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Authoress' Note2: Ok, for who is reading this, let me say this: I slightly have changed how I write, now it's more… 'emotional'. Hope you like it.
ANGRY Authoress' Note3: Ok, I see that it doesn't accept some type of scripts (are they called that?) so now I have to cope with a single - for paragraph division and two °° for dream sequences.
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Chapter 23
Fight For The Master
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The black hedgehog turned around and smiled "Hi Maria."
The human girl, differently from all the other things that were dark and blurry, seemed to shine on her own; Shadow could easily remember every detail, like she was really there.
Maria smiled back, tilting her head to the side like always, "What are you doing here?"
Shadow felt his smile fade away quickly, "I found this, Maria. Maybe it can help in someway." He said handing her the rolled up papers.
The girl raised an eyebrow as she took them, "Did you got into another lab that you shouldn't have gone?"
The ebony one shook his head, "Just read. Please."
Maria sighed and finally unrolled the papers, reading them as quickly as she could; when she was done, Shadow could see that she had paled. She hastily rolled up them again and took his hand, tugging him along with her.
The black hedgehog eagerly agreed and started walking alongside his friend, "What we're going to do?"
The girl looked down at him and smiled reassuringly, "I'm going to show these to grandpa. He'll take action as soon as he see them."
Shadow's eyes softened with fear and he looked down at the ground, "And what if he doesn't?"
"He will." Maria firmly answered back, "But first, I'll drop you back to our apartment."
The black hedgehog sighed and walked with Maria in total silence; he was preoccupied at what could happen to them all. He couldn't bear to loose Maria and her grandfather, but most of all, he couldn't bear to lose his br…
His thoughts were abruptly interrupted by Maria, who had stopped in front of a metal door and was now crouching beside him.
Shadow bit his lip and stared at his feet, "Will everything be alright?"
The black hedgehog was pulled into a comforting hug by the girl, "Don't worry, Shadow. Whatever happens, in the end everything will be alright. I promise."
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Tikal could sense it; the tension in the air was so thick that it could be easily cut with a knife. Yet, she could do nothing but look from her point of view located over the Master Emerald.
Knuckles and Rouge were relatively calm, but even them could feel the tension on their nerves; then, with a single word from the human leader, the battle for the possession of the huge stone began.
Every single hunter raised their rifle and shoot at their targets on top of the altar, missing clamorously as the two creatures were already running down the steps and into the fray.
The Guardian raised his fists and barreled right into the small group of humans, throwing them on the ground even before they could react properly with their slow reflexes. Not paying any attention to the rolling humans, the echidna stopped the time necessary to do a ninety degree turn and ran towards the nearest hunter, which was at his right.
The bat, instead, took the liberty to grab a few grenades from a nearby man, kicking him in the side to thank him, and then ran to the left, deciding to play happy bomber for once. She looked at the tools in her arms; she had five hand bombs and three that released shards and nails on explosion.
With an almost evil glint in her eyes, she picked up one of the special bombs and flew up, avoiding the laser shoots that came in her direction; when she was up enough and the robots switched target, she pulled the spline and let the weapon fall down, right into the mass of enemies. Quickly, she took refuge behind a pillar to avoid being hit by the debris.
The explosion shook the heart enough to make Knuckles look towards it; when he saw that mech parts were flying up into the air, he let a small smirk graze his lips. He had to admit it; Rouge was a wonderful ally.
He quickly returned to his fight as a Hunter tried to shoot him from behind; as soon as he heard the click of the weapon, he turned around, shoving the laser rifle to the side, letting the energy bullet hit another robot, destroying it instantly. With a well placed punch in the torso, the echidna produced a hole into his enemy and let it fall to the ground.
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Tails was frantically walking back and fort in front of a door; his tails were stiff and the fur was on end, making them look at least two times larger than usual. Chaos, meanwhile, was just waiting patiently.
The fox finally stopped as the door opened and the human came out of it holding a dark blue rigid bag in his left hand, "Good." He muttered under his breath.
Tails picked in his right arm the bag handed by the man; even if it was fairly light, it was big enough to almost tough the ground. With a small smile he nodded to the doctor, then turned to Chaos, "We're set. Let's go."
The water creature nodded in understanding and followed the small fox to the same metal doors he saw the first time he set foot into the big and white building.
With a 'ting', the doors opened to reveal a familiar small room; Chaos followed his ally into it and watched as he pressed one of the lowest buttons on the control panel. After another 'ting', the doors closed and the room started descending earning him a small startled jump.
