Bonjour everyone!
"Bonjour?" questioned Shadow.
I have to brush up on my French or Madame will be mad.
"I see."
So here's the next chapter! My story hasn't been deleted and I'm really happy! Now this chapter has some really weird stuff going on, almost like fluff between Sonic and Lisa but don't ask! I have no idea why I wrote it and it was just filler stuff because describing Cannon's Core is really, really hard!
Shadow Stalkr: Uhh…Thanks?
Narisha-is-here: Thanks, and yes I have grown patience for getting all these quotes from the game and I'm glad someone appreciates it! (glares at Sonic)
"(Whistles)" said Sonic.
SallyTheRabbit: No that was not the last chapter there is one more to go after this one then…SEQUEL! And thanks for the help! I'm not sure if Shadow Stalkr ever has anything nice to say either, No offence Shadow.
Miles started trotting down the hallway, shooting robots that had gotten in his way. He was heading towards a security door that Eggman had talked about. He had said that the best way to get this done was to take it in steps. Each person would have to do a leg of the journey and then return to the Observation Deck or continue on. He and Eggman could only go so far because of their machines, so they volunteered to go first, so Tails took the lead.
The kitsune walked down the corridor, shooting down robots and keeping an eye open for the security door. He reached a ledge and the only way to go was up, so he spotted a floating platform and climbed aboard, then jumping onto the ledge.
When he looked to his right, Tails saw his target, the door. He swiveled his mecha and headed towards the door. Until, suddenly, three giant humanoid GUN robots fell from the ceiling. How they got up there, Miles would never know.
The robots turned and faced Tails and started firing rounds of laser beams. The boy sidestepped out of the way and returned his own laser at them. He shot one down, but had left himself wide open for a laser in his ass, well, it actually landed in his control panel, causing it to go up in flames.
Out of pure instinct, Tails took his glove and started slamming it against the panel in hopes to put it out. Unfortunately, it didn't work and set his glove on fire. So, he tried to put that out and used his tails to put out the fire on the computer. Again, that didn't work and it set his tails on fire.
Then, the boy started doing a strange roll, type thing in his cockpit to try and put out the fire, while accidentally turning on his gun. As he was rolling around, the gun fired at the two remaining robots, blowing them to bits.
Out of the corner of his eye, Tails noticed this, so he freely leaped out of his mecha and started rolling on the ground. Remember kids, Stop, Drop and Roll. The kitsune was so afraid of the fire he was doing a break dance type roll and he heard a few snickers behind him as well as a hiss.
When he saw that the fire was completely out, Miles turned and saw that Lisa had a fire extinguisher and successfully put out the fire on the Tornado.
Tails sheepishly grinned at he but she gave him a warm smile back. "Well, you may have forgotten about the fire extinguisher under the seat, but at least you remembered Stop, Drop and Roll."
Tails rubbed the back of his head out of embarrassment and replied, "Uhh…Yea. I opened the door though, so you guys can go through. I'll head back to the Observation Deck and check on Amy."
With that the boy packed up and head back in the direction that they had come. Lisa looked over and saw Sonic shaking his head with a smile, trying to stifle his laughter. She went over there and lightly, but playfully punch him in the gut.
"What was that for!" he demanded.
"You do know that we have a mission to continue, right? If he made that thing by himself, I think he has the right to forget what a fire extinguisher is for. Besides, what is he, 10 years old?" she questioned.
Sonic sighed, "I guess your right."
Lisa gazed over at him, "They grow up so fast don't they?"
"Yea…wait. What are you talking about? Lisa!" he called, but she had already run ahead with the others.
In this leg of the journey, Eggman had taken the lead, leaving Rouge, Knuckles, Lisa and Sonic a bit behind so they didn't tire themselves out before it was their turn.
Rouge was having a conversation with Knuckles, who seemed to be trying to hide his blush, though the bat didn't noticed, she just continued talking with Lisa sometimes telling her opinion.
Sonic ran up to them and pulled Lisa away from the two lovebirds.
"What?" she asked innocently.
"What do you mean 'What'? Why did you punch me, and what did you mean by 'They grow up so fast'?" he asked.
"That's for me to know and for you to find out." The female closed her eyes and stuck out her tongue at him.
Sonic took this opportunity and pinched her nose really hard and ran ahead as fast as he could when he heard her shriek.
"SONIC THE HEDGEHOG I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!"
He smirked and continued running, oblivious to the fact that Lisa could run as fast as him, and he was soon tackled to the ground with white gloves ringing his neck.
