SONIC ADVENTURE 2: ALTERATIONS

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and if they so choose, the story will be deleted.

Re-Entry…

INSIDE THE SPACE COLONY:

"Is everybody alright?" asked Sonic as the others as his head cleared.

Everyone nodded or said they were alright, Knuckles looked around then asked, "Does anybody know what just happened?"

Tails quickly answered, "I don't know, I'll check to see if the Ark's sensors recorded anything on that wave."

Eggman, after pinching himself to see if he wasn't dreaming (while no one was looking), made an announcement, "While Tails is doing that I'll check the Ark's structural integrity, we should make sure that whatever that wave was didn't damage the Ark in a way that may lead to a hull breach."

Just as he reached the console the Ark made an all too familiar sickening rumble, as she braced herself against the wall Amy cried out, "What's going on? I thought Sonic and Shadow had stopped the Ark from falling anymore."

As the shaking subsided, Tails answered Amy's question, "The wave scrambled the computers that control the Ark's orbit. The computers are causing the Ark's orbital rockets to misfire, they've pushed us back out of orbit."

Quickly typed something into the console, "There may be a way for us to get out of here, there are some un-used escape pods in the lower decks of the Space Colony, if we can reach them then we can escape the Colony before it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere!"

Sonic started towards the door, "Then what are we waiting for, lets move it."

Rouge followed as Sonic left, "No arguments here."

Eggman then turned to Tails, "You better get that walker of yours ready, we'll need it's and the Egg Walker's firepower to break some low level security doors on the way." While Tails wasn't looking, Eggman quietly opened Tails' briefcase a grabbed one of the Chaos Emeralds, then quietly closed it again before getting into his Egg Walker.

Knuckles turned to Shadow as Tails and Eggman left in their Walkers, "Well, aren't you coming, or are you going to stay here?"

Shadow looked at Knuckles, some exhaustion still in his eyes,  "I was just thinking about something, come on, you don't want to get left behind do you."

As Shadow and Knuckles raced out the door, Amy quickly followed, "Hey, don't you guys dare leave me behind!" *Why do they always leave me behind?*

SPACE COLONY CORRIDOR (10 Minutes to Impact (again)):

Alarms blare throughout the colony, automated security doors close and computers containing secret information shut down, only to be activated again by numerous codes.
On one of the lower levels, a window begins to loosen as the Ark once again enters the atmosphere, even thought it's decent has been slowed by the now working computers meant to control the Ark's orbit now attempting to put the Ark back into orbit. A few meters down the corridor, a security door rattles, then bursts forward as it is blown open by the Egg Walker and Tornado 3 (AN: It is the Tornado 3 you can see the 3 only if you look closely though.).

Amy looked down the darkened corridor, "Where are we, are you sure you know where we are going?"

Eggman looked down to Amy from the Egg Walker, "I've used the Egg Walker's own computer to access the Ark's systems, Ms. Rose, the escape pods are just ahead."

Tails then maneuvered the Tornado 3 towards a nearby window, "It look's like something's slowing the Ark's decent, it looks like we're already in the Earth's atmosphere."

Rouge turned towards Tails, "What do you mean…  Look Out!"

The window beside Tails was shaking and beginning to crack because of the vibration, it quickly shattered pulling Tails, Sonic, Knuckles, and Amy out of the Colony.

Shadow quickly grabbed Rouge and a near by support before she too was sucked out, Eggman quickly typed on his console in the Egg Walker as it too began to be pulled out.

Emergency shutters quickly closed over the window, as they did Shadow let go of the support, Rouge turned to the others, "They're gone…"

Shadow looked down as Eggman shook his head, "I may have wanted to kill that hedgehog, but not even I wanted it to happen like this."

A large rumble and groan echoed throughout the Colony, "Hurry, that breach probably has weakened the rest of the Colony's hull integrity, even if the Colony's decent has slowed we must still evacuate."

With that the trio began to continue down the Colonies corridor, to the escape pods, and their new world.

SOMEWHERE IN THE ATMOSPHERE OVER STATION SQUARE:

It was cold, very cold, as Tails struggled to stay conscious and change the Tornado into flight mode.

Amy was falling nearby, unconscious, Sonic holding her while holding onto the Tornado to keep both from tumbling away, while Knuckles held onto the other side of the Tornado.

As the wings finally fully extended, Tails began to try to slow their decent, he put the Tornado's jet engine in full reverse, turning while pointing the nose up to lose speed.

The air began to warm as they dropped lower into the atmosphere, Sonic, still holding Amy looked to Tails wearily, "I own little buddy."

Tails just shook his head no, just then Knuckles spotted something familiar, "Hey, isn't that the Mystic Ruins train station?"

Sonic looked ahead, "Hey, yeah it is, hey Tails, why don't you make another pass and lets park this thing in your workshop."

Tails smiled and saluted Sonic, "I'm on it Sonic."

SOMEWHERE OUTSIDE OF STATION SQUARE (a few minutes after the above):

Eggman, Rouge, and Shadow, carefully exited their escape pods, which had landed on some cliffs outside of Station Square.