No matter how many times he would ride it, he would never get used to it…
Tails looked at him and smiled a little, "It's called elevator. It's a machine that takes you up and down the buildings that have over five floors so you wont tire doing stairs upon stairs." He explained as best as he could without falling into hard, and maybe unknown words to the ancient being.
The water creature tilted his head a little to the side; so that was why, when he had left the room, he found himself on a different place than when he had entered it. The room moved up and down, permitting people to move between floors without effort.
Humans were the weakest race of the planet, but they were the most numerous and inventive. Too bad that a good chunk of it was evil.
The elevator came to a stop, and after it released its personal sound, the doors opened revealing the ground floor.
Tails heaved the bag over his shoulder, being careful of its content, and walked onwards, right were the glass doors were positioned.
And luckily, all the reporters were gone; probably to see what that explosion was. He just hoped that they were smart enough to get the hell out of the place as soon as they saw what the problem was and not stop and film that big lizard just to get a prize.
'Yeah… a prize for stupidity…' He thought.
The small fox looked up at the water creature at his side, "Well then, Chaos. The way is free, lead it." He said motioning the doors.
Chaos nodded and glanced at the bundle in his arms; after reassuring himself that they were ok, the water beast quickly made his way to the entrance, and, after examining the outside surroundings, he passed through the mobile doors and ran towards the first manhole he could find.
There was a scream that resounded over the rain, followed by a small earthquake, which warned the two that the BioLizard was around.
With a quick thinking, Chaos grabbed the twin tailed fox by the free wrist and hid themselves behind an ambulance; that was when a huge tail poked from behind a corner of the hospital. The thing was swaying back and forth with such fervor that told the water creature that the monster was busy doing something.
Or better, was busy fighting those two metal beings of before.
Taking advantage of the situation, Chaos grabbed again the fox, tugging him out of his frozen state and hinting for him to follow his lead.
Tails, trying hard to not shake more than he was already, nodded his understanding and, after taking a big breath, he ran after the water being.
Chaos was running out of the hospital park, hoping to gain some extra time from the fight between the BioLizard and the other two creatures; however, he wasn't that lucky, and Metal Shadow, seeing them run away, warned his companion with a intercom message.
The two robots flew into the sky and, thanks to their infrared vision, easily located the fugitive group, flying after them.
The BioLizard, tilted her head in confusion at their sudden forfeit of the fight, but when she turned her head to see where they were headed for, she felt something that could be described as… 'gooseflesh'.
With a cry of outrage, the huge lizard turned around and ran after the two robots with the clear intention of squashing them to metal sheets.
Chaos was starting to get desperate as he took a quick turn and entered into a secondary street; he could feel that he was followed by the two metal creatures and, behind them, the BioLizard.
That was wonderful…
Stuck in a city, with pouring rain, a scared fox that somewhat kept up with him, two half dead hedgehogs in his arms, two metal beings and a huge lizard on his short tail and he could not find a damned manhole to get away from the chaotic situation…
Just a wonderful day…
He wondered if things could get worse…
Never mind. They could.
The water creature felt like just going into a destructive spree as he saw several vehicles pull up from the end of the street they were trying to reach, and guess what? Yes… The GUN logo was pretty visible on the surface of said vehicles.
However, he could do nothing; not when he was carrying the two hedgehogs and had a small fox trailing him. That is why he decided to turn into the first hallway he could find on his right, hoping against everything to find what he was looking for.
Seeing no manhole and a dead end, Chaos started looking around for another way out, but no such luck; the alleyway was plain devoid of exit… minus one.
Which brought him to an only solution left for his current situation.
To backtrack.
Not a good option when you had two robots hell bent on killing, a behemoth with the looks of a lizard craving for Chaos Energy and a whole GUN department fixed on getting back something that they believed to be theirs.
It could have been rather funny to see that all those creatures out there wanted the same things; however, it was not funny when you where the only one standing between them and their objectives.
Chaos carefully peeked out of his temporary shelter and stared.
The GUN was on the same spot as before, not having moved from there because they were now staring at their direct opponent, the BioLizard, which had stopped right on the other end of the street; the two robots, instead, had taken an advantage point on the roof of one of the many buildings lining the way.
If it wasn't for the pattering of the rain, there would have been an uneasy dead silence…
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Again, short, but at least it's done… right?
Az