I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY! This chapter was so hard to write, with all the battle scenes and figuring out what I should do next and quotes from the game! MY BRAIN HURTS!!
"Don't forget the fact that you were just on a week vacation at your Grandmother's house where she doesn't even know what a computer is." Shadow said.
…The food was good though
"HELL YEA!" cried Sonic.
Plus there was cable! :D
(yawn) I'm going to go take a nap, an average of 7 hours of sleep each night plus tonight's New Year's Eve equals NEED SLEEP!
"We'll watch the fanfic for you." Knuckles suggested.
REALLY! YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST! (hugs then runs into room and snoring is heard)
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Shadow: Uhh...LisaTheHedgehog doesn't own Sonic, Sega does...NOW READ THE STORY!
Sonic, Tails and Amy were talking on Space Colony ARK after they had barely survived a crash because of Knuckles.
"What's up with that Knucklehead any way? Trying to take over the shuttle? I thought we were toast for sure! Huh? Where did he go now? " Sonic muttered, pacing back and forth and cracking his knuckles.
Tails observed his surroundings, "Looks like he bailed."
Amy walked around looking at her surroundings too, "This place looks deserted, dusty too."
"This place was shut down about 50 years ago because of a terrible accident," Tails replied, "The first Bernoulli spherical space colony called, ARK. When it was operational, it was the most advanced research center of it's kind. But looking at it now…"
"Now it's an abandoned ARK, wouldn't you say?" Amy finished for him.
Sonic pointed out, "There's not much time before Eggman fires that weapons again. Let's find the cannon and destroy it!"
"Yeah!"
The fox started typing on the computer built into the Tornado and uploaded a page on the ARK's blue prints, showing a see-through map of it's interior.
"Someone designed that weapons to be impenetrable from outside attacks. It's defense shields are super strong, so we have to find a way to destroy it from the inside-" Tails took out a while container and put it on his lap. The lid swung open reveling a familiar yellow tinted gem inside.
"Isn't that a Chaos Emerald?" Questioned the pink hedgehog.
Tails chuckled, "It looks like it doesn't it. It's actually a fake on I created after researching the real emerald. It has the same wavelengths and properties but is less powerful than the real one. It was designed to reverse the energy field inside the Chaos Emeralds and blow up. It looks so real, even a machine can't tell the difference. I'll find the power supply and destroy it. Sonic, you find the Control Room, ok?"
The aqua hedgehog took the jewel from his vulpine friend and said, "So the plan is, we switch the emeralds when the machine is stopped, right?"
The young fox nodded and stomped of in his mech down a hallway with his blue companion close by. Meanwhile the duo left Amy behind by herself, and she wasn't at all happy about it.
"I hate you! You guys always go off and have all the fun!"
Knuckles examined his surroundings; he was on a giant meteor or rock like platform with tons of machinery embedded into it. The staged didn't seem that dangerous, except falling flaming balls of death all around him. He just signed and ran up to a floating computer and punched in a few letters. A small message appeared on the screen and Knuckles took off thanks to the hint it gave him. Though he doesn't know how a strange floating computer knows where the emerald is.
After running a little while, the guardian stopped to catch his breath and find his bearings. Below his feet a round shadow appeared and started to grow every second. The echidna looks up to see a meteor closing in on him. Now he starts to run for his life and narrowly misses being crushed by the flaming rock.
Knuckles climbed to his feet and dusted off his fur when something caught his eye, a small glint about 50 yards off to his right behind a machine. Jogging over to the spot, the red echidna spies what he's looking for, a piece of the Master Emerald. Not only one though, most of the ones that he lost when they were coming to the ARK.
He grins and picks them up and holds them tightly. Then he decided to sit down and think about what to do next. Knuckles looked at his surroundings again and came to the conclusion to climb the giant structure in the middle of the field.
After a little struggling to get the top while carrying the emerald pieces, the guardian finally made it to the top. After walking to the other side of a metal pipe hanging in the middle of the hole of the structure.
The echidna almost had a heart attack when he heard a familiar voice say, " Long time no see treasure hunter! Did you find my emerald?"
Knuckles whirled around and snapped back, "Ha! Your emerald? Talking to you is a waste of time!"
The male clenched his fists and the bat stretched her legs. Then out of nowhere, Rogue attack performing a kick straight to Knuckles chest. The echidna was shot back but executed a flip, letting him land upright. Then he snarled and landed a punch straight at her face but Rouge flew up using her wings and landed in the smack-dab center of his back.
