Chapter XX: An "Egg"-cellent Super Sonic Adventure Part I
Awhile has passed ever since Sora, Luigi, and Yoshi left Mute City and things were pretty calm. Luigi was eating some left over spaghetti, Yoshi was sleeping and Toadsworth was reading his journal. Sora was looking out the window still thinking about what Riku said earlier.
"Do you even want to save Kairi?"
Those words haunted Sora's mind and it was something he couldn't get over. Riku would have never said anything mean about Sora caring for Kairi. Ever since he was little, Sora has developed a crush on Kairi. He remembered how they would always play together on the island and even if Riku was with them Kairi was always around Sora. Sora would do anything for Kairi thus giving him the nickname errand boy. He would run around the island getting many different things for her and brining it back. Sora then remembered the night he was on the island during a meteor shower. But before he could get deep into those memories he felt something was wrong. Sora felt sick and felt funny beats coming from his heart. It felt like nothing he has ever felt before and he felt a bit faint. Luigi noticed Sora acting strange and quicky ran to his aid.
"Sora!" Luigi said concerned. "Are you okay?"
"I...I...don't know." Sora said weakly. "I don't feel so good. My heart feels funny and I feel sick." He then got nervous. "Luigi, I'm scared."
Luigi calmly put his hand on Sora's forehead and felt it. "Hm, you don't have a fever. At your age I seriously doubt you'd have any heart problems and I think you would have other serious symptoms, but I'm going to listen to your heart anyways."
Luigi walked over to a draw and opened it. He then pulled out a stethoscope and walked back over. Toadsworth also came to Sora's aid and tried to comfort him but they decided not to wake Yoshi up.
"Luigi, since when did you have a stethoscope?" Sora asked surprised.
"My brother gave it to me to use when he was taking time off from being a doctor." Luigi explained.
"I thought he was a plumber?" Sora said raising his eyebrow.
"Well, he is, but in his spare time he's also a construction worker, a puzzle solver, a driving instructor, a tennis umpire, golf player, pinball helper..."
"Luigi!" Sora interrupted angrily.
"Oh, right, sorry." Luigi chuckled sheepishly. Luigi put the ear parts on and put the metal part on Sora's chest and listened to it for a few seconds. "Hm, It sounds pretty normal to me. Maybe you're a bit stressed out kid."
"You think so?" Sora asked.
"I'm sure." Luigi reassured him. "Sometimes I get irregular heart beats when I get stressed out too. I really don't thing there is anything wrong, so just relax."
"You're right, Luigi ." Sora smiled. "Or maybe it was all just in my head. I actually feel a little better. Thanks pal."
All of a sudden the Toad Express began shaking and everyone fell out of their seats. Yoshi woke up in shock and looked around with a panicked tone .
"Yoshi up! Yoshi up!" Yoshi cried.
"Calm down kid!" Luigi snapped Yoshi. "We must have hit something."
Sora ran over to the window and looked out seeing something that astonished him. "Guys, come here quick!"
Yoshi, Luigi, and Toadsworth ran over to the window and looked out. They saw a giant airship floating not to far from the Toad Express. It was extremely big probably about quadruple the size of the Toad Express. Sora noticed a yellow symbol on the front which had Dr. Eggman's face on it. In the middle was a large circular area where machinery was running. The airship was making it's way towards the Toad Express.
"Oh, no!" Yoshi whimpered. "It an alien ship coming at Yoshi. Yoshi don't want to be used in science experiments!"
"Calm down!" Luigi snapped at Yoshi. "It's only an airship! I don't think they would plan on doing experiments to us."
"That maybe true but, you realize that the airship is coming right at us, right?" Sora pointed out.
Luigi looked back to see that the airship was in fact charging at them.
"Great garlic!" Luigi exclaimed. "It's trying to ram us!"
"I'll tell the pilot to get us out of here!" Toadsworth said.
Just then the pilot came running out of the room and ran to the door.
"Every mushroom for himself!" He panicked.
The pilot opened the door and he jumped out of the plane.
"Well, scrap that plan." Toadsworth sighed.
"What an idiot." Sora thought. "He didn't even wear a parachute!" Sora then gasped out loud. "Wait a minute! Is there another pilot on this plane?" Toadsworth shook his head. "I thought you guys had everything?"
"They were short on pilots." Toadsworth chuckled nervously.
"It the pilot leaped to his doom and we're standing right here, then who's driving the plane?" Luigi gulped nervously.
The four looked at each other and then screamed. The plane began to fell fast and the group held on to the chairs.
"We doomed!" Yoshi said crying.
"Don't worry." Toadsworth said making his way to the pilot's room. "Incase of an emergency like this, the pilot said there was a switch to press."
"Hurry up before we all go to that great pasta place in the sky." Luigi shouted.
"I'm trying! I'm trying!" Toadsworth groaned.
As Toadsworth continued to make his way up the others held on with their lives, when all of a sudden the door swung wide open and the door sucked Luigi out.
"Not agaaaaaaaain!" Luigi bellowed
Sora and Yoshi tried to hang on but the wind was too strong and both of them went flying out the window. Yoshi stuck his tongue out and wrapped it around the wing of the plane. Yoshi grabbed Sora's hand and they hung on.
