Hi again! Have you reviewed? If
not, please, do it.
*Az put up the puppy eyes
with tears* Please, tell me what you think about this fic.
Johnson Kaler is mine and
Metal Shadow is kinda mine; Alan Decò is just a name made up for an occasion
or two.
(Johnson Kaler is a side/support character; he will not have a main part on
the fic)
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CHAPTER SIX
…And From Fire to Hell
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From their point of view, it wasn't
just the building that had fell upon them, but it seemed that was the entire
world.
They had managed to get out
of the middle of the building enough to not get buried deep into the rubble,
but not enough to be safe. The darkness took over them at blinding speed.
A noise. To his ears it was distant,
but it was continuous and annoying. He opened his eyes a little, and
noticed that he was lying on his back, looking to his right. His view was blurred,
like he was looking at something from underwater, and his eyes burned.
He saw Shadow, half curled and his back to him; he was unconscious. Sometimes
a little movement about his person made Sonic think that maybe he was having
a bad dream. The Blue hedgehog looked at the environment; they were in a little
room with iron walls; and it was moving. It looked like that they were on some
sort of means of transport; maybe a helicopter. That explained that annoying
noise.
Too tired to stay awake, he closed his eyes, but before falling asleep he heard someone talking "Do we really have to do this?" It asked, a second voice responded sighing "If we don't, we'll be deep in trouble. I just hope that they'll find a way to escape."
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The robot landed in a base in a rock desert, it was almost time of sunset. Michael and Lucifer were throw feet away by the force of the landing. Seeing that the robot started walking away with the emerald and Iris, they followed it; but when they entered a big building they lost its track, so they just wandered inside.
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"Is the robot returning from
its mission?" The general asked; he was sitting behind his desk with the
hands folded under the chin.
"Yes." The Serg.
Kaler responded slightly irked "It has already returned with a Chaos Emerald."
"Very well. And the two hedgehogs?" "The helicopter should be
here in two-three hours. We were lucky to find them already unconscious. But
to be safe the squad gave them a light douse of sleeping-draught." The
younger man said, but deep in his heart he hated this entire story. The boss
smiled "As soon as they're here, take them to the laboratory, then seal
them with the aid of the Chaos Emerald."
The man saluted and left the room
closing the door 'This entire story REALLY stink.' He thought; then he crossed
the way with a man in white coat. The two looked at each other and nodded slightly
to greet one another.
The two entered into an elevator
"Are the two stasis tube for the hedgehogs ready?" He asked, the scientist
nodded firmly "I checked one, the other was checked by my colleague. After
this phase is done we will finally be able to go on with the original program."
"Is that any possibility that one of them will be able to break the glass?"
"No," The scientist responded shaking his head "The glass is
too strong to break, even for them."
The man puffed 'I hope that they'll escape before they put them in stasis.' The scientist looked at his companion "Is something wrong?" He asked perplexed "No, just wishing that everything will go ok." "Yeah," The other responded "Me too."
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On Angel Island a watery being pinpointed
where his target stopped and launched himself into the ocean. A red echidna,
seeing the being leave, reached the same point where he stood. Knuckles looked
down 'Why is Chaos leaving?'
A little light started circling
around him "Hello Tikal, do you know why Chaos left the island?" He
asked looking at the spirit that transformed into a peach colored girl echidna
"He heard the cry of a chao, and he's going to make pay whoever hurt the
little being."
Knuckles looked again at the water, thinking about what to do. The she spoke again "Knuckles, I fear something, it's not something about Chaos. It involves your friends." "Then you're saying that I must leave the island and discover what's going on?" He asked to her. She nodded lightly "But the Master Emerald will be unattended!" He protested. She sighed again "I understand your feelings and it's up to you to decide what to do. The Master Emerald's safety or your friends'? I just hope that you will decide for the best." She said disappearing.
Knuckles looked at the faraway land 'Maybe I should go down, at least to tell the others about Tikal's feeling…'
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Rouge walked into what was called the government archives; a huge room with at least a hundred of shelves full of papers and other things. She searched for the section marked 'A', where she could find something about ARK, luckily for her it was near the entrance "Well, lets see…" She stopped in front of the first shelf marked A "Here!"
