Chapter 5

AMY I saw a black blur shoot past the door. Why would Shadow be here? I then realized my mistake. Maria was the weak point of every team. I ran after him, hoping we weren't too late. I easily kept up with him and we reached the control room at the same time. Maria was laying on a table, her hands and feet chained down.
"If you hurt her," Shadow began.
"What would you do about it, Ultimate Lifeform?" Eggman mocked.
He was standing across the room holding a laser gun. He stepped forward, forcing us back. Just then Axe, Chase, Black, and Maxi burst through the door. Eggman was so scared he fired off four direct hits. My team fell to the ground.
"You've taken it too far, Eggman!" I yelled.
My body began to glow, raw energy running in my blood. The seven Chaos Emeralds apeared. The floated around me, creating a gold barrier around me. I turned gold too. I looked down to see that I was floating in the air. I took a step toward Eggman. He fired a shot. The laser hit me and I absorbed the energy. He fired more shots as I got closer. Eggman reched for a control pannel, but I moved in his way. His hand touched my shoulder, and I could feel his life energy draining from his body. I was counting the seconds untill he died. 3. 2. I pulled away so I didn't fully kill him.
"You've learned your lesson." I said as he fell do the ground.
I ran over to my team to find that Shadow had healed them. All except Axe.
"I don't have enough energy." he said.
I knealt down next to Axe, touching his hand. I felt that draining feeling again, but this was better. The energy I had abosrbed was draining into him. I don't think much about it, but Axe and I have alot in common. We were born on the same day, we both like running, and hot dogs! We love hot dogs. I wasn't paying enough attention to see that Axe was awake.
"Uh, Amy"
"Huh? Oh! You're alive"
I jumped on him, giving him a hug.
"I thought you were dead." I said.
"Can we stop the mushy stuff, and get off this crate?" Black asked.
"Good idea." Maxi said.
"Ready? Chaos Control!" Shadow said.
I pressed the self destruct botton on a control panel before being teleported to Emerald Beach. I looked at the Egg Carrier as it exploded in the distance. Then I fell back into the sand and closed my eyes.

AXE "Wahoo!" Amy yelled as the Egg Carrier blew up.
You could see on her face that she was tired. She colapsed into the sand and fell asleep right away.
"She's got the right idea." Sonic siad as he to laied down in the sand.
Everyone did the same, but I couldn't get to sleep. I started too, but every time I did something woke me up. I sat up after the tenth time and looked around. Everyone was asleep. Amy, Sonic, Black, Shadow, Maria, Maxi, Cream, Tails, Mom, Dad, Espio, and Chase. I stood up after realizing that there was only one Amy. I went over to where she was before. There were footprints in the sand, so I followed them. Amy was slowly walking on the beach.
"I was wondering when you'd catch up." she said.
"I took longer on purpose." I said.
"Why"
"Because the perfect time to watch the sunset from Angel Island is in five minutes"
In the time it took to blink, we were on Angel Island. We started walking to the crater on the west side of the island. The crater was caused when Eggman's Death Egg crashed into the island a long time ago. As we walked I felt something hit my shoulder. I looked for someone, but it was just me and Amy. I looked over at her and saw a white berry bounce off her head.
"What was that?" she asked.
"I forgot what night it was," I said as another berry fell on her head, "This is the night the Angel Berries are edible. Lets go get my dad"
"What about the sunset"
"Trust me. You'll like this better." I said as we started running back to Emerald Beach.

AMY What could posibly be better than whatching the sunset with Axe? There's just nothing I can think of. As we got close to the beach I could hear Rouge and Mom yelling.
"This is not going to be pretty." I said.
We slowed down as we got to the beach.
"Amy! Where have you been?" Mom yelled.
I wasn't paying attention, but I think Rouge said someting simmalar.
"We just went up to Angel Island to watch the sunset." I explianed.
"Oh, Dad, guess what tonight is." Axe said.
"Your birthday?" he guessed.
"Nope." Axe said, holding up one of those white berries.
"That's an Angel Berry!" Rouge said.
"Come on, lets go." Knuckles said.
"Hey! What's an Angel Berry?" Dad asked.
"Follow us, and we'll show you." Rouge said as she flew toward the island.

BLACK We were running to Angel Island for an unknown reason. How do I get myself into these things? At least the half-breed was flying instead of running. But he saved us from an hour of yelling. No, that was these berries. Knuckles and Rouge landed a few yards from the bridge. Axe landed next to Amy. I can tell he knows, and personaly I don't care. As I watched Axe and Amy I heard a pair of screams. I turned to see Knuckles and Rouge getting up off the ground and two white hedgehogs were standing in front of the bridge. One was a boy and the other was a girl. They were both wearing blue jeans, white shirts, and white shoes.
"We are here to challenge the guardian family." the girl said.
Axe ran in between his parents and their attackers.
"Three on two isn't a fair fight." Knuckles said. I walked over to the new hedgehogs.
"Who said it was two on three?" I asked.
"You do not want to fight me, Black." Axe said.
"On the contrary. I've waited my whole life for this"
"Enough talk! It's a fair fight now, so lets fight!" the boy siad.
Axe jumped at me, and I fell back, caught him on my feet, and threw him off the side of the bridge. I stood up and ran to the other two. Rouge was knocked out and it had become a three on one fight. I was about to attack when I got hit in the back of the head. I grabbed the wound, and when I took away my hand it had blood on it. I turned around and saw Axe.
"Half-breed!" I said when I saw him.
This made him mad. He charged at me, but I side stepped him. I led him in a circle until I was standing behind the white hedgehogs. Axe charged at me. I grabbed the girl's arm, pushed the boy to the side, and watched as the two echidnas hit each other square in the face. The girl wrencehd her arm away.
"Don't touch me." she said in a threatening tone.
She turned around and then fell back on me. Axe had landed a punch right in the girl's stomoch. I layed her down on the ground and walked over to the boy.
"You ok?" I asked.
"That was a good move." he said.
"Thanks, now let finish this"
I charged at Axe, and my fist connected with his chest. He slid back and charged at me again. I side stepped again, but before I could turn around I was hit by a Drill Kick.
"Chaos Control!" I healed myself and teleported at the same time. I landed behind Knuckles and knocked him unconsious. I tuned to Axe, but I blacked out.