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Sonic Adventure Zero – Death of Angels
By Master hunter
Chapter 8 – We're too late!
Sonic and Tails flew over the mountains and saw the Death Egg a lot closer than before. They could tell that it was almost ready to be re-launched. They had to hurry.
As Sonic approached Ice Cap he noticed a snow board sticking out of the snow. Tails slowed himself down by flying while Sonic crashed into the snow board and started snowboarding down the mountain. An avalanche was created by the force which chased Sonic as he went down the mountainside. Tails stayed high above the action. He watched as Sonic navigated through the trees and finished by crashing into a wall. He jumped off the board and landed on the ground beneath them before the snow caught up with him.
A big pile of snow landed on Sonic. Tails quickly pulled Sonic out of the snow and Sonic shuck off the snow. He grabbed Tails and raced down the slippery slopes of Ice cap. After many ice related traps, Badniks (most shaped like penguins) and long slides they were stopped by another of Eggman's machines. This one was a small circular machine with magnetised points sticking out, shaping it like a 'Y'.
The machine covered itself with balls of ice, practically shielding it from attack. It flew towards the ground where Sonic and Tails stood. Sonic and Tails jumped out of the way as the machine ascended back in the air. It then fired the Ice balls into the air, which then fell to the ground. Sonic and Tails managed to dodge the massive hail stones and even managed to get in a couple of hits before it could create another shield.
With a new shield it dived towards them again, before quickly returning into the air. Just like the last time it fired off the ice shield as hail, and just like last time Sonic and Tails managed to do some damage. Even though it was sparking it never changed the pattern and eventually fell to the two heroes.
"That wasn't all that challenging. Eggman's losing his touch", said Sonic.
"Maybe it wasn't meant to stop up, only slow us down. We've wasted enough time already, let's get going", said Tails.
"You're right. Ok! Here we go!" said Sonic before racing off through Ice Cap once more.
More traps lay ahead of them, including some in the ice cold water. Soon they were at the end of Ice Cap and were confronted by Eggman. He said nothing but flew above the heroes as a small platform connected to his vehicle dropped to waist height. It fired a stream of freezing gas as it moved towards Sonic and Tails.
"He plans to freeze us. On the platform", said Sonic.
Tails nodded and the two jumped onto the platform. They struck the underside of Eggman's vehicle, right at the joint connecting the platform to the vehicle. The stress caused from their attacks managed to break the joint, causing the platform to fall off. The freezing gas simply escaped through the bottom of Eggman's vehicle. Eggman angrily descended a little. The freezing gas was now being fired from all directions in short bursts (except above Eggman). Eggman kept moving towards Sonic and Tails hoping that the freezing gas would get them. Tails flew into the air and grabbed Sonic, who then jumped off and smashed into Eggman's vehicle causing it to explode.
Eggman dashed off towards the Death Egg's Launch base, and Sonic and Tails followed, running straight into a wall of Badniks. Eggman smiled knowing that the heavily armoured Badniks would at least give him the time he needed to retreat to the Death Egg. He picked up his radio and made another call to Knuckles.
"Knuckles? Answer me this instant!" said Eggman.
"What is it doctor?" asked Knuckles.
"Sonic is at the Launch base. He got through Ice cap relatively easy and he's here now. If he reaches the Life Egg the whole world will be doomed", said Eggman.
"Ok Doctor, I'm on my way", said Knuckles.
Eggman reached the storage hangar where he kept his security drones. He picked up a crate and was surprised to find Sonic and Tails had already caught up with him. While being hit by Sonic Eggman grabbed the crate and flew off into the air. Outside was Knuckles who had just reached the place where they first met. He gave Knuckles a bomb and told him to use it to blow up Sonic.
"Desperate times call for desperate measures. I have to prepare my weapon in case you fail", said Eggman.
Knuckles took a moment to think.
"Don't let him win. He is a danger to you and the island. You must do something", said Eggman.
Knuckles nodded and headed back the way Eggman had came, where he soon met up with Sonic and Tails. They were all inside a big storage building, right at the roof. Knuckles stood in the only exit beside the one Sonic and Tails came through. He lit the bomb and threw it in the building before laughing and jumping out. Sonic and Tails quickly jumped out too and ducked for cover as the building they were in collapsed.
