Ch 21: Higher Stakes pt.1
Unimaginable heat is everywhere in the forest. The light from the fire is almost blinding. Branches and trees are falling and cracking. Without stopping Tails and May are rushing through the burning woods. Tails has May by the hand as they run. The sound of the fire prevents them from hearing eachother without yelling. Shadow is right behind them at their speed. A branch suddenly falls in front of Shadow, but he turns left. More and more branches keep falling. He's going through the forest like a maze, turning every ten seconds. Shadow sees an opening up ahead. He goes out but stops. "Dammit, I got turned around in there."
"Hey, I thought you were helping them." Said Morgan. Shadow goes to the tornado3 and takes the fake emerald.
"Chaos Control," Shadow vanishes. Morgan looks confused.
"Ok, we are almost there." Tails makes water splash on them both to keep their fur from catching fire. They make it to the village, but now its only a burning mess. There are piles of ash everywhere. One had a metal necklace in it. "Oh no, they were the people here. He killed them. SHOW YOURSELF!"
Tails and May are looking around the burning village. Just then something appeared behind Tails. Tails turned around fast, ready to strike. "Shadow, don't do that. I almost hit you."
"Where is the bastard responsible for this."
"I don't know. I'm looking for him. May you find anything. May...MAY!" Tails turns around and sees her up ahead. Shes still as a log. Tails runs up to her. She has her hands on her mouth and is looking down. Tails looks. "OH MY GOD. Ace...no." Ace's body is half burned to ash from the waist down. "Why...YOU BASTARD...WHY DID YOU DO THIS...COME OUT NOW!" Tails has watery eyes, but is extremely mad. All of a sudden something went right through them with extreme force. They all crouched down but the wind knocked them onto the ground. Tails' Sword flew into a tree.
"There's no way you can beat the great Necro. Muahahaa," Said a metallic deep voice. It was one of the grand cross. He is a green hedgehog. His spines are really long and straight, like they were hard. His armor is the same as the others, except for 2 major differences. There is a huge flamethrower attached to his arm. The gun is his entire hand. There is a double cylinder tank on his back. A tube goes from the top of the tank right onto his arm and to the gun. He is hovering with the jet boots. His tech-cloth is orange. His helmet covers his whole face, with only an orange visor to look out of. But that isn't why Tails is looking at him with horror. He has May in his left arm."Try anything and I'll melt her face off."
"M-m-may..." Tails is frozen in place. He is just focused on May.
"Tails, Im sorry, I shouldn't have come with you. I love you." After this Necro hits her and knocks her out. Hey flies out of the forest and into the morning sky.
"Tails, c'mon we have to follow him. Tails...Snap out of it! That's it! Chaos control!" Shadow grabs him and Blasts through the forest and back to the tornado3. He drops Tails into the cockpit. Then he puts the emerald into the engine. As soon as he lets go, the Chaos control ends. "Fly the plane now, if you really love her you will."
"But, he will-" Shadow hits Tails on the head hard.
"He's using her as bait. He wants us to follow him, so just do what he wants us to do. Then we can think of something." Shadow sits back and waits.
"...your right. But tell me, where is my sword?"
"Uh-oh."
"Ok, I'll get it. Crystal Sword!" The sword appears in his hand in a flash. "Lets...just go now." Tails starts up the tornado3 and takes off. They go west heading towards the heat source. But unknown to them they are headed right towards King Cinos' castle. After a while they encounter the air fleet. Tails does a nosedive, the metal hedgehogs of the fleet follow him. Theres almost fifty following him. Right before Tails is about to hit the water he pulls out of the dive. Half of the metal hedgehogs hit the water and blow up.
"Tails, they're gaining on us. Do something else." Shadow is looking back at twenty or so metals. They start firing lasers at them. Luckily the tornado3 has an energy shield. It wont last for long.
"Use this gun." A small turret comes out in front of the tail wing. It turns around. In front of Shadow a screen comes out of the floor with a control stick. Shadow starts firing at them. One after another, they blow up. After a few minutes they are all gone. "Uh-oh, we have missiles on our tail." Tails transforms the tornado3 into jet mode and flies top speed, just under the sound barrier. "No way those will catch us." but after Tails said that he heard loud booms. The missiles are going supersonic. Each one has its own sonic boom. "I can't go that fast."
"Tails, those missiles will destroy us if they hit us, and the sonic booms will destroy us if they miss." Tails pushes a button and the tornado3 goes in sub mode. They dive into the sea at incredible speed. Then the tornado goes into emergency mode. Metal armor covers it completely. They are still sinking pretty fast. The missiles enter the water but soon stop when the rockets extinguish. Tails makes the tornado go back to sub mode.
"Ok, we're gonna stay under for awhile. They'll think were done for. I'll just put up the anti-radar field." Tails turns around and looks at Shadow. "What's wrong with you, you look pale."
"I don't like capsules, not at all." Shadow looks down at his feet and closes his eyes.
'I don't blame him, for after what happened to him. Wonder how they're all doing. Amy, she's probably sad without Sonic. I'll get him back. Knuckles, wonder if he likes Rouge yet. But she told me her feelings toward him. Don't worry guys, we'll be back, I promise.' Tails continues in the sea towards Cinos' castle.
Smoke is everywhere on the Earth now. The war is still waging between Eggman's forces and G.U.N. Unfortunately Eggman is winning. Almost all the Capital cities have been demolished. Angel island is still up in the stratosphere away from the forces of Eggman.
"Rouge, why wont you move. Get out of my way!" Amy yelled.
"Why do you need my plane." Rouge is keeping Amy from getting to the Tornado2. It has been there since Sonic and Tails left it there. That was six weeks ago.
