Disclaimer: Two chapters in a row with the word 'truth' in them. Interesting... Oh, and Sega and Sonic Team own everyone who isn't Fistika, Metal Amy or Prisal.
Authors note: Just so you know, I now except anonymous reviews! Now to see if anyone off the site is reading this! Anyway, allot of what's happened is building up to the ending of this chapter. You'll never guess what it is. Do and I'll either A) Send you a toaster or B) Claim you looked at the end and give you nothing. Oh, and Lamont, I may be able to get your character in, but I'd have to greatly change his back story. O.K?
The Tornado flew over the peaceful sky at a typical high speed. To the plane's left the Marvellous Queen flew at an equal speed. Tails piloted the Tornado and Sonic stood on the planes tail, while Nack piloted his 'Marvellous Queen', with Shadow and Amy sitting behind him. Shadow was quiet through out the trip, deep in thought. He had decided he was not going to let what Sonic saw come true. He just couldn't. Shadow had realised the only people he knew with guns was G.U.N. Shadow had tried to convince Amy not to come, but couldn't, mostly because he couldn't bring himself to tell Amy what he had discovered. The only reason he could think for G.U.N to shoot her was either her being found infiltrating the base, or G.U.N trying to get him. Shadow was going to try to prevent either scenarios from happening. Shadow looked into the distance. He could just make out a grey building.
"Five minutes until we get there!" Tails shouted. Sonic jumped from the planes tail to its left wing.
"Right guys, Shadow, get at close to the emeralds as you can, using Chaos control. The rest of us will cause a distraction for you to get the twelve emeralds. It's that simple." Shadow stood up on Nack's air bike.
"Sorry Sonic, but I have my own things to do in the base." Before anyone could say anything else, Shadow jumped off the air bike.
"Shadow!" Amy screamed. She looked over the side of the vehicle, to see a green glow.
"Drat! What is he playing at?" Sonic asked. Amy sat back down.
"I have no clue. I don't think I've seen him acting so mysterious since we started dating." The Tornado suddenly rocked violently.
"TAILS! Control this thing!" Sonic ordered.
"We're being fired on!" Tails replied. Sonic peered down at the ground.
"I don't see any turrets..." The plane rocked violently again. Tails pointed forwards.
"G.U.N aren't the ones firing..." Sonic looked in front of the Tornado. Super Metal Knuckles was flying in front of the plane.
"It's a small world after all." Super Metal Knuckles joked. He looked at Sonic. "Have we told Amy about the secret yet"
"You mean that thing about time travel and blood?" Amy, Sonic and Super Metal Knuckles all looked at Nack with odd looks. "Apparently I can't keep a secret." Nack gave a nervous smile.
"Dang. Fine, I'll just beat the heck out of you then." Super Metal Knuckles claimed. A look of determination swept across Tails face.
"Hang on guys, I'm going to try and lose this creep!" Tails pushed forward on a lever. The Tornado sprang to life and flew off much faster, knocking Super Metal Knuckles out of the way. The Marvellous Queen followed at the same rate it had been going.
"Go faster Nack!" Amy shouted.
"I'm going as fast as it can! I don't have boost like that!" Nack shouted back. Super Metal Knuckles regained his senses and looked at the air bike.
"Nack, good to see you again." Super Metal Knuckles flew at the same speed as the air bike, directly in front of it.
"Yeah, well I kind of got fired from your gang." Nack replied. Super Metal Knuckles laughed slightly.
"You would have lasted longer if you actually did anything." Super Metal Knuckles rose his fists. "But enough small talk. I believe if I kidnap Amy, she could be of use." Super Metal Knuckles flew at the vehicle. Nack swerved to avoid him. Super Metal Knuckles turned around and tried to ram the air bike again.
"I'm not letting him hurt my MARVELOUS QUEEN! Oh, or you I suppose." Nack sent the air bike into a nosedive. Nack noticed a wooded area near by. A smile appeared on his face. "Hang on gal." He directed his air bike at the woods. Super Metal Knuckles was still heading towards them. Nack made the air bike turn onto its side, making Super Metal Knuckles miss it completely. Nack flied past the robot and into the woods. He expertly dodged the hundreds of trees he was flying around and past. Super Metal Knuckles was following, dodging most of the trees and smashing through the occasional one. "Oh dang!" Nack looked back to see Super Metal Knuckles still following. Nack realised the base with right in front of them. Nack turned the air bike out of the wood and along the bases wall. Turrets fired at them from most side. Nack kept going, the bullets flying everywhere.
"This is suicide Nack!" Amy screamed.
"Since we began this mission all you've done is scream." Criticised Nack. Super Metal Knuckles still followed, but the bullets were slowing him down. "See, it's working." Nack got to the side of the wall, and turned so he was now flying parallel to the roof. Nack turned around. "I think we lost him." Nack began to pull up from the onslaught of bullets, but suddenly the roof in front of them broke and Super Metal Knuckles flew out.
"Shortcut." He simply explained. Nack swore and turned sharply to the left. A stray bullet hit Nack's air bike, causing it to shake violently, shaking Amy off it.