As they got up they noticed Knuckles had completely disappeared and the only thing in front of them was a big opening to a big arena. Inside Eggman had left the crate and pressed a switch. He flew off quickly despite Sonic's attacks. The crate started to open and out came a sphere with chains coming out of it, sort of like arms and the hands were spiked balls.
The Sphere began to zigzag towards them, with the spike arms circling the sphere. The arms would extend then retract randomly. Sonic tried an attack but was knocked back when the arms extended again quickly. He fell to the ground, flipping himself back to his feet just before he reached the ground. This time Sonic waited for the arms to start retracting before he attacked. He hit the machine at one of the joints between an arm and the main body. Tails hit the other joint with a well timed jump attack. It was all a matter of timing their attacks perfectly and after a few more hits one of the arms came off, later followed by the other. With the main body defenseless it fell to the ground and smashed into pieces.
"Not much time left", said Sonic.
Sonic grabbed Tails' arm and ran as quickly as he could through the pipes leading to the Death Egg.
At the other end of Launch base Eggman waited in his cannon machine. Knuckles was standing by his side.
"The bomb didn't work. How the hell are we supposed to stop Sonic?" said Eggman angrily.
"What now?" asked Knuckles.
"Get in the spare Eggmobile waiting for you down there. If he managed to get past these cannons he still has to stop the Life Egg launching. You wait in the Life Egg for me. Together we'll fight him; we can at least slow him down. Give enough time for the Life Egg to launch again", said Eggman.
"Right", said Knuckles.
Knuckles jumped in the Eggmobile but couldn't get it to work. Instead he jumped and glided to a nearby pillar. He didn't need that machine; he could jump and glide his way there.
Meanwhile Sonic and Tails had reached Eggman's cannon console.
"Ten minutes hedgehog. That's all you have before I re-launch the Death Egg. There's no spaceship for you to grab onto this time. If it launches the world is doomed", said Eggman.
"We'll see", said Sonic.
Sonic tried to strike the console Eggman was using to fire the cannons but it was just too high for him to reach alone. The two heroes dodged the cannon fire and Tails grabbed Sonic attempting to get more height first. Eggman fired a quick shot at them just as Tails let go off Sonic. Sonic smashed into the console as the cannon fire hit Tails. Tails fell to the ground unconscious.
"TAILS! Right that's it. No more mister nice Hedgehog", said Sonic.
Eggman fired more cannonball; Sonic dodged them while trying to think of a way to hit the console again. He noticed one of the cannons fired from behind a door that opened out.
"8 minutes Hedgehog. That lucky hit didn't do that much damage. Face it I've won this time", said Eggman.
Sonic jumped over a cannonball and bounced off the door that had opened out. It gave him enough height to hit the console again.
"You were saying?" said Sonic falling back to the ground.
"No! Wait! I can hold out for a few more minutes", said Eggman, "Bring it on".
Since Sonic had found the pattern to defeating Eggman he repeated the process until the console was sparking. Eggman abandoned the console just before it exploded.
"Two more minutes! You still have to get onto the Death Egg", said Eggman.
Eggman looked down to find the Eggmobile he left for Knuckles was still there. He froze in terror knowing that Sonic could easily use that to reach the Death Egg. He soon reached the hangar platform and prepared for another battle.
If Sonic reaches here, he still has to fight two of my most devious weapons ever created.
Meanwhile Tails had regained consciousness and the two jumped into the vehicle left by Eggman. Tails quickly learned how to master it and off they went. There was no road left for them to walk on as they were finally there. They were underneath the Death Egg, though by the time they set off there was only seconds left before it launched. They slowly flew over the water beneath them heading straight for the Hangar Eggman was at.
"We're going to make it easily", said Tails at the controls.
"Not if I have anything to say about it", said Knuckles standing on one of the pillars.
"Sonic I can't change course. We're going to fly straight into him", said Tails.
"But we're hardly moving fast. Oh no!" said Sonic.
Knuckles punched the vehicle back at bit and Tails stopped it.
"Sonic we can't get passed him", said Tails.
"Damn. He's going to launch that thing and there's nothing we can do", said Sonic.
Then the rockets under the Death Egg fired and the huge sphere of Black Death began to rise. The force made the pillars shake and while Knuckles laughed at his success he was knocked off his pillar by the shaking. Knuckles disappeared into the water beneath them and Tails started the Eggmobile again. They reached just reached the Hangar before the Death Egg's ascent got too high.
