Chapter XXI: An "Egg"-cellent Super Sonic Adventure Part II
Sora, Luigi, Yoshi, Sonic, and Tails arrived at a corner of the room they were in. Surprisingly, no heartless were in sight but Tails looked up to see a small caged area on the right side of the ceiling. Tails flew up and looked to see a Pink Hedgehog moping around. Tails gasped and he called to everyone.
"Guys!" Tails cried. "Come here! I found Amy!"
The gang ran over and looked up at the cage.
"Amy!" Sonic called. "Are you up there?"
Amy looked up hearing those words and gasped with excitement.
"That beautiful voice, could it be?" Amy asked excitedly. She stood up and began to run over to where a caged area was below her feet. "Sonic? Is that you?" She then looked through the cage to see Sonic. "Oh, Sonic, my hero! You've come to save me!"
"You okay?" Tails asked Amy.
"I'm fine now that Sonic is here." Amy said in a dreamy kind of way. "I'm going to give you the biggest kiss when you get up here."
"Sorry." Sonic chuckled nervously. "But my doctor told me to stay away from Amy germs."
"Hey!" Amy said offended. "That's not nice!" She then smiled at Sonic. "But then again you're so dreamy when you insult me."
Sonic groaned and smacked his head with his hands.
"Wow!" Luigi said amazed. "She really is a crazed fan girl."
"Listen, you guys got to hurry." Amy said. "Eggman's goons are coming!"
"Don't worry." Sonic smirked. "We'll be up there faster then you can say chilidog on a stick."
"Mm, Yoshi love chili." Yoshi said licking his lips.
"Whatever you do, don't stand next to him afterwards." Luigi advised, getting the sheer thought of Yoshi eating probably twenty chilidogs.
Sora approached the caged area and looked up at Amy. "Excuse me, Amy?"
"Huh? You're not Sonic!" Amy said noticing Sora. "You better have a good explanation!"
"Relax, Amy." Tails chuckled. "These our are new friends Sora, Luigi, and Yoshi."
"Oh, well what do you want?" Amy asked Sora.
"Up there in the prison with you, is there another girl by any chance?" Sora asked with hope.
Amy looked to her right where she saw a familiar red haired girl who was lifeless and pale as a ghost. "Yeah, there is another girl up here. I've tried to talk with her but she remains lifeless. At first I thought she was ignoring me..."
"Who wouldn't?" Sonic muttered rhetorically.
"I heard that!" Amy shouted at Sonic. "You better prepare yourself for a beating when you get up here Sonic T. Hedgehog."
"What's the T stand for?" Luigi said.
"It stands for the." Sonic responded. "I'm Sonic the Hedgehog."
"You mean your middle name is literally the? That's pathetic." Luigi laughed.
"Hey, I am not the ones who makes the names." Sonic responded with a snap.
"If it make Sonic feel better Luigi's last name is Mario." Yoshi giggled.
"So, my middle name is pathetic, huh?" Sonic smirked.
"Well...erm...I...shut up!" Luigi snapped.
"Ooh, such a good comeback old man." Sonic said sarcastically.
"Don't call me old man!" Luigi shouted.
"Old man!" Sonic said teasingly. "Old man! Old man!"
"That's it!" Luigi screamed annoyed. He then tried to chase Sonic but Yoshi and Tails held him back.
"Calm down, Luigi!" Yoshi exclaimed.
"Sonic is like that." Tails said. "Just try to ignore him."
Luigi sighed and wiped his forehead. "Right, I'll try."
"Sorry, man." Sonic said. "I didn't know you'd get that upset." Sonic then sighed. "That guy has some issues with taking jokes."
Meanwhile, Sora saw Kairi's lifeless body through the cage.
"Kairi! Kairi!" Sora shouted. "It's me, Sora!" Kairi didn't responded. For some reason the same feeling he felt from his chest earlier appeared again but he was so excited that he ignored it.
Sora got worried as Kairi wasn't responding. He wondered what happened and continued trying to call Kairi. Yoshi came over and took Sora's hand trying to make him feel better. Finally, Kairi's hand flinched and Sora laughed happily.
"She moved!" Yoshi said happily.
"Kairi, you can hear me!" Sora smiled. "You're alive! I knew it!"
All of a sudden the group heard a door open and they heard Amy.
"Hey, leave her alone!" Amy cried. The group then heard Amy scream and the last thing Sora saw was Kairi's lifeless body getting dragged across the floor.
"What happened?" Yoshi whimpered.
"I bet one of Eggman's goons did something to her!" Sonic said. "Come on! We have to stop them!"
The group left the room leaving Sora behind who looked up at the caged area. "Riku? Was that you who grabbed Kairi?"
Deciding not to worry about it now Sora left and caught up with the others. Tails looked up to notice a hole in the ceiling.
"Hm, I don't remember this hole in the ceiling." Tails said confused. "I thought I had every part of the Egg Carrier mapped out."
"I thought you were the smart one." Sonic said disappointed.
"Hey, I'm not psychic, I can't expect everything." Tails sighed rolling his eyes.
"It looks like someone dug that hole." Sora said observing the hole.
"He's right." Luigi agreed. "It doesn't look like someone used a bomb or anything."
"I bet I know who did it." Sonic said to himself.
"Who?" Yoshi asked.
The group managed to pull themselves up through the hole and arrived in another room where the group saw doors on each side of the room. Two on the left side and one on the right side. As they ventured forward the heartless appeared in front of them.
"Boy, I can't just seem to get enough of these guys." Luigi sighed.
Before the group could attack a strange red blur dashed through the room and destroyed all the heartless.
"Whoa!" Sora exclaimed. "What just did that?"
