Disclaimer: I don't own Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails " Prower, Knuckles The echidna, Amy Rose, Shadow the Hedgehog and Rouge the Bat or other character's made by Sonic Team. I do own RX and Maya hedgehog.
Summery: In a depressed moment, Amy does something no one had expected, and Knuckles must face something he had never expected to. Warning, Sonic Adventure 1 - 2 and Heroes and Advance 3 spoilers sure to follow as the story progress.
A good deed gone wrong
Part VIII
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Fire raged through the area surrounding Rouge's nightclub as another few shots from attacking Egg-pawns streaked through the air, taking out cars and blowing holes in the surrounding buildings.
And in the middle of this battle zone, a water based monster known only as Chaos, stood defiantly before a hole into the local chao garden, and on the other side facing him, stood the latest of Eggman's super machines, Metal-Knuckles.
Inside the Chao garden, the reneged Eggman robot E-123 Omega had stood up, sensors working on providing him with all the data he was in need off. The red lenses that made up his eyes freezing as they scanned Rouge's body, the batgirl laying on the ground with Three Egg-pawns moving in around her. "New Mission Data: Protect Rouge, Secondary Mission: Destroy Eggman Robots."
Moving forward to send out a blazing level of bullets into the Egg-pawn's, Omega noted the fact that Metal-Knuckles was currently fighting an unknown enemy. Then he returned to scan the battlefield as several bullets tore through the Egg-pawns bodies, sending scrap metal flying as each one was ripped apart.
Sizing fire, as Rouge was safe form immediate attack, Omega stomped forward and took up a guard position in front of her, shooting each new robot that came to close to them.
Arriving at the scene, Sonic stared in anger at the level of destruction, and then finally at the robots turning around to face him. "Gotta deal with you guys fast, and then find out what Eggman's up to this time." Muttering out the words, the blue hedgehog streaked through the air as his homing attack lead him right into each robot in turn.
Making a quick landing on the ground, Sonic prepared to take out the last Egg-pawn, but stopped his charge as a red and black blur cut through it. "Shadow." Muttering out the name, the blue hedgehog stopped and prepared to face the ultimate life form.
Landing on the ground, the red and black colored hedgehog faced Sonic silently as he finished taking in the level of danger and destruction in the area. Stepping forward to get some answers from Sonic, he froze as his eyes cut something white in their corners. "Rouge."
Following Shadow's gaze, Sonic's eyes narrowed as he spotted Rouge as well, Omega standing protectively in front of her shooting everything that came too close. Then he saw something else, a deep green glow coming from the inside of the club, a glow that forced it's way through all the smoke with ease. "The master Emerald."
Then something else caught his attention as it soared through the cloud of smoke, something big, something heavy, and it was flying right at him and Shadow. "Toyota!"
Moving aside in the last second, Sonic stared after the car as it impacted the pavement and bounced off, windows shattered into pebbles, and a lone side mirror getting tossed off of it as it smashed into another car.
The whole thing making the blue hedgehog's heart beat a bit harder in his chest. If he hadn't seen it in time, he'd be nothing more then a messy spot on the pavement and right side of the car. Then the heroic and reckless part of him kicked in, causing a grin to form on his face.
Looked like it wouldn't just be a normal fight between him and a bunch of stupid Egg-Pawns, for once this day was really starting to look better.
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Moaning in pain as he awoke from his forced nap, Tails found himself staring at a flat metal plate above his head, solid looking bars on every side of him, and really hard bottom plate under him. "Great." as he mumbled out the word, the past few hours of events coming back to him as he took a few deep breathes of air.
He had been captured while trying to protect Tikal and Cream from danger, but the battle had been lost, and he had been captured, the sleeping gas the doctor had used must have knocked him out on the way back to the human's base.
Turning to the side as he picked up a shuffling sound, Tails glared down at Eggman while the human grinned back at him. The battle had been short, but still not a complete loss. But even him against all those Badnik's at once had been too much to handle, and Eggman's sudden sneak attack hadn't helped much.
The only good thing to come from it all had been Cream and Tikal's successful escape. But it didn't help the fact that he was now a hostage for a change. "Let me go Eggman, or else." A fact that made him angry enough to forget his current imprisonment, to spit out a threat to the human scientist.
