"Before the Metarex came into power, my race was at war with a ruthless race of aliens simply known as the Xordas. These alien octopus, jellyfish creatures sought to eradicate our species and almost succeeded, until the Metarex showed up. We thought for sure we saw the last of them, but it turns out they were waiting in a dark region of space for the right opportunity to reign supreme in the war against us," Cosmo explained as several images were showing the entire story before going back to everyone listening to her.
"Okay, so these guys have been around way before Nightmare enterprises and the Metarex. So what do they want?" Meta Knight asked.
"They want to turn this peaceful galaxy into a galaxy of their vision or paradise as they claim it to be," Cosmo answered.
"So they think it's paradise when it's really the opposite? That's bad," Fumu pointed out.
"We need the chaos emeralds to stop them and they already have their tentacles on one. We're running against time here with them searching for the emeralds along with us," Sonic pointed out.
"We had a chaos emerald but since that Dr. Eggman guy that a friend of yours told us about shot us out of orbit, we lost it," Meta Knight pointed out.
"Don't worry. It's perfectly safe," Shadow said as everyone looked over the see him standing at the top of the hill.
"Well isn't this a surprise," Sonic said.
"Shadow?" Tails asked.
"Surprised?" Shadow asked before Tails nodded in response.
"Where were you the whole time?" Tuff asked.
"Keeping our emerald safe," Shadow answered before pulling out the chaos emerald to show everyone.
"Did you find anymore on your way here?" Cosmo asked.
"Unfortunately we didn't, this is the only one we came across," Shadow pointed out. Meanwhile Dr. Eggman, King Dedede and Escargoon arrive at Dr. Eggman's base and were given a quick tour.
"As you can see, I've been planning plots against Sonic and his friends for quite sometime, but no matter what I try, he always comes out on top, but with your help, that should end very soon," Dr. Eggman pointed out.
"What's your plan to get rid of this Sonic character anyway?" King Dedede asked.
"I've been saving a little something special for him. A salvaged alien robot I found from the Metarex," Dr. Eggman answered.
"Okay, what about the crew that was aboard the ship we were on?" King Dedede asked referring to him and Escargoon.
"You mean there was more of you?" Dr. Eggman asked.
"Yes there was. Several more of us to be precise, including a hero of the town I rule," King Dedede answered making Dr. Eggman curious.
"Tell me more about this hero," Dr Eggman demanded. Back with Sonic, Kirby and everyone else who were salvaging all they could from Meta Knight's ship hoping to find something to move the core of the ship when Knuckles and Rouge arrive.
"Can't say I've seen aliens like these before," Knuckles pointed out. Before Sonic runs up to him.
"Hey, Knuckles, what brings you over here?" Sonic asked.
"We saw that ship fall out of the sky so we came over to investigate," Rouge answered.
"Who are these aliens?" Knuckles asked looking at Kirby, Fumu, Tuff, Meta Knight Sword Knight and Blade Knight.
"They're the ones aboard the ship before Egghead shot it down," Sonic pointed out before walking over to introduce them.
"More friends of yours?" Meta Knight asked.
"Yep. This is Knuckles and Rouge," Sonic answers before introducing the two to Meta Knight. Kirby walks over and looks at them while letting out a curious moan.
"Aww, aren't you just cute," Rouge said before Kirby greeted her with a soft squeak.
"His name is Kirby, and he doesn't actually speak," Fumu pointed out.
"Well pleased to meet you too, Kirby, My name is Rouge," Rouge introduced herself.
"Ru," Kirby squeaked trying to say Rouge's name.
"You are just too cute," Rouge said in response.
"We're not too sure how old Kirby is exactly, but we can tell he's very young," Tuff told Rouge.
"And yet he's able to walk on his own," Knuckles pointed out.
"We find it hard to describe Kirby," Fumu said.
"Name's Knuckles by the way," Knuckles said introducing himself.
"Nukle," Kirby said trying to pronounce Knuckles' name.
"And not to mention pretty smart," Knuckles pointed out.
"And what brings you back from the dead?" Rouge joked greeting Shadow.
"Hm, hello to you too, Rouge," Shadow said.