"Pink hog!" Nack shouted as Amy fell down onto the roof. Super Metal Knuckles flew down straight after her. Nack pulled his air bike out of the turrets range and looked down at the roof. "Oh, I'll never get a chance at those emeralds if I don't get her back." Nack complained and dived back into the rain of bullets.
Amy landed hard against the metal roof. She suspected to be tore to part by bullets, but all turrets were firing at the oncoming Super Metal Knuckles. He floated slightly in front of her.
"Come to me." He mocked. Amy looked behind her. She spotted an escape, but it was risky. Super Metal Knuckles was coming closer. She had to take the gambit. Amy rolled back and fell down the hole made by Super Metal Knuckles. Super Metal Knuckles was about to follow her, when an air bike flew straight into his chest. Even in super form it was enough to knock him onto the ground. Nack looked down at the roof.
"Where has she gone." He muttered. Nack couldn't see her anywhere. He swore again and flew off before Super Metal Knuckles fully recovered. Nack wasn't going to risk his own life anymore for Amy.
Tails landed the Tornado slightly out of the turrets reach. Sonic jumped off the plane and landed in front of it. Tails got out of the cockpit and walked up next to Sonic.
"Do you think Amy is okay?" Tails asked, sounding worried. Sonic turned his head to look at Tails.
"Nack has 'mad skills' in that thing, but he could have turned to Eggman's side, so can't really say, but we can't go back for her now!" Sonic looked thoughtfully at the base. "We can't help her now." He muttered. "So, how are going to get in without Shadow?" Sonic asked. Tails simply shrugged. Sonic sat down and went into deep thought. "Great. Shadow suddenly runs off and Metal Knuckles appears! What is wrong with today!" Sonic kicked a near day rock and sat on the ground. Tails was looking around in the sky.
"Where you think Metal Knuckles went?" Tails asked. Nack landed next to them.
"Boyos, Amy disappeared!" Nack shouted.
"What?" Sonic and Tails shouted back.
"She fell onto the roof and disappeared!" Nack replied. Sonic and Tails looked up at the bases roof.
"Well, where could she have gone?" Sonic asked no one in particular. He was surprised to get an answer.
"She went into the base. I'm going to let G.U.N deal with her." Super Metal Knuckles flew down to Sonic, Nack and Tails. Sonic instantly prepared for a fight. "Oh, poor Sonic. Always solving everything with a fight." Sonic smiled slightly.
"And you plan to solve our differences how?" Sonic asked.
"Violence. I just feel sorry for you because you will end up dead." Super Metal Knuckles slammed his fist into Sonic and knocked over Tails. Nack quickly ran off to hide behind the Tornado. Sonic ran around Super Metal Knuckles. Super Metal Knuckles made a few attempts to hit the blue blur, but didn't have a chance. Sonic tried to blow Super Metal Knuckles away with a 'blue tornado', but Super Metal Knuckles kept his footing. The metal echidna put his hand in front of himself, causing Sonic to run straight into it. Super Metal Knuckles chuckled slightly as Sonic got to his feet again. Tails tried to attack, but Super Metal Knuckles tossed him aside. Sonic jumped at him. He tried to kick him in the head, but Super Metal Knuckles simply grabbed the leg and chucked him on top of Tails. "I'm afraid I can't play for very long." two metal discs came out of his shoulders. "My energy taking discs shall finish the job. Goodbye. May you both have an unhappy death." The disks floated over the Sonic and Tails. The two heroes began to feel themselves getting weak. Neither could stand up. They felt blackness beginning to surround them.
"Sir! Sir!" A frantic soldier ran into Prisal's white room. "Two intruders have entered the complex, one is believed to be project Shadow!" The soldier tried to catch his breath.
"Shadow has come to us? Excellent!" Prisal's voice boomed back. "I want them both here!" Prisal ordered.
"Here? In this room?" The soldier questioned.
"Did I stutter? NOW!" The soldier saluted and left. No sooner had he left another soldier came in.
"Sir, the blood samples Fistika collected have been found in the main hall." He informed Prisal. Prisal voice came back with surprise.
"You what? How could that be? It makes no sense!" The solder opened up a folded piece of paper.
"He left a message, it says 'Ultimate weapon? I believe I can use that. You go ahead if your little experiment.' Also, he left some of his chaos enhanced blood for us." Prisal laughed.
"The cocky fool! I can't believe he would just deliver the DNA to us! Not only that, but give us some chaos enchanted DNA!" Prisal laughed some more.
"Another plus is we don't need some ones DNA. Fistika's can be used in the place of one of the original chosen, say Mighty." The soldier smiled and saluted. He then walked out of the room.
"Won't be long now..." Prisal muttered to himself.
Shadow walked towards the monitors in front of him. He had chaos controlled into one of the bases rooms, defeated all the guards, which now lay on the floor, twitching in pain. Shadow sat down at one of the computers and began his work. Someone was already logged on, so Shadow didn't need to hack in. He immediately set up a search for any folder or file related to 'Prisal'. It turned up no results.