"Yoshi!" Sora called to Yoshi. "We're not going to make it! When I tell you, let go!" He noticed Yoshi making a look like he thought Sora was crazy. "Trust me!"
Sora and Yoshi hung on for a few seconds and then Sora shouted now and Yoshi let go. The Toad Express spun it's way down into the next world while Sora and Yoshi fell towards the airship. However, Sora didn't remember what happened next because he blacked out.
About two hours later Sora weakly groaned and began to slowly get up. Sora struggled a little bit trying to come too, but he finally managed to get up. He looked around to see he was floating around and below his feet was the airship's ground which was only about 10 feet away from him. Sora wondered how he was floating when he turned around to see his answer. His shirt was hanging on a cannon that had a round circular area with green oval eyes. He sighed with relief and jumped off the cannon. He looked around at his new environment to see mini elevators going up and down on the sides. He saw a giant circular panel that had green glass and inside was machinery at work.
"I wonder where I am?" Sora thought.
World Name: Station Square/Egg Carrier
Sora began looking around calling for Luigi and Yoshi, but no one responded. As he walked around he could see many beatle type robots cleaning the entire airship with brooms and scrubbers. Sora jumped onto a mini elevator and went up to arrive on top of the circular area. He walked right and went up a small slightly titled area and he arrived at the back of the ship. Sora noticed a round area with glass windows. This showed Sora that it must have led to the engine room. He looked up to a pointy pole going up which had a large round pillar that was half way up there. As Sora moved again the whole airship began shaking causing him to fall down. He turned to see that the ship has taken on a new form seeing that half of the area he was on before was gone.
"Did this airship transform?" He asked himself. "This is weird."
Sora stood up again and began to walk when he heard a very familiar voice.
"Well, look at what the cat dragged in." Called the voice.
Sora turned around and he gasped upon who he saw. Standing on top of the pillar with his white long hair, it was non other then Riku.
"R-Riku?" Sora asked in shock.
"Long time no see." Riku smirked. "I'm surprised, I wasn't expecting you, Sora. Let me be the first to welcome you to the Egg Carrier."
"Egg Carrier?" Sora said confused. "You stowed away on a ship that carries eggs?"
"No you dummy!" Riku snapped. "This ship belongs to an evil scientist by the name of Dr. Robotnik or as everyone calls him Dr. Eggman, because he's shaped like an egg."
"Whoa." Sora said baffled. "That is just sad to have a ship named after you."
"Basically, I've been with the good doctor so I'd consider you and your friends the stowaways." Riku continued.
"My friends!" Sora cried. "Where are Luigi and Yoshi?"
Riku got upset upon hearing what Sora said. "Are they that important? What happened to old friends? Are they just a faded memory in the back of your mind?"
"That's not true!" Sora snapped. "I care for all of my friends and with the way you've been acting why should I care?"
"Because instead of them you should be worrying about her." Riku responded moving away.
Sora's eyes widened upon who he saw next to Riku. For a moment in time Sora thought his heart literally stopped beating and he couldn't breath. It was Kairi and she wasn't looking good. Sora noticed she was as pale as a ghost and she was looking down with hers eyes almost closed.
"KAIRI!" Sora exclaimed. "Riku, how did you..."
"Yes, while you've been fooling around with your new buddies I finally found her." Riku said. "Isn't it ironic that I found after all you've two been through? You don't care about Kairi one bit!"
"You'll regret that!" Sora shouted running at Riku.
Sora ran at Riku as fast as he could but was stopped by Dr. Eggman who floated in on his Egg Mobile.
"Hold it right there!" Dr. Eggman said stopping Sora. "I don't tolerate behavior from such a small mind, boy."
"Small mind!" Sora shouted offended. Sora was about to punch Eggman when a giant robot held him back. He had a laser gun on his left hand, a miniature flashlight on right side of his head, and skinny but long black feet. His entire body was egg shaped and he was colored red and had stripes of yellow all over his body. He also had little green little eyes. "Hey, let me go!"
Sora also noticed two more robots, one was a tall robotic chicken while the other was a small green robot that has steamroller wheels. He also saw heartless as well.
"Good work E-102 Gamma." Dr. Eggman applauded the big robot. "Excellent job on capturing the boy."
"Thank you sir." E-102 said in a monotone voice.
"Hey!" The Chicken screeched. "What about me? I helped while Grounder over here didn't do a thing!"
"What are you talking about Scratch?" Grounder argued with the chapter. "You were sleeping while I was the one who saw the kid!"
"Was not!" Scratch shouted.
"Was too!" Grounder argued back.
"Silence!" Dr. Eggman snapped at the two robots.
"Riku, I don't understand, why are you siding with the heartless?" Sora asked Riku in surprise.
"Sora, the heartless obey me now." Riku said correcting him. "I am their master and they do as I say. I have nothing to fear."
Sora has had it with Riku acting so stupid. He was so ticked off that he was ready to tackle Riku. "You idiot! You're blinded by rage and the darkness will eat away at your heart because of the heartless."
"My hearts is too strong." Riku said calmly. "I highly doubt it. I don't need advice, especially from a pipsqueak like you."
"But Riku..." Sora began.