Rouge started to smile but it was whipped away quickly when a knuckled glove snatched her foot and threw her into the force field around the battlefield. She winced and narrowly dodged another punch from her adversary. Then next time the bat looked up the red echidna was gone, just vanished.
She started to tiptoe around the battlefield but found no side of him hiding around a corner or something. The treasure hunter knew something was up and kept her guard up but it wasn't enough. Knuckles came crashing down on her with his knuckled hand into her back making her scream loudly with pain.
The two continued similar strategies of hiding on the pipes that outlined the force field and then smacking down on their opponent until both of them were up on the pipe across the middle once more. They were about to attack each other once more when the bar started to shake and below them the metal floor retracted reveling a lava pit. The duo gulped and resumed trying to beat the crap out of each other.
Later, the male and female treasure hunters were back on the bar in the center again, panting heavily from the long and strenuous fight, and the lava's heat didn't help either.
Then at the same time, both demanded, "Stop fooling around, and give me back my emeralds!"
"What are you babbling about?" Rouge sneered, "And you call yourself a hunter? Attacking a lady, shame on you!"
"What kind of lady goes around stealing gems anyway?" Knuckles enquired.
The bat started to stomp over to him, "Those belong to me-Ahhh!"
The female cried as her foot slipped of the bar and she started to fall into the lava pit. She was scared and closed her eyes and waited for impact, but it never came. Rouge slowly opened her aqua eyes to see that Knuckles hand grabbed her arm with one hand and kept the other firmly locked on the bar.
"What in the world?" She whispered to herself.
The guardian pulled one leg over the pipe and then tugged on Rouge's arm pulling her up as well and then he helped both of them to their feet.
Meanwhile Rouge was thinking to herself. Did he just save me? And now…he's holding my hand. Why is he staring at me, with those beautiful violet eyes and…No! I can't go soft now! I'm taking over the world! Maybe I could…
As fast as lightning Rouge withdrew her hand from the echidna's grip and announced, "Keep your hands to yourself! Don't touch me!"
"Is that what you say to someone who just saved your life!" Knuckle countered.
"Saving my life…Don't think I owe you one, you just wanted to hold my hand didn't you. That's why you saved me, your such a creep!" Rouge said. And a cute creep at that.
The red echidna blushed and turned so Rouge wouldn't see it, "Think what you want batgirl I was saving the Master Emerald.
The bat thought for a sec then sighed, "No matter what you say, it sounds crazy." and she threw the piece of the jewel she had to the ground in front of Knuckles. Amazingly, they didn't fall into the lava below.
"Wha-"
"Fine, then just take them. They stink like echidna's do!" She decided.
"If that's what you thought then you should have given them to me in the first place." Knuckles to the shards and placed them with the others and after a flash of brilliant lime light, the completed Master Emerald stood before them.
"Finally." The male announced checking it from top to bottom, and then he glanced over at Rouge.
"What?"
He sighed, "I'm sorry…If I hurt you." Then he ran off before Rouge could answer.
For a little while, Rouge stood there and stared in the direction Knuckles ran off in and then she smiled.
"We should get going…" And with that she ran off towards the ARK.
(Does anyone know what she means by that?)
Miles trotted in his mecha down the pathway, often shooting lasers at guard robots in his way. There was a surprising amount of robots for an abandoned space station, but no matter he wouldn't give up.
The kitsune stopped at another fork in his path, there were many of these and they didn't show up on the map, which made Tails worried. Though there was nothing he could do but hope for the best. Luckily after some traveling he made it to the power supply.
Meanwhile, Sonic had raced all the way to the control room Tails had mentioned before they split up. In his white colored glove was the fake yellow emerald, digging deep into his palm so he wouldn't lose it. The azure hedgehog hand his other hand busy twirling and twisting his walkie-talkie, waiting for his young fox friend's signal.
"Alright Sonic, Now put that emerald…" Tails' voice called out.
"Tails, Tell Sonic to meet you back at the research facility! Now!" Eggman's voice cut in.
"Sonic, Amy is…" The kitsune trailed off.
"I didn't copy that Tails. What happened to Amy? Tails!" Sonic cried.
It was no good, the signal had been lost and all that came through the walkie-talkie was static. Sonic shut it off to give his ears a rest and thought. He had to go back for Amy, but what about their mission? Amy comes first he decided.
I know I'm supposed to care about the world, but I can save Amy, beat Eggman's ass and save the world. It's no sweat for me. So, what's ol' Eggy up to this time? He pondered.
The sapphire hedgehog shrugged and ran out of the room, heading for Eggman…and more importantly Amy.
