Chapter Two: Theory of Chaos

(A/N: I got one review, but that's okay. I'm still going to put up more chapters until it's done. At least I got good info from it. To clear one question, Sonic did not destroy Gamma, Beta did. I wrote it that way because Eggman would've figured that since Amy got Gamma on their side, he just told Beta after he rebuilt him that Sonic brainwashed Gamma to destroy the other E-100 robots and then destroyed him I don't think Beta would remember that he destroyed Gamma. On one last note, this chapter is the first chapter with the official opening of the Chaos Karaoke Bar Special, starring myself and the gang! So enjoy chapter , I mean 2.)

Chaos Karaoke Bar Special 1:Hate Mail

(Over the span of three days)

Shadow: (. . . takes a sip of his drink)

Sonic: (. . . asleep)

Sarco: (. . . day dreaming)

Author: (. . . stares at computer screen) 'ping' Woohoo! I got a review!

Shadow: yay. Somebody cares. Big deal.

Author: I'm so happy that somebody read my story. (Tears of joy)

Sarco: What does it say?

Author: alright, hold on. (brings up review) 'Your story sucks. Do everyone a favor and quit writing. Anonymous.'

Shadow: HA HA HA! That's what I call a burn!

Sonic: Author, uh, you okay? (waves hand in front of Author's face)

Author: Doesn't matter. I put up chap 2 anyways.

Shadow: (shocked) You can't do that. They'll just send more hate mail.

Author: It's not hate mail. They're constructive letters.

Shadow: Whatever. (hic)

Sonic: Okay Shadow. I think you've had enough.

Shadow: (suddenly serious) I'll tell you when I've had enough! (hic) I don't even get a buzz from this. I go straight to (hic) drunk. It's not fair!

Author: Sarco, get him outta here. I can't concentrate.

Sarco: C'mon Shadow. Let's go. (picks up Shadow and puts him over his shoulder)

Shadow: No, I don't want (hic) to go. (Sarco and Shadow leave)

Sonic: Glad he's gone.

Author: I hear you. Let's get the chapter started.

It was a nice, sunny day. Sonic's best friend, Tails, was outside his workshop just outside the mystic ruins polishing his plane the 'Tornado' when a flare of light appeared. What the? Tails ducked behind the plane. The glow vanished, leaving Sonic and Sarco in its place. "Sonic!" Tails raced over and nearly tackled him.

"Whathappenedareyouallrightwhosthispersonhowdidyougethere?" Sonic clamped his mouth before he passed out from excitement. "Slow down there, big guy." Tails stopped. "Now, to answer your first question, I found out that Eggman teamed up with GUN and made a contraption that can copy chaos emeralds." This news shocked Tails. "But how? I'm the only one who knows how make a stable copy on an emerald." Sonic thought about this too. "That's what I like to know." He put his hands on Tails' shoulders. "Hey, don't worry. Before we left I got one of Eggman's robots to blow up the roof and bury the machine." "Awsome!" Tails said excitedly. Sonic continued, "Now to answer your second question, it was my new pal Sarco here who used Chaos Control to get us out of here." Now Tails was confused. "How can that be when you didn't have a chaos emerald?" Sonic walked over to Sarco. "Oh, but we do have one." He jabbed a thumb at Sarco, "right here." Tails eyes bulged. "You mean it's inside Sarco?" Sonic nodded. "Yep. I found him in a glass cage where when I freed him, I found out that Eggman created Sarco and used a chaos emerald for his heart." Tails couldn't believe what he was hearing. Tails did some quick calculating. How could this be physically possible?