"Enough!" Riku said cutting him off. He then put his hand out. "I've even learned a few new tricks, like this!" Sora gasped at what he saw next. A shadow version of him appeared before him and stuck his tongue at the real Sora. "I extracted a part of the darkness that lies within you and created a heartless version of yourself. It's pointless, Sora! I can't be defeated."
Sora didn't know what he could do. He was betrayed by his best friend and no matter what he did he couldn't talk any sense into Riku. Sora thought that all was lost and he finally gave in and put his head down.
"Good work." Dr. Eggman told Riku. "I think you triggered something in that poor boys emotions."
"Look at you." Riku smirked. "You're pathetic! If only Kairi could see you now. However, I do feel sorry for you, so I'll let you see your better friends."
"Riku that's not..."
"Gamma!" Eggman called to the E-102. "Take the prisoner to his cell."
"Your wish is my command, Dr. Robotnik." E-102 nodded. He then picked up Sora and took him away.
"Hey, put me down you hunk of junk." Sora demanded.
"Sorry, but I must follow master Robotnik's orders." E-102 said sadly.
E-102 left with Sora in his right arm leaving the bad guys behind.
"Okay." Riku nodded. "Now that Sora is out of my way we can continue." He then turned to Eggman and the robots. "We'll be arriving in Station Square within the hour. I'll make sure to get the captured hedgehog girl taken care of while you prepare for landing. I'll see you in an hour." He began to walk away but then stopped and turned back. "One more thing, make sure that Sora doesn't escape and tries to go anywhere near Kairi." He then walked away while Dr. Eggman made an upset look.
"Grr...I can't believe this!" Eggman growled. "I am Dr. Robotnik, the greatest scientific mind in the world. I am powerful leader and no one dare tells me what to do. Especially, that little molecule!"
"You want us to give him what for?" Grounder laughed gleefully.
"No." Eggman said shaking his head. "I need you two on guard duty to watch that pink hedgehog until Riku arrives there."
"But what about the boy?" Scratch butted in.
"You really are stupid, aren't you?" Eggman sighed. "You forget that the heartless are crawling all over the place. They'll keep an eye on the brats."
"But Dr. Robotnik sir." Grounder gulped. "Don't you remember who else is down there?"
"Silence!" Eggman snapped. "I'm not worried about that little rodent. He won't stop me this time when I have the ultimate weapon."
"The Egg Carrier?" Scratch asked confused.
"No you ninny!" Eggman snapped at Scratch. "I swear that is the last time I do any favors for my cousin." He then floated up to a floating water like creature that was in the shape of a shark. "Ah, Chaos. Soon I will assemble all seven chaos emeralds and you shall become unbeatable. That bird that's with the girl has one of the emeralds. I'm so close I can taste it."
"Um, sir..."
"Quite Grounder." Eggman snapped. "I'm enjoying the moment."
"But who's guarding the girl?" Scratch asked.
"WHY ARE YOU TWO STILL STANDING HERE THEN?" Eggman shouted at both of them. "Get going or else I'm sending you back to the scrap heat!"
"Yes, sir!" The both said together. They then ran into each other and fell down.
"Hey, watch where you're going!" Scratch shouted at Grounder.
"What?" Grounder responded shocked at the concept. "You started it!"
"Did not!"
"Did too!"
"Did not!"
The two then began fighting with each other behind a wall while Eggman put his hand on his head.
"I think I need to lie down for awhile." He groaned. "The stress it killing me."
He then walked away groaning. E-102 brought Sora down into a red room that had many jail cells. Sora saw helpless animals whining in the cells as E-102 walked down the room until he reached the last cell. He pressed a button and the bars opened up. E-102 then threw Sora into the jail cell where he hit the ground.
"Mission complete." E-102 said to himself. "Child is securely in jail cell. Now to head over to get the bird."
"Hey!" Sora shouted standing up. He tried to make a run for the exit but E-102 pressed a button locking Sora in. "Let me out of here! There is someone I need to see!"
"I'm sorry, but master Robotnik said not to let you out." E-102 said. "Request denied."
E-102 left the room leaving Sora all alone. He sat back down in the cell and looked around the room. It was empty and quite. Sora could hear the wind whistling through the room and it was so quiet that Sora could hear his own breathing. He even got a little nervous but he was sad realizing that he has failed. He has lost a friend who was close to him and after finally finding Kairi he was never going to be able to see her again. Sora was about to give up all hope when he heard a voice.
"Sora!" Called Yoshi.
Sora turned to his left and saw Yoshi running at him with his arms out.
"Yoshi!" Sora cried happily. Yoshi jumped into Sora's arms and knocked him over. Yoshi rapidly licked Sora's face clean which caused Sora to laugh. "Hey! Cut it out! That tickles! I give up!" Yoshi got off Sora and he pet Yoshi's head. "I'm so glad you're okay."
"Of course!" Yoshi responded with a giggled. "No one keep Yoshi down!"
"How did you get here?" Sora asked curiously.
"Yoshi remember landing here and then fat man shaped like egg locked Yoshi and Luigi in here." Yoshi responded.
"What?" Sora said surprised. "Luigi's here too? Where is he?"
"Hey kid!" Called Luigi. Sora looked down to see he was sitting on top of Luigi. "I'm glad to see you're alive and well, but do me a favor and get off me!"