The group looked to see that a red echidna in the middle of the room. Unlike Sonic's hair, his went down to his upper back. He had a white smile type mark on the upper part of his chest and had white gloves. However, his gloves had spikes on and he wore red shoes with a yellow stripe in the middle.
"Hey, it's Knuckles." Tails said surprised.
"Knuckles?" Yoshi asked confused.
"A pal of mine." Sonic explained. "He's a guardian of a giant floating emerald known as the Master Emerald. How are you buddy?"
"Listen Sonic!" Knuckles said cold heartily at Sonic. "I know what you did and I won't stand for it!"
"Huh?" Sonic asked confused. "What did I do to you?"
"Hand over the emerald you have!" Knuckles demanded.
"Some pal." Sora said drawing his keyblade. "Why do you want the chaos emeralds?"
"Chaos emerald?" Knuckles said baffled. "You mean you don't have the Master..." He then paused for a second and smacked his forehead. "Oh, no."
"Let me guess." Sonic said rolling his eyes with a sigh. "Eggman tricked you again."
"No way!" Knuckles objected. "No one makes a fool out of me!"
"Forgive Knuckles, guys." Tails told Sora's group. "He's very gullible."
"You can't prove anything!" Knuckles snapped at Tails.
"Hey, Knuckles." Sonic called to Knuckles. "Did you know that guys with red skin are actually old men when they're sixteen?"
"What?" Knuckles gasped. "You mean I'm already an old man?" He then panicked. "B-but I have so much to live for. And whose going to guard the Master Emerald...hey! You tricked me!" Everyone stated laughing and Knuckles sighed. "Okay, okay. So I'm guess I am gullible, but that still doesn't stop me from finding the Master Emerald."
"What's that?" Luigi asked curiously.
"It's an emerald that keeps my home Angel Island afloat." Knuckles explained. "But after a strange and powerful creature showed up, the pieces were shattered and I was told some of them were here. And I ran into Eggman along the way." He then really noticed Sora's group. "Oh, Sonic, are these new friends of yours? One of them holds the mighty keyblade."
"How do you know about the keyblade?" Sora asked suspiciously.
"I've heard many stories about it but I never thought it existed." Knuckles said. "Sorry, forgot to introduce myself, I'm Knuckles the Echidna."
"I'm Sora and these are my pals Luigi and Yoshi." Sora said introducing himself and his friends.
"Nice to meet you all." Knuckles said shaking Sora's hand. He then turned to Sonic with a guilty look. "Sorry, Sonic."
"It's okay dude." Sonic smirked. "Listen pal, we'd like to stick around and chat but we need to rescue Amy."
"I saw Amy." Knuckles said remembering something. "When I arrived in this room the door opened and some silvered haired kid with a human girl came out when I saw her insider that door."
"Riku! Kairi!" Sora cried upon hearing those words. "Which way did they go?"
"See those two doors behind you." Knuckles pointed out. "They went into the right door but if you want to find Amy she's in the left door. Only problem is that the door is locked. Not even my strength can break it down. Eggman did a good job constructing this airship."
"Tails, is there any other way to get in there?" Sonic asked Tails looking for an answer.
"I've been looking at the design of the Egg Carrier and I discovered that there is a secret ground door on the upper level." Tails explained. "Eggman is clever, but not that clever."
Sonic then gave Tails a high five. "Alright, Tails!"
"We just have to take the other door and go up." Tails said. "Also, we could catch up to your friends if we go now."
"We have no time to lose!" Sora cried. "Come on, we got to hurry! And it was nice meeting you Knuckles!"
Sora's group left and opened the door to go inside.
"You guys go." Knuckles smiled. "I have to find the last few pieces of the Master Emerald."
"Then we'll see you later man." Sonic said with a wave. "Oh, by the way your shoes are untied." Sonic then used his speed to dash into the next room with Tails following in the Tornado.
"Oh, thanks." Knuckles said looking down at his feet. He then realized something. "Hey, I don't even wear shoelaces!" He then shouted. "SONIC!"
The group arrived in a next room which had two bunk beds and above it was a ladder that was on the ceiling. Tails flew up and was able to get the ladder down for them. They all climbed up the ladder with Sora being the first one to go up it. He then pushed open the door on the ceiling and looked up to see that they were in Eggman's lounge room.
"Whoa, this guy's got it made." Sora thought. "How does he pay for all this?" He got out first and looked to his right. He gasped upon seeing Riku holding an unconscious body that belonged to Kairi. "Riku!" Sora ran up to Riku and stopped to face him. Sora could feel anger and rage burning up in his body. He has had it with Riku. Now kidnaping Kairi or so he thought has pushed him over the edge. But he was able to control his emotions not wanting to just attack him head on or to harm Kairi if he tried to attacked considering that if Riku has gone insane he would used Kairi as a shield. However, Sora didn't realize that Riku still had strong feelings for Kairi as well.
Sora pointed at Riku. "Riku! Stop this! You've gone too far!"
The silvered haired rival simply looked at Sora with evil in his eyes. He then smirked and backed away from Sora while holding a strong grip on Kairi's lifeless body. Sora could sense the presence of Shadow Sora entering the room and he was right on the money as it appeared in front of him.
"Farewell, Sora." Riku said softly.
"No!" Sora cried trying to grab Riku. Shadow Sora however stopped our hero and knocked him aside with a dark version of Sora's keyblade which sent him flying into Luigi and Yoshi.
"Whoa!" Sonic exclaimed. "Man, are you guys okay?"
"Yeah, we're fine." Luigi groaned standing up. "That evil version of you packs a punch. But I can take you any day."
"So, do you really think you can beat me?" Sora joked.
