Ch 11: Running Out of Time
'Oh crap I'm gonna have to kill this guy so I won't get caught.' The unknown person was about to pull the lid off the garbage can.
"Hey Marty, get over here and open the damn door!" The man left. Shadow looked around and the hall is empty again. He got out of the can.
"God, that was too close. Now where is that lab." Shadow looked down the hall and there was a sign that read 'Planning Lab.' An arrow pointed to the right. Shadow was there in a split second and entered the dark room. Every one was home because of how late it is. The room is filled with desks with papers all over them. At the end of the room is a really large desk with a computer on it. Shadow ran over to it and turned on the computer. "Damn...It's password protected!" He broke it with a punch. There were drawers on the desk so he opened them until he found the main plans. Shadow was about to leave when he heard people talking just outside the door. He ducked under a small desk.
"Man, I can't believe King Cinos is launching the attack on Kit Isle tomorrow at dawn. He could have waited a little longer right after he killed the president." Said a shabby looking hedgehog soldier.
"Yeah I know what you mean, but we can't disobey him or we'll be dead meat." They went over to a desk and sat down. "By the way, what time is it?"
"Uh...it's 10 to five, why?" Shadow realized the danger and quietly crawled out of the room and looked for a way out.
"I'm just gonna break the closet door." He smashed through the door and jumped up into the vent. He crawled as fast as he could and got out of the vent. "I have only 8 minutes until they launch the attack. It will take them at least an hour to reach us."
Shadow ran as fast as he could right off the building. He went so fast that no one even saw him go. Even if they did he was already gone. In 5 seconds he went past the sound barrier to supersonic speeds. The water is being sent flying at least 50 feet in the air. Everything was a blur to Shadow except the island ahead of him. He put his feet forward to stop. The water was going even higher now. He stopped right at the back of the cave. He was an inch away from the cave wall. Shadow was back at the base in only three minutes.
"Hey your ba-whoaaahhh!" Shadow wizzed by him, but he gave him the plans. "What's his rush?"
Shadow slammed through the office door and is right in front of Taurean. "WE Have only an hour before the army arrives!"
"WHAT?" Taurean was so surprised by this intrusion he was confused. "What do you mean, we have an hour, they are supposed to attack in two weeks."
"I just found out tonight, while I was on another one of Zack's crazy missions. We need to activate the force field now!"
"I'll sound the alarm, you go get the rest of the resistance soldiers at their homes and tell them to meet at the power plant." Shadow left in a split second as Taurean pushed a button that sounded the alarm. It sounds like a school fire drill.
"WARNING, WARNING, Enemy approaching." The voice came from a recording and was all over the building. Soldiers were running to vehicles in the warehouse. The north wall raised up and revealed 4 large passageways so vehicles could get out. The tanks and hummers were all leaving. Taurean got in the extended hummer with four soldiers. All the soldiers are wearing green armor-like uniforms. They all have a gun and a beamsaber. The roof opened and the helicopters were taking off.
Back at the apartment Tails and May are sleeping together on the couch. Just then the buzzer went off. "God, who could that be?" Tails got up without waking May. Shadow was at the door. "What's up Shadow?"
"I need you to go to the power plant here in the slums to help protect it. The federation's army is approaching. I can sense something extremely powerful coming. It might be Sonic so it won't be good news. Just get your sword and meet me there." Shadow left in a blur. Tails went to get his sword.
"Wha...what are you...doing?" said May. She is still sleepy. Tails went over to her.
"I'll be back in the morning, the island is going to be under attack by the federation soon. I promise I'll come back. Bye." Tails kissed her and left out the door. He ran as fast as he could go. After he went outside he took flight and looked for the plant. "Where is it...oh there, that must be it."
The power plant was full of resistance soldiers. Tails saw Taurean at the main building. He dropped down to see what was going on. "Good, your here Tails. I need you to protect this place until I get the force field activated."
"Yes, Sir." Tails went inside the main building with Taurean. It was filled with computer panels and other high tech devices. There were scientists working at the computers.
"Look outside at the yard Tails." Tails looked out the window at the work yard. The whole place started to shake like mad. The center of the yard was hiding a huge door. It was slowly opening from the center. There was now a huge square hole in the middle of the yard. But the rumbling got worse. A huge cannon like device shot up out of the hole and locked in place. A large diamond shaped thing came out of the end of the barrel of the cannon. It was opening like a huge flower. It split into 6 long pointed blades. The blades then widened to form what looks like a huge satellite dish.
"Oh my...It's freaking huge!" Tails is looking up at the strange machine.
"Here comes the first wave of robots, Don't let them near the generator!" Taurean pulled out two pistols and held the main building with a few soldiers. Tails ran outside and prepared for battle. It was a mess out there with robots exploding and bullets flying. A few soldiers were using beamswords.