The treasure hunter and the guardian just walked by the two fighting and rolling on the ground and Rouge said, "And they called us 'lovebirds'."
The two hedgehogs were playfully fighting to relieve tension and were switching from Lisa to Sonic having the upper hand and vise versa. Somehow, they rolled down the hallway with Rouge and Knuckles to where they heard the good ol' doctor was shouting at them.
"-Hedgehogs had short attentions spans! Just caring about themselves and not that we have a MISSION to save the ENTIRE PLANET!" the human shrieked.
"It was his fault!" Lisa shouted pointing at Sonic, who was under him.
Sonic, again took this opportunity and bit her finger and when she fell back in surprise stood up and said, "At least we know how to have fun. It relieves stress."
Lisa took a running started and jumped the indigo hedgehog on his back, making it look like he was giving her a piggy back ride and said, "I hate to say it, but he's got a point. It's not good for your health to keep all this bottled up."
"Even though we're going to be in for the hardest battle of our lives." she whispered and it seemed like no one heard her, until Sonic's ear twitched, but she didn't notice.
Dr. Eggman sighed and turned back towards the door and punched in a few numbers, then stepped out of the way to let the others through. Then he turned his back and went back towards the Observation Deck where Tails and Amy were.
Rouge went ahead leaving Knuckles behind with Sonic and Lisa, still on Sonic's back. The two hedgehogs watched as Knuckles sighed when the white bat ran off, his eyes staring at her ass.
"Well, at least he found a girl." Sonic said.
"Huh, for some reason you heroes seem like players to me." Lisa replied on top of him.
"How the hell do you know what a player is?" Sonic questioned, tilting his head so he could look at her face.
"I'm not exactly sure, but I'm all caught up on your modern terms and stuff. Oh, and by the way," she leaned her head closer to his, Sonic could feel his heart beat get faster, "Could you put me down now?"
The azure hedgehog sighed and started walking through the door with Knuckles, "How about…no."
"What do you mean 'no'?"
"I didn't think there were anymore meanings for the word 'no'." he replied.
Sonic was carrying her around on his back with his hands wrapped around her legs to prevent her from falling off, her arms around his neck, but she removed them and started pulling on his ears.
"Sonic the Hedgehog you put me down right now!"
"As you wish." Then he just let go, having her fall straight to the ground on her ass really hard.
"Not funny!"
"Your right, it wasn't funny, it was hilarious." He replied and ran up to Knuckles, starting a conversation with him.
"Men." Lisa whispered and caught up to them, but remained silent.
They reached a room where they saw that Rouge had just flipped a switch and now the room was filling up with orange liquid. She then flew back to where the trio was waiting for her. All of them watched as the room filled up and Knuckles carefully put his glove in the mysterious liquid.
It appeared to be safe, so the treasure hunter backed up to get a running start, when Rouge took his arm.
"Listen you guys, it's all up to you now. Good luck." she said, then turned to Knuckles and planted a kiss right on his lips. Knuckles had a look of pure shock on his face, and then he grabbed Rouge by the waist and pulled her in close.
Then Rouge cut the kiss short and turned in the opposite direction, and flew off back to the Observation Deck.
The guardian just stood there looking down the corridor Rouge had gone with a really cute smile on his face.
Sonic, being the prankster and impatient hedgehog he is, waved his hand in front of the echidna's face. When he didn't respond, Sonic took the opportunity to shove him in the liquid. As soon as he hit it, Knuckles came back to his senses and gave Sonic the finger before taking his necklace and put it in his mouth to breathe underwater, then dove under the surface.
For a moment, Sonic stared into the water, and then he shouted, "Wait! Don't leave! How are we supposed to get over there!"
"Isn't it obvious? We swim across." Lisa remark calmly.
Sonic rubbed his head and said quietly, "I don't know how to swim."
"What?"
He repeated himself a little louder, "I don't know how to swim."
"Huh?"
"I can't swim!" he shouted.
"That all? You busted my ear drums because you can't swim?" Lisa asked.
She then sat down at the edge of the liquid and slowly slipped herself in. It took a minute for her to get used to the water, but then she turned to Sonic, motioning for him to get in. Sonic tried to get in gracefully, but ended up belly flopping in, creating a big splash.
Lisa waited a minute for Sonic to reach the surface, but she only saw air bubbles. She took a quick breath of air and put her head under the water, to see Sonic flapping his arms like wings to try and reach the surface.
She then expertly dove under and swam to him, taking his arm, firmly but gently and pulled him back to the surface. Sonic took a giant breath and then climbed in a panic like state onto Lisa's back so he wouldn't drown. Lisa just gave him a very annoyed look with half her head under the water and he shot a trademark grin back at her.