Chuckling slightly as his captive's demand, Eggman simply turned to survey the remains of his current badnik army. "Now, I trust everything is in place, remember, I want both the Master Emerald, and the Hedgehog." Drumming a finger on the wall, he cast a quick look at the area he had chosen as the last Egg-Pawns hid themselves. "Good, now to make a quick call To Metal-Knuckles, I have a new mission for him."
Struggling against the bars on his small cage, Tails growled as he watched Eggman prepare a trap for his best friend and hero. "You won't get away with this, you hear me, Sonic will."
The rest of his sentence was cut off as Eggman slammed a fist against the side of the cage. "Sonic will do nothing, but do exactly what I want." Turning to stare at his badniks, the large human grinned a bit as he turned back to face Tails. "If he wants you back alive, that is."
Gulping at those words, Tails slowly backed up to the other end of the cage. "Sonic, please be careful." Then he closed his eyes and sighed as his felt his hands clench up, ignoring Eggman laughter as the human walked off.
As the door into the room closed, Tails looked up and grinned. It was time to prove that he was a hero, that he wasn't as dependent on Sonic anymore. It was time to come up with an escape plan.
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Jumping into the battle zone, Sonic wasted no time in clearing a path towards the apparent leader of the attack, halfway expecting to see a leader type Egg-pawn, or a new E series type robot, and in the extreme case, Metal-Sonic. But he hadn't really expected to see a robot Knuckles turn around to face him, or to suddenly have it sent flying by a transparent fist of water.
Roaring as he stomped out of the smoke, Chaos honed in on Metal-Knuckles as the robot pushed his way out of the wall he had impacted, the status scan kindly telling him that he gotten a total of 17 per cent of damage to his armor in the last five minutes.
Snapping his arms out, he would have grinned as several loud shots rang out, a single shell shooting out a small hole on his wrists each time.
Across from him, Chaos didn't do much as each bullet impacted his body, the small lead shells having no effect on him at all, other then make him a lot more angry. This red colored metal thing had dared to attack the Chao, the very creatures he were the guardian off, and he would be damned if he let it live long enough to even think of doing it again.
Watery arms lashing out as he got close enough, the water beast once again attempted to punch the robot, missing as the red color machine used his jets to escape a double whammy.
Landing heavily on the ground, Metal-Knuckles quickly switched from his built in guns, to the more heavy hitting weapons Eggman had designed him with. "You!" Getting interrupted as a black and Red blur roughly knocked him backwards, sparks shooting out as his laser systems took a direct hit.
Getting his defense shield up in time, Metal-Knuckles was treated to the sight of a very angry Shadow standing less then a few meters away from him. His tactical program working extra hard as it tried to figure out a way to defeat the ultimate life form, E123-Omega, Chaos and Sonic the Hedgehog at the same time.
Moving into a better fighting position, Sonic cast a quick look over at Shadow. "You okay buddy?" Getting a bit nervous at the look in the black and red colored hedgehog's eye, the last time he had seen that was on the Space Colony Ark, when Shadow wanted the whole world to pay for Maria's death.
Even as the two hedgehogs moved forward to tackle Metal-Knuckles, Chaos slid backwards, towards the Emerald that served as his home. Body embracing it easily as his eyes continued to stare at the battle scene. The strange creature would pay, but this form of his was to weak, more power was needed, and he would call that power to him.
Moving perfectly, Metal-Knuckles ducked under a Chaos Spear and blocked a homing attack by Sonic, still trying to figure out what do in order to turn a defensive battle into a offensive one instead. Silently, he praised Metal-Sonic for having gone up against the blue hedgehog, this organic creature was far more harder to take down then he had believed.
And the ultimate life form, the power of him alone had him on his metallic heels most of the time. It was a wonder he had survived this long fighting both of them at once. But even with both hedgehogs superior speed, they couldn't stand up to his shield.
Activating it, he grinned as the two went flying back with a shout of anger and surprise. "Yes, not even Metal-Sonic has managed to do this." Came the cold hearted voice from the robot as it began to stalk forward, dagger like hands glinting in the air as he raised them up to finish off his opponents. "Goodbye Sonic the Hedgehog."
