Shortly after Knuckles and Espio passed out, the other heroes also dozed off (except Emerl). By the time they were awake the following morning, Knuckles and Espio were still fast asleep. But somehow that didn't matter now. Besides, no one remembered what it was they were fighting over anyway. But after the restful night, Tails made a proposition.

"Okay, now that everyone's awake, except those two, we should have enough force to move the scanner to Emerl!"

At that, everyone who was awake, except Emerl because he didn't know what was happening, pushed the scanner until it was around Emerl. The scanner was U-shaped, so it fit around Emerl well. Then Tails began the scan.

The scan picked up some results, but when Tails tried to access them, he was prompted to enter a password.

"Let me take this," Shadow requested. "I have an idea what the password may be." He then typed in five letters. M-A-R-I-A. "That should be the password, if this is truly related to Eggman or his grandfather."

The computer screen flashed, "ACCEPTED". Then it made another prompt: "INTRODUCE SEVEN CHAOS EMERALDS".

"Ah...that's going to be a tough one. Shadow, you have that one, right?"

"Yes."

"Does anyone else have any?"

"No."

"No."

"Search me."

"Nope."

"No."

"Rats. Well, we need to find them to unlock the data. But who would have them now?"

Just then, as if on cue, Eggman appeared on the screen.

"Haha! I thought I'd inform you all that of your days are numbered! I have behind me seven inventions that will cause your utter demise. First (through sixth) is my new six-member Sigma team. I have made certain improvements on my Phi series, and now each of these robots is powered by a whole Chaos Emerald! That's right, I have six of them! And I also have this!"

Then a new metal monstrosity appeared on the monitor. It was a short blue robot, about Sonic's height, with thick arms, spiked shoulder and knee panels, long blades extending from its wrists, jets on his back, and long, spiky "hair" extending from the back of its head.

"I'd like to introduce you to Metal Sonic 3.0! And when I get the seventh Chaos Emerald, he will become invincible! Hahahahaha! Farewell, Sonic, and all of your pathetic friends!"

"That's not good! If Eggman gets the last Chaos Emerald from us, we're dead!" Sonic stated.

But then Amy returned to talking about Emerl. "I think that we already know a lot about this Emerl."

"What do you mean?" Tails replied.

"Well, when I met him he called me 'Mom'."

Then everyone looked puzzled, except for Sonic. He knew exactly what Amy was talking about, and if you listened closely enough, you could almost hear him say, "Oh, brother" under his breath.

"What does that have to do with anything?"

"Emerl always used to call me that."

"Why?"

Then Sonic spoke before Amy could react. "It's a long story."

"Anyway, that means that at least some of the Emerl we know is inside this new one. Emerl, do you know who we are?"

"Heck yeah! You're Tails, you're Sonic, you're Mom, you're Rouge, you're Shadow, you're Cream, and that's Knuckles asleep over there. But I don't know who's next to him. And I don't know who that other red guy is."

Amy chimed in. "Could you call me Amy from now on?"

"Yes, Mom."

Amy growled.

"Anyway, that means that if Eggman did build you, he must have maintained the memory of the old Emerl!"

"Who's Eggman?"

"He's that guy that was on the computer screen before."

"Oh."

"Anyway, we'd better wake up those two," Tails pointed to Knuckles and Espio, "and fill them in so we can start searching for those Sigma robots!"

Then Knuckles and Espio woke up suddenly.

"Oh jeez..." Sonic trailed off.

So, will Eggman be stopped? Will Emerl's complete origin ever be discovered? Will Knuckles and Espio ever catch on? Find out in chapter 3 of...

Sonic Battle 2!

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