The Adventures of Izzy the Hedgehog
Chapter Ten
The Dragon Emerald's True Power
°BOOOOOOOOOOM!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!°
That sound was heard at least once every five seconds as the group of five fought off the army of robots. Sonic using his patented Homing Attack and Spin Dash. Knuckles using his bare fists and his Thunder Arrow attack. Tails using his Spin Dash and strong whips of his tails. Amy using her hammer. Alice using gun after gun. Needless to say, she and Sonic caused the most damage. The room was white with smoke as the group panted. Robot parts laid scattered on the metal floor.
"Man! What a cool party!" Sonic yelled cheerfully. Alice sweatdropped and turned to Tails.
"What's with him and parties?" She asked. Tails shrugged.
(A/N: Seriously, what IS his deal with parties?.!)
"We better get going, Sonic!" Knuckles yelled. "How much longer do you think Izzy can last before Eggman makes him teleport us back to Earth?" Sonic looked back and nodded.
"Yeah, let's go."
Before the group can go any further, another swarm of robots entered. The last group was made of E-1000s. This group was a mixture of the Gamma look-alikes and some pudgy, red robots (i.e.: The robots you normally see in SH). They each had machine guns in their hands and opened fire.
"Sonic! We'll never get to where Izzy is being held at this rate!" Tails yelled urgently. Sonic put on a serious look that lasted a few seconds before turning into a confident smirk.
"Then let's speed!" He grabbed Tails' hand, who grabbed Amy's hand, who grabbed Knuckles' hand, who grabbed Alice's hand. In few seconds, Sonic was off, knocking over a few robots as he ran.
He blazed through corridor after corridor, dodging laser blasts that came from the walls and battling many robots. Most of them were E-1000s and those pudgy red guys, but they also faced E-2000s, which were floating, human-like robots armed with a shield and a mini laser cannon that fires beams as big as Izzy's Chaos Beam. The group also faced giant robots armed with a huge, spiked hammer. Regardless of what Dr. Robotnik threw at them, the Sonic crew made it through with no problem.
At the bridge…
"This is insane!" Dr. Robotnik roared, watching the chaos ensue on a screen. "One troublesome hedgehog is destroying my army while another one refuses my commands, despite getting shocked with over a thousand watts of electricity!"
"Guess it's just not your day for taking over the world, again." Rouge said with an indifferent tone. Dr. Robotnik growled at her. She shrugged, but put on a grin as she noticed Knuckles was with them. Her eyes gleamed even more as she saw Alice strolling along. She started moving towards the exit.
"Where are you going?" Shadow asked.
"I got a date with a certain echidna and some jewels. Ta."
And with that, the bat girl flew out of the bridge.
In the core…
"Lalalalalalalalalala… Getting shocked is fun…" Izzy sang drunkenly as volt after volt of electricity went though him.
"My insides will be burned to nothing, but I don't caaaaaaaaaareeeeeeeeee!.!.! Can't do the attacking thing because the masta of disasta will get his waaaaaay! Someone save meeeeee!.!.! Someone blue, or maybe yellow. Red? Anybody! Save meeeee!.!.!.!"
He took a deep breath.
"Man! Being the only thing that decides whether everyone wins or loses is really boring… Ow…"
With the Sonic crew…
"Weeeeee!.!.!.! This is so fun!" Alice yelled.
She and the other four furries were grinding down five lit up rails over the expanse of space. She was on the leftmost rail. Amy was right next to her, swooning at Sonic, who was grinding the center rail. Tails was on his right and Knuckles was on the rightmost rail.
"You never grinded before?" Amy asked with shock as she turned to the other female.
'Everybody knows how to grind! How could she not!.?' She thought.
"Nope. I've lived on the beach my whole life, so how can I possibly know how to grind?" Alice answered Amy's thoughts with a shrug.
"I wonder how much longer do we have to go." Tails said with a sigh.
"We're probably not any closer than we were when we got here." Knuckles started. "After all, this must still be the ship's bottom."
"Well, we're starting to go up." Sonic said, noticing the incline they were approaching. The rails seemed to go up about ten or twenty floors before ending. "Let's go faster!"
With that, four of them started dancing to accelerate.
(A/N: Well? What else would you call it when you press B while grinding in Sonic Heroes?)
"Errr… How do you guys do that!.?" Alice yelled desperately. She didn't need to get herself lost in the massive space ship.