Luigi laughed proudly. "Of course I can beat you...erm...I mean him...no...I mean the other version of you...no...Ah! My brain hurts! I'm just going to kick his butt, okay?"
"Slow Down!" Sonic interrupted. "I was in his shoes once and I've learned that teamwork makes a difference in this fight."
"Sonic's right." Sora groaned standing up. "We'll take him down together!"
Shadow Sora laughed as our heros charged at him. Sonic curled into a ball and tried to slashed the evil copy but Shadow Sora dodged the attack and grabbed Sonic.
"What?"
Shadow Sora threw him into a wall but Sonic curled into a ball again and spun into it and pushed back. Shadow Sora then melted into the ground as Sonic attacked. Shadow Sora appeared behind him and kicked him aside. Sora charged at Shadow Sora and clashed with him. Sora did a thrust attack but Shadow Sora blocked it with his keyblade. Sora tried to vertically slash him but Shadow Sora dodged again. Shadow Sora rapidly slashed at Sora but he blocked all the attacks with his keyblade. Sora tried a kick but Shadow Sora used a knee block to block it. Shadow Sora then punched Sora sending him crashing him into a wall. Shadow Sora then charged past everyone and grabbed Sora and slammed him into a wall. He then got him into a headlock and began squeezing him. Yoshi and Luigi both kicked Shadow Sora in the chest and sent him flying into a wall. Luigi then used Cure to heal Sora. He then turned to face Shadow Sora who was getting up.
"Stop!" Luigi cried using a magic spell. Shadow Sora was about to attack but he then was frozen by Luigi. He then turned to Sora with a cry. "Kid, attack!"
Sora charged at Shadow Sora and rapidly slashed him as fast as he could. When the time wore off Shadow Sora went flying and crashed into a wall.
"Watch this trick!" Sonic said taking out a bunch of giant golden rings.
Shadow Sora got back up and charged at Sonic who threw the rings which lined up in front of him.
"Oh, my goodness." Luigi said sarcastically. "I bet he's so scared. I didn't know getting an engagement ring would be so scary."
"I'm not done yet." Sonic smirked. Sonic then spun his body into a ball and light blue energy waves entered his body. As he stopped, Luigi noticed Sonic was glowing light blue. "He's about to get a taste of The Lightspeed Dash! Ready...go!"
Sonic sped extremely fast through the rings and right through Shadow Sora in the process. Shadow Sora melted again and Sonic cheered.
"Who is the man?" Sonic said proudly.
However, unknown to him Shadow Sora appeared right behind him but Tails quickly fired a missile hitting the evil clone. Shadow Sora flew back and went underground again.
"Where did bad Sora go?" Yoshi asked while moving quickly.
Shadow Sora appeared out of the ground with an uppercut which hit Sora and Sonic. The two tried to attack again but the evil copy went under again and uppercuts them again.
"Man, that's getting annoying!" Sora said irritated.
Shadow Sora tried again but Sora used dodge roll to move out of the way. Sora then quickly kicked Shadow Sora in the stomach sending him spinning across the room where he turned into a puddle and crawled on the ground. The puddle then split into three puddles and they all formed three shadow Soras.
"Whoa!" Luigi exclaimed. "I knew this day would some! Sora reproduced himself which means more questions, more big feet, more annoyance and what's that suppose to mean?"
"What's that suppose to mean?" Sora asked Luigi angrily.
"See my point?" Luigi responded.
"There's five of us and three of me...erm...I mean them." Sora said getting back on topic. "We should easily out number them."
"I wouldn't bet on it.." Tails disagreed. "I've been doing some scans on the evil Sora during the fight. Two out of the three Shadow Sora's are fake while one is the real one."
"But wait, there is a fake version of Sora so how can there be more fakes?" Luigi said confused. "Because Fake Sora already exists unless somehow he had his heart extracted. Or maybe he's using a..."
"Someone stop him before he goes cross eyed again." Sonic sighed rolling his eyes.
Sora attacked one of the clones and destroyed it but another one hit him in the back. He stepped back and saw Shadow Sora produce another evil version. Luigi used an ice spell destroying two of them while one remained behind. The group tried to attack him at once but he went into the ground again and everyone ran into each other.
"Ow!"
"Hey!"
The group stood up and groaned.
"That went well." Luigi said with sarcasm. He then turned to Tails. "Hey, is there anyway to like detect which one is the real one?"
"That's a negative." Tails responded. "Somehow he's using a strange force to block any energy waves I send at them to try and determine which one has a higher life force."
"Yoshi have idea! Sora, Luigi, and Yoshi all attack at once!" Yoshi said.
"But two out of three of us would get hurt and I wouldn't want to put you guys in danger." Sora said sadly. "If there are two fakes of him then I can sense the real one."
"Go for it kid!" Luigi said encouraging Sora.
"But..." Yoshi said sadly.
"Don't worry big guy." Sonic assured Yoshi. "Sora's one tough guy. He can do it!"
Yoshi nodded and watched as his friend walked in front of the three with burning fire in his eyes. He was determined to bring down this faker. Sora closed his eyes and the three shadows surrounded him with their keyblades ready to attack. The three shadows charged at Sora ready to strike as Sora could feel a part of him coming from the right. Yoshi wanted to help badly but Luigi and Sonic held him back with all their might. The three clones attack and Sora stuck his keyblade out, stabbing the one on the right in the stomach. It feel back and put his hands on it.
"It's you!" Sora cried charging at the faker. Sora rapidly slashed at the evil copy not giving it a chance to strike back. Soon the others joined in with Yoshi attacking with eggs, Sonic using his spin dash, Luigi shooting magic spells, and Tails firing missiles. Finally, Sora made one more hard strike on Shadow Sora which broke the fake keyblade. Shadow Sora fell to the ground and looked up to see Sora smirking at him. "Game over, faker!"