On his way to the research facility, Sonic noticed that the colony's gravity was being thrown out of control. There were robots and defenses going out of whack, so he would have to bust through them to get to Amy, something he'd do no matter what.
The hero ran down the corridor, smashing a few nearby guard robots in his fury. How could he hurt Amy?! She didn't do anything to him! Right now I kinda miss having her bother me every moment of every day, at least I'd get to see her everyday, wearing the beautiful crimson dress… Sonic shook his head to clear his mind before he kicked floating robot to the ground. Amy… No matter what, he couldn't get his mind off her. If Eggman touches a hair on Amy's perfect rosy head, I'll kill him! I swear to god! I'll kill him!
Sonic was so wrapped up in his thoughts of torturing he bald nemesis, he almost didn't realize that he had made it to the room Dr. Eggman requested. He young hero took a very deep breath and calmly walked towards the metal doors, which opened, sensing his presence.
As soon as he walked in, Sonic saw Eggman in the far end of the room, with a gigantic laser gun pointed directly at Amy's head. Sonic had to bite his tongue and hold down a snarl, looking at the disgusting sight before him.
To his right was Tails, looking very nervous with a few bands of sweat seeking down his face, but when he saw his idol, the fox's ears just parked right up and he let out a drawn out sigh.
"Well, let's get down to business, shall we Sonic? Hand over the Chaos Emerald and I will release your girlfriend…That is, if you really care for her." Eggman sneered.
The hedgehog couldn't help but let a low growl escape his lips at that statement. Of course he cared about Amy, he just didn't know how to show it. Then he looked at the identical copy of the Chaos Emerald in his hand.
He mumbled, "Handing over the fake emerald, I could kill 2 birds with 1 stone."
Tails must have heard him, or knew what he was thinking because the young vulpine nodded and quietly readied his machine for battle.
"Now, place the Chaos Emerald there and BACK OFF!" The doctor commanded, pointing his gun at the white glowing circle in the center of the room.
The azure hedgehog nodded and walked while grinning, things couldn't be going any better! Eggman will take the fake emerald, blow up the ARK, and it will be his own fault!
"You've turned into a BIG TIME villain doctor!" Sonic said with a bit of sarcasm.
Sonic had reached the circle and Dr. Eggman's glasses shined on that ugly face of his. He quickly pressed a button on his EggWalker and a glass cylinder fell to the ground, trapping Sonic inside.
The evil scientist brought his hand to his mustache to stroke it while saying, "Did you really think you could trick me with that fake Chaos Emerald?"
"So," Tails began, "How did you know it wasn't the real one?"
"TAILS!"
"Because you just told me fox boy!" Eggman hissed, "Time for a little space ride. Once the capsule clears the colony…BAM!" And he showed an explosion with his hands.
Sonic sighed, he knew there was no way to get out of this one, but he had to be brave till the very end! So he slowly spoke, "Tails, I'm counting on you…And Amy…Take care of yourself…"
Sonic stood tall in the capsule, staring straight at Amy, examining her up and down, taking in every detail. He eyes started to water and a single tear glided down his cheek. He watched, as the rose hedgehog couldn't hold back tears either; they were flowing down her cheeks like a small waterfall.
During the whole scene, Eggman was smirking, smirking like the maniac he is! He, too, was looking at Sonic, watching him say he final words of courage and hope to his pathetic friends. Though he let his archrival say his last words for he knew that no one could stop him now.
"Sayonara, Sonic the Hedgehog!" And with that the glass was shot down into the floor, taking Sonic with it. It became a small meteor and caught fire, heading towards the planet.
Sonic stared at the planet below him, accepting his fate. The world's fastest being, Sonic the Hedgehog, would become space road kill.
All of a sudden, he heard a faint voice, "It has the same wavelengths and properties but is less powerful than the real one."
The cobalt hedgehog glanced at the fake gem, "Yea but, can I do this?"
Sonic thought about Shadow, he could use Chaos Control, warping through space. Maybe he could use it too.
He closed his eyes and concentrated really hard.
"SONIC!!!" Amy shrieked as the capsule her hero was in exploded in front of her very own eyes. She couldn't control her emotions any longer, when he was saying goodbye she tried to be brave and stand tall, but now she sank to the floor and cried uncontrollably.
"Farewell Sonic, my admirable adversary!" Eggman said, bowing his head for second, chuckling.
Amy's eyes shot up at him; in them was a fire of hatred. She wanted to rip out his human guts for what he did to Sonic, but however fun and amusing that might be, it wouldn't bring Sonic back.
The doctor turned to Tails, "Now Tails, if you give me the real emerald, I will release you both! You have my promise!"