There were no more words as Eggman appeared in a tower machine that fired lasers at Sonic. Sonic and Tails quickly made short work of the tower, continuously hitting it until it blew up. The only time they had to be careful was when a small spike ball flew over Eggman's cockpit. Eggman fell to the floor and Sonic quickly grabbed him.
"How do we stop this thing?" asked Sonic.
"You think that's it? That was just the warm up", said Eggman.
Suddenly another much larger machine appeared. The top of the cockpit was covered in spikes while the base had two large metal arms ready to grab anything the fell into its waiting hands. Eggman jumped inside it as the sky went dark. They were entering orbit and had to work quickly. Eggman flew in his new machine high above them. He moved around them quickly before descending back to the ground. He then charged along the hangar platform they were on, his spikes sticking out like a shark in water. The platform began to get smaller as Eggman smashed through it trying to ram into the two heroes.
Tails began to fly bringing Sonic up into the air. Eggman then charged at them. Once again the cockpit was the obvious weak spot, but hitting it was difficult. The spikes at the top and the deadly arms beneath them meant is their aim wasn't accurate they would get hurt, badly. Sonic managed to hit it though as Eggman's charge separated the two heroes. Eggman quickly turned around and Sonic back flipped into a spin attack just as Eggman made another ram attack. A perfect hit and Eggman's machine started sparking.
"Tails you deal with the Death Egg. I'll take care of Eggman", said Sonic.
"But Sonic?" said Tails in a worrying voice.
"Don't worry about me, just do it", said Sonic, "I'm counting on you"
Tails flew into the Death Egg and frantically searched for the control room. Meanwhile back on the Hangar platform, the fight between Sonic and Eggman really started to heat up. Eggman tried the same pattern again only to have Sonic get another couple of good hits. Eggman furiously went through the pattern faster and this time grabbed Sonic. He flew into the air ready to smash Sonic back into the platform.
Meanwhile Tails found the Control room and stopped the Death Egg, sending it crashing back down to Earth. He ran back the way he came and reached the hangar again only to find Sonic in serious trouble. Eggman crashed back down into the hangar platform and Tails made a desperate dash. He jumped into a spin attack and hit the machine just before it hit the ground. The arms released Sonic, who jumped off them and made the final hit.
Eggman's machine blew apart and flew into the two joints hanging up the platform. The platform broke free from the Death Egg and fell towards the ground. As it fell Sonic and Tails watched as the Death Egg also fell. Tails jumped for joy and Sonic smiled as the Death Egg crashed into a volcano.
"Yeah we did it!" said Tails.
"No we didn't. It still exists doesn't it? We only stopped another launch. This isn't over yet. This time we'll make it to the volcano and blow that thing up", said Sonic.
"Oh Ok! But it's still a victory right", said Tails.
"You said it little buddy. Though I'm a little worried about us. Any ideas on how we can crash into the ground and still live?" asked Sonic.
Sonic and Tails screamed as the fell into the strange forest area beneath them.
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Knuckles meanwhile took the time they spent fighting to free another Emerald. He had just returned to the Hidden Palace shrine to feel the crash shockwave from the Death Egg crashing into Lava Reef volcano.
"Sonic managed to stop the Doctor it seems. That shockwave wasn't as intense as the first one but if they keep crashing that thing into my Island I might never get the Island restored again", said Knuckles.
He raced out of the Hidden Palace to find Eggman stuck in his vehicle that had crashed into the Space station's walls. He was screaming for help and was glad, though also angry to see Knuckles just standing there.
"He beat you then Doctor?" asked Knuckles.
"Yes. He's just so strong. But that isn't going to stop me. I'll launch this thing yet", said Dr. Robotnik.
"I really wish you wouldn't and just forget about this thing", said Knuckles.
"Hey! Where were you during the big fight? Why didn't you take the Eggmobile I left for you? If you had just took it the Life Egg would be safely in orbit again", said Dr. Robotnik.
"I couldn't get that thing to work. Besides don't blame me if you're weapons aren't strong enough to beat him", said Knuckles, "Right now I have my own agenda too. Stay out of my business or you'll be sorry"
What's he hiding?