"Just jump lightly off the rail and spin!" Amy yelled back. Alice got a scared look on her, but did as Amy said. She hopped off her rail, spun around, and landed back on the rail safely. She started going faster.
"Alright!" She yelled as she danced. She caught up to everybody else. The rails looped around a bit before the group found themselves on a new floor. This floor didn't have any robots.
The group walked forward, but stopped after a few feet. Knuckles took out his half of the Master Emerald, Tails took out the dark blue Chaos Emerald, and Alice brought out the purple one. They all glowed brightly.
"We're close." Knuckles said.
"Finally." Sonic said. Tails walked up to the entrance to a hallway. He looked both ways with his emerald. It glowed brightest when he pointed it to the right. In that direction was a room with a huge bridge in it. He turned back to his friends.
"There aren't any robots around. Izzy's this way." And the two-tailed fox went back into the hallway. The rest of the group followed. They went into the room with the bridge. They noticed that the bridge stretched over a pit. They crossed it.
About halfway through, Knuckles looked up and around. The rest of the group stopped.
"What's up, Knuckles?" Sonic asked.
"You guys go ahead." Knuckles replied.
"But—" Tails started.
"Go!" Knuckles roared.
Seeing no other way to change his mind, the other four went the rest of the way across the bridge. When they were gone, he smirked.
"Alright! Come out!"
"Was I really that obvious?" Rouge's voice was heard as she floated down in front of Knuckles. She had her arms crossed.
"I can smell that perfume of your's from a mile away." Knuckles replied, waving his hand in front of his nose. "Whew! Doesn't Eggman pay you enough to buy a decent brand?" Rouge glared at him.
"How dare you!" She hissed as she ran up to Knuckles and went for a kick. Knux saw it coming though and jumped out of the way. A defiant smirk crossed his features.
"I'll take that as a no."
°WHAM!°
Knuckles chuckled to himself as he picked himself up off the ground. "You still hit like a little girl."
"AHHHHHHHH!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!" Rouge yelled as she ran forward.
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Sonic and Co. ran along the corridor. They were running out of precious time. Who knew how long it would be before Izzy cracked? Everybody ran up a few flights of stairs. In the new hall, they ran for a couple of minutes before the annoying laugh of a certain doctor reached their ears. Sonic skidded to a stop.
"Well, well. I was wondering when I would see you." The hedgehog said as the group looked up. Dr. Robotnik was floating in his personal craft, leering at the animals.
"Eggman! Release Izzy now!" Alice demanded, getting ready to go into her purse of DOOM!
"And give back the emeralds!" Tails yelled.
"Pretty please?" Amy asked. Dr. Robotnik laughed at their demands.
"I think not." He said before turning his attention to Sonic. "How about you hand me the five emeralds & the other half of the Master Emerald and I give you your little friend?"
"Fat chance, big boy!" Sonic yelled. He smirked when he saw Robotnik fume. He could almost see smoke coming out of the good doctor's ears.
"Hmph! If that's the way you want to play, I've got a little friend who's been dying to meet you."
And with that, Dr. Robotnik snapped his fingers. He made his hovercraft back up as a panel in the floor opened. A gigantic E-1000 robot rose out of the floor. It was armed to the metallic teeth with guns of all types. It almost outdid Alice's collection. Almost.
"Destroy that blue menace and all his little friends!" Ivo ordered. "I need to check up on our core." He flew away.
"The core? So that's where Izzy is!" Tails yelled.
"We got more important things to worry about right now, ya know!" Amy said.
"Don't worry! I'll take care of this bucket of bolts!" Sonic yelled.
He jumped towards the robot and spun into a ball. He rammed into it, but didn't even make a scratch. He rammed the robot a few more times before jumping back and landing on the floor. His quills were bent.
"Grrr… Sonic Wind!" He fired his wind attack at the robot, but it didn't even flinch.
"Let me take care of this!" Amy yelled as she ran forward with her Piko-Piko hammer raised. She jumped and whacked the robot hard. Nothing happened though. She shivered as the shockwaves of the attack went through her. The robot made to attack her when a yellow blur flew past its face.
"Hey Gruesome, try to get me!" Tails yelled as flew around the robot's head, causing the two to reenact a scene from "King Kong." The robot was slashing air, trying to get the fox.
Amy continued trying to harm the robot with her hammer (this time, she was going for its right foot) while Sonic continued trying to Homing Attack it. Alice was getting madder and madder by the second, thinking about her friend and what the evil doctor is doing to him. She growled and let out an ear piercing shriek, causing everybody to freeze and look at her.
