Part III of The Chaos Control
Pleading
"He said his name was Julian Kintobar," Shadow finished, retelling his story of what happened at his and Amy's house to everyone. They had listened intently, and then Shadow told them what he had learned about the Super Emeralds, and Tails took the book to look over it.
They were in one room of the safe house, an old base of Eggman's hidden in the desert, mostly underground. The current room was fairly bare, a few chairs, and a computer screen encompassed the furniture. Thirteen of the Chaos Emeralds were in a pile in a corner. The Master Emerald lay in another, carefully propped up by one of the chairs. Ivo sat in another chair, and Cappi sat in the last, looking at her mother and brother who were staring at the Chaos Emeralds with glee in their eyes.
The last Chaos Emerald, a green one, was in Shadow's right hand.
"Surely not. Are you sure? His name was 'Julian Kintobar'?" Robotnik asked, looking over at Shadow.
"I'm sure," Shadow said, wondering what Ivo was hiding.
Ivo sighed, and stroked his graying mustache slightly, "Then I fear, that he is my son."
"Son? You had a kid?" Amy asked.
"Well yes. I wanted someone to carry on in my footsteps. But he did not seem interested in machines. He would study anything else but them…I disowned him," Robotnik explained.
"Who's the mother?" Tails wondered, looking at the former evil genius.
Ivo smiled, savoring the memory for a second. "The most beautiful woman I ever knew. She was a genius as well."
"What happened to her?" Amy asked tentively.
Robotnik sighed, looking at them. "She died in childbirth. No one had known I was the father. I had him kidnapped and raised him. Then he left when he turned sixteen, claiming he was tired of me and anything associated with me."
"Why didn't we ever know of him? I would have thought you'd have used him against us," Tails said, looking up.
"I wanted him to remain safe. I didn't want him going in over his head. He was…'Plan B', if you will," Ivo explained.
"Where would he hide?" Shadow asked, speaking up again. He turned to the scientist. His right hand clutched a green Chaos Emerald.
Ivo frowned, thinking back. After a few minutes, he answered, "Most likely my secret base. It had all of my most powerful inventions, most not finished. I can give you the coordinates."
"Good. We have the fourteen Chaos Emeralds. I'll take care of the robots, and get that Super Emerald from Julian," Shadow said, turning to get the other Emeralds.
"Hold it! You're not going alone!" Amy yelled, grabbing her husband's arm and turning him around.
Shadow grinned, looking into Amy's eyes. "And you think they can keep control of Chatrol? Who's going to watch him?"
"I want to come too! I'm strong, I can help!" Chatrol shouted, jumping up and down.
"He does know how to fight, and you did teach him Shadow. After all, 'Power is enriched by the heart'. I bet we'll be even better fighting as a family," Amy smiled, poking Shadow's chest.
"I could go Turbo and probably beat them by myself…" Tails volunteered.
"No Tails. You could only stay Turbo for about five minutes. We can't risk it," Knuckles pointed out, speaking up. Rouge and Vert were by the other Chaos Emeralds, looking at them eagerly.
"Fine. We'll go together," Shadow said to Amy and Chatrol. After some protest from Rouge and her son, they got all fourteen Chaos Emeralds assembled.
"Good luck!" everyone shouted to the hedgehogs as they ran off, going down the hallway, and through the gateway into the desert, waiting until they reached the place where Julian would most likely be to use the Emeralds.
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Mecha and Metal Sonic stood, looking over the Eggman Fleet that never was. G.U.N. had finally brought most of it's forces there, and they were manning the main ship. The two mind-controlled robots made their way down stealthily, and got into a smaller ship.
Entering the correct code, they entered through, to find pod after pod of Shadow cyborgs.
"Time to activate them," Metal Sonic hissed, entering the correct code unto an outstretched keyboard. The liquid in the capsules drained, and the Shadow cyborgs came out, falling to the ground.
Mecha Sonic pulled out something that looked like a remote and pressed a few buttons on it. The Shadow cyborg's eyes flashed red for a second, and they marched out of the ship, looking for the G.U.N. members.
"Stage Two is underway Master," Mecha Sonic said roughly, speaking via wireless link to Julian Kintobar.
"Excellent. Make sure they get all of them. We're almost done here," Julian laughed.
Back where Julian was, they had finished removing the Robotizer and placing it in a ship for flight, where Julian, Omega-123, and Metal Sonic 2.0 would soon join the Sonics, and take command of the fleet, and Robotize the hapless G.U.N. members.
However, an unknown problem was presented to them. Café, Tails and Cream's daughter, who may have been young, but a certain, clear Super Emerald, would have a strange affect on her.
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Richard Peterson looked in the device that held the half Ultimate Life Form called Café. He placed it down slowly and stepped back, a few scientists stepping forward, in order to examine her.