Shadow Sora then disappeared from the group's sight and they all sighed with relief. Yoshi jumped into Sora's arms and licked his face. Sonic walked up impressed.
"Well, I've got to admit Sora, you are way past cool." Sonic smirked. "You did a good job at beating yourself up..no I mean killing yourself...no..."
"Ha!" Luigi laughed. "Whose the confused one now, huh?"
"Old man!" Sonic snickered.
"Hey!" Luigi shouted angrily. "Now you are going to feel pain!"
"Wait, I was kidding!" Sonic cried running out of the way.
Luigi chased Sonic around the room until he tripped on something on a red carpet and fell over. The others ran over to help Luigi up while suspending their laughter.
"Luigi, what did you trip on?" Sora asked while helping his friend up.
"I don't know." Luigi said rubbing his head. "The carpet was pretty straight when I was running on it."
"Maybe, Luigi's shoes untied." Yoshi assumed.
"Hey, I'm not gullible like Knuckles is." Luigi said angrily.
"Look! A ghost!" Sora pointed passed Luigi.
"Ahhhhhh!" Luigi screamed running behind Yoshi. He then peaked his head out to see everyone snickering at him. "Ha! I was just playing along!"
"Sure, sure." Tails said rolling his eyes. "I think you may have stumbled onto something though." Tails then jumped out of the Tornado and moved the rug away to reveal a trap door. "Hey, this must be the trap door that leads to Amy's room! Nice job, Luigi!"
"All in a days work kid." Luigi said proudly.
"Come on!" Sonic said opening the trap door. "Let's rock and roll!"
The group jumped down into the next room to see Amy passed out on the floor. Sonic ran over to her and put his ear to her chest. Tails got out of the Tornado and looked over Sonic's shoulder.
"Is she okay?" Tails asked worryingly standing over Sonic's shoulder.
"Don't stand over me Tails." Sonic said to Tails. The young fox backed away as Sonic listened to her. "Good, she's breathing normally, so she'll be okay."
"We should get going before Eggman and his goons come back." Tails said.
"Right!" Sonic nodded picking up Amy's body. "Sorry, fellas, but this is as far as I go. Now that I have Amy, we're going to take our leave. Tails already made some configurations to the Egg Carrier, so it should crash."
"That will also allow us a better chance to get the remaining emeralds back." Tails added. "It was nice meeting you three, but we got to get Amy out of here."
"It's okay." Sora responded with a smile. "We know you guys have a lot to do. Our paths are different but maybe we'll meet again."
"Well, take care!" Sonic said waving good-bye to the group. He then ran off with Amy and Tails followed on the Tornado leaving the trio impressed.
"Wow!" Sora said amazed. "He really is the fastest thing alive!"
"Eh, I could do better." Luigi shrugged.
"Luigi run really fast when he hear word pasta." Yoshi giggled.
"That is true." Luigi chuckled.
"No argument there." Sora agreed. "Let's go! Riku still has Kairi!"
"Okay!" Yoshi cheered.
The trio left the room, unaware that a security camera was watching their every movement. The gang arrived back outside and went back through the other door and up the stairs. As they arrived the heartless attacked them out of nowhere. Sora used Stun Impact to create a giant red wave and stun a group of heartless. Yoshi used egg roll to roll through a swarm of heartless while Luigi used FLUDD to spray them away. Sora also called Navi into the battle to offer advice.
"Run on that wall and then Luigi shall hit them from behind." Navi advised.
"Okay, thanks." Sora nodded.
Sora ran onto the wall while a group of heartless chased him and Luigi shot a fire spell at them with the P3000. Sora jumped down and gave Luigi a high five. Two more fired lasers at Sora but he deflected the attacks with his keyblade. Yoshi came in and shot eggs at the last two heartless. The group made there way to the door and opened it. They arrived back outside the deck of the Egg Carrier where all seemed quite. Perhaps a little too quite. All of a sudden a group of heartless showed up in front of the group. Then Eggman and Scratch and Grounder showed up as well.
"Well, well, it's a giant talking egg who lacks that of slim fast." Sora joked.
"Silence!" Eggman growled. "I'm Doctor Robotnik, the worlds greatest scientific mind and all of your base are belong to us."
Sora raised his eyebrow. "Someone's been playing too much Zero Wing."
"Shut up!" Eggman growled. "That's not what I meant to say, hold on a second." Eggman began searching through his Egg mobile until he found a note card and read it. "Okay, let's try again. I'm Doctor Robotnik, the worlds greatest scientific mind and Luke I am your father."
Sora and Yoshi broke onto the floor in laughter and Luigi groaned.
"You know you could just say I'm Doctor Robotnik, the worlds greatest scientific mind and I'm going to destroy." Luigi said rolling his eyes. "And I thought he was smart, idiot."
"I know that!" Eggman shouted at Luigi. "These bumbling idiots over here suggested I should use more catchy phrases to say when confronting the enemy."
"And did it work your evilness?" Scratch laughed gleefully.
"NO!" Eggman shouted. The robots coward in fear as Eggman turned back to Sora's group. "Anyways, before I was interrupted by two numbskulls, I'm glad to see that you three fools have escaped. But I wish you wouldn't leave because you're my welcomed guess. Not as rude like that Riku. He's such an odd specimen, running off with that girl without even saying good-bye, adios, adieu, or farewell."
"Run to where? Tell me, where did they go?" Sora demanded with a threatening swing of his keyblade.
"Ooh, I'm so scared." Eggman said sarcastically. "I'm being threatened by a kid with a key." He then broke into laughter while Sora made an angered look. "I'll tell you what, since your fates have been sealed I'll tell you where they went. They went to the ruins of Hallow Bastion, where Bowser currently lives."