"I want Izzy…" She growled. Her eyes glowed red. "AND YOU'RE IN MY WAY!.!.!.!"
With that, she reached into her purse and pulled out a grenade launcher!
"Oh crap…" The robot said, sweatdropping.
"You're in trouble, buddy." Sonic said with a smile as he, Tails, and Amy jumped away. They hid behind Alice, who targeted the huge robot.
"SUPER, MEGA, ULTIMATE LIFE FORM, HOLD THE ONIONS GRENADE ATTACK!.!.!.!.!.!.!" She roared as she let loose her attack.
°SUPER KABOOOOOOOOOOM!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!°
All that stood in front of the group was a smoldering pile of ash. Alice turned to the frightened trio.
"Well, let's go!" She put away the smoking grenade launcher and happily skipped down the hall. The other three gaped at her.
"She scares me..." Tails said, coming close to wetting his pants, if he was wearing any.
"She scares everybody, Tails. She scares everybody." Sonic said, patting Tails' head.
"Let's go, Sonikku." Amy said. They continued on.
Back at the core…
The electricity had stopped shocking Izzy, who was now sleeping. He woke up when he heard someone enter the room. He looked up and gave a weakened smile.
"Sh-Sh-Sh-Shady-wady… Hi." Shadow smirked.
"Hi." He replied. He had a small remote in his hand.
"Are you going to let me go?" Izzy asked. Shadow chuckled.
"Nope. It's time for a little vengeance."
And with that, he pushed the only button on the remote. The shackles sprang to life and started shocking at a voltage higher than what Izzy has already dealt with.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!"
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"What was that?" Tails suddenly asked as the shrill sound reached his ears. Everybody stopped and stood quietly. When the sound passed by again, Alice felt tears coming to her eyes.
"That was Izzy! He's close by!"
"Let's go!" Sonic yelled as everybody ran.
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"He couldn't have." Dr. Robotnik said to himself. Izzy's scream had also reached his ears. "He'll drain the energy!" He then accelerated his hovercraft.
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"What was that?" Rouge asked after dodging Knuckles' punch. Being a bat, she was able to hear the scream loud and clear, but the echidna didn't hear as well and decided to take advantage of her distraction.
"Thunder Arrow!" He yelled, launching the lightning bolt at her. Rouge didn't have enough time to react and got shocked. Her body was burnt all over as she fainted. Knuckles grinned.
"Score, but I wonder what she was going on about." He shrugged and picked up the bat girl. He ran down the hall to join the others.
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The core door opened and Dr. Robotnik landed his craft.
"Shadow!" He yelled as he jumped out. "What are you doing? You're overloading the system!"
"Heh heh heh…" Shadow chuckled. "I'm giving this little brat what he deserves."
"Stop it! You'll overcharge the emeralds!" Shadow didn't even pay attention. "You'll kill us all!"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.! SOMEONE HELP!.!.!" Izzy bellowed.
Just then, Sonic and Co. entered the core (Knuckles had caught up).
"Eggman! Hand over the Master Emerald shard!" Knuckles yelled as he put down Rouge.
"I have more important matters to worry about, ya know!" Robotnik yelled back.
"Izzy!" Alice yelled. Izzy opened an eye.
"Alice?.! AHHHHHH!.!.!.! GET ME OUTTA HERE!.!.!"
"Let 'im go, Eggman!" Sonic yelled.
"Don't tell me that! Talk to him!" Dr. Robotnik pointed at the grinning Shadow.
"Soon, you will perish!" He yelled.
"Sonic! We gotta do something!" Tails yelled.
"I know, I know! But what?" Sonic replied.
"Poor guy..." Amy said, wincing as Izzy let out another horrible scream.
"I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU DO!.!.!.!.! GET ME OUT OF HERE BEFORE THE EMERALD DESTROYS ME!.!.!.!.!.!" He roared. Everybody looked at the Dragon Emerald. It was glowing brightly.
"He's gonna blow!" Dr. Robotnik yelled.
"My jewel…" Rouge, who came to during the screaming, said.
Sonic and Knuckles ran forward.
"Ready?" Sonic asked. Knuckles nodded.
"You know it!" And the two started to charge energy.
"Sonic Wind!"
"Thunder Arrow!"
The two attacks struck the sides of Izzy's bonds. They didn't even break.
"Again!" Sonic yelled.
