Sonic Battle 2
Chapter 11, part 2: The Final Solution
Author's Note: Same as Chapter 11 part 1. Huge S3&K reference. I do explain—or, rather, Knuckles explains—but playing the game helps to understand the concept.
Sonic had mostly recovered, and was feeling up to a run, so Knuckles led the whole party into the core of Angel Island, where the shrine was that once held the Master Emerald.
"Sonic, give me the Chaos Emeralds."
Sonic realized what Knuckles was doing. "Don't you need the Master Emerald for that?"
"Normally we would, I've been with the Master Emerald so long that I now contain a small portion of its power. Now I will explain something I showed you before. Remember that line from the ancient writing that read, 'You can be humbled by he who controls the Master'?"
This was met by a collective "Yes."
"As most of you know, the Master Emerald can be used to stop the Chaos Emeralds. But only Sonic, Tails, and I have any hope of remembering that the Master Emerald can also enhance the Chaos Emeralds. That is what the line means: not that the Master Emerald will stop the Chaos Emeralds, but that it will grant their power and more to 'he who controls the Master'."
"So what are you doing exactly?" was Shadow's question.
"There are more powerful Chaos Emeralds, but they are derived from the Chaos Emeralds. In fact, they are the Chaos Emeralds, but when exposed to Master Emerald energy, they transform into Super Emeralds."
"Super Emeralds?" was shocked reply from everyone except Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles.
Knuckles set down the seven Chaos Emeralds into seven slots around the Master Emerald's pedestal. The slots seemed far too large. Knuckles then stood where the Master Emerald would be and started chanting ancient spells. The entire chamber was consumed in white light, and when it was gone, the Chaos Emeralds were replaced by seven larger gray Emerald statues.
"Wow. I didn't expect them to be so…bland," was Rouge's reaction.
Knuckles explained, "That's because they're not Super Emeralds—not yet, anyway. They're actually Emerald Statues. Standing on each statue activates the Emerald inside."
Everyone stood on a statue. When they expected to see a bright light below them, they were surrounded by white. They found…
(Cream) "A 3D globe?"
(Shadow) "Blue spheres?"
(Amy) "Level wrap?"
(Rouge) "Music that sounds like it belongs on an early 90's video game console?"
They were also met by the hovering words "Collect Blue Spheres" (what strange worlds these Special Stages be…). Everyone just grabbed every blue sphere in sight, and when they got them all, they were taken back to Hidden Palace. They then saw that the Emerald statue they were standing on was now a fully-activated Super Emerald!
Eventually, everyone came back, and when all of the Super Emeralds were active, Sonic knew exactly what to do.
"Go Sonic!" Knuckles encouraged. "Turn into Hyper Sonic!"
Next chapter: The finalbattle between Hyper Sonic and Ultimate Metal Sonic!