"Oh, sorry." Sora chuckled.
He got off Luigi and Luigi jumped up and groaned.
"Terrible tortellini." Luigi groaned. "I'm going to have a bad back for weeks."
"Hey, I didn't see you there." Sora said with his goofy smile. "You think you'd get used to taking these blows."
"I just hope Toadsworth and the others will be okay." Luigi said ignoring the comment and brushing himself off. "By the way, how did you get here kid?"
Sora explained about how he arrived and met Dr. Eggman and his lackeys but upon mentioning Riku he slid his back down a wall and sat down.
"Riku." Sora said sadly. "He betrayed me. He's siding with the heartless." Yoshi and Luigi both gasped in horror as Sora put his head down. "I feel like I've lost hope, that a part of me has died."
"Oh, Sora." Luigi said softly. "Don't say that. You know that's not true."
Yoshi then hugged a sad Sora trying to make him feel better.
"Sora, no be sad." Yoshi said softly. "Sora may have lost Riku, but Sora no lose Luigi and Yoshi."
"We're right here for you, kid." Luigi said patting Sora's hand. "We promise we're going to help in anyway we can."
Sora was happy to hear that both Luigi and Yoshi were with him. A tear streamed down his face and he sniffled a little.
"Don't cry." Yoshi said softly still hugging Sora.
"I'm just happy to know that you two are with me right now." Sora whispered. "Thank you. I would have never gone on without you."
"That's not true." Luigi disagreed. "Sora, you have a gift. Sometimes we all get upset but we move on. And you change your emotions in like a few seconds kid. But remember not to be sad."
Yoshi moved away from Sora as he stood up.
"You're right, Luigi!" Sora said with confidence. "I can do this! I'll find someway to stop Riku and rescue Kairi. By the way I found her!"
"Sora don't say!" Yoshi gasped excitedly. "It defiantly Kairi?"
"Yeah, I finally found her!" Sora responded.
"Then Sora, Luigi, and Yoshi should go up and talk to Kairi." Yoshi said excitedly.
"Then let's-a-go!" Luigi announced as he ran towards the exit.
"Hey, aren't you forgetting something genius?" Sora groaned sarcastically.
"What?"
Luigi wasn't watching where he was going and he ran into the metal bar and slid down it. Yoshi giggled and Sora walked over and bent down to him.
"You forgot that we're still trapped in here." Sora answered.
"Oh, er...I knew that." Luigi gulped nervously. "I was just checking if the bars were rusty and they look clean."
Sora then put his hands on the bars and sighed. "We need to think of a way out of here. And there is no keyhole used to open this thing."
"Now what we do?" Yoshi said sadly.
The group then heard someone clearing their throat. Yoshi got scarred and jumped into Luigi's arm.
"Oh, no!" Luigi struggled. "Here comes the back pain!" Luigi and Yoshi fell down and Sora laughed at seeing them on the ground. "Ha, ha, ha, very funny kid."
"Sorry." Sora smiled. "It was funny." Sora turned back to where he heard the clearing of the throat. "Who's there?"
"Hey, what's up?" Called a male voice. "Over heard your dilemma and it looks like you could use a hand getting out of here."
Just then a blue blur rushed by Sora and began bouncing all around the room.
"What happening?" Yoshi whimpered.
The blur continued running around the room and it almost knocked Yoshi and Luigi over, but Sora grabbed them and they all fell back. Finally, the blur spun down to the ground and revealed it self to be a blue hedgehog that wore red and white striped shoes and white gloves.
"Who you?" Yoshi asked the hedgehog nervously.
"Who am I?" The Hedgehog laughed. "Why I happen to be the answer to your prayers? Your ray of hope. The light at the end of the tunnel."
"Kid, the only thing I think you are is a young juvenile who doesn't respect their elders." Luigi scoffed.
"But Luigi, you're only in your twenties so I wouldn't exactly call you elderly." Sora pointed out.
"Oh, well I just don't trust his face." Luigi said.
"Ouch, harsh." The Hedgehog said. "Fine, you don't need my help, then you don't get my help."
"Wait!" Sora cried stopping the Hedgehog. "Sorry, but Luigi forgot to take his pills today." Luigi was about to talk but Sora quickly covered his mouth. "He gets cranky sometimes in the morning. Grownups, go figure." Sora then took his hand away from Luigi's mouth. "Listen, we could really use the help, but don't you realize that you're stuck in here too?"
The hedgehog leaned his back against a wall and smirked. "You kidding? No one keeps me locked up here."
"Then why are you locked in here?" Luigi said rolling his eyes.
"I'm just waiting for someone." The Hedgehog responded.
"Who are you waiting for?" Sora asked.
All of a sudden the group heard a loud banging noise and the group turned to see a giant robot that had legs and the chest part was in the shape of a plane appear before them with the bars destroyed. It had blue and yellow colors all around it and symbols of two orange tails. Sora also noticed the face of a cute orange fox at the top.
"Mama-mia!" Luigi cried. "That fat doctor guy made a giant robot by crossing a sweet little fox with a giant robot."
"I'm no robot." The fox protested. He then jumped out of the robot revealing him self to be an orange fox with a white chest, white gloves and almost similar shoes to the hedgehog's shoes. "That's just my invention the Tornado. Not only can it be used for flight but it can be used as a fighting robot."
