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Sonic Adventure Zero – Death of Angels
By Master hunter
Chapter 2 – Deadly Liquids
It wasn't long before the two heroes reached the Chemical Plant. It was filled with Badniks and all sorts of sinister traps. Parts were still under construction and it stank like nothing else.
"Something about this place doesn't seem right", said Sonic.
"What do you mean?" asked Tails.
"Eggman's into robots, though it doesn't look like Robots are being made here", said Sonic.
"But this is a Chemical Plant. Perhaps he's developing some sort of fuel", said Tails.
"I suppose something has to power those things, but I thought the Animals did that?" said Sonic scratching his head.
"Perhaps this fuel is for something else then", said Tails.
"Correct fox", boomed a voice above them.
They looked up to find Eggman in a new vehicle that held a canister full of a blue liquid.
"Eggman! What's all this about?" said Sonic.
"Like I would really tell you my master plan", said Eggman, "Let's see if you can get through my Chemical Plant"
Eggman jetted off into the distance laughing, while Sonic and Tails followed. Eggman flew higher and soon disappeared, while the ground beneath our heroes began to collapse from both ends.
"Oh no this isn't good", said Sonic.
The floor beneath the two collapsed and they found themselves in a pink liquid. Sonic fell to the ground beneath them while Tails swam through the strange liquid. Tails was surprised Sonic wasn't swimming, but running along the floor beneath them.
Tails flew above the liquid and landed on a nearby platform. Soon Sonic jumped out of the liquid from the other side of the platform and landed beside Tails. Sonic fell to his knees coughing.
"That strange liquid…making me weak…must find Eggman soon", said Sonic.
"What's the matter, can't you swim?" asked Tails.
"No", said Sonic, "Never felt the need to learn"
Tails helped Sonic back up and the two heroes navigated through the devious traps which included more of the pink liquid. Eventually they found themselves at some huge tanks, full of blue liquid. A huge robot picked up one of the tanks and began carrying it off. Sonic and Tails hid from the robot. Soon Eggman appeared and started talking to the robot, the two heroes stayed back and listened.
"Carrier report", said Eggman.
"This is tank 50 of 50 needed to power the Death Egg", said the robot.
"Excellent. Soon I will launch my beautiful Death Egg and the world will fall at my knees. This world will learn to fear the name Robotnik all over again", said Eggman, "You are dismissed"
The huge robot left the Chemical Plant carrying the tank away.
"So that's his plan. He has some new weapon and this place creates fuel for it", said Sonic, "We need to destroy this place".
"I don't think that's a good idea. All this flammable liquid will create an explosion big enough to destroy Westside Island", said Tails.
"Good point. Guess we should concentrate on destroying the Death Egg then", said Sonic.
Suddenly the wall they were hiding behind began to melt, until nothing was left.
"So you made it past my traps. I would've thought the pre-processed fuel would poison you if you didn't drown in it first", said Eggman.
"What is this Death Egg?" asked Tails.
"If you manage to get passed me perhaps I will tell you", said Eggman.
Eggman's Eggmobile threw another ball of blue goop at them. Sonic and Tails dodged it and started dashing towards the machine. Both Heroes approached the machine their own way. Eggman couldn't choose between them. For him it was too late though as both heroes span into the machine, causing severe damage. Eggman then started throwing the balls of goop at random, but even then it was no use. It slowed the heroes down but they still managed to get a hit.
All of a sudden the floor beneath Sonic's feet collapsed. He quickly grabbed the end of the platform but found himself neck deep in the pink liquid again. Eggman decided Tails was the bigger threat now and fired a ball at the orange fox. Tails began to fly in the air to avoid the balls of goop. After avoiding a great deal of these blue balls Tails was now tired and found it hard to fly at full speed. Eggman aimed one last blue ball at Tails, who seemed exhausted.
But just as Eggman was about to fire he found his control panel exploding. Sonic had managed to get back up and attack his machine while Eggman was trying to bring down Tails. Sonic grabbed Tails who had fell to the ground exhausted. Behind them Eggman's vehicle blew up again and Eggman fled the Chemical Plant.
