SONIC ADVENTURE 2: ALTERATIONS

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Smoke and Mirrors

Museum's Main Hall:

Ambrosia was pissed, first the Egg-head ruined her plans, and then this upstart catches her off guard, "You're going to die you B!"

Amy was scared but stood her ground, Sonic had gone after the two Shadows and the Emerald, but she couldn't let her fear stop her from stopping this psychopath from hurting innocent people.

All around the two hedgehogs bullets were fired and ricocheted off there target or bore deep holes into what they hit, not a dent showed on Eggman's latest machination, and Ambrosia's men cared little for the people on the ground. In places on the floor, blood had already began to stain tile, and from the floor above Tails saw one of Ambrosia's men prepare to make a hostage into a living shield from the black/red machine.

As Tails jumped to stop what he saw, Ivo made a drastic move, a gun left lying on the floor by the other ambassador's guard when the two had run in the confusion, taking a chance to stop this he grabbed the gun, and pointed it at Eggman's head, his hands shaking so hard he looked like he was going to drop it.

Eggman noticed, and just grinned as he turned the Egg Walker and moved towards the petrified scientist, Ivo just shook harder, "Stop right there, don't come any farther, just, just leave and take…"

Eggman just laughed, "HOHOHOHO, you think I'm scared of that little peashooter, You've never held a gun in your life have you? HOHOHOHO…" It was at that point that Ivo finally lost his grip on the gun and it fell uselessly to the floor.

Behind them Maria, seeing her cousin in danger and knowing she needed time got off the stage and grabbed a gun off of one of Ambrosia's men that had fallen, her voice was clear and commanding as she pointed the weapon at Eggman, "Stop right there and leave Ivo alone, You have no right to do what you have done, I'm placing you under citizen's arrest, if you don't…"

Having turned to see who was threatening him now, Eggman just laughed harder at Maria's little rant, "HAHAHHAAHHAHHAAHHOHOHHOO, A president that actually has some backbone and morals, I'm impressed madam president, but I…"

Maria's warning shot ricochets off of the right flank of the Egg walker, and Eggman's grin quickly turned into a scowl, where Ivo had no intention or ability to shoot, Maria would and could if it meant protecting her family, her friends, or even others she did not know.

Maria had no intention on missing the second time so long as others were in danger.

The Echidna Border, "Mystic Ruins":

Knuckles walked slowly through the jungle as he looked back at the Master Emerald, in the years he had guarded it, he knew it had great power and had to be protected at all costs, but he never really thought about the connection it had to the chaos emeralds as being important, that is, until Chaos appeared and the Emerald shattered.

It was then that Knuckles realized that the powers of the Master Emerald and the Chaos Emeralds were entwined in ways he could not imagine, his people had been destroy… "What the Heck!"

Before Knuckles was a city he had never seen in his life, in the middle of the jungle, where his Island had broken off from the land, a city full of Echidnas.

Then from his right came the sound of running feet and a few distant cries.

Somewhere within Station Square:

Neo-shadow dodged another attack directed at him from his counter-part, the strange blue hedgehog beside him launched his own attack at Shadow while he was distracted, only to stop as another blue hedgehog came up with a knife and prepared to stab Shadow in the back.

Sonic didn't know who's side the second shadow was on, but he was not one to let others get stabbed in the back, he broke off his spin dash and homing attacked the new blue look-alike making it drop the knife, and catching a glimpse of dead emerald eyes, full of despair and loss.

Neo-shadow didn't know what to do, except keep running, and then dodge another of Shadow's attack as he wondered just who this blue hedgehog who saved him is.

Another location in Station Square, Rooftops:

Neo-Rouge sent another kick Rouge's way, her mind split between getting the sacred crystal away from this thief, and why this thief, a practical mirror of herself, would be doing these things.

Rouge easily dodged the attack, since announcing her name her counter-part's fighting had gotten sloppy as she got distracted, if that was all it took to spook her counter part she didn't see why see didn't do it sooner.

Then it was Rouge's distraction that allowed Neo-Rouge to make a grab for the emerald, off guard Rouge noticed but acted to late as her lawful counter-part stole the emerald from her, Rouge cursed under her breath then began to attack herself, now was no longer the time to play around.

Back within the Museum:

Tails jumped as another of Ambrosia's men brought his gun to bear, the hare smirked as he pulled the trigger but the young fox was no longer in the path of his bullets, Tails' tails spun faster, pulling him out of the line of fire, then stopped as he dropped down on the terrorist's head, knocking the hare out cold.

The two men he had stopped lay on the floor, while the young mouse that the first was going for just stared at Tails with some awe.

Above, Cream, Cheese and Arthur did there part with some "Aerial Bombardment", dropping some of the less important items from various displays onto the heads of the targets who had the misfortune of being below them.

It was now, as the battle began to wind down that sirens could be heard.

END CHAPTER 9 OF ALTERATIONS.