"Wow!" Luigi exclaimed. "I've never seen such a young smart guy before." He then noticed Yoshi giving him a dirty look. "Oh, well there's you too. Sorry Yoshi.."
"Hey, Tails." The hedgehog said to the fox. "What kept ya?"
Tails walked up to the hedgehog with a smile. "Sonic, I'm glad to see you're okay. I was beginning to worry about you."
"Don't worry, bro." Sonic assured Tails. "I'm always okay. But the service hear stinks, no free food or movies. That's not cool, it's injustice. "
"And you actually know what the word injustice means?" Luigi asked rhetorically.
"Watch it old man!" Sonic snapped at Luigi. "Or I'll run circles around you!"
"I'd like to see you try it blue boy!" Luigi responded.
"Calm down!" Sora shouted. "We're all getting worked up over nothing! Take it easy guys."
"Sorry, kid." Luigi apologized to Sonic.
"Ah, no hard feelings dude." Sonic smiled. "I have a bit of a short temper."
Yoshi then noticed a very interesting feature about Tails and gasped. "Hey, does fox know he have two tails?"
Sora looked to see Tails had not one but two tails with white tips at the end.
"Two tails?" Tails said playing with Yoshi. "Where?"
"Behind!" Yoshi pointed.
"Kid, don't trick Yoshi like that!" Luigi said.
"Sorry, just having a little fun." Tails chuckled. "I was born with this mutation and it didn't just effect just physically, but emotionally."
"How did fox get two tails?" Yoshi asked.
"Well, it begins when something in your DNA changes before you're born..." Tails began
"Listen, Tails." Sonic interrupted impatiently, while tapping his foot. "As much as I want to hear the story about how you gained your mutation we have more important things to discuss. Did you find Amy?"
"Yeah, she's alive and well." Tails nodded. He then jumped back into the Tornado and searched through it. "I was able to take some pictures of her to show you that she is completely unharmed." He came back holding out printed pictures and handed the pictures to him.
Sonic observed them and saw a pink hedgehog that wore a red dress that was connected, red shoes with a white stripe in the middle, and of course white gloves.
"Good, she's okay." Sonic sighed with relief. "She still is a person, pain in the butt or not." The last picture he saw was another person who was next to Amy. She was as pale as a ghost. "Hey, who's this other girl with red hair?"
"Another girl?" Sora gasped. "With red hair?"
"Yeah, she was with Amy and since you're always rescuing people I figured you could rescue her too." Tails explained
"I wonder who this girl Eggman captured is?" Sonic wondered.
"Let me see that!" Sora said grabbing the picture out of Sonic's hand.
"Hey!"
"Kairi!" Sora exclaimed. "She's okay!"
"I take it you know that girl." Tails figured.
"Yeah, she's my friend." Sora told Tails. "I need to rescue her!"
"Well, then." Sonic began. "Looks like there is a reason for all of us to meet here. To team up to save the babes, although I'm not going to enjoy rescuing Amy."
"Isn't Amy, hedgehog's girlfriend?" Yoshi asked Sonic.
"W-w-what?" Sonic said appalled. "That girl is so annoying! I can't stand her! She's always running after me like a crazed fan girl! Sometimes I even have nightmares about it!"
"Then maybe you should let me rescue Amy." Tails said with hope.
"No can do little bro." Sonic sighed. "I have to do it."
Tails grumbled to himself while Luigi noticed this.
"I get it!" Luigi laughed. "Fox boy over here likes the pink hedgehog and he must be pretty jealous!" Luigi then laughed harder while Tails blushed like crazy.
"Hey!" Tails shouted at Luigi.
He ran back into the Tornado and pressed a button which caused the propeller to fly out and hit Luigi in the jaw.
"Ow!" Luigi cried. Sora and Yoshi giggled to each other while Luigi waved his fist at Tails. "Hey! What's the big idea?"
"Oops, sorry, must have pressed the wrong button." Tails teased while rolling his eyes.
Sonic smirked. "Well, then I guess you guys can tag along with us. Those black creatures are pretty tough and I guess we could use an extra set of hands."
"Alright!" Sora nodded.
"I'm Sonic the Hedgehog." Sonic said introducing himself. He then extended his hand to Sora
"I'm Sora." Sora said extending his hand. Before Sora could grab Sonic's hand, Sonic moved it quickly away from Sora.
"Too slow!" Sonic laughed. He then smirked at Sora. "But seriously we're going to be in this together but only till we find Amy."
"You got it." Sora nodded.
"And this guy is my best buddy in the whole wide world." Sonic said introducing the group to Tails.
"I'm Miles Prower but everyone calls me Tails." Tails introduced himself. "I'll try to do anything I can to help you guys out."
"Then it settled." Yoshi nodded.
"Then let's go!" Sonic cried. He then got into a ready to run pose and then ran in place. "Up, over, and gone!" He then sped out of the prison area like lightning.
Sora's mouth dropped as he saw Sonic run out of the room. He's has never seen anyone move that fast before besides when Luigi runs away from a battle or when Yoshi hears the word food.
"Dang, he's fast!" Sora commented in amazement. "No one can run like that!"