"We work quite well as a team don't we?" asked Tails smiling.
"I have to admit, that was some fancy flying back there", said Sonic, "You ready to go chase down Eggman?"
"Yeah I'm fine", said Tails.
"Ok then, Here we go!" said Sonic.
The two heroes ran out of the Chemical Plant in the direction they last saw Eggman head off to. They were quite high up now, in a lake amongst some ruins. They had lost sight of Eggman but knew he couldn't have gone far.
Sonic scanned the area but found nothing but water and stone pillars.
"More f'ing water", said Sonic under his breath.
"We ready to go then?" asked Tails
"As ready as I'll ever be", replied Sonic.
Sonic grabbed Tails' hand and the two explored the depth of the lake.
None of the traps seemed to stop the dynamic twosome. Soon they had reached the other side of the lake to find Eggman was waiting for them.
"What took you do long?" asked Eggman smirking.
"Huh?" asked Tails.
"Dammit! It's a trap!" shouted Sonic.
Soon they were in a cage of pillars too high to jump over. Tails shrugged his shoulders.
"Is that all?" asked Tails, "I'll fly out of here and find a way to bring down the pillars".
Tails tried to fly out of the stone pillar cage, through the gap at the top. Eggman laughed and smashed a huge hammer into the fox. Tails was knocked back to the floor, his face smashing into the ground. Tails quickly got up and rubbed the part of his face that hurt the most.
"Now now! No flying fox boy", said Eggman.
"You can't leave though can you?" asked Sonic, "If you do Tails can escape"
"Oh I have no intention of leaving", said Eggman laughing.
Eggman then flew over to a random pillar and smashed the big hammer across the top. An arrow fired out of one of the engraved mouths on the pillar. Sonic and Tails easily avoided it and began laughing back to Eggman.
"Is that the best you can do? Those things are never going to hit us", said Sonic.
"Not now, but eventually you'll tire out and then…" said Eggman smashing the hammer into another pillar.
Sonic and Tails kept dodging the darts fired from the pillars Eggman smashed. The darts kept getting closer and closer as Eggman's plan was working. They were getting tired. Fortunately Sonic came up with an idea.
"Tails go fly over one of the pillars", said Sonic.
"OK, but I don't know how that will help", said Tails.
"Just avoid the hammer, make it smash into the pillar", said Sonic.
Tails flew over one the pillars and sure enough Eggman tried to smash the hammer into Tails. Tails dodged the attack but couldn't escape. After three hits on the pillar and blue blur streaked through Eggman's Eggmobile.
"What? This is impossible. I'm too high for you to jump to", said Eggman.
"Keep flying over the pillars Tails. My plan it working", shouted Sonic.
Eggman panicked. He didn't realise Sonic was using the arrows that were fired as platforms to gain height. Each arrow had gotten stuck in the opposite pillar. Eggman didn't know what to do but he couldn't let Tails escape. He kept trying to whack Tails with the hammer, but after every three arrows or so, Sonic managed to attack the Eggmobile. Eventually Eggman's Eggmobile fell out the sky and smashed into one of the stone pillars.
Eggman managed to fly off while Sonic and Tails fell to the floor in exhaustion.
"Nice plan…but could we take a short rest?" asked Tails.
"Way ahead of ya!" said Sonic falling onto his back.
It had become night as they rested. Tails got up and decided to look around, due to boredom. Sonic sat down beside a tree. Tails wandered over to the horizon and froze in horror.
"SONIC!" he shouted.
Sonic quickly ran over to Tails and he took froze in horror. Behind the Casino area was a huge base, with a huge black space station in the middle.
"That thing is huge!" said Sonic.
"No doubt that's what the Death Egg is. A Huge Space station, probably equipped with a massive powerful weapon", said Tails.
"Look at that security. A direct assault will just get us killed", said Sonic.
Tails scanned the horizon and noticed the mountains beside the city. He then smiled.
"Then let's sneak through the back door. Lets take a detour through that mountain", said Tails.