"Oh God…well hold on tight then." she replied and Sonic hastily squeezed her neck over tightly, making red lines appear on her flesh and cutting off her oxygen.
"Not…that…hard…!" she gasped and he quickly loosened his grip.
"Sorry 'bout that."
The female gave a swift nod and pushed off the metal ledge. Lisa moved elegantly through the water, kicking her feet, not too hard, and then scooping the water aside with her hands, making them move nice and steadily.
After a few moments at sea, they reached the other side and Sonic leaped off Lisa's back, then extending his hand to lift her up. The white hedgehog gratefully accepted and climbed out of the water, shaking her body like a dog to get the excess liquid off.
When she looked at Sonic, he was giving her a grim look with droplets of water dripping off his formerly semi-dry body. Lisa rubbed the back of her head in an apology, but Sonic had another idea. He smirked an evil smirk, and then flung all of the water on him back on her.
Out of the corner of her mind, Lisa heard a tinkle of water and sat up straight, posed and ready to attack. Then a figure popped out of the water, reveling itself to be…
"Knuckles?"
The echidna smirked, "Eggman's right, you too aren't being serious enough about this."
"We were drying ourselves, jeez!" Sonic exclaimed.
"Let's just get moving?" Lisa suggested, and the two stopped arguing.
Since Lisa knew which way there were going, so she started to walk off towards the door and the two boys followed her, remaining silent.
They had finally reached a giant mechanical door, which both the map and Lisa said, led to the Cannon's core, the new home of the Chaos Emeralds.
Knuckles and Sonic rushed in, but Lisa was more reluctant to go, remembering how she got her wounds. The prototype is still in here, just hiding. I hope we can stop the Chaos Emeralds before it decides to come out, because even I couldn't defeat it. Maybe Sonic could, but not alone, even with my help it will be difficult.
"What's that? It looks just like the shrine of the Master Emerald." Knuckles observed.
"They must have designed the core like the shrine to harness the power of the Chaos Emeralds." Sonic replied.
The two sprinted into the middle of the room, where there was a dull gray type machine above the shrine look-a-like. It kept moving to the same beat, almost like that of a heart beating. Repeating the same phrase over and over again, like in a trance.
Then, the gray contraption activated its video projectors and sent messaged of Gerald Robotonik saying, "All of you ungrateful humans, who took everything away from me, will feel my loss and despair!"
"Knuckles, here it comes!"
A flash of bright, white light blinded the trio and a familiar burgundy reptile appeared in front of the gray machine, falling to the ground, creating a mini tidal wave.
"Is this the prototype of the ultimate life form that was supposed to be encapsulated?" Knuckles exclaimed, totally dumbfounded.
"Leave this one to me!" Called a voice, and behind them the ebony hedgehog strutted his way to the front of the crowd.
Sonic demanded, "Shadow, what are you doing?"
"I'll take care of this, while you run to get the Chaos Emeralds!" Shadow commanded.
Sonic and Knuckles nodded, then ran to the side of the monster, avoiding its tail and head while making their way to the fake shrine. Meanwhile, Lisa was frozen in her spot.
"Shadow…" she whispered.
He shook his head, "I must…I must fight. For 50 years I thought Maria wanted revenge for what the humans did to her, to all of us. Now, thanks to you and that pink hedgehog, I know differently. I have to do everything I can to set things straight again."
The white hedgehog let her gaze fall to the floor, evading Shadow's eyes. Soon, inevitable tears streamed from her sapphire eyes.
"Alright…alright. Just don't get yourself killed! I want you to come back to Earth with me…so we can start over, have new lives, okay?" Lisa choked.
Shadow stared, shock on his face, and then he nodded, hastening into battle. Lisa took one last look at him before she went the opposite direction to where Sonic and Knuckles were waiting at the shrine.
The Biolizard, the prototype of the Ultimate Life Form, had the shape of a humongous brown lizard. It had very powerful jaws with razor sharp teeth and a powerful tail. Though because of some miscalculation, it was incredibly slow and needed a support system to even live.
These thoughts instantly came to Shadow's mind, like a computer. Though he was not sure how he knew it, but destroying it was his first priority, he could always ask questions later.
The enemy was currently trying to catch Shadow with its jaws so he was turning and escaping with his hover shoes. When Shadow would get too far away from its head, the beast would use its tail to try and whack him.
After some time with this wild chase, the lizard grew tired and stopped chasing Shadow, panting heavily. The newer project took this opportunity and ran towards the head and noticed a glowing pipe that reached from the mouth to the unit on its back.