On a whim Rouge looked up into the sky, as if to look for the fallen heroes, and noticed the moon, all thoughts of the others left her mind, "Hey boys, this may sound strange, but has anybody looked at the moon recently?"

Shadow and Eggman looked at Rouge strangely, Shadow then blinked a couple times then looked up into the sky, Eggman on the other hand wasn't as calm, "What are you talking about Rouge, what do you mean look at the…" He stopped when he did look up and noticed the moon, "…IMPOSSIBLE!!!"

Shadow stared at the FULL moon, "If I'm not mistaken we destroyed have of that moon, so what happened to that damage?"

"Or us…"

Shadow and Rouge turned to Eggman, "What are you talking about?" Rouge asked.

Eggman turned back from the moon towards Shadow and Rouge, "I've been thinking about that energy wave that passed through the Ark, since it was caused by Chaos energy then it is possible, just possible, that that wave was a form of Chaos Control." A smile appearing on his face as he finished.

Rouge's jaw dropped, "Chaos Control? Are you saying that this isn't Earth?"

Eggman smile just got larger, "Maybe not our Earth."

The implications of Eggman's words, quickly dawns on Rouge, "Which means that no-one knows what happened, and maybe no-one knows us…"

Shadow also smiled, *and I still keep my promise to you Maria, even if I still work for the 'good' doctor*.

MYSTIC RUINS (Old Airfield):

Tails brought the Tornado round for another pass, as he did Tails pressed the toggle to ready the runway, then he frowned.

Sonic quickly noticed his friend's expression, "What's wrong Tails?"

Tails quickly turned to Sonic then back to the darkened runway, "Something's wrong, I just turned on the runway lights but the runway is still dark, I had just finished testing them before I found out that you had been arrested."

Sonic looked down at the darkened runway, "Are you sure they didn't burn out or something?"

Knuckles turned to look at Tails, "What are you two talking about?"

Tails just shook his head, "It's nothing, everybody hang on tight, we're going in."

FIVE MINUTES LATER:

Sonic shook his head as he walked towards the door of the old air terminal, "Tails, I can't believe you still have trouble landing that thing, you have got to… … Tails what happened to your workshop?"

On Earth the old air terminal had been converted into Tails' workshop, but on Neo-Terra…

Amy, who had been woken by the 'landing', walked up beside Sonic, "Tails, this place is a dump, don't you ever clean it up?"

When Tails walked into the terminal, he was dumbfounded, where he expected his various machines and unfinished projects he found old avionics equipment, dust, webs, and a lot junk he was sure that he had thrown out when he first got the place.

Tails' jaw dropped, he grunted a little in surprise before he could himself together, "I don't know, half this stuff I'm sure I threw out when I first got to use this place as my Workshop."

Knuckles, who had walked in after Amy quietly walked over to a counter and wiped his finger along the top, "This place looks like it hasn't been used in 50 years."

(AN: Why is it always a multiple of 5 or even number of years in these things (Games, movies, etc.))

Sonic just shrugged, "Well whatever happened here, why don't we help Tails get this place back together, besides, we owe him."

Amy smiled, "Yeah, hey Knuckles you going to help to?"

Knuckles shrugged, "I might as well, since I have the Master emerald with me I don't have to worry about it being stolen when I'm gone, and I have nothing else to do."

Tails was touched by his friends' kindness, "You guys really want to help me get this place back together again?"

Sonic put his hand on his friend's shoulder, "Of course we do, were friends, and besides, like I said, we owe you."

Tails smiled as he and his friends began to clean up the old terminal.

ADVANCED RESCUE COMMAND HEADQUARTERS (Robotics Lab):

Shadow walked into Robotics Lab, and once more found Robotnik working on one of his "Inventions".

Shadow smiled as he spoke, "Professor Robotnik," he paused as Ivo instinctively sat up at his name being called, unfortunately for him he had his newest project above him when he did so.

Clunk!

Shadow then continued, "You need to report to the main briefing room, Gun is calling in the heads every department for this, whatever it is."

The Professor got up and rubbed his head a bit before he answered, "Do you have to keep doing that?"

Shadow smiled, "Doing what? Besides, you have to get to that briefing room."

As they left that room, Ivo turned his head to Shadow, "Do you think this is really that important?"

Shadow just looked to Ivo, "You spend way to much time in that room, you should at least put window in there or something, then maybe you would have seen it."

Ivo looked at Shadow seriously, "Seen what?"

Shadow shook his head, "About half an hour ago, there was a massive disturbance in orbit around Neo-Terra, whatever it was lit up half the planet before it stopped, for crying out loud it lit up the Cafeteria from the Lobby!"

Ivo was shocked, especially since there was about 100 feet and 5 corners between the Lobby and the Cafeteria, "What?!"

Shadow continued further, "That's not all, when it disappeared we detected a large mass in its place, our scans were able to confirm that whatever it was, it was built along the lines of a Bernoulli spherical space colony, but for some reason began to lose orbit and quickly entered the atmosphere, other than that I have nothing to tell you."

As they came to the Briefing Room Ivo turned to Shadow, "Let's hope they tell me what's going on."

END CHAPTER TWO OF ALTERATIONS