The bat started rummaging into the shelf, and to her surprise she quickly found a thin folder labeled 'ARK Main Experiments'. She picked it up "And now to search something for Shadow." She said searching more in the shelf, but she stopped soon. She had no idea where to look for that 'something'. "Where can I start searching?" She asked to herself, but her thoughts were cut off by two voices that were coming from the entrance. Being a spy she hid herself and listened to the men.
"I understand Shadow, but Sonic? What he did? Just save the world more than one time!" Said one, the other responded a little raged "I know, but the general is fixed with this, and we can't disobey." "Shut up you two, and get to work!" A third said making clear his authority "Yes sir!" The other two responded quickly. They searched the same shelf where Rouge found the folder 'Please! Don't look for this folder!' She pleaded into her mind, but her prayer were useless "Sir, there are no folder about ARK here." one of the two men said. Rouge cursed the bad timing of the men to show up 'They had to just show up now, right!?' She thought, but the next phrase made her snap to full alert "Call the others! Maybe what we search is still in here!"
Now the white bat was looking frantically
for another exit, she found no other. She had to try and pass unobserved; she
started to walk silently toward the exit using the longest and darkest way around;
she was nearly out of the room when the authoritarian man spotted her "THERE!"
He yelled pointing the bat "Take her!"
The other two ran towards
her, but she was faster than they were so she managed to make lose her track;
until she left the building.
On the parking there was a
big mech, like the one she fought, only this time it had two legs "Freeze!"
The pilot said pointing the main gun at her. Rouge stopped and looked around
for her car, she found it behind the mech 'Now, how can I reach my car?'
To answer her question her
car suddenly blew up "AHHH! MY CAR!" She yelled with a mixture of
anger and surprise; the loudspeaker of the machine grated again "Surrender
and give back what you stole!" "HEY! I didn't stole anything! The
president gave me permission!" She responded angrily "That is secret
material, it doesn't belong anymore to the government."
Now, Rouge was starting to
get angry, very angry "You… YOU…" She started, but was cut off by
the arrival of a dozen of men armed with automatic rifle. She decided against
the idea of fighting. Too dangerous.
Again she looked around and found nothing, only a manhole. A manhole that just moved. Rouge blinked and stared at the manhole, and like an angel, something red emerged from that same hole; giving her a way of escape. She thanked whoever made this happening and pushed the red thing back from where it came; then she hopped behind it and let the heavy lid cover her way. The men outside were too slow to do something.
On the other hand Knuckles was cursing
under his breath. Not only Tikal had led him into the sewers of the city, but
when he tried to go back where the sun shone, something just pushed him back.
"Now! Who was the one
that…" He stopped in mid sentence when he saw Rouge on top of him "Rouge!
What in the world are you doing here?" He asked looking at her; the bat,
noticing the ambiguous position, blushed and quickly got up. She offered a hand
to the echidna "Sorry, but it's me that should make that question."
"Well, I just landed in the city, when Tikal appeared again and led me
here. When I tried to go back up, you pushed me back down." He explained,
then, attracted by noises he looked up "What the?" He asked out loud.
Rouge remembering the situation she was in, jumped, grabbed the echidna's wrist
and ran dragging him. Knuckles, caught by surprise, just followed her.
When they stopped he looked at her
"Rouge, what's happening?" He asked; Rouge turned and realized that
she was still holding him; slightly embarrassed she let go of the wrist "Well…
I was in the archives; I already had found something when three men showed up.
They were talking about Sonic and Shadow, and they were looking for this!"
She said holding up the yellowish folder. He
looked at it "ARK Main Experiments?" He asked out loud "Then
Tikal was right, something big is going on here!" He exclaimed to himself.
Rouge, hearing again the name 'Tikal', became a bit sad. She was fearing that
he had already someone else in his heart 'I guess that he… uh?' to her surprise
a pink flying ball of light appeared and started circling around Knuckles' head.
The bat pointed the light with a finger "W-w-what's that?" She asked
backing off "Oh? Oh, yes. She is Tikal. An ancient spirit. She is harmless
and she helped us a lot, now she is helping me again." He said sounding
tranquil and confident.