"What?" Luigi exclaimed. "Bowser lives there?"
"Actually, ever since the heartless appeared it's been sort of his second home." Eggman explained. "After destroying his own word he finally moved with his son to Hallow Bastion where they live. However, I can't allow you three to go there."
"And what's going to stop us?" Sora smirked with confidence.
"Oh, well don't mind me." Eggman said. "Go all you want but if you do you'll miss out on what we do to that meddling hedgehog's plucky sidekick."
"What do you mean?" Luigi asked suspiciously.
Eggman moved out of the way to reveal something that shocked everyone. It was Tails and he was tied up against a pole.
"Tails!" Sora cried.
"Don't worry about me, Sora." Tails told Sora. "You've got to get out of here while you still have the chance!"
"Silence!" Eggman shouted. "So, you have an option; escape now and rescue your girlfriend or stay here and no harm will come to the boy."
"Go!" Tails called to his friends. "Don't worry about me!"
Sora thought about if for a minute. He was one who did not want to leave a friend behind and upon looking at Tails he could see tears streaming down his face. Tails might be an intelligent fox but he was still a kid. Sora could see that Tails was too scared and although he could picture Sonic running to the rescue, something may happen before he could get there. Sora sighed and put his head down, making his keyblade disappear. Luigi and Yoshi both understood what Sora was doing but however Luigi was being his old cowardly self again.
"Okay, you two stay here and I'll just tip toe out of here." Luigi gulped nervously. He tried to leave but heartless surrounded him. "Doh! I think I'll stay here instead."
"I knew you would see things my way." Eggman smirked proudly. "I'll make you an offer you can't refuse. Hand over the keyblade and I'll spare your lives. Be glad I show some compassion unlike the heartless. Of course Chaos could use an appetizer before his meal."
"Chaos?" Yoshi whimpered nervously.
Just then the group looked up to see the shark like creature floating below the airship.
"That's Chaos?" Sora exclaimed.
"Yes, so, would you rather be digested by Chaos or hand over the keyblade?" Eggman asked giving Sora the choice.
Sora thought about his decision carefully and then realized something. He thought that it's a risky chance but he was willing to take it
"No way!" Sora shouted. "I'll never let you get your hands on it!"
Eggman got angry upon hearing that. "What? How dare you! Very well! Since you seem so persistent to die, I'll let you have the honor of being Chaos's first victim."
"Okay." Sora nodded with bravery in his voice.
"No!" Tails cried. "Leave him out of this!"
"Kid, you're crazy!" Luigi said shocked.
"Sora, no leave Yoshi!" Yoshi cried.
"Scratch! Grounder! You dispose of them while I get the sixth emerald from that bird." Eggman told his two cronies. He then began to float away. "Don't fail me or else!"
"Yes, your evilness!" Grounder said with a salute. "I'll take care of it with no problem."
"You mean I will." Scratch corrected.
"You? It's me that's going to get it done!" Grounder argued.
"I'm going to get the glory! Ha! Ha!" Scratch laughed.
"No me!"
"No me!"
"Um, guys?" Sora interrupted. "How about you both do it?"
"Oh, right...um...yeah...together." Scratch said rubbing his head.
"Why does he want to get it over with right away?" Tails thought. He then realized something. "Wait a minute! Am I thinking what he's thinking? Could this plan actually work?"
Sora was forced back to the edge of the Egg Carrier with Scratch and Grounder forcing him back. Yoshi and Luigi tried to help but the heartless surrounded them from all over. Sora looked back down to see the Chaos creature waiting for him below. Sora then wondered if he couldn't do it, that he would fail. But then he heard a voice.
"Sora, a guy who is way past cool like you doesn't give up." Sonic said in Sora's mind. "Just believe in the Chaos Emerald, your friends, and the most important person, yourself. If you can find it then you'll fly!"
Sora inhaled slowly and closed his eyes. He then jumped off the Egg Carrier, falling right towards Chaos who was waiting with an opened mouth. Luigi and Yoshi looked in horror as their friend leaped to his doom. Yoshi bursted into tears and cried and hugged Luigi.
"Sora go bye-bye!" Yoshi cried in Luigi's arms.
"Oh, Sora." Luigi said sadly. "You were so brave, kid. You'll always be remembered."
Scratch and Grounder ran around in a circle singing. "We did it! We did it! We did it! Dr. Eggman shall reward us because we did it!"
Luigi got more sad and put his head down while still hugging a sad Yoshi. Just then Luigi looked back up and saw something. His eyes widened and he got excited.
"It...it can't be." Luigi gasped. He then poked Yoshi's back. "Yoshi. Yoshi. Listen, I want you to turn around and look up."
"But...but...Yoshi...miss...Sora..." Yoshi sniffled.
"Not for long." Luigi said in a singy-songy voice.
Yoshi turned around and looked up and what he saw next got him really excited. Tails looked up and gasped happily as well.
"Hey, what's everyone so happy about?" Grounder asked the group.
"Turn around and you'll see." Called Sora.
The robots turned around to see Sora and he was flying in the air.
"What?" Scratch shrieked. "That's impossible! You can fly?"
"Hey, in this world, I've learned that anything is possible." Sora responded. He then turned to his friends. "Guys, believe in yourselves and the power of the Chaos Emeralds will activate!"
"Let's try it!" Yoshi cheered.
The two close their eyes and focus on themselves when all of a sudden they began lifting off the ground.
"Hey! It's working!" Luigi cried. As he flew up he bumped his head into a wing of the ship. "Ow! Why me?"
"Yoshi a birdie!" Yoshi cheered.
"Hey, don't take one more move or else." Grounder threatened.
