SONIC ADVENTURE 2: ALTERATIONS

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ADVENT CHAOS

Echidna border:

The Guard's gun almost fell out of his quickly numbing hands, or was it his mind that was numbing, the guard had to lock his knees from falling over, "Knuckles, is… …is that you?"

Knuckles was surprised that this Echidna knew his name, he was even more surprised that he was standing before him. As far as Knuckles knew he was the last of the Echidna's, still the surprise he felt did not show in his face, his training as Guardian would not allow it when he prepared for a fight. "How do you know my name?"

The other Guard came up to the two, confused but not as out of sorts as his partner, "Uh, not to break-up a family reunion or anything but we have to get the Master Emerald back to the Central Control…"

The First Guard then shook his head to clear it, "Right, come on, let's head home" He then noticed Knuckles not following, "Come on Kunx's, I don't know why you left, but lets head home."

Never changing his expression Knuckles began to follow this time, his curiosity about who this Guard really was, and whether that Emerald truly was another Master Emerald, won out over the feeling that something about this entire thing was more then wrong.

Station Square Museum:

Eggman then laughed, a maniacal whooping sound that made shivers run down Ivo's spine and that Maria found very un-nerving, "Very well Madame President, I think this little distraction has gone on long enough don't you…" Eggman's grin widens as he leans forward, then he turns quickly to his now slightly bloody creation, "Omega, new orders, return to base."

The now named Omega turned his visual sensors to his master then to the guard he had been preparing to throw, the blood from a cut on the guard's head and bleeding nose running over Omega's cold, metallic claws. As if throwing away a scrap of paper, the red and black behemoth idly tosses the guard to the floor then walks out the hole in the wall followed by his master, who left grinning like an insane clown all the way.

While Ivo and Maria watched the mad scientist leave, Maria, never letting the gun-sight leave the back of the mad-man's skull, they did not notice Sonic re-appear on the upper-floor where Cheese, Cream, Arthur, and now Tails stood. "Man, I would have gone to the Museum a long time ago if I knew it'd be this exciting."

Arthur, not really caring where Sonic had appeared from, watched the S.W.A.T. team enter through the front doors then just sat himself down along the balcony's railing, "Exciting indeed, I don't think my heart will ever stop pounding, I'll help with the clean-up downstairs if they let me, why don't you guys head home, I bet your families will be very worried about you all."

That's when Cream realized something, "I forgot! I never told Mom that I was going to the museum! I hope she isn't too worried about me, but I should of called her before I left."

Tails just patted Cream on the back, "It's alright Cream, I'm sure she'll understand, besides Arthur's right, why don't we head home."

Arthur then got himself up, "Well then, why I don't I let you guys out the side entrance, the front is a little crowded right now."

Somewhere outside of Station Square:

Neo-Sonic stumbled, out of breath and sore, he hadn't run like that since his adoptive parents died, he finally stopped, tears were beginning to well up in his eyes, I failed, again…

Neo-Sonic fell to his knees, tears flowing freely down his face, "WHY, WHY CAN'T I do anything right, why?" Sobs racked his body with every breath, his nose beginning to run, when he heard the scuff of someone shifting their weight, a strangely familiar sound for him.

Slowly Neo-Sonic turned around as the setting sun's light glinted off of the stranger's cold metallic mask.

Ambrosia's Base camp:

Ambrosia was nearly mad with rage, the entire plan had turned into a fiasco, a lot of her men were injured, some were arrested, and fewer still, dead, most by the hands of Eggman's machination.

And where on Neo-Terra was that damned brother of hers, she felt the need to beat him good if he didn't come back with that emerald…

Echidna Capitol (mystic ruins), Guardian's spire:

The two guards had lead Knuckles through a grand capital city to it's core, a great spire rising higher than any building in Station Square, the guards had lead him in through the front doors.

Inside, Knuckles once again had to rely on his all of his training as Guardian to not let his mouth drop to the floor, within the spire it was like a whole other city, illuminated by a great light near the top of the spire, which the elevator he just entered lead to.

The elevator was surprisingly quick to reach its destination, the doors opening out onto what appeared to be a cross between the Master Emerald's Shrine Knuckles knew so well and a Chao Garden, and there in the standing before a pond encircling a pedestal stood an Echidna that was a spiting image of his ancestor, Tikal's Father, staring across the pond.

The Guard carrying the other Master Emerald walked over to the Echidna, and placed it carefully in his hand, then turned to leave, while the Echidna turned to face Knuckles.

At that instant, Knuckles had no doubt what he was looking at, a guardian of the Master Emerald, but the question of who remained unanswered. As the guards entered the elevator and the doors closed the other guardian walked forward, holding the Emerald in his hand.

Staring Knuckles straight in the eye he spoke, "You look like my nephew but I can tell your not, you haven't fallen as he onto dark paths…", and as he spoke the water rippled, then began to rise and take a shape Knuckles secretly had hoped never to have to lay his eyes upon again.

Somewhere outside of Station Square:

Miles Prower looked down upon his un-invited guest, this strange hedgehog had come barreling into his home, an abandoned mine turned scrap-yard that both G.U.N. and Station Square dumped their unwanted trash upon, a place for thing thrown out by civilization and it's society.

Even though the hedgehog was obviously winded, the speed he had in that state was still faster then it should have been, as Prower, un-moved as he was by it's cry into the dying daylight, shifted his weight to get a better look at the intruder, it heard his movement and turned to him, and in it's, no his, eyes Prower saw a pain he knew all to well.