Upon hearing that Rouge relaxed
and brightened, the echidna was still sentimentally free. Then Rouge's thoughts
drifted somewhere else "Tell me Knuckles, you left the Master Emerald just
to follow the spirit?" She asked "Well, I thought about that, but
Tikal said that for the moment the Master was safe and that I could go down
without worrying."
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"Now, what I'm gonna do with you?" Johnson Kaler asked looking at a very frightened chao into his hands. Seeing that she was not thrusting him, he started stroking the little chao head. Though she felt better, she was still unsure if she could trust this man or not. They entered a room and she was put on a table "I guess you're hungry, right little being?" he asked taking out a basket of nuts "I'm sorry, this is everything I have for you. I don't think that you'd like pasta or pizza."
Iris looked at him; she started to see the man's kindness "Puvu!" She exclaimed going to the basket and taking a nut. Then the door opened and a man entered in the room "Hey John, look at what we found. They where roaming freely in the base's corridors. I think that they're here for her." He said putting other two chao on the table. When Michael and Lucifer saw Iris they trotted to her and greeted raising a paw. She returned the greetings and started chomping the nut, until the man took it "Wait, I'll broke it for you." He said breaking the nut's shell "Here." He handed the unshelled nut to the little chao that took it and swallowed it in a matter of seconds. Michael and Lucifer looked at each other then to the man and started jumping.
"I think they're a 'little' hungry." Said the man that took them there "Really? I didn't noticed it…" Said John with a hint of sarcasm and crossing his arms. The other man waved a hand "Well, I have to go. I'm in the party that have to take the two hedgehogs to the laboratory then to the super secret room of 'Nobody-knows-what's-in-there-beside-the-few-elected-people'."
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Eggman was very frustrated; he had
boarded the colony at least 5 hours ago; but until now he couldn't find anything
regarding this mysterious 'CT-Project'. He decided to look for something into
his grandfather's room.
When he got there, the man raised an eyebrow. The entire room was in such a
state that it looked like that a twister went through there "I guess that
I will find nothing here…" He paused and looked at a semi-broken computer
that was lying on the floor. The doctor put a hand under his big moustache;
maybe somewhere on the ARK's main computer he could find something.
Eggman trotted into the main control room and started typing into the keyboard. He paid much attention at what he was doing; he didn't wanted to risk another 'ARK-falling-to-Earth' thing or something similar.
/Password required/
- Maria
/Input search word/
- CT-Project
/Searching…/
Eggman waited patiently for the computer to finish its search, and when it was done he just stared, feeling rather hurt. In the main screen just a phrase:
/Project deleted due to malfunction of one of the components/
Eggman mumbled something inaudible
and punched the metal console. 'Nothing! I came here all the way 5 hours ago
and the only thing that I could find was that the project was deleted!' He roared
in his mind. He sighed and typed only the word 'project', just to see if there
was something else worth.
After a minute or so a list
with only three choices appeared
/Select number's item/
/CT-Project/ /HiRTraChip Project/ /Project Shadow/Knowing that the CT-Project was deleted and that Project Shadow was roaming freely on the planet with that accursed blue hedgehog, he chose the second option.
2. /HiRTraChip Project/
This is just a theory of how a chip could handle such speed of transmission rate. Unfortunately the funds for this project were cut off, but I salvaged everything just for precautions.
Dr. Gerald Robotnik
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Sketch n.2
Sketch n.3
Eggman's evil grin spread in his
mustached face, he could pick up where his grandfather and his team left. Even
if he couldn't find anything on the CT-Project, he had found something else.
The egg shaped man saved the
files into a CD, then left for his base.
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Gyhahahaha!!! The six chapter is done and I think that the story will be quite long (at least for me)
Next Chapter:
'Revelations'
Knuckles and Rouge, a little lost
in the sewers, discover something interesting.
Tails and Amy are worried
for Sonic and Shadow, but not knowing where the two hedgehogs could be, can't
move properly.
Chaos will create havoc in
the Desert Base, the same base where Sonic and Shadow will be transported.
And the two hedgehogs? Well,
let me tell you that they will be in a lot of trouble!
Az