"Sonic…Sonic asked for once in my life to do something for him…" Tails muttered.
"Huh?"
"I won't let him down! I won't give up!" The fox declared.
The two geniuses charged at each other, tempers flaring and guns, cocked and loaded. They circled each other, like in an old western movie, waiting for the other to make the first move. Finally, Eggman charged forth, blasting rapidly at the fox, and Tails did his best to run away and dodge fire.
The two had very different strategies; Eggman went ahead attacking his opponent with weak bullets and a few lasers, while Tails on the other hand went around dodging fire and collecting rings for a more powerful attack.
The adolescent fox glimpsed at a gauge on his machine, it was full. He grinned at trotted over to the other side of the room. There he pressed a button and a large cyan laser beam with a 5-foot radius exploded out of his cannon and headed straight for Eggman.
The doctor on the other hand had little time to evade and got hit full blast. His machine was blown back behind him and he was thrown to the ground in front of Tails and his mecha.
The kitsune pointed his gun at the human, a silent demand of 'You move and you die'. Though, the young boy paused to look out the window for a second, his Chaos Emerald was taken by the doctor's pair of white gloves.
After Knuckles had reassembled the Master Emerald, he had run away from that bat. However incredibly attractive she was, he still had to keep the emerald safe from her, she was a jewel thief after all wasn't she?
Though, walking through a metal hallway along the ARK, he started to feel some weird energy, like that of the Chaos Emeralds.
"I feel some strange energy…" He whispered to himself. (Told ya)
Suddenly, a flash of light appeared, making Knuckles cover his eyes. When he opened them, the echidna saw Sonic wobbling in a daze, about to collapse. The red male jogged quickly over to catch him before he fell on the floor.
"Hey Sonic!" Knuckles shook the hedgehog in his arms a bit to wake him up.
"Whoa, I almost think that I couldn't pull that one off. Somehow I managed to use the Chaos Control." Sonic said to himself and Knuckles.
Knuckles puzzled, "Chaos Control?"
"I'm worried about Tails and Amy. I hate to ask, but could you help them? This is our last chance! I got it, just before the cannon fires, I'll slam dunk it in there!" The hedgehog concocted as he examined the yellow jewel in his hand.
Then before Knuckles could say or do anything, Sonic ran off into the distance, towards the Eclipse Cannon.
"Ah Ha!" Sonic exclaimed as he spotted a personal rocket nearby. He quickly grabbed on and the rocket took off, spraying dust everywhere.
The blue hedgehog was zooming down a tunnel with red lights illuminating it, ahead was an opening and tons of pips connected together.
When he was right before the pipes, Sonic let go of the rocket, letting it fly off and hit a piece of the ARK, while he landed sideways on the pipe and began to grind down it.
At the end of the pipe there was a jump and Sonic flew off it, grabbing his feet and twirled in midair, then landed gracefully. Straight ahead of him were more pipes, but this time, there were going vertically, almost looking like very thin stairs.
The azure hedgehog grinned and ran towards them and performed a homing attack straight at the pipes, giving him enough speed to grind all the way up.
"Finally, they're gone! Now, to get out of here…" Lisa whispered to herself. She had been stuck in a cell for a little while now and was getting real sick of it.
Once more, she glanced up into the corner where she had spotted a security camera. It was panning back and forth, keeping a closer watch on any and all prisoners. The camera swiveled to the direction opposite of her and she grinned.
Lisa grasped a metal plate in her hand, which Shadow had given her food earlier on, and chucked it hard at the camera. The machine sizzled and sparked and crashed into the ground, still sparking every few seconds.
Alright! Now that's taken care of, I just need to pick this lock…Piece of cake! The white hedgehog though to herself. Lisa turned over to look at the lock, it have several green buttons on it and a small rectangular screen.
The female cracked her knuckles and carefully put her arms through the bars to reach the console. She started to type in all kinds of pass codes, none of which here working, but slowly, the correct numbers appeared one by one of the screen.
CLUNK! The rusty steel door slowly swung open and Lisa grinned, it was all too easy for her.
As she walked out of her former prison she had a deep thought. Now what? I guess I should try to stop Eggman with Sonic and the others, but what about Shadow? More importantly, what should I do about the Eclipse Cannon? I know how to stop it, so should I? Her trance was broken when a nearby security machine beeped, signaling movement in a quadrant.
Her sapphire eyes darted to the screen and widened in panic. If these readings are correct then…IT'S still alive! Old memories flooded into her mind but she pushed them away. Lisa knew what she had to do now, she had to take on the Prototype of the Ultimate Life Form.