"Or else what you big losers?" Called a voice.
A blue blur then ran by Tails which untied and freed him. The blur dashes up to the robots revealing itself to be Sonic.
"Sonic!" Tails cried. "You're back!"
"Back and ready for action." Sonic smirked to Tails. He then turned to the robots. "Long time no see fellas. You two look just as dumb and pathetic as I remember you."
"Dumb?" Grounder said offended.
"Pathetic?" Scratch said offended.
"And has anyone ever told you two that you smell and your ugly?" Sonic continued. The robots shook their heads. "Then let me be the first, you smell bad and your ugly."
"Grrrr, get him!" Scratch squawked.
The robots tried to attack Sonic but he dashed away and the two ran into each other. "Adios!"
Sonic ran over to Tails who gave him a high five and Sora joined.
"Sonic, thanks." Sora smiled. "Because of you I was able to fly."
"Not because of me." Sonic disagreed. "Because you believed in yourself and harnessed the power of chaos. Besides, you didn't think I'd leave you and Tails behind, did ya?"
Luigi and Yoshi flew over to join Sora as the two robots got up to see our heros ready to fight. They both backed away nervously.
"Um, maybe we should let Gamma and the heartless finish them off. Right, Scratch?" Grounder laughed nervously.
"Um, yeah, right." Scratch agreed. The two robots then ran for the hills as the heartless appeared around our heros.
Sora also saw a green crystal appear in the sky and he grabbed it. "Hey, it is an update crystal and it's green. It could mean an update for our cure spells."
"Let's try it and fast!" Luigi said with a rushed tone.
The crystal activated and hit both Sora and Luigi giving them an updated magic spell for Cure now known as Cura. As Sora flew back down, E-102 Gamma entered the area with the heartless.
"Stop! Residence is futile!" Gamma said.
"You guys deal with the shadow guys while I deal with bolts for brains." Sonic instructed.
The group nodded and the battle began. With their new ability to fly Sora, Luigi, and Yoshi had a much easier time battling the heartless. Some new heartless such as Egg Mobiles (Little round egg mobiles like Eggman's) and Air Pirates (Heartless with wings) attacked. One attacked Sora but he did a back flip over it and kicked against a wall and pushed off it. He kicked it into the air and flew after it. The Air Pirate tried to attack with a punch but Sora blocked it with his keyblade. He then grabbed its wing and threw it into another wall. Two flew at Yoshi who has his arms crossed and smirked. The two were about to attack and when he flew up the two heartless bonked their heads into each other. Yoshi kicked both of them down to the ground.
Luigi was in the middle of a dogfight between him and an Egg Mobile heartless. It shot lasers at him but he used his updated Aero spell do deflect most of the blasts. Luigi flew behind a pole and peeked out firing ice spells while the Egg Carrier rolled around in the air dodging it. It fired more beams which Luigi dodged and spun his body all around and continued moving quickly, dodging the attacks. Luigi shot a fire spell which hit the Egg Mobile, sending it flying. Sora slashed through it with Sonic Wave finishing it off. Three more air pirates attacked but Sora kicked one, bounced off it and slashed another and shot a fire spell at another one. Gamma fired mini missiles at Sonic who dodged it effortlessly.
Sonic then sarcastically yawned. "Is that all you got? Boy, Eggman's robots are getting pretty rusty these days."
"Do not under estimate my power." Gamma said. Gamma charged a laser and fired it at Sonic who dodged it. He jumped into the air and kicked Gamma in the chest. He tried to grab Sonic but he jumped over Gamma and curled into a ball and attacked the back side of him. Gamma began sparking from the impact. "Danger! Danger!"
"My turn!" Tails said appearing in his Tornado. "Take this!" Tails fired a missile at Gamma which sent him flying into a wall. Gamma was so damaged that electricity was flowing out of him. "Finish him, Sonic!"
"Right!" Sonic cried. He charged at Gamma ready to deliver the final blow when Amy came out of nowhere and blocked Sonic's way. From the way she was positioned with her arms out, Sonic could tell she was protecting the robot. "Amy! What are you doing? Out of the way! That's one of Eggman's goons!"
"No!" Amy protested. "He's not like the other robots. He helped me earlier before I was captured again. He's nice! Don't hurt him."
Sonic sighed and smiled. He knew that even though he couldn't stand her, he could still understand her feelings. "Okay, whatever you say. I guess you have your reasons."
"Oh, Sonic!" She said hugging Sonic. "Your so kind!"
"Ah! Amy germs!" Sonic cried. He then backed away from her. "That was a quick recovery!"
"Well, where ever you go, I go." Amy giggled.
Sora's group flew down to meet up with Sonic's group. But before they could celebrate the Egg Carrier began to shake.
"What happening?" Yoshi panicked.
"The Egg Carrier is losing altitude just like we planned." Tails explained. "We should get out of here!"
"Tails, take Amy and get out of here!" Sonic told Tails.
"Wait, what about you?" Amy asked nervously.
"I'm going to find that Eggman and scramble him." Sonic responded.
"Not alone!" Sora said. "This is no longer your fight! We're going with you!"
"Thanks fellas." Sonic smirked. "Even I need some help some of the time."
"Sonic..." Tails said sadly. "Are you going to be okay?"
Sonic put his hands on Tails' shoulders and smiled warmly. "Don't worry bro. I'll be fine because no one can take me down. Just get Amy out of here, okay?"
Tails smiled at Sonic with confidence in his eyes. "You got it, Sonic! Leave it to me!"
"Thanks, little buddy." Sonic nodded. "I knew I could count on you." He then turned to Sora's group. "Let's get going fellas!"
Sora's group nodded and left with Sonic to find Eggman.