Then a hailstorm of bullets ripped through the air, tearing into the armor plates and visor of Metal-Knuckles, the robot putting up the shield again to avoid more damage. "Who?" Scanners kicking in as he spoke, the echidna like robot froze as it spotted it attacker. "Omega, you're still able to operate?"
Not firing at the moment, the hulking E-100 model machine stomped out from the Chao garden, all weapons reloaded and locked onto Metal-Knuckles. "Mission, destroy all Eggman robots." Spitting out the familiar line, the red and black robot proceed to attack again, several new bullets tearing through the air in a relentless stream.
"Omega?" Shadow mumbled out as he jumped back onto his feet, right hand curled up and ready to send out another Chaos Spear if he had too, but stopping as his eyes were drawn back to the Choa garden, and the figure there. "Rouge!"
Next to them, Sonic spat out a bit of dirt and cast quite an angry glare in the direction of Metal-Knuckles. "Okay Tinman, There hasn't been a robot built that's been able to beat me yet." Feeling power build up, Sonic grinned as he unleashed it at the surprised robot as it kept its shield up. "Sonic Wind!"
Not wasting time even yelling out his attack, Shadow leapt up into the air and sent several chaos spears flying, each one hammering into the shields along with Sonic attack, and Omega's bullets. "Rouge, I'll make him pay for what he and the other robots have done."
Landing again, Shadow powered up another attack, rage burning in his eyes as he felt his body's stored chaos energy flow into his finger tips.
Next to him, Sonic had moved into a better position for a homing attack, fully confident that he could take down the robot even without Shadow and Omega pitching in to help.
And still shooting, Omega sensor remained fully locked onto Metal-Knuckles, up until the point where a high energy reading popped up in the screen, followed by another, and one more. "Several unknown objects approaching location fast, suggest change of battle tactics."
Dropping their attack stance, both Shadow and Sonic looked up as their eyes spotted the glowing points streaking through the sky, each one a different color. "The Chaos Emeralds."
Behind them all, Chaos roared out in anger as his order had been carried out, the master had recalled the servers to it, and once they came here. The strange creatures would pay for both almost hurting and endangering the chao, and when they had paid for that, he would find his friend, the friend of the Chao, Tikal.
"Sonic!" Shadows voice rang out through the air as he jumped off from the ground, grabbing a purple glowing gem as it shot past him in the air, The blue Hedgehog already off his feet and grabbing the red colored one, the other five completing their flight as they merged with Chaos's body.
Still recovering from the massive attack, Metal-Knuckles snapped open his chest plate, revealing another glowing stone built into it. "The Chaos Emerald won't save you this time around, for I have something to match that power." Arcs of power shooting out of the gem as the robot gave a cold laugh.
Spinning around as he heard the robot, Sonic eyes snapped down onto the gem in the robots chest, the shape and form of it too similar to the red colored gemstone in his hand. "But, there's only seven chaos emeralds, how can you have one as well?"
The blue hedgehog's question ignored by most of them as they were far to busy watching Chaos, the water monster shooting up into the air as a twister of water. Eyes growing larger as fins formed over his body. Two legs shooting out of the fish like body that shaped itself, the only solid things in the transparent body being the bone structure making up the legs and spine.
Facing the creatures before it in a more powerful state, Chaos mind worked as it went over the new information. The black and red one had one of the emeralds as did the blue one, the blue colored creature looking like the one who had freed his mind form anger and made him see how the Chao no longer need to be avenged.
Behind them stood the strange one, the one without any feel of life to it. And it had an emerald to. No it wasn't an emerald. Eyes focused on the pale glow from Metal-Knuckles chest, Chaos roared as he shook himself free of those thoughts. It didn't matter; all he needed to do was protect the Chao, by all means.
Swing his tail around for an attack, Chaos hissed as the water smacked through rubble, robots and hedgehogs alike, striking the echidna like robot head on and making it move back a bit. The thing was strong, but it didn't matter. He didn't fear anything; nothing mattered if he could protect the Chao.