Sarco spoke up for the first time. "Well, Sonic, I'll be going now." He turned to leave. "Sarco, wait." He kept walking. "I don't want you to run off." Sarco spun around. "I'M NOT RUNNING AWAY!" He bellowed. Sarco growled and showed his teeth. He looked like he was about to tear Sonic limb from limb. Sonic didn't back down. "I didn't mean it that way. I just don't want you to get hurt tryin to stop Eggman." Sarco was surprised. How did Sonic know he was heading for Eggman for revenge? It was like he knew Sarco's every move. He figured that Sonic wouldn't let him leave even if he tried. "Oh, what's the use?" He plopped onto the ground. "I just think that he shouldn't get away with that." Sonic extended a hand to him, exactly like when they first met. "I know. That's why we'll stop him, together." Tails ran up next to Sarco. "Yea, Sarco. We'll get him." Sarco thought for some time before getting up. "Okay. 'Together'." He smiled for the first time in his life. But something was troubling him. "Um, Sonic? Since I'm free could it be possible for uh," he scratched his head. Sonic got the notion, "Sure you can stay," he patted Tails' back, "with him." Tails turned to Sonic. "Huh?" "Come on, Tails. Just this once?" Tails fidgeted, but gave in. "All right, but only if I can examine Sarco to make sure he really has an emerald inside him." Sarco became defensive. He eyed Tails with uneasiness. To him, that meant more tests, which equaled more pain. "Whoa, whoa. Who ever said that I was going to be examined?" He already was having second thoughts about agreeing to stay with them. He had half a mind to just fly away.

Sonic intervened. "Hey. It not like what you think. Tails here won't harm you." This didn't convince Sarco. "Hey, tell ya what. Let Tails look at the emerald in you, and you can stay with me." Again with the compassion. All of this was making Sarco think that Sonic is a totally different person than the scientists. Sarco compromised, "I like that better." Sonic whooped. "All right! This calls for a high five." He held up his hand. Sarco just stared at it. "What? Is it supposed to do something?" Sonic face-faulted. "I forgot. You've been in a cage all your life." Tails laughed. Sarco grinned. "Yea. It's kind of like that." Sonic was about to respond when a beam hit the ground near them and erupted the dirt. They all jumped back. Sonic looked around. "What was that?" Tails whirred above using his tails. "Look!" He pointed seaward into the sky.

An object flew into view. It came in low and another joined it from below. They both came closer. It was Beta and some other, green looking robot. "That's Zero!" Sonic remembered the dumpster look-alike robot that captured Amy Rose and took her to the Egg Carrier. From what Amy told him, Zero was destroyed on the Egg Carrier when he and Amy fought. Eggman must've built a new one, Sonic thought. Beta hovered overhead Sonic and Tails. "I am E-101 Beta. My mission is to destroy Sonic The Hedgehog." Zero landed near Sarco. "I am Zero. My mission is to retrieve experiment 'Sarco' to his enormity, Dr. Eggman." Zero fired one of his hands at Sarco. Sarco slapped it away from him, but it zipped around and around him in circles with a cable that connected it to Zero. Almost immediately, Sarco was tied up. "Hah! You think this will hold meAARGH!" Sarco yelped as the coils lit up with electricity, shocking Sarco in the process.

Sonic spin-dashed toward Zero, but Beta opened a barrage of missiles at Sonic. He turned and went in circles to avoid them. Tails flew over to Zero and tail whipped him. Zero just turned and grabbed Tails. "Help Sonic!" Sonic jumped over Beta and sped over to Zero, ramming into its body. It dropped tails and Sarco while it soared a few feet and over the cliff.

Sarco dropped to the ground. Sonic ran to his side. "Sarco, can you hear me?" He stirred and lifted his head, "Ow." Sonic looked relieved. "Whew. You're okay." Sarco sighed. I still can't believe that he cares if I die or not. Tails shook Sonic's shoulder. "Sonic, the other robot's gone." Sonic yelled to Tails, "He's not gone! He just went invisible. Tails, bring up a lot of dust so that we can see him." "Okay." Tails said as he whirled a gale of wind that churned up so much dust, it gives the impression of being in a cloud. Sonic looked around sharply. "Sonic, can you see it?"

As the dust settled, Tails came into view, so did Beta behind him. "Tails look out!" Beta fired both arm cannons at point-blank range. Sonic knocked Tails out of the way . . . and was thrust aside himself by Sarco! Both beams hit Sarco square in the chest. "SARCO!" As he fell, the energy that hit him flowed thru his chaotic heart, up his long neck, and out his mouth with triple the power Beta shot him with. The discharge of energy vaporized Beta's arm cannons and shredded his outer frame. Beta flew a few feet, crash-landed backwards, and moved no more.