Just then, several Shadow cyborgs had burst through the one door, looking at the scientists and Peterson.
Speaking at the same time, the Shadow cyborgs said this, "Surrender and be captured, or fight and be destroyed."
Peterson had already ducked behind the counter and was moving slowly to a safer spot, his handgun drawn and ready. The scientists threw up their hands in defeat, and were led off by two Shadow cyborgs. The rest fanned out, looking for Peterson.
One paused, looking at Café, who was beating against the walls of her prison wildly to escape. It raised it's hand and hit the device hard, shattering it.
The Shadow cyborg then made to capture the three-year old Café, but she flew upwards with her two tails inherited from her father and hurried off, flying far faster then she could walk.
Quickly making it to the outside, she fell to the ground and caught her breath.
"Why are these Shadows attacking me?" Café wondered, her high voice not fazing the Shadow cyborgs coming after the small kitsune.
She stumbled backwards, running for the moment, but falling every now and then. The Shadow cyborgs then left, leaving one to handle what seemed like an easy procedure of capturing the child.
Café ran still, and then stumbled by a small hill, tripping over a small mound. She turned around, a glint had caught her eye.
Looking her feet, she saw a shine of something clear. Brushing it away quickly, the clear Super Emerald shone at her feet. Hastily, the Shadow cyborg after her pulled out his fake Emerald, just in case.
It never stood a chance.
The Super Emerald shined, bathing Café and transforming her, not just power and attitude wise, but age wise.
Café's eyes grew wide, as she began to age. A change came over her as she got older, quickly accelerating to what would be assumed twenty. However, she was not Café anymore.
The, for lack of a better word, possessed Café stared at the Shadow cyborg, a grin her eyes. The clear Super Emerald had disappeared, presumably into her body, like when going into Super Form and such.
The Shadow cyborg charged, wielding his massed produced, fake Chaos Emerald with downloaded ease.
The possessed Café merely disappeared in a flash, reappearing behind the Shadow cyborg and punching straight through it's living and metal parts.
The Shadow cyborg slumped down, easily defeated.
"Heh…Hear me world, Umbra is back, and not even Turbo can stop me this time!" the possessed Café cackled, and flew upwards, leaving the Shadow cyborgs and G.U.N. alone for now.
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Shadow, Amy, and Chatrol raced on the desert, intent on finding Kintobar's base. Their Air Shoes allowed them to float over the sand, giving them a relatively quiet run. Together they held the fourteen Chaos Emeralds, ready to use when they found the villain.
"Remember, a Super Emerald is more powerful then seven Chaos Emeralds, so we'll need to be careful. We've been able to get Hyper form down pat, but we haven't tried it all three of us at the same time," Shadow reminded, nearing their destination. They had passed the first landmark Ivo told them off.
"We'll be fine Shadow. How are you holding up Chatrol?" Amy asked. Shadow was in the lead, followed by Chatrol who was trying to speed past his father, and then Amy in rear. True, while Amy was still faster then her son, mother's feelings told her to keep an eye on him.
"Fine!" Chatrol yelled backed. Their Air Shoes were on full blast, only a very light hiss was heard from them.
"Found it! Chaos Spear!" Shadow shouted, blasting forward to some rock. It was the size of a small boulder, but with what Ivo told them, it was far from that.
"Come on now! Grab hands!" Amy yelled. The family of hedgies grabbed hands and all in unison, "CHAOS CONTROL!"
The Chaos Energy swirled around them, and to any causal observer, they seemed to simply wink from site.
Julian Kintobar stepped aboard the ship, the Robotosizer safely aboard with him. Metal Sonic 2.0, and Omega were about to get on when three hedgehogs appeared in the room, all fourteen Chaos Emeralds revolving around them.
"Get them!" Julian bellowed, wielding his Super Emerald. Omega and Metal Sonic 2.0 seemed to gain strength, an erry green glow surrounding them.
Shadow, Chatrol, and Amy all smiled. Suddenly, they elevated into their Super Forms, the Chaos Emeralds disappearing into them.
"Now into Hyper Form!" Shadow shouted. They concentrated. Omega and Metal Sonic 2.0 wavering, not sure whether they should attack.
"I said get them!" Julian roared, thrusting his Super Emerald forward.
"Omega shall obey!" E-123 shouted, racing forward, guns at the ready.
Metal Sonic 2.0 showed up behind him, racing forward with his superior speed, finger missiles at the ready.
They were much to slow.
Working together, the three hedgehogs soon became their powerful Hyper forms. The three white hedgehogs soon flew downwards at the metal beings, energy surrounding him.
Amy blasted through Metal Sonic 2.0, turning him into scrap metal from the pure energy she was unleashing. Chatrol flew towards Julian, his fur glowing slightly more then his parents.