"That's my best buddy." Tails said proudly. "They say he's the fastest thing alive. Come on! We have to go after Amy and your friend sometime this year."
"Okay!" Sora nodded.
Sora and Yoshi left with Tails who was in control of his robot. As they left, Luigi stopped for a minute to think about something. He then snapped his finger arousing with something.
"Oh, I get it!" Luigi said arousing with something. "Miles Prower as in Miles per Hour! I can't believe I didn't realize that sooner. What a great pun that could be!" He then ran after the others. "Hey guys! I just figured out something!"
Sora's group along with Sonic and Tails made their way towards the exit of the prison. Tails helped free some of the other animals that were behind bars, including some of the Pikmin which Sora stored in his magic cube. The group reached the exit to see that two robots that looked similar to E-102 were guarding the exit.
"Um, this is bad." Luigi said sadly.
"No way!" Sonic smirked. "You just leave this part to me and with your help too, Sora." Sonic whispered into Sora's ear who nodded to what he said. Sonic then zoomed out the door and turned to face the robots who looked down at him. "Hey, guys, yo! You wanna play tag?" He then tapped both robots and ran off. "Well, you're i-t, it!
The robots looked at each other confused and were about to run after him when Sora slashed both of them across the chest.
"Adios!" Sora cried.
Sonic ran back over to the group and whispered to them.
"Okay, I'm glad we took care of those bolts for brains. We can now make our way through this baby." Sonic whispered.
"We're going to try a surprise attack, so that Eggman and his goons won't suspect anything." Tails explained.
"That's a great idea." Luigi nodded in agreement. He then pointed nervously in another direction "But why don't we worry about our surprise guests first?"
The group turned to see the heartless appearing including some new ones called "Eggbots" These new ones were shaped like eggs and used ray guns. Sonic was another powerful ally to Sora's party as he used his speed to run around the enemies and confuse them. He kicked one of them and effortlessly avoided a ray gun attack from another one. Sonic curled into a ball and looked like a giant blue chainsaw which slashed through an army of the heartless. Sora used magic such as slow to make the enemies even more easy for Sonic to beat. Sora even impressed Sonic by using his Sonic Wave attack, rushing through the heartless. Luigi used his magic attacks as well such as fire and ice. Yoshi ate the heartless and spat them at others and they all rolled across the floor. A few tried to attack Tails but he fired missiles at them which knocked them into a wall. Tails then pressed another button which fired a giant beam, obliterating the heartless. As Sora finished off the last of a group of heartless he could feel something moving around the room. It was very quick but he was some how able to sense its presents.
"What's the matter kid?" Luigi asked concerned. "You okay?"
"I can feel a presents floating around us." Sora said in a serious tone. He then looked to see something was forming in a wall behind Sonic. "Sonic, look out!"
Sonic quickly dashed out of the way as Shadow Sora rushed in and rammed the real Sora in the stomach with his head. Sora went flying across the room and crashed into a janitor robot causing an explosion.
"So much for the sneak attack." Tails sighed sadly.
Sora weakly stood up and the evil version charged at him again. Sonic quickly dashed in and grabbed Sora by the hand and moved him out of the way.
"Thanks!" Sora smiled.
"No prob!" Sonic smirked giving a thumbs up. "I have an idea on how to beat this faker."
Sora and Sonic turned back to see Shadow Sora laughing around them. He then charged at them but when he was about to attack, Sora grabbed Sonic and threw him at Shadow Sora. Sonic curled into a ball and slashed right through Shadow Sora who then disappeared.
"Where did he go?" Tails asked.
Sora looked around the room trying to locate his evil double but could not pick up anything. "I think we lost him."
"Kid, how are you able to sense him?" Luigi asked in surprise.
"Because Riku extracted some of the darkness that rests in my heart." Sora responded. "It's basically me, but a dark version. So, it's like a part of me that escaped and it is something I can feel."
"Wait, I'm confused." Luigi said scratching his head. "That's suppose to be you, but is was derived from the darkness in your heart. So that means you still feel its emotions because it was apart of you. But if it was extracted from the darkness you would have a split personality or maybe you're the bad one and he's the good one. Or what if there was an alternate universe..." Luigi's eyes then went crossed. "Oh, great, I've went cross eyed."
"Here, gramps, let me sum it up for you." Sonic said clearing his throat. "It's something that was connected to Sora, right? It was a part of Sora and since it seems to move about on it's own, therefore it thinks it is Sora. The same personality, same traits, likes and dislikes, except one is a good one and the other one is an evil one. I've been in his shoes before, I should know. You're right about it being a part of him and how he can feel his emotions. They're some how connected."
'Oh, I think I get it." Luigi said scratching his head. "Just don't call me gramps!"
"Okay, got it." Sonic nodded. He then turned to Sora. "Don't worry about man. We'll get through this."
"Thanks." Sora smiled.
"Let's go guys." Tails said impatiently. "We're wasting time!"
Sora's group continued their venture through the room. It was a giant room with many doors, many platforms, and a system called a "Monorail" that had a single green line that went in and out of the room. Luigi suggested using it but Tails said that Amy was in another room in the area. As the group headed upward Sora located some more Pikmin. They all so saw a platform that had six honeycomb buttons with the letters "A" "E" "E" "G" "M" "N"
"Yoshi wonders what that means." Yoshi said.
