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Chapter 23
Sonic and Shadow reached the X Tornado and, as soon as they landed on it's roof, Tails fired up the engine. They zoomed through the clouds. Sonic looked at the emerald. It shone as the sunlight hit it, gleaming softly. Shadow looked at it too and smiled.
"Now there's only one more emerald left to find." He said confidently.
"Yup!" Sonic replied.
Suddenly the plane jolted violently, nearly flinging the two hedgehogs off of it. They looked toward the front of the plane and saw that it was on fire! They could hear Tails and Knuckles, from inside the plane, yelling in shock and fear.
"Aaah! I'm having trouble keeping the plane steady guys! Hold on!" Tails yelled and he swerved the X Tornado sharply to the right, toward a large red bridge, which lead out of Station Square. The X Tornado made an emergency crash landing, just near the beginning of the bridge.
Dust and dirt rose as the plane hit the concrete floor. After a few seconds, the door opened and Tails and Knuckles emerged, coughing and spluttering. Knuckles was holding the chaos emerald he had found.
"Sonic! Shadow! Are you guys alright?" Tails called out. Just then they heard a loud sound coming from behind them. It sounded like an engine. A shadow fell over them. The two friends turned around and saw the DX 100, hovering above them in an intimidating fashion.
But then they heard the rubble move and Sonic and Shadow emerged, coughing and fanning the dust away from their eyes and mouths. They looked up, spotting the DX 100 in the air.
"Oh no! Not you again!" Sonic said.
The DX 100 could see that Knuckles and Sonic were both holding the chaos emeralds it needed.
"Resistance is futile…Give those chaos emeralds to me!" it said unexpectedly. It held out it's arm, which then quickly transformed into a powerful looking laser gun.
"No way! Your not getting them!" Sonic yelled in reply.
Suddenly the DX 100 shot at Knuckles. The laser hit Knuckles, in the leg, at such force he was blown back a bit. Knuckles yelled out in pain and shock, dropping the emerald as he was forced backward. The others gasped.
"Knuckles!" Tails yelled, running to him.
The DX 100 picked up the emerald and laughed in a low and rather scary electronic voice. Sonic growled.
"You force me to use difficult measures on you. I already had to do that to get these.." said the DX 100, holding up the four other emeralds it had stolen from Tails' workshop (two uncoloured and the red and silver ones).
Shadow's mind clicked and he gasped.
"Oh no! Amy!" he cried.
"What did you do to her!" Sonic yelled at the robot.
"What I had to do to get the emeralds…" The DX 100 said solemnly.
Suddenly the DX 100 charged at Sonic and thumped the side of his head with the side of it's laser gun fist. Shadow blinked with shock and Sonic landed on the ground unconscious, dropping the emerald.
The DX 100 picked up the emerald and looked around at Shadow.
"Thank you for these" it said, holding up all emeralds in his collection. "Soon we'll meet again but I won't be the same."
It's eyes glowed red. "Chaos control" and with that it disappeared in a flash of light
Shadow ran to Sonic and knelt by his head. The side of Sonic's head, that had been struck, was wet and red with blood.
"Sonic? Can you hear me?" Shadow shook Sonic slightly. Sonic half opened his eyes and groaned with pain. Tails came over, supporting the limping Knuckles.
"He got away…didn't he.." Sonic said, sounding dazed and tired.
"Yeah but we can talk about that later. We've got to get back to Tails' workshop, for yours, Knuckles' and Amy's sakes."
Sonic nodded slowly.
"Just don't fall asleep on me now ok Sonic?" Shadow said
Sonic murmured something in reply about being sleepy and his eyes were heavy. He fell unconscious again. Shadow looked up at Tails with concern.
"Now," he said, looking at Tails but seemidly talking to himself, "How are we gonna get back?"
"The X Tornado's completely busted…" said Tails sadly.
"You can carry us back." Knuckles suggested, wincing in pain. "Tails can carry me and you can carry Sonic."
"Ok I'll meet you guys at the workshop. Be as fast as you can. Amy could be in trouble."
Tails nodded. He whirled his two tails together and, holding Knuckles by the wrists, took off in the direction of his workshop. Shadow picked up Sonic, carrying him in his arms, and sped off in the same direction.