Shadow was not quite as lucky. Omega's lack of Metal Sonic's 2.0 speed had saved him. It gave him just enough time to react and fires a wave of missiles at the hedgehog.
Hyper Shadow bounded upwards, making a shield to fend of the missiles, then bounded off the wall, shooting towards Omega once more.
"Déjà vu…" Hyper Shadow muttered, his hand going forward, charging with a Chaos Spear.
Omega surprised him again, firing into the ground and bounding upwards, launching himself over Hyper Shadow.
"Damn it!" Hyper Shadow cursed, doing an one eighty and looking around again.
"Need help?" Hyper Amy wondered, flying down next to her husband.
"Got it!" Hyper Chatrol shouted. The two hedgehogs turned around and looked over at their son, who was holding up the black Super Emerald triumphantly. Julian couldn't be seen, but suddenly, the ship was activating, blasting off.
"Should we follow him?" Hyper Amy wondered, watching the ship.
"No…we can't fly that fast. But we'll find Sonic," Hyper Shadow said. All three hedgehogs dropped their Hyper Forms, and deelevated down to their normal forms.
"What has happened to Omega?" the robot wondered, looking at the hedgehogs. "Did you three free me from that Emerald's control?" the robot pointed towards the Super Emerald in Chatrol's right hand.
"I guess we did," Amy said. "Hey…that means Metal Sonic is free to! He'll be sure to save Sonic!"
"You're right. What do we do about him though?" Shadow wondered, looking over at Omega.
"Can we keep him?" Chatrol wondered. He had Chaos Controlled over to Omega, and the robot was launching the young hedgehog in the air, and then grabbing him and repeating the process.
Shadow sighed and looked at his wife. "I guess we bring him back with us. With the Super Emerald, we can probably just Chaos Control back to the base."
"Of course. Chatrol! Omega! Get over here and we'll head back to the base to plan our next move!" Amy shouted.
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Tails was intently studying the book Shadow had gotten from Nate. Surprisingly, it was written in English. Tails guessed Nate Morgan had copied it from the original. Though Shadow had been told this was the only thing that told of the Super Emeralds. Was the original lost, or destroyed?
Tails didn't dwell on this, and was looking at the book. He stopped suddenly, looking over at Cream, who was starting to cry.
Tails frowned. Cream had taken it well when Café had been kidnapped earlier, but now, with nothing to do, she was beginning to break down.
He got up to comfort his wife, but Rouge shooed him back to the book, and took Café up and led her to another room, with a leaving comment of, "You need to study that book! And get Knuckles there to help you!"
Knuckles sighed and got up, leaving his post from in front of the Master Emerald and walked over to Tails.
Robotnik was yet in another room, playing against Knuckle's and Rouge's kids in a video game he had at the base. Tails and Knuckles were still in the same bare room.
"You know…" Tails began, looking at the picture of the Master Emerald in the book. "Why don't we ask the Master Emerald? It talked to us when we had to fight Chaos…And…where is Tikal and Chaos?"
"Last I heard they were in the jungle. Something about finding a new village to protect. And as for asking the Master Emerald…what do you think I've been doing for the past hour?" Knuckles said, looking over at Tails.
"Oh…Has it talked at all since Chaos?" Tails wondered.
"Not a peep…And that was the first time I heard it talked. In fact, I checked the ruins at the temple, and nothing points to it talking ever," Knuckles sighed.
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Umbra flew above the desert. To her left she sensed the Chaos Emeralds, but to her right, she could sense the Master Emerald, and something else.
Umbra growled, her eyes snapping over, and starting flying towards where the Master Emerald was found, "Turbo…"
Robotnik's safe house, where Tails and the others were at now, was soon the location of Umbra's as well. You couldn't tell where it was, but that didn't bother Umbra. Homing in on the Master Emerald's energy, she slammed into the ground, blasting through it with incredible power.
Tails and Knuckles leaped, surprised as Umbra came crashing into the room, dust and dirt billowing after her.
As the dust cleared, Umbra shook herself clean, and looked at the two heroes.
"Café!" Tails yelled shocked.
"Turbo!" Umbra said, hate in her voice. She flew forward and incredible speeds and slammed into Tails, whacking him into a wall, close to the Master Emerald. Her hand was like an iron grip around Tails' throat.
"You're going down!" Knuckles bellowed, swinging his fists and charging at Umbra. He dashed forward, but Umbra let off a blast of Chaos Energy from her Super Emerald backwards, sending the echidna into the other wall, sending him unconscious while making a dent in the wall.
Tails gasped for air, his windpipe being slowly crushed. His eyes darted to the doors, and to the Master Emerald. He wondered if anyone heard the crashes, or if these walls and doors were sound proof.
His hand grabbed for the Master Emerald.
"Please," Tails thought, pleading to the green surface, "I need help…"
His world was turning black.
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