"I'll use my new element...if I knew what it was. Uhhh...Rockfuse!" Tails held up his sword, but nothing happened. A blue metal hedgehog almost fell right on him. He slashed it in two. "Okay, that didn't work. Firefuse!" His blade became engulfed in fire once again. Tails was attacking more metal hedgehogs. It was easier because he could melt the steel of the robots. A robot was targeting the generator with a missile. "Oh no you don't!" Tails cut right through it's center. It fell to the ground. All the resistance soldiers gathered at the generator and were firing at all the hedge-bots. The numbers of robots were decreasing.
Just then at least 1000 more robots flew in to destroy the dish. But Shadow appeared with reinforcements from the rest of the island. He launched an energy blast that cut through the wall of robots. Tails noticed that Zuyen and Kaida were there as well. Someone in a small jet was flying around blasting robots. The generator was finally ready to activate the forcefeild. The tip of the dish was gathering a green light. The ball of light was growing until it filled the whole dish. Then a huge beam of light shot out of the dish. It went so high that you cannot tell where it stopped. At the top of the light, what looked like a transparent sheet of energy was widening. It went so fast that it was done in a few seconds. A clear green dome was over the whole island.
"Wow, that is so cool we are-"BAM. Tails was hit by a robot and flew into a building. He was fine because his tails cushioned his fall. He got up and saw that there were still more robots still around. Tails finally had another idea for his silver shard. "Hope this works...Steelfuse!" Just then his sword became twice as wide and ten times sharper. But surprisingly it was still just as light as it was before. He slashed at the robot that attacked him. It cut through it like a hot knife in butter. The cut was perfect. Soon all the remaining robots were destroyed.
"It's over..." Tails was exhausted. He destroyed at least 100 robots.
"Great job everyone, you all get the rest of the week off, except for the elites. All elites come with me into my truck. All the soldiers left. Shadow, Tails, Kaida, and Zuyen got in the truck. The jet was hovering just above. Ace jumped out and landed in the truck. The jet automatically followed them. A few more elites hopped on also. They all drove back to the base. "Okay everyone come into my office. We need to find a way to defeat the federation. Any ideas?"
"Sir, I have some Intel to share with you. I know that King Cinos is completely evil. We should find a way to kill him." Said a green echidna.
"What kind of Intel did you gather to say he's 100 evil! I know he has to have good in him. I won't allow you to kill him!" Tails was really angry. "There must be a way to turn him back into the Sonic he used to be!"
"What do you know about him? Your just a kid!" That really made him mad.
"You echidnas are all the same, all you do is want power. And you always go the easy way out of things. No wonder that ancient tribe of your kind almost wiped out my world!" Tails was grinning at him.
"Why you little-" He was smacked by Taurean.
"Shut up or I'll demote you to a janitor." With that said the green guy left.
"Okay Tails, continue with your idea."
"Well, on my world there are gems of incredible power that can cause miracles." Tails was about to explain more when he was interrupted.
"Yes I know about the chaos emeralds, Shadow told me about them. Sorry, go on."
"Anyway as I was saying. Sonic has the power to use all 7 of them to turn into a super hedgehog. He usually turns gold. But our arch enemy did something to us to warp us here. I remember seeing him transform, but barely. If only we were on the earth. I could get the master emerald to neutralize the emeralds that are stuck inside sonic. But that's not an option." Tails sat down to think.
"I've got it, we can use the light shard." A dark blue hedgehog just said. "It is the crystallized form of the goodness in all peoples hearts. If you can find it, we could expel the darkness that is in Sonic."
"But we have no idea where it is." Kaida was also joining the conversation.
"I know where it is, but we can't get there." Said Ace. "It probably is on the sacred island where the hero died saving this planet. But it lies beyond the giant whirlpool to the north of us. The only way to enter the isle is to possess all the element shards."
"Ace that is only a legendary island, no one has even found it yet." Kaida is having serious doubt about Ace's plan.
"Wait Kaida, I believe him. Lets give his plan a try. If it doesn't work we'll find another." Tails is excited about saving Sonic.
"Well it's settled, Ace, Kaida, and Shadow will accompany you to find the shards of each element." Taurean was about to leave when Tails had something else to say.
"Hey Taurean, can you have a look at these plan of mine." Tails turned on his compu-watch and projected the plans of the tornado2 on the wall. "It's the design of my plane from home. I request permission to build it, but I'll need the assistance from your top mechanic."
"Oh that is an impressive design. Go ahead, you can use any resources that you want. And after you build yours, I'd like to keep your design to mass produce this plane. Deal?"
"Okay, sure." Tails e-mailed the design to Taurean's computer. He printed it out and kept it. "I'll be going home now, I'm bushed." He left out the way he went the last two times. He got on the sub to the apartment and went inside. It was already sunrise, just past 6. May was waiting on the couch. Tails came in and sat by her. He fell asleep right on her shoulder.