His own mouth formed a smirk as he stealthily ran past the head and hopped onto the pipe, grinding up to the support system. When he reached the end, Shadow leaped into the air and curled up into a ball, sending himself straight at the machine, causing it to spark.
Shadow landed couching like a cat while the monster screeched in terror, head swaying in the air angrily. The Biolizard then whipped its head to meet with Shadow's gaze; both had blood-chilling eyes that wouldn't fade. The monstrosity then roared and started the process over once more.
Either its head or its tail would chase Shadow, and then it would stop to catch its breath. Though this second time, it didn't stop attacking for very long, instead it charged and fired black energy balls with purple electricity inside.
The first one it threw at Shadow was part way in the floor, so he could easily jump over it. The next one caught him by surprise, for it was in the air and knocked him harshly to the ground.
Shadow glared up at the Biolizard, seeing the imaginary sneer on its face as he noticed blood running down his lip. He brought his glove to his mouth, wiping the crimson liquid from the cut and growled in anger.
Then, before the reptile could react, Shadow sprinted past it's head to the pipe and grinded up again, striking the medical machinery on its back. The Biolizard howled with frustration as Shadow landed on the ground elegantly.
The two continued this for a little while before the lizard got tricky. Instead of sending the black energy balls, it summoned tremendous power, creating little pink circles. Shadow braced himself and gave a look of confusion, but it didn't last for long. The pink spheres charged and Shadow trying to knock him down so then the Biolizard could finish him off.
Because of all the commotion, the hedgehog couldn't reach the pipe that would lead him to the support system, so he needed to improvise. Before another sphere could hit him, Shadow hurdled into the air, landing on a different fuchsia bubble.
Jumping from one bubble to another, the ebony hedgehog made his way to the lizard's weak spot, to dish out the final blow. The Biolizard knew what Shadow was going to do, but was too slow to stop him.
The was one last holler of pain and a colorful explosion, sending metal and machinery in every direction, then the Biolizard fell to the ground, lying lifelessly. Shadow grinned about his victory and turned, heading towards the shrine where the others were waiting.
Knuckles, Sonic and Lisa all ran up the stone steps to the top of the shrine where a glowing, multi-colored light originated. When the finally reached the top, the guardian noticed a crimson gleaming insignia and took out the Master Emerald, standing on the symbol.
He recited, "There servers are the seven Chaos, Chaos is power, power is enriched by the heart. The controller is the one that unifies the Chaos. Only you can do this! Stop the Chaos Emeralds!"
The great jade jewel floated out of the echidna's spiked hand and began to spin rapidly. The faster the gem would go, the more energy it would release, or the more energy it would compress.
"RAAAAAR!" The trio jumped and turned around to observe the Biolizard stagger to its feet once more. The bellowed angrily and kept trying to get up and attack, but failed due to all of the damage it had taken, during both Lisa and Shadow's fights.
So it came up with another ingenious plan, and snarled again, then it gathered a mountain of energy in the area, and disappeared in a flash of light.
"Is it gone?" Knuckles asked dazed from the light.
Meanwhile, Shadow ran up the cobble stone steps and reached the top where the gang was waiting. When he had reached the plateau and saw Lisa sitting a little bit further from Sonic, who was watching Knuckles do his 'thing' with the emeralds. She was clutching her left arm and was grimacing at the pain, for blood was slowly seeping throw a makeshift bandage she constructed.
He slowly tiptoed over to her and wrapped her in his arms from the back and held her close. At first she was terrified, but then sank into his embrace.
Behind them the prototype roared in fury and Shadow jumped up, spreading his arms protectively over her. Though, it only hissed and vanished, the ebony hedgehog's heart was beating at the speed of light.
"Is it gone?" Knuckles voice came from behind him.
"Is that what Chaos Control is?" Shadow muttered to himself.
All of a sudden, the colony begun to shake, and out of instinct, all of the group crouch to try and stay standing. Lisa, being on the ground, had a hard time keeping her balance so Shadow quickly grasped her and held her close.
"Since we stopped the Chaos Emeralds, why is the space colony still on a crash course to Earth?" Knuckles wondered, and then got knocked off his feet by the motion.
"The prototype is still alive, and he's controlling the space colony as it is falling to earth!" Dr. Eggman's voice boomed through the PA system on the ARK, "It has become one with the colony, determined to keep it on it's collision course!"
All of them looked at one another, questioning what to do. They're plan had failed and there wasn't enough time to concoct another one. There was only enough time for one last strike.