Amy sighed with a dreamy look in her eyes. "Oh, Sonic. You're so brave!"
Tails rolled his eyes and sighed. "Come on, Amy. Let's get out of here."
Amy looked back to see that Gamma was functioning normally and he pressed a button on his chest and a floating, small jet pack activated and he tool off. Tails got into the tornado and Amy hopped on back. Tails started up the engine and the plane took off into the sky as the Egg Carrier slowly made its decent towards Station Square. Meanwhile, Sora and the gang arrived outside of the door where Eggman's control room was.
"Let's get him!" Sora said.
"Wait!" Sonic said stopping Sora. "We'll get him out here." Sonic then snickered. "Watch this trick." He then knocked on the door and cleared his throat. Eggman approached the door and put his ear to it.
"Scratch? Grounder?" Eggman asked. "Is that you? Did you take care of them?"
"Yes, your evilness." Sonic said perfectly imitating Scratch. "They've all been thrown overboard, every last single one."
"Good, I'm coming out." Eggman announced.
Sora and Sonic both stood next to each side of the door and pressed their bodies up against the wall. p Eggman ran out but he was too excited to even turn around. He stopped and curiously looked around wandering where his henchmen were. Sonic snuck up behind Eggman and curled into a ball and hit his behind with a sharp part. Eggman yelped in pain and jumped into the sky and fell back down. He stood up and turned to see everyone laughing at him.
"You're so gullible doctor." Sonic laughed.
"S-sonic, curse you!" Eggman growled at the hedgehog.
"Hey, Eggman!" Sonic called to the evil doctor. "How do you want your faced pounded? Right-side or sunny side-up."
"Fool! You won't stop me!" Eggman growled. He then took out a remote and pressed a button causing the Egg Mobile to show up. He jump into it and floated away.
"Dang, does this guy have to ride that thing every second of his life?" Sora asked shocked.
"No, he's just fat because it's a genetic thing." Sonic said sarcastically.
The gang chased after Eggman until they arrived on the giant green glassed platform. There, the gang saw the evil water creature Chaos again but he wasn't himself. He transformed into a giant monster with tentacles around its body.
"What is that?" Luigi exclaimed.
"That's the Chaos creature." Sora responded. "The same one that tried to eat us."
"Shoot!" Sonic said angrily. "Eggman must have fed him two of the emeralds!"
"Very perceptive." Eggman said floating next to Sonic. "Chaos is more powerful then ever and not even you four can stop him. I even found his missing tail."
"This guy is going down powerful or not." Sora cried getting his keyblade ready.
"You might want to reconsider that." Luigi gulped nervously.
Just then a giant purple cat that wore a brown belt, brown gloves, and black shoes walked in with a confused look.
"Frogy?" The cat said with a stupefied expression. Inside Chaos was a small green frog that floated around. "Frogy! I must save him!"
"Don't worry." Sonic assured the cat. "I'll help your friend out."
"Destroy them!" Eggman commanded his beast.
Chaos was about to attack when something was holding him back. The group looked to see that Knuckles grabbed on to one of the tentacles and was holding it with all his might. Upon seeing this Eggman retreated to back of the Egg Carrier.
"Knuckles!" Luigi shouted.
"Guys, stop Eggman!" Knuckles called to his friends. "I have a score to settle with this guy!"
"Thanks man!" Sonic called back with appreciation. "You sure you can handle him?"
Knuckles nodded and the foursome left to go after Eggman. The group arrived back at the main deck where Eggman and a group of heartless were waiting for them.
"You brats!" Eggman growled. "You ruined my plans, so now I shall crush all of you!"
"We'll see about that Eggman." Sonic smirked. "Bring it on!"
"Destroy them!"
Luigi and Yoshi charged at the heartless while Sora and Sonic charged at Eggman. Luigi and Yoshi used their magic and fighting skills and the new flight ability to take them down. Eggman pressed a button which caused the Egg Mobile to release a giant brown ball on a chain.
"Man that is so retro days." Sonic said charging at Eggman.
The ball swung at Sonic who dodged the attack easily. The ball swung left at him but Sonic jumped on it and rode it around.
"Fool! This isn't a joke!" Eggman snarled.
"Eggman, the jokes on you!" Sonic smirked.
Sora used his keyblade to destroy the chain which caused the ball to fall. Eggman got angry and pressed another button which fired drills at them. Sonic dodged them while Sora deflected them back. Eggman dodged the drills that came back and pressed another button which transformed his ship into a giant hand with spikes on top.
"Now, I'll pound you into the ground!"
"Man, he needs to be more original." Sonic said rolling his eyes.
Eggman grabbed both Sora and Sonic and threw them into a wall. They flew up into the air and both flew back down, double kicking the Egg mobile. It spun down to the ground and floated back up firing lasers which both heros dodged. He then pressed another button which transformed it into a fighting robot with a sword. It charged at Sora who clashed with its sword. It tried to fire a laser gun at him but Sonic kicked it out of the way. The robot clashed with Sora again who spun out of the way and kicked it off the edge. It floated back up and took to the sky as Sonic and Sora followed it along with Luigi and Yoshi. The robot took out a giant laser gun and fired it at our heros hitting everyone and sending them crashing to the ground.
The hit was very powerful that the foursome could barley stand up as the robot floated down.
"Luigi, could you use that updated cure spell?" Sora asked Luigi while he panted.
"Yeah, but this guy may try to stop me before I get a chance." Luigi said weakly.
"Ha! Ha! Ha!" Eggman laughed manically. " The moment I've been waiting for is here." He then pointed the gun at a weak Sonic who couldn't even try to run. "Farewell, Sonic the Hedgehog." Before it could fire, a laser came out of nowhere and knocked the gun out of its hands. "What?"