Slamming his chest plate back into place, Metal-knuckles grunted as he cast a critic scan around the scene. Shadow, Sonic and Omega were down for the moment, Chaos having simply torn through them to attack. But they wouldn't stay down for long; he could already see them move.
While he had great power thanks to his special power source, it wouldn't matter in the end if his systems couldn't keep up with all of his enemies at once.
Add to it that events were getting more and more out of control, and retrieval of the emerald was becoming a hopeless goal by the second. The only thing that made any sense to his tactical programs was a retreat to form a new attack plan.
Following that line, Metal-Knuckles ignored the order to return with the master emerald and took off, jet's kicking in and saving him from another set of bullets and a water blast. "This isn't over yet, I'll return with all the robots forces currently stationed at Final Egg."
Shooting off as fast as he could, Metal-Knuckles quickly sent a signal to Eggman, informing him of the failed mission, as well as the data retrieved doing the fight. And as for now, he would just return to Final Egg and await a new battle plan from the doctor.
Roaring in anger as his target escaped, Chaos started to flow across the ruined surface, his body crushing everything in his way. Only to stop as two figures shot through his body, hitting his weak point with practiced ease, the blow sending his body to the ground in a giant puddle, a puddle that seeped into every crack in the floor and down into the basement of the club.
Spinning around as soon as he landed, Sonic frowned as he failed to see any trace of Chaos at all, the whole area as dry as it could get. "He's gone, damn it." Kicking a bit of rubble, Sonic looked down at the red chaos emerald in his hand. "He had really hope not to see those gems for a long time."
"Sonic, what happened here?" Knuckles voice broke in as the red Echidna moved into the area, hands head up into a battle ready position as the purple eyes shifted around to see if anyone was going to attack. "Where's Eggman and Chaos?"
"Good question echidna?" Shadow's spat as he walked over to them, purple emerald glowing in his hand as he stopped just a bit away from the blue hedgehog. "Care to explain all of this Sonic?"
Frowning a bit at the red and black hedgehog's tone of voice, Sonic shrugged as he proceed to tell him about the events that had taken place lately. "Then Eggman got involved in this whole thing, and well, you know what happen next." His voice a bit tired sounding as he faced Knuckles. "So what are you doing here Knuckles?"
Not answering Sonic, Knuckles pushed his way past him and moved over to the Master Emerald, the green glow soothing him as he placed his hand on it. "I'll do better this time, and make sure no one else steals you."
Narrowing his eyes in annoyance, Sonic shook his head a bit. "Can we focus on what's important now, we have to figure out what Eggman's up too, and stop him."
Turning away from the large emerald to face Sonic, Knuckles grunted a bit. "I know, we also have to get Amy out of this gem." The Master Emerald shrinking down to amore portable size as Knuckles picked it up, his eyes moving over to Rouge, as the white batgirl gave a small groan. "What about her?"
Giving an irritated look at his question, Shadow snorted a bit as he skated over to her. "I'll carry her, all you have to do is bring your gem and provide a place for to rest." Not leaving any room for an argument, Shadow followed after Sonic and Knuckles as they began the track back to Amy's apartment. "Omega, follow us will you?"
The red and black battle robot turning away from watching over the remains of a few Egg-pawns at the hedgehog's words. "Affirmative."
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Inside the gem, Amy breathed out a breath of relief and settled down. Rouge wasn't hurt, to badly. And the Master Emerald was safe with Sonic and Knuckles.
But she was still trapped in here, away from all of them; even Chaos had left the master emerald world. Leaving her all alone with the Chao
And it looked like she was going to be here a long time.
"Sonic, get me out of here, please."
Her words the only thing breaking the silence as the Choa still hadn't come out of hiding yet.
TBC.
AN: Well, what do you think so far, I'm drifting away from the part of Amy getting trapped in the emerald a lot, but it will soon refocus on that again, so don't worry.
A big thanks goes out to Tylec Asroc who pointed out the faults and lacks in the last chapter. The chapter has been resubmitted and should hopefully be a bit better, not to mention longer. I regret that I couldn't do much about the over exaggerated anime gasp scenes; they're still there.