Sonic rolled his eyes. "Isn't obvious scale boy?"
Sonic stepped on the buttons in a certain order. First he pressed "E" then "G" "G" "M" "A" "N" spelling Eggman.
"Wow, that was obvious." Sora said raising his eyebrow. "Man, Eggman is even more pathetic then King K Rool if he thinks he can hide his valuables and place his trust in such a pathetic password."
Sora's group entered the room to discover hidden treasures such as items for the Toad Express, more Pikmin, even a thousand gold coins.
"Little Italy here I come." Luigi said while he greedily took the coins.
"Luigi." Sora said upset at Luigi.
Luigi looked at Sora and sighed. "I'm sorry. I guess I got carried away." He then groaned. "Mama-mia, he's worse then my mother."
Sora also found a crystal which updated his and Luigi's Aero magic. Now they could deflect attacks more efficiently. They headed back outside and entered another room to their left. The heartless including Shadow Sora was there to greet them. The Eggbots shot beams at Sonic who dodged the attacks by running on the walls. He then jumped in front of one and stuck his tongue at another one. The other one fired a laser and Sonic dodged the attack and the beam hit the one that was behind him. Tails did some action on the ground by spinning his tails at the heartless and knocking them into each other. Shadow Sora charged at Sora again but he cast Aerora and the wind knocked the evil copy back. Sora tried to attack but the evil clone laughed and disappeared again.
"Shoot!" Sora said angrily. "I got away again...er...I mean he got away again."
"Gee, kid." Luigi snickered. "I didn't know you were so afraid of yourself."
"That's not funny!" Sora snapped with a threatening stare.
"I was only kidding!" Luigi cried. "Mama-mia, this kid can't take a joke."
Sora looked back up to notice that there was no other doors in the room. "Tails, I don't see another door. Are you sure this is the right way?"
"Positive." Tails responded. "I made a copy of the blueprints for this ship and found every possible route. In the middle of the room is a wooden board that is a trap door."
"That's why Tails is way past cool." Sonic smirked. "He knows exactly what to do."
"Aw, thanks Sonic." Tails blushed. He then jumped back into the Tornado and pressed a button. He then jumped out of it and the Tornado transformed into a suitcase. "There, now the Tornado should be able to fit. It's new, small, and can fit into easy storage bins. It's the go anywhere Tornado."
Everyone else rolled their eyes and then continued on. Sora's group went down stairs to where once again the heartless attacked them with Shadow Sora leading the attack. Shadow Sora punched Sora in the face who went flying into a wall. He got back up and rapidly slashed at the evil copy who dodged the attacks.
"He knows all of my moves." Sora through. "There's got to be another way to beat this guy. Wait, if he has my likes, dislikes, and thoughts..." Sora then looked over Shadow Sora and gasped. "Riku, are you giving that paopu fruit to Kairi?" Shadow Sora quickly turned around and Sora kicked the evil clone in the chest, sending it flying into a wall, where it made its getaway. "Heh, I guess I know myself a lot better." He then thought about what he just said. "Or I know him better but then again he's basically me or...never mind I'm just going to kick some heartless butt."
Sora and friends disposed of the heartless very quickly with help from Sonic and Tails. Afterwards, they found another ladder and climbed up it. They arrived in another room similar to the one they were just in, but strangely enough there were no heartless. Tails brought the Tornado back out and climbed aboard it. The group made there way down the room when Yoshi stopped everyone and turned to Sonic.
"So, how come Sonic run fast?" Yoshi asked Sonic.
"Not sure little guy." Sonic shrugged. "It was something I was born with much similar to Tails."
"Can Yoshi learn to run that fast?" Yoshi asked with hope.
"Um, no." Sonic responded lowering his eyes. "There can only be one fast guy and that's me."
"Aw." Yoshi said sadly.
"Hey, but turn that frown upside down." Sonic smirked trying to cheer Yoshi up. "You may not be able to run like me, but how would you like to fly like Tails?"
"Tails can fly?" Yoshi asked Tails.
Tails smiled proudly and jumped out of the Tornado. "You bet! Watch this!" Tails spun his twin Tails together so they looked like a spinning helicopter. Tails jumped into the air and put his back towards the ceiling and he flew up.
"Whoa, he can fly!" Sora gasped looking up.
Luigi then began to sing. "He can fly, he can fly, he can fly, he can fly..."
"Luigi, shut up!" Sora shouted annoyed at Luigi. He then rolled his eyes. "Man, and Riku said I watched too many Disney movies." Sora then turned to Tails. "That's so cool, Tails! I wish I could fly!"
"You can." Tails responded blushing from Sora's comment. "And I have just the thing."
Tails jumped back into the Tornado and searched through it for something. He then came back out with a beautiful emerald that had a red ruby color to it. Yoshi licked his lips and tried to eat it by using his tongue, but Sonic grabbed it.
"Hold on! You can't eat that!" Sonic told Yoshi.
"Aw, but I hungry." Yoshi moaned. "Shiny apple look good."
"This isn't an apple." Tails laughed. "It's called a Chaos Emerald."
"What's a Chaos Emerald?" Luigi asked observing the red ruby.