The group looked up to see the Tornado flying back in with Tails waving to them. "Hey, guys! Looks like you could use some help!"
"Tails!" Yoshi said happily.
"You're my hero little bro." Sonic chuckled weakly.
Sora and Luigi used their magic to cure everyone else giving them full power again. The five surround the robot not giving it a chance to escape.
"Uh-oh." Eggman said worryingly.
The robot tried to fly up but the group flew up following. Sora flew above the robot and kicked it to the ground. Luigi tried to use a green punch but the robot took its sword and swung it around, out of control. Luigi was lucky enough to dodged the attack. Yoshi stuck his tongue out and ate the sword. The robot tried to run again but Tails flew in with the tornado in robot mode and hits it with the propeller. The robot fell back and was falling to the ground with a screaming Eggman inside.
"I'll finish it off!" Sonic cried. He spun into a ball again and Sora, Luigi, and Yoshi formed a triangle around the area where the robot was falling.
Luigi picked up the ball and threw it at the robot slashing a piece of metal off. Yoshi smacked the ball back with his tail and it slashed a part of the robot off again. Sora took his keyblade out and got into the stance of a baseball batter.
"This is it." Sora said to himself. "Bottom of the ninth. Score is tied. Mad striker Sora is up at bat and the fans go wild."
"Go Sora!" Yoshi cheered.
Tails and Luigi rolled their eyes with a chuckle as Sora swung his keyblade at Sonic which sent him spinning into the robot. The robot exploded and Eggman went flying out into space screaming but he quickly pressed a button which stopped him. He then started to float away.
"Eggman! Come back here!" Sonic demanded.
"Until we'll meet again, Sonic!" Eggman said flying away.
"Oh, yeah?" Sonic said about to run. Just then a hand touched Sonic's shoulder and he turned around to see Knuckles. "Knuckles?"
"Don't worry Sonic." Knuckles smirked. "I've already taken care of it. With a little help from the Chaos emeralds and one dumb creature...well, you'll see. Just watch."
Everyone looked up to see Eggman trying to get away when all of a sudden Chaos floated in front of him but he now looked much shorter and had a more human shape look except for the head and one claw.
"Chaos?" Eggman asked stunned. "What are doing?" The Chaos roared at Eggman and Eggman screamed like a little sissy and flew away fast with Chaos on his tail. "I hate that hedgehog!"
"How did you do that?" Sora asked Knuckles.
"Using the Chaos Emeralds energy I was able to alternate his brain waves so he now thinks that Eggman is an emerald." Knuckles explained.
Everyone else started laughing as they watched Eggman being chased off into space. The Egg Carrier was slowly making its way towards the world but Tails explained that it was heading right for an ocean, so no innocent people would get hurt. Sora also received an Ansem Report and a new badge called "Ars Arcanum" which allowed Sora to perform a string of combos and finish it with a powerful strike. After the battle was over Knuckles left to get the Master Emerald back together while the others stayed behind for a moment. Sora walked forward and put his head down. He knew the truth, Kairi was gone but deep down inside of him he wasn't going to give up hope. Yoshi stepped forward a little and made a sad look.
"Kairi, no wake up." Yoshi said. "So, maybe that mean Kairi losses..."
"Quite!" Luigi snapped.
Sonic walked up to Sora and put his hand on his back. "Sora, you okay?"
"I can't believe it." Sora whispered. He then looked up and smiled. "I still can't believe I actually flew. It was the most amazing thing I've ever done!"
Luigi rolled his eyes upon his eyes. "This kid has way too many mood swings."
Sora ran over to Yoshi, picked him up by his under arms, and swung him around. "I felt so free! So alive!"
"Yoshi feel alive too." Yoshi cheered.
Sonic smirked and Luigi chuckled.
He then set Yoshi down and sighed saying. "What are the chances of Kairi believing all this? Probably zero."
"Hey, bring Kairi here next time and she can try it herself." Sonic said.
"I understand." Sora said turning back to his friend. "If you believe anything is possible. I never used to believe that until I met you all. I can't wait to tell Kairi everything that happened. I have so many stories I want to share with."
"That kid." Luigi thought. "Such a carefree spirit sometimes. He feels like nothing has happened. But with confidence like that, I'm pretty sure the keyblade choose well."
Meanwhile, Tails was looking at a monitor on his computer when he gasped. "Sonic! Come here!"
Sonic quickly ran over to Tails to what was wrong.
"Bro, is everything okay?" Sonic asked concerned.
"It's so strange." Tails responded. "The tornado is picking up strange energy signals coming from the casino at Station Square."
"I hope Eggman is not behind it." Sonic said worried. "We should head over there." He then called to Sora's group. "Guys, I don't think we're finished yet."
"Why?" Yoshi asked curiously.
"I'm picking up some strange signals coming from the casino at Station Square." Tails said. "Something is up. We need to check it out."
"Okay, we'll fly together then." Sora nodded. "Come on guys!"
Luigi and Yoshi nodded and Sonic jumped onto the tail of the Tornado as it transformed back into a plane. The plane took off and Sora's group flew into the air and followed. On the way Luigi wondered about something.
"What ever happened to that cat?"
A small getaway plane was also making its descend towards Station Square as the gang flew down. Inside the plane was the big cat along with a frog next to him.
"I'm so glad we found this plane Frogy." Big said. "And to think I don't even know fly a plane." Sure enough the plane was on its side the entire time. "Hey, Frogy, I'm hungry."
Meanwhile, back at the entrance to Hallow Bastion, a familiar figure with a lifeless body entered the area. The figure was however so weak that he kneeled over and panted. He appeared to be out of breath, but slowly and surely, he made his way into the castle none the less.