"It's not your plane! It belonged to Tails. And it's the only thing left to remind me of Sonic. Now MOVE!" Amy leaped towards Rouge, but she kicked her in the gut. Amy stepped back clutching her stomach. "I...loved him..." She passes out. Rouge picks up her limp body and takes her over to the village and into her hut. Rouge drops her on the floor and flies to the emerald altar.
"Hey, Knuxie, I'm back, hello?" Rouge looks around and he's nowhere to be found. "Well then, I guess I'LL STEAL THE MASTER EMERALD." Still he is nowhere. "...Hmm, oh well. At least the master emerald is mine now. I'll just marry him and build a house around this emerald. It'll be such a beautiful sight. Knuckles, me, and the emerald. But I really do love him. He's strong and stubborn, like me, but male." Rouge is blushing and sitting by the emerald. But then a beeping came from her glove. She pulled out a small pink heart locket. It is actually a micro cell phone used by spies. She opened it and pushed a button. "He-hello"
"Rouge, where are you. The war is going terrible, we need you back." The voice sounds panicky and scared.
"Mr. President, are you alright, what's wrong? What's happening?" There is a loud thunk. Probably the phone dropping. "Mr. President...MR. PRESIDENT...MR. PR-"
"Well well, I thought you were dead Rouge. But where are you. Your not with the president, Oh ho. For that matter, I haven't seen Angel island either. I'll find that master emerald even if i destroy every city on the earth." Rouge throws the phone on the ground and it shatters.
"Oh no, I hope he didn't track that call." Rouge runs off to find Knuckles.
The next morning Amy wakes up with a stomach ache. "Ugh...ooooh...my stomach." She gets up slowly and makes it to her small straw bed. She lays down for an hour, staring at the roof of the straw hut. 'I remember the day I first met Sonic.'
It was a nice sunny day in the Collision Chaos theme park. Birds flying around and a small pink hedgehog girl is walking around. She was a small 8 years old girl, wearing a white shirt with green puff short sleeves, a frilly orange skirt, and white tennishoes with big frilly laces. Her spines are unkempt, just sticking out backwards. 'Hmm...why did the cards tell me to be weary here. I see nothing.' As she looked around a blue hedgehog male ran right into her and knocked her over. "Oww...watch where your go...ing."
"Are you okay, I'm so sorry, I didn't think anybody lived here." The blue hedgehog was none other than Sonic.
"Your, your...SONIC THE HEDGEHOG! Omigosh, pinch me I must be dreaming. Oww...nope. I'm your biggest fan, Amy Rose." She just stared at him for a while. 'He's so dreamy.'
"Uh, nice to meet you, Amy." Sonic was about to shake her hand, when she jumped on him with a death hug. "Can you please get...off?"
"I'm sorry, I'm just so excited to meet you." Before she could hug him again he started speeding off. Amy finally caught up to him an hugged him again, but he pried himself free and walked forward to an unusual air vent. "Sonic, what are you looking at?" All of a sudden something shot out of the vent and grabbed Amy. It was Metal Sonic.
"Put her down!" Sonic jumped up to reach her, but Metal Sonic flew away.
"That day changed my life forever. But when he rescued me I felt more than just a fan towards him. I started to love him. That was another memorable day, but not very happy one."
At a nice small house in the forest on south island, Sonic, Tails and Amy were having a small party. They were all having fun with food and games. 'I hope Sonic will like me after I do THIS!" Amy just suddenly kissed Sonic on the lips, but he shoved her away.
"Eww, why'd you do that. I don't like you that way Amy. And I never will." Sonic spat on the ground and was about to leave, but Amy started to cry. "Augh...Look, I'm sorry, but your too young for me. Im fourteen and your only eight." Sonic ran off.
"Amy, have this emerald, to remember him by. I gotta go, thanks for the party." Tails ran away after Sonic. Amy was just sitting on the ground with tears rolling off her face. It was one of those unstoppable cries no matter what she tried. Amy went to her room to cry herself to sleep. But she kept the emerald in her arms while she slept. A tear landed on the emerald and it glowed slightly.
"Man, I feel weird..." Amy got up. "The ceiling seem a little lower." She walked into the bathroom and looked in the mirror. "Ahhhhhhhhh...I...I'm older, how..." She ran over to her room and grabbed the emerald. "The emerald granted my wish." She runs back to the bathroom and looked at herself. "Wow, I have curves. I'm beautiful."
"That was the best change in my life. That closed the age gap between us, he had other excuses though, but I think he was just resisting my attractiveness. If only he was still here." Amy starts tearing up. But instead of just crying there, she got up and snuck out of her hut. "I can't cry, I need to get to Eggman." Amy walked through the makeshift village to the forest. She came near the Tornado2 but stopped behind a tree. Rouge is guarding it.
"I know shes gonna try something today." Rouge is sitting on the ground. In the forest Amy got her Pikopiko Hammer out and morphed it into the sword. She went out into the forest more and sliced through a tree perfectly. She went back to her other spot and threw a rock at the cut tree. The tree fell over and shook the entire forest. "And that is the brat. Must be having a temper now." Rouge flies over to the broken tree. Amy runs to the Tornado2 and hides in the secret compartment behind the second seat. "I knew you would be here Amy Rose...huh? Where is she. Guess the tree fell on its own." Rouge flies away to be with Knuckles. Amy gets out of the secret compartment and hops in the front seat. Luckily Tails had taught her to fly it.
"Ok, time to go." She started it up and took off. She flew out of the mist protecting the island. "Here I come Eggman." Amy transformed it into jet mode and put up the glass dome. She is heading directly for the Space colony ARK.