"Nothing, dang!" Shadow growled. No information on Prisal was held on G.U.N's computers. Shadow tried a different search. This time he tried 'Gerald Robotnik'. This turned a result, detailing the A.R.K assault. "A group of soldiers from government agency A.M.M.O have boarded and captured the scientists on the A.R.K, believing them to be 'dangerous and arming themselves with weapons of mass destruction', taking evidence from intelligence reports coming from A.M.M.O operatives who have been inspecting the A.R.K. The list of deaths caused during the raid was 21. The official record for the event is that there was 'an accident', not wanting the public to know about the orbiting weaponry. The lead scientist, one Professor Gerald Robotnik, was found guilty of creating weapons of mass destruction in a secret hearing and was sentenced to be executed. The execution was postpone by a years by what A.M.M.O claimed to be 'a technicality', before being forced to carry out the execution by the government. There were no witnesses to the execution, and who actually executed Robotnik is still unknown." Shadow read the document. It was obvious that A.M.M.O had allot to do with his past, so Shadow searched 'A.M.M.O', again to one result. "A.M.M.O was a government agency responsible for the development and research onto new weaponry. Its leader, one John Minor, was well known for his beliefs on weaponry being the only way to 'keep the world in line'. His most destructive weapon planned was 'the devastating ray', but he could not get the government clearance to create it." The blue prints for the devastating ray were shown, and they were near identical to those of the 'Eclipse cannon'. "A.M.M.O once deviated from there job of creating weaponry to provide supplies and funding for the first space colony A.R.K. Ironically they soon had to close it because of weapons being created on it which could be a threat. After a few problems caused around the A.R.K incident, A.M.M.O lost a lot of there reputation, allowing a new group named G.U.N to step in and soon make them obsolete. A mere week after the fall of A.M.M.O John Minor was assassinated." Shadow slammed his fists on the keyboard, he was learning nothing! Shadow decided to try a more direct approach. He did a search for 'Project Shadow'. This turned up another one result. "Project Shadow is a weapon created by Professor Gerald Robotnik, its current whereabouts is unknown and capturing it is top priority." Shadow was shocked to find that was all that was written about him, he suspected at least something of use. Shadow was about to do another search, when he heard soldiers charging down the hallways towards him. Shadow sighed and rose his chaos emerald. He planned on making a quick stop at there emerald stash, and getting out. The guards were getting closer, but Shadow didn't worry as all he had to do to get out was to say two words.
"We have Amy, Shadow! Escape and she dies!" Shadow lowered the emerald slightly. The voice that had just boomed across the base sounded like Prisal did in his memory. The soldiers were barley seconds away now. Shadow didn't know if he should trust the voice, or high tail it out of there. He sighed. He couldn't gamble with Amy's life. The room was flooded with G.U.N soldiers, all with guns pointing at Shadow. Shadow rose his hands in defeat. One of the soldiers walked forward, nervously took the emerald out of Shadow's hand, then retreated back to his comrades.
"March hedgehog, our boss would like to see you." A different soldier ordered. Shadow sighed again, and let the soldiers force him along to there boss.
Shadow was walked into a pure white room (Which were all accustom to now), a few soldiers and a pink hedgehog was already in there. Amy gasped upon seeing Shadow. Shadow ignored Amy and looked straight at one of the walls.
"He's watching us." Shadow simply claimed. Amy was to scare to ask what he meant by the comment.
"Leave us." Prisal's voice commanded. The soldiers hesitated at first, but soon left Amy and Shadow alone with there faceless captor. "Ah Shadow." Prisal's voice came from everywhere, but Shadow seemed convinced he knew where Prisal was. "I have long wanted you back in my presence." Prisal claimed.
"Why?" Shadow asked. Prisal laughed at him.
"You don't remember me, do you?" Prisal questioned.
"Only slightly." Shadow truthfully answered. Prisal laughed again. Suddenly the room began to shake. Amy fell to the floor, but Shadow continued to stand as if he didn't notice the vibrations. The wall Shadow had been staring at had began to slide open. It revealed a series of complex computers and machinery contained inside an another room. This room was dark, with very little light. A figure stood in the middle of the room. To Shadow's surprise Prisal didn't seem to be carrying any sort of weapon. "I still can't see you." Shadow pointed out, hoping to lure Prisal out far enough to tackle him. Prisal began to walk forwards.
"On the A.R.K Gerald wanted you for more than just your abilities." Prisal walked into the light. Amy's and Shadow's eyes widened.
"Oh my..." Amy muttered.
"No." Shadow added.
"You were a cure for Maria, immortality"
"This is not possible, it makes no sense whatsoever!" Shadow shouted, as if trying to tell reality to stop kidding.
"He tested the cure on himself, to his ever lasting regret..." Prisal continued.
"It just can't be possible..." Shadow's voice had lowered significantly.
"... and to my ever lasting thanks." Prisal smiled at Shadow. Shadow could barley talk anymore, this was way to much for him to take in. He could only utter the name of the person that he saw before himself.
"Professor?"