She ran as fast as her feet could carry her, and that was pretty fast, she ran in the direction of the Cannon's Core, right where the computer showed the readings.
"Legend has it, when all seven Chaos Emerald are collected, their power creates a miracle. I have 6 of them! They're mine! All mine!" Rouge claimed to herself, admiring her reflection from the gems in the Control Room.
"I don't think so!" A voice shouted from behind her.
Rouge whipped around to find, "Shadow!"
"So, that was your plan from the beginning huh? Or was it a direct order from the President! Now I know who you are! You're that government spy, Rouge the Bat, aren't you?" Shadow sneered walking out of the darkness.
The bat shrugged and grinned, "So you did your homework, is that it? I'd say that's an invasion of privacy."
"I could say the same thing about you." He countered.
"Hmm…Look's like things aren't quite going your way…but since my job is done, I decided to take what's mine and get out of this place."
"You are one pathetic creature!"
"Look whose talking, what about you?" She held up a piece of paper that looked like a newspaper clipping and glided down towards Shadow, "Here are the results from the research project called, The Ultimate Life Form. But if this is a picture of the ultimate life form Shadow, then who, or what is standing in front of me?"
Both Rouge and Shadow narrowed their eyes at each other, neither backing down.
"This is Dr. Eggman, I have found all seven Chaos Emeralds!" The scientists voice soared through the walkie-talkie, "Shadow! Someone's trying to get to the Eclipse Cannon! There's not much time before the cannon fires again. Can you get over there?"
The ebony hedgehog switched off the radio and started to walk towards the exit.
"Leave the Chaos Emeralds where they are! The fake emerald is good enough for you!" Shadow commanded.
"You actually think you're the real Shadow?" Rouge called.
"No doubt!"
"Even your memories might not be real ya know."
He sighed, "Even if my memories are not real, it's still me, Shadow. And I will for fill my promise to Maria! Only her and Luna matter to me now."
Before Rouge could say another word, Shadow raced out of the room, gliding towards the Eclipse Cannon.
Lisa ran down the hallway at top speed and finally reached her goal, the Cannon's Core. She stood on a doughnut-like platform with golden water running on either side, catching her breath and looking in front of her where a replica of the Master Emerald Shine lay.
Though she wasn't focused on the shine, there was a more important task, finding the Prototype. Speaking of the devil, a huge dark brownish-red lizard fell from the ceiling making a giant wave. Lisa braced herself and put her arms over her head till the water passed.
"Well, well, Biolizard. We meet at last." She grinned and lowered her arms, "I guess I have to thank you, if you didn't have one of your hissy fits a few days ago, I wouldn't have been awakened. But now that you're a danger to the planet, I have to take you down. So sorry!"
Lisa charged towards the monster, which started to roar loudly, so loud the whole ARK shook. Then it threw it's tail to intercept her, but she leaped out of the way and landed on it's back.
The monstrosity stomped around, in attempt to throw Lisa off, but she dug her nails into the lizard's scaly skin. As it had its tantrum, Lisa slowly made her way to the center of it's back, where a giant machine sat, like one you would find in a hospital to keep patients alive.
The white hedgehog grinned and stuck her nails under a metal plate and lifted it off, revealing a rainbow of different wires. Since there was no time to get the job done scientifically, she would have to do it the low-tech way. Her white glove shot in and pulled out a ton of wires, sparking and crackling.
The Biolizard roared in agony and whipped Lisa against the wall, her head meeting cold steel. The female hedgehog was in a heap on the floor, a little spot of crimson liquid on the wall where her head collided with it.
The lizard took this opportunity and grabber Lisa in its jaws, slowly crushing her bones with it's razor sharp teeth, like nails in her back.
The hedgehog bit her lip, making it bleed but refused to scream out loud, she wouldn't give it that satisfaction. Instead, she look at it's support system, watching wires dance like snakes flinging sparks everywhere and grabbed one with her left glove. The sparks started to burn her hand and her glove but she paid no mind, but jabbed the flaming end into the Biolizard's eye.
It shrieked in pain and dropped Lisa, who made a dash towards the exit. No matter how hard she tried, Lisa couldn't defeat it now because she was greatly injured, she would come back later, now that it was in pain as well.
The white hedgehog shot down the hallway, heading to the first place that came to her mind, The Observation Deck.
Longest (pant) chapter (pant) ever!
"Tell me about it." Shadow remarked.
Time to work on the next one!
"Already?" Sonic groaned.
It's the only way I get these things out...(sigh) I'll never get sleep...