Tails pointed to a big mountain with a river of oil coming out from behind it. Sonic didn't looked too thrilled with the idea though.
"You do know those are the Mystic caves. They are said to be haunted. And if we do get through the dark confined caves we have to cross the oil fields, dubbed Oil Ocean. This is all assuming we get passed the magma traps just outside the mystic caves", said Sonic.
"Hey I didn't say it would be easy", said Tails, "but think of the alternatives. Like you said a direct assault is likely to get us killed. And I'm sure the base has plenty of anti-air defenses ruling out the Tornado".
"Well when you put it that way", said Sonic grabbed Tails' hand, "Here we go"
Sonic ran at full speed to the entrance to the Casino area. It was a city completely designed as a huge casino. There were a couple of these scattered across the world. Casino Park and Night Babylon were other big ones. It was believed that Eggman used these casinos to raise funds for his diabolical schemes. Although Sonic hated that, he knew that depriving the people of such an entertaining place was just as bad.
"Open the door to the casino!" Shouted Sonic.
Nothing happened. The doors remained shut. Sonic skidded to a stop.
"Hey I told you to open the door. We don't have time to waste. Eggman is about to launch…" said Sonic.
"Sorry no minors", said a robot bouncer.
"What?... You're kidding me. We need to get past this casino to save the world as we can't get in because we're under 18", said Sonic.
"It is against the law for us to allow anyone under the age of 18 to enter this establishment", said the robot bouncer, "We cannot allow you to get past".
"Dammit! If only I was 3 years older", said Sonic.
"Yeah and me 10 years older. But we don't have to go in Sonic", said Tails.
"What do you mean?" asked Sonic.
"Let's just stick to the rooftops", said Tails.
"Ah! Good idea. That's OK with you isn't it?" asked Sonic.
"I don't see why not" said the robot bouncer, "But no going down below the rooftops. If you do we'll be forced to bring out our security badnik army"
Tails grabbed Sonic and flew up to the roof of the casino. As soon as Sonic could, he ran across the rooftops as the two tried to stay as high as possible. Though no matter how careful they were, they ended up slipping off and hit the floor hard.
All of a sudden they were surrounded by Badniks.
"It's OK, we slipped. Just let us get back to the rooftops…" said Tails.
A gun began firing at them. Sonic grabbed Tails and the two began running off trying to hide. Although it was a city it was still quite dangerous, especially for those not meant to be there. The two managed to get to a point just short of the other end, when they heard Eggman's voice. They decided to eavesdrop on the conversation.
"Here you go Eggman. Here is your 80 percent share of this months profits", said a man quivering with fear.
"Ah! Excellent. I knew it was a good idea to build casinos and security robots, just in case money ever became an issue", said Eggman.
"Then perhaps we could re-negotiate our share of the profits. Say 70 to you 30 to us", said the man, "We could do with more money to develop the city further".
"I'm sorry but I need all the money I can get right now. Don't worry though; when I take over the world money will not be a problem for me. Stay loyal to my empire and I may just reward you with more money", said Eggman.
Suddenly a badnik came storming into the building.
"Dr. Robotnik sir! Sonic and some orange two tailed fox have entered the city. Your orders?" said the badnik.
"Do I really have to tell you? Destroy them both immediately", said Eggman.
"Understood", said the badnik who quickly left in search of the two Heroes.
"Those little pests. Why can't they just leave me to conquer the world in peace", said Eggman, "Hey wait a minute, they're both underage! How did they get past the main gate?"
"We'll do everything we can to stop them", said the man.
"I wish that filled me with confidence but it doesn't. I guess I'll have to deal with this myself. Evacuate the other gate. They'll have to get past me to leave here", said Eggman.
Eggman left in his Eggmobile and stopped at the nearby gate. A giant claw with an electrical current running between the ends appeared.
"Electric claw check, Spike bombs check. Just try it Hedgehog", they heard Eggman say faintly.
Sonic was actually delighted by this. He grabbed Tails and dashed to meet Eggman head on.