They kept attacking the bonds. Amy and Alice ran up.
"No way you're gonna have all the fun!" Amy said, taking out her hammer.
"Yeah!" Alice added as she took out a machine gun. She opened fire on the side Knuckles was attacking, while Amy charged at the side Sonic was attacking.
Everybody watched as the four attacked. Their efforts didn't seem to affect the bonds. Izzy's emerald kept glowing brighter and brighter. Soon, it was too much for Amy, who had to get in close in order to attack. She backed off as the other three continued to attack.
"You guys leave. No point in all of you dying for me." Izzy said with tear-filled eyes.
"Cool! Bye!" Dr. Robotnik and Rouge yelled, running out of the room.
"Come on, Shadow!" Rouge yelled.
"No way! I wanna see this!" Shadow yelled back.
"Suit yourself!"
"Don't give up, Izzy!" Alice yelled as she took out a flamethrower. "Hang on! I won't lose you!" She opened fire. The flames wrapped around Izzy's shackles completely!
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!" He yelled, not from pain, but from anger.
Through the flames, everyone was able to see a bright light form. The fire separated and the shackles fell to the ground with a clang. Izzy was floating. The group gasped. Instead of purple, his body had turned completely black. Huge, bat-like wings protruded from his back. His eyes glowed bright crimson. A dark aura surrounded him.
"I-Izzy?" Alice asked. The hedgehog in question turned towards Shadow, who was glaring daggers.
"How dare you live after that!" He yelled, slamming the remote on the floor. "But no matter. I'll finish you myself. Chaos Spear!" Shadow held up his hand and fired the attack. Izzy wordlessly held up his hand. A Chaos Shield surrounded him and blocked Shadow's attack.
"What the—? Let's try that again. Chaos Spear!"
Again, Shadow fired the attack, only to have the same result. Izzy raised his hand and blocked the attack with his barrier. Shadow kept firing spears, only to have them blocked. After the evil hedgehog's fifth attempt, Izzy held up his finger and purple energy formed. He charged it a bit and then fired a Chaos Beam at Shadow, who dodged.
"Hey! I thought I was your favorite!" He was answered with another Chaos Beam being fired at him.
"What's going on?" Tails asked as the group watched Shadow weave and bob around Izzy's attacks.
"Hmmmmm… He must've been possessed by the emerald." Knuckles said.
"How?" Sonic asked.
"It must have to do with all the electricity they were using before."
"Izzy…" Alice said with her head lowered. Amy patted her on the back.
"Don't worry. He'll go back to normal, right Sonic?"
"I don't know, Amy." Sonic replied as Izzy started firing Chaos Blades at Shadow.
"Ugh!" Shadow grunted as an energy blade grazed his left arm. "I'll show you not to attack the Ultimate Life Form!"
And he charged towards Izzy. Big mistake. Izzy held up both hands, charged energy, and fired a huge Chaos Beam. It connected and blasted Shadow out of the room. With that, Izzy turned towards the Sonic crew.
"Uh-oh..." Tails said, hiding behind Sonic.
"He's gonna attack us!" Amy shrieked.
"Izzy! Don't! We're your friends!" Alice yelled.
"It's no use." Sonic said. Knuckles stepped in front of them.
"Don't worry. As long as I have the Master Emerald, he can't hurt us." He said as he held up the Master Emerald half, which glowed brightly. Izzy backed away from the light, hissing at its glow. He then roared and charged energy.
The entire room started shaking. A huge piece of the ceiling fell and landed on Izzy's head. The piece of metal broke in half, but it was enough to knock some sense into him. Izzy's body returned to its normal color. The dark aura dissipated. The wings disappeared in two puffs of black smoke and his eyes returned to normal. He then fell face first on the floor. He lied motionless.
"Oh my—Izzy!" Alice yelled as she ran to his side. She rolled him over so that he faced her. "Come on! Speak to me!" He groaned as he opened his eyes.
"No need to shout…" He said with a cough.
"Oh Izzy. I knew you'd be alright." Alice hugged him with tear-filled eyes.
"Alice…" Izzy started. "I'm sorry…" Alice broke the hug and looked at his eyes. They seemed crestfallen and sad.
"Don't be. You didn't know Eggman was going to do that." Izzy shook his head.
"Not that. I'm sorry that I…"
"Yes...?" Alice pressed.
"That I couldn't tell you. I…" He didn't finish. He went limp in her arms and closed his eyes.