"The Chaos Emeralds contains powers that are unmatched by any force out there." Sonic explained. "These emeralds contains unlimited power and make people do unbelievable things. When all seven are gathered the one who wields the power will become invincible."
"This red one has the power to grant flight to one who can rightfully use it." Tails concluded. "If you want to fly then put your hands on the emerald and prepare to receive the power."
Sora's group huddled in and decided to give it a try. They bravely but cautiously placed their hands on the emeralds and it began glowing before their eyes. It got so bright that they had to close their eyes because of it. When the light dimmed they opened their eyes to see that everything was normal.
"I don't feel different." Sora said observing himself. "Maybe it didn't work."
"Don't worry, I'm sure it worked." Sonic reassured Sora. "Now you guys can fly..." Before Sonic could finish, Luigi jumped into the air and waved his arms. "...when you believe in yourselves."
Luigi stopped in mid air and looked down. "Um, this looks bad." He then fell down. "Mama-mia!" Luigi fell to the ground and everyone started laughing at him. Especially, Tails.
"Hey!" Luigi said offended.
"Sorry, we're not laughing with you, we're laughing at you." Tails joked.
"Oh, now you're-a-going to get if fox boy!" Luigi said running angrily at Tails.
"Yikes!" Tails cried running away.
Luigi began to chase Tails around the room while everyone else laughed. Unknown to them that a familiar chicken was watching them.
"So." Scratch said. "Those brats escaped. I better tell Dr. Robotnik."
"Not so fast!" Grounder said appearing behind Scratch. "I'm going to tell him."
"What?" Scratch screeched. "Oh, no, you don't!"
Grounder rolled off with Scratch chasing him. "Ha! Ha! I'm going to tell him!"
"Over my dead metal body!" Scratched said chasing after Grounder.
Meanwhile, Eggman was in a lounge area that had a fold down beds in the corner and a desk on the other side. It also had a refrigerator on the side and a T.V. opposite of that. He was at his desk listening to a disappointed Riku talked about something. Eggman stood up and slammed his fists on the desk.
"What?" He exclaimed. "After all of the efforts, all the strategic moves we took, and number of complaining, I finally get a moment of rest when I hear that Amy is not one of the chosen ones! Are you sure?"
Riku nodded. "Yes, we've run some test and Bowser confirmed it. Amy Rose is not one of them."
"That dumb turtle can't even solve a simple math equation like two plus two and yet he's able to tell who is a princess?" Eggman asked confused.
"It's like a sixth sense." Riku said coldly. "He was right about the current five we have at the moment. You volunteered her to be one of them, so it's not our fault." He then turned away from Eggman and looked out the window. "When we arrived in Station Square, we shall leave all the dead weight behind, including her."
"After chasing her for hours and hours, and now we have to let her go?" Eggman said angrily.
"You're never satisfied are you, you fat piece of lard?" Riku said sharply at Eggman who got mad.
"Lard?" Eggman said offended. "You shall pay!"
"Lighten up, chrome dome!" Riku snapped. "I had to say it because I've had it up to here with your complaining! You better shut up right now or I swear I shall sign you up for an aerobics class so fast that your head will spin!" Eggman the shut right up. "Besides, you still have the bird."
"Yes, I forgot about that." Eggman said with a wicked smile. He then made a serious look. "But answer me this; why is it those seven? What is Bowser planing?"
Riku crossed his arms. "Who knows what he's planing. But as long as it holds the key to getting Kairi's heart back I couldn't care less."
"Ha! It's a silly waste of time." Eggman scoffed. Riku then turned to Eggman with an evil glare. "It's true! The heartless have eaten that girls heart for breakfast and I'd stake my Eggmobile that it's lost forever."
"Say what you want but I will find it no matter what the cause." Riku said with confidence.
"Such persistents." Eggman groaned to himself. He then heard a red beeping sound and sat back down at his desk. He pressed a button and turned around to see a wide screen TV with a design of the entire Egg Carrier. On a smaller screen to the left Scratch and Grounder both appeared on screen struggling.
"Doctor Robotnik sir." Scratch struggled. "I have some urgent news."
"You mean I have some urgent news." Grounder struggled. "I tell it way better."
"Ha! Ha! I doubt it!" Scratched laughed. "I can tell it even better."
The two then started getting into a fight and begin beating up each other on the ground.
"I am surrounded by morons." Eggman groaned smacking his forehead. "Get up you numbskulls and you both tell me the news or it's scrap time!"
The two robots quickly got up and made nervously looks.
"Sorry, your evilness." Scratch apologized. "Bad news, the prisoners have escaped."
"What?" Riku and Eggman exclaimed together.
"And if that isn't bad enough Sonic the Hedgehog is with them." Grounder added.
"Curse that meddling hedgehog." Eggman growled. "He's always trying to ruin my plains, but not this time." He then looked back at the robots. "Scratch, Grounder. Bring Amy and that red haired girl to my cabin at once. And it seems that someone stowaway on the Egg Carrier. Find Gamma and tell him to capture are uninvited guest while your at it."
"Yes, sir!" They both said. They then turned towards each other and knocked into each other.
Eggman covered his eyes and groaned. As he turned back to Riku he noticed that Riku was nowhere in sight. Where did he go?
To Be Continued...