Chapter 16: It's finally over… or is it?
With Eggman's robots destroyed, the guild had a detonator bomb placed inside the glass dome, which minutes later was also destroyed… There was victory over Aerick, and all his men left behind dead, but there were still many other problems: Aerick and Eggman escaped, but didn't still seem like much of a threat, where would they go now? They had no where else to go. Plus, there was peril in the chaos realm, one of the seven guardians were gone. Now, instead of seven, six chaos emeralds exist. You couldn't even imagine how bad that explosion was set off by the missile. That was 10,000 times worse than an atom bomb. The damage was VERY extensive… but as far as the guild students could tell, nothing else posed a threat. Plus, South Island was unable to tell who sent the missile, thus no war had begun, but a military army patrol has taken effect in most of the countries. Now the guild had every single Chaos Emerald, and the one destroyed was the yellow colored emerald. Shadow was the most disappointed of all. He had failed to catch Aerick… once again, Aerick escaped. A meeting was held at the shrine of the Master Emerald, everyone at the guild was required to be there. Mare-rith soon spoke.
"Though we had victory, we did not able to catch Eggman or Aerick, plus, many people were killed yesterday… I understand you all had a sleepless night, as did I… As far as we know, Aerick and Eggman have no salvation… but as long as they are within range of the guild, and can tap into the emerald's power, they can still be dangerous, you are all dismissed, I must speak with our special case now…" Mare-rith gave the word, and everyone cleared the room but Shadow, Sonic, Tails, Tikal and Knuckles.
"You have all done well… but you deserve better… as you discovered recently, we have BAD BLOOD between each of us. Shadow…your kin and ours destroyed each other until the echidnas arrived, and they attacked. The echidnas vowed that any other surviving echidna was to kill the hedgehog… Knuckles, you know now you are not the last of your kin. But, Aerick's greed destroyed your family, Shadow, Knuckles, here is were you will fulfill your vows… either you remain with our guild, or we can go separate ways, and be enemies… your choice…" Mare-rith said.
"I will stay with my friends…" Knuckles said, then each of them looked at Shadow… who paused for a while. Soon, he gave his answer. "I too shall stay, at least until Aerick is dead." Shadow said. "Good, then I hold your oaths fulfilled. We shall do our normal duty. Use the chaos emeralds for good." Mare-rith said. "So now what?" Sonic asked, "Eggman does still have refuge!" Shadow said. "What, that's stupid, where could he go?" Tails asked. "The Egg Carrier!" Sonic said. "Say… the Egg Carrier never did sink into the ocean." Tails said. "Then I have a new mission for you. Sonic, Tails, go to what is left of the destroyed base, if there is any remaining research of the Egg Carrier still existing, find it. As for you two, Shadow, Knuckles, I want you two to go and search the charted ocean regions around Station Square… I think sometimes there are rumors of the carrier being sited near the resident hotels near the ocean." Mare-rith said, "Tails, it shouldn't be a problem for you to hack into the base and search for weapons. Now Shadow, you and Knuckles will need a jet…" He said. "They could use the Tornado plain I have in my garage in the Mystic Ruins workshop." Tails said. "That could work." Mare-rith said, "Now you have your orders, start the search." He said. "Good god! I hope this is the last time we have to go into those DAMN ruins!" Shadow said.
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