"Izzy...?" She rubbed the back of her hand against him. He didn't react. She gasped. "No… You can't be…" She held back a sob. Knuckles walked up to her and patted her shoulder.
"I'm sorry." He said. Alice brought her head up.
"Wait!" She yelled as she snatched his emerald shard and held it above Izzy.
"What are you—!" Knuckles started before receiving a glare from Alice. She turned back to Izzy.
"Now what was that move you told me about? Oh yeah!" She raised the Master Emerald shard above her head. "Chaos Recover!"
The shard and Izzy's yellow emerald glowed. His body glowed yellow and the burns he had healed. He coughed as his eyes shot open.
"Woah! What happened?" He asked as he turned to the now-crying Alice. "Why are you crying?"
"'Cause I'm happy, ya idiot!" Alice yelled as she hugged him tightly.
"Ack! Too TIGHT!.!.!" Izzy croaked. Alice let go and helped him to his feet. He dusted himself off as he noticed everybody else approach.
"Are you alright?" Amy asked. Izzy nodded.
"What was that you did?" Tails asked.
"I have no idea." Izzy replied. "I just got really mad and lost it."
"Well, at least you're back to normal now." Sonic said. "Let's go home before Egghead decides to party some more."
"MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!.!.!.!.!.!.! You won't leave this ship alive, Sonic!" Dr. Robotnik's voice was heard. A monitor lowered itself into the room. It turned on and his face was seen. The stars of outer space were seen in the background.
"What do you want now?" Sonic asked with his arms crossed. Dr. Robotnik laughed evilly again.
"Come out and play, Sonic." He said as he stepped aside. The camera showed gigantic robotic versions of Shadow and Rouge floating in space. The camera backed away and showed a gigantic robot version of Robotnik. "And face our unbeatable might! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!.!.!.!.!.!"
"Shove off!" Rouge yelled as she appeared on camera. "Bring me that Master Emerald!"
"Silence woman!" Shadow yelled as he replaced Rouge on the screen. "Let's go, faker, if you think you can beat me." The transmission ended.
"Ugh! They never give up, do they?" Sonic said before he smirked. "Looks like I get to go super."
"Alright!" Tails cheered.
"Go get 'em!" Amy added.
Knuckles walked up to the cases containing the other emeralds and punched them. He pulled out the emeralds and the other half of the Master Emerald. He brought the two pieces together and they glowed brightly. When the light disappeared, the Master Emerald was whole again.
"Finally. Angel Island will float again." He sighed as he rubbed the huge jewel.
"Hey Sonic!" Izzy said suddenly.
"Yeah?" Sonic asked, facing him.
"I was thinking. Maybe you can battle Eggman in style." He replied with a grin. Alice gasped. Izzy always called him by his full name! Sonic smirked back.
"What did you have in mind?"
"First, I need the Master Emerald and the Chaos Emeralds." Izzy turned to Knuckles. "Don't worry. I only need it for a sec."
Knuckles nodded and set the Master Emerald in front of him.
"Ok. Now place each of the Chaos Emeralds around the Master Emerald."
Knuckles placed the yellow and gray emeralds down as Tails and Alice walked up. She put the purple, green, and red emeralds around the Master Emerald as did Tails with the dark and light blue emeralds.
"Ok. Stand back." Izzy ordered. Everybody took a step back as the jewels glowed.
"Are you sure you know what you're doing?" Alice asked him.
"Nope." He replied with a grin. "But that's the fun part." He turned back towards the emeralds. He held up his hands.
"The servers are the seven Chaos." He began, surprising Knuckles. "Chaos is power. Power is enriched by the heart. The controller is the one who unifies the Chaos."
All of the emeralds on the Dragon Emerald started to glow as brightly as the Chaos and Master Emeralds. They started to float in the air. Izzy's hands glowed white as he closed his eyes in concentration.
"Only you can do this! Chaos Evolution!" He yelled as he opened his eyes.
The DE's Master Emerald shot a light towards Knuckles' Master Emerald. The bigger jewel then started spinning faster and faster. It shot a bright beam of light at each of the Chaos Emeralds, causing them to glow white. When the light dissipated, the Chaos Emeralds had increased in size.
"Those are the Super Emeralds!" Knuckles yelled with a gasp.
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A/N:
What does this startling revelation mean for Sonic and friends? How powerful are Dr. Robotnik's robots? Will Sonic survive? Find out next time in the final chapter of The Adventures of Izzy the Hedgehog!