"Sonic!" Knuckles cried and looked at the indigo hedgehog with a 'We gotta do something!' look.
In response, Sonic nodded and turned to face Shadow, who took his attention away from Lisa lying half-asleep in his arms, to look at his counter part. Both hedgehogs eyed each other for a moment, asking and answering the same question with a single look.
Shadow sifted Lisa's weight, accidentally awaking her from her slumber and she looked curiously into his crimson eyes. His eyes couldn't hide anything, nor did he want to lie to her, she understood it all and knew what he was going to do, along with Sonic. The two gave each other a brief nod and Shadow snuck in a quick kiss before he stood up next to Sonic.
The blue and black hedgehog's stuck their hands out in front of their bodies, and then raised them to above their heads. As if answering their call, the seven gems floated from their posts down into a circle hovering on top of Sonic and Shadow's heads.
Slowly the Chaos Emeralds came down, enclosing Sonic and Shadow in a seal of power. Both hedgehogs' hands started shaking immensely, from all the energy around them.
Suddenly, both of their eyes shot open, making Knuckles jump back with fright. Then the duo started floating in the air, their feet dangling a few inches above the platform. In a flash of pure white light, two hedgehogs stood in Sonic and Shadow's place, though they were the same people, they didn't look the same.
Sonic hovered with new golden fur replaced his original bright blue and his quills spiked upwards like Shadow's. His once calm, down-to-earth emerald eyes were replaced with flaming red ones, filled to the brim with determination.
Shadow had also changed, his once dark coat had transformed into a platinum-white color, his spikes still in their crazy gelled state, burgundy stripes standing out boldly. The project's own scarlet eyes show with new passion.
The two hedgehogs gave a quick nod to Knuckles and then disappeared in a flash of brilliant white light. Then the guardian sighed and turned to Lisa, still sitting on the ground with her head hung so he couldn't see her expression.
"We should…get back to the Observation Deck and watch the fight from there." Knuckles spoke up.
"You go ahead," She started.
"Huh?"
"I'm going to go help them."
"What! Are you crazy! You can't fight out in space! Much less all banged up like that! There's nothing we can do now, it's all in their hands." Knuckles sighed and slumped his shoulders, "All we can do is wait."
Lisa's head shot up, anger and willpower burning like wildfire in her once tranquil azure eyes. "Maybe all you can do is wait, but I'm doing something to help! I won't sit by while my two best friends still alive in this world fight without me!"
The Chaos Emeralds shined bright at her outburst, glowing with the new power that had just been awakened inside. The trinkets circled her like they did to the boys and showered her in the same white light. Knuckles had to cover his eyes with his hands to keep from going blind, and when he removed them, Lisa had vanished.
Outside in the cold emptiness of space, Super Sonic and Hyper Shadow were circling the Biolizard attached to the ARK, now being nicknamed The Final Hazard. The two hedgehogs flew right next to each other to try and come up with a plan.
"What do we do now?" asked Super Sonic.
"It appears that the red boils on it's body is hurting it, if we attack them it might finish it off." Hyper Shadow replied.
All of a sudden, the was a white flash of light by the cherry blemish on the lizards and it roared in agony. The two males gave each other puzzled looks until a white glowing figure Chaos Controlled in front of them.
The two boys gaped, for there was Lisa glowing white, instead of silver like Shadow or Gold like Sonic. Her wounds have appeared to have healed for there were no scars or any blood and her clothes seemed to have sewn back together, like new. Her quills had semi-lost their gelled shape, forming spikes in the back of her head but more looked like hair and stray strands flew into her face.
"What are you doing here!" Hyper Shadow demanded, sounding angry only to try and cover up the worried ness in his voice.
"Yea, it's too dangerous for you here!" Super Sonic agreed.
Lisa just gave them a soft, warm smile, "Hey, if you too are going to fight, I am too!"
Super Sonic and Hyper Shadow gave a quick nod to each other and the trio flew towards the prototype, all three floating in a line, like troops preparing for battle.
"This is it." Super Sonic said.
Hyper Shadow didn't answer, only focused on their goal and keeping them out of harm.
Lisa smirked, "Let's do it!"
Well that was hard! Plus BST's don't help! (BST: Special tests that if I don't pass I can't graduate whenever I am a senior)
"Yes, and interesting chapter." snarled Shadow.
Please don't be mad.
"Me? Mad? How dare you!" Shadow said sarcastically.
Well, I could just over and pay attention to my other bishies.
"I'm good." Shadow said quickly.
Ja ne for now!