Sonic caught Sarco in his arms. "Sarco! Sarco! W-wake up!" This time, he did not stir. Tails couldn't look at Sarco, tears blurring his eyes. Sonic stared at the gaping hole in the dragon's upper cavity. A glow formed where his heart should be. Sonic rubbed the tears away. "Tails! Look at this." Both peered into the hole. The chaos emerald was now fully visible, but its appearance wasn't that of an emerald, but in the shape of an orb. Veins slithered outwards from the emerald and into Sarco's body, causing him to shine brightly. Sonic and Tails watched as flesh regenerated around the emerald, enclosing it. The glow dimmed back to where the orb was and then ceased. Sonic thought he was dreaming. "Sarco?" Sarco's eyes fluttered open and yawned as though he woke up from sleeping. "Sonic? What's goin on?" He was taken aback by Sonic hugging him. "Sarco! You're alive!" Tails went over to Sarco and smiled, "It's good to see you back." Sarco was puzzled. "Sonic, what happened to me? The only thing I remember is that I was shot by Beta." Sonic told him about the emerald healing him. "So that's why Eggman created me." Tails' eyes lit up. "Of course! It all makes sense now. Eggman knew the emerald would absorb the energy," he thought for a minute, "but everything around the emerald was disintegrated. He probably didn't think the emerald could restore the person, or he would've put the emerald in himself first." Sonic planted his fist into his hand. "Exactly. Eggman wanted to test it on Sarco, and when it worked, he would then take it out of him and placed it in his own body." Sonic thought of an invincible Eggman powered by the seven chaos emeralds.

Wait a minute. Seven? "Oh no." Sonic's face paled. "What's the matter?" Tails said. Sonic's breath quickened, "We have to go back and get all of emeralds, including the copies, before Eggman uses them on himself." Tails started towards the hangar. "I'll get the Tornado ready." He jumped into the cockpit and started the engine. Sarco wanted to join them. Maybe this is my chance to get back at Eggman. "I'm coming with you Sonic." Sonic paused, "No Sarco, Eggman might try to take control of you." Sarco stood up straight so that Sonic was like an ant. He lowered his long neck so that his head met Sonic at eye level. "I'm going whether you like it or not." Sonic exhaled noisily, "I guess so. I can't stop you from coming along." Sarco grinned again, "Good. It's settled." He opened his wings and tore into the sky. Tails was already taking off. "Sonic! Let's go!" Sonic raced over and hopped into the front cockpit as the plane took altitude. Tails let off the gas so that Sarco could keep up with them. "Hey guys! Why are you going so slowly?" They gazed ahead and saw Sarco gliding along an air current. The Tornado sped up with Sonic shaking a fist at Sarco. "Showoff!" Sarco laughed as they flew into the distance toward the desert sands; a cylinder machine following close behind.

Chaos Karaoke Bar Special 2:Mental Floss

Author: Homina,homina,homina.

Shadow: What's with him?

Sarco: He ran out of ideas.

Shadow: Not so. He still has me to put in the next chapter.

Author: (fidgeting) Umm . . . uh, yyea. About that.

Shadow: What? You want me to be on the good side? Because I won't.

Sonic: Lighten up Shadow. Author, what's the problem?

Author: AAAAAAA! I don't know how to put Shadow in the story. I want to, but . . . but I can't.

Shadow: What's this? You can't put me in there?

Sonic: It's all right.

Sarco: Yea, you'll get an idea. (in comes Tails)

Tails: Hey everybody!

Everybody (except Author): Hey.

Tails: (looks at Author rocking back and forth on his chair) What's with him?

Shadow: He's not going to put you in the next chapter.

Tails: (shocked) What? Sonic, is he right?

Sonic: No. Shadow, why do you do that?

Shadow: Because it's fun. (sees Sarco walk toward him) Uh, time to go! (leaves)

Author: I've got it!

Everybody: What?

Author: It'll be great. I have to start typing so that I don't forget this. (types furiously on the keyboard)

Everybody: 'Whew.'

Author: (in between type) See ya'll in Chap 3!