"Tails, I don't want to be rude but we're wasting time with introducing everyone. We need to get this ship's core to yours ASAP," Cosmo said.
"Okay, I'll see if we can't make a carrying mechanism to lift the core," Tails said understanding the situation.
"Why don't we just steal something from Eggman's base?" Sonic suggested obviously listening to the two.
"That would be a pretty good idea, but I am worried about losing the chaos emeralds we currently have," Tails pointed out.
"That shouldn't be a problem, I'll just chaos control in there and come back with a robot capable of lifting stuff," Shadow pointed out.
"You would do that?" Tails asked.
"Hm, as much as I don't want to, I'll do it for everyone here. Chaos control!" Shadow shouted before disappearing in a flash of light and reappears in a storage facility in Dr. Eggman's base. He looks around for anything useful until he eventually finds a lifting robot. Just as Shadow was about to chaos control out of there, several robots rush in to confront him with Dr. Eggman, King Dedede and Escargoon following behind him.
"Shadow?!" Dr. Eggman asked shocked.
"You know this thing?" King Dedede asked.
"Know him? My grandfather created him, but he's supposed to be dead," Dr. Eggman pointed out.
"You haven't changed one bit, doctor," Shadow pointed out before trying to vanish, but gets stopped by several robots.
"Your not going anywhere, Shadow, you're gonna explain how your still alive and thanks for bringing me two of the emeralds," Dr. Eggman said as the Robots brought Shadow to him. Later at the crash site, Bokkun arrives with a message from him. The moment they saw him, Sonic and his friends hide while Kirby and his friends stood there ground.
"What are you things?" Bokkun asked.
"You can tell your not from this planet can you?" Meta Knight asked.
"Well I could tell from you not having any legs. Anyway, I have a message from Eggman for you," Bokkun pointed out before pulling out a letter. Meta Knight takes the letter and reads it.
"Everyone, we have a problem, Shadow's been captured," Meta Knight pointed out.
"How?" Sonic said.
"That information wasn't written down, but we need to save him immediately," Meta Knight said before his cape turns into wings and flies away with Sonic and everyone else following them. Except for Fumu and Tuff who stay behind to protect the core. They later arrive at Dr. Eggman's base and prepared themselves for a fight. Inside, Dr. Eggman, King Dedede and Escargoon watched the monitors as robots got ready for the battle ahead.
"Watch and learn, mister Dedede," Dr. Eggman said.
"That's King Dedede to you, doctor," King Dedede pointed out before several shots are heard. Outside Sonic was seen running through the facility destroying any robots that got in the way. Tails flew in with his plane with Cosmo in the passenger and shot down robots that took to the skies while Meta Knight, Sword Knight and Blade Knight sliced their way towards the main entrance. Kirby on the other hand was looking for anything that would be useful to help out. A robot spots Kirby and marches over to capture him, but gets destroyed by Sonic.
"Kirby if your not gonna help then go back to the crash site," Sonic said before heading back into the fight. Kirby looked around some more and spotted a robot with a large speaker and uses his sucking ability to devour it.
"Did Kirby just eat a robot?" Tails asked himself seeing the whole thing from the sky before a light consumed Kirby. After a few seconds, the light disappeared showing him with a headset and a microphone.
"What in the world?" Sonic asked himself confused by what he just saw before Kirby let out musical moans and groans which got louder over time.
"What is this thing?" Dr. Eggman asked watching the whole thing on screen as the music got louder.
"Meta Knight what's going on?" Rouge asked.
"Kirby isn't any ordinary star warrior. He is capable of copying any ability depending on what he consumes. He must have consumed something involving a microphone, because this form destroys enemies through sound," Meta Knight explained.
"What kind of sound?" Knuckles asked.
"You'll see," Meta Knight answered as the music got louder to the point where it was too loud. Everyone covered their ears which worked for a quick moment, but was futile. The music was unbearable. Inside, Dr. Eggman King Dedede and Escargoon were screaming in pain.
"Not... this again!" King Dedede shouted at the top of his lungs barely able to hear himself think.
"Make it stop! Make it stop!" Escargoon shouted before Dr. Eggman presses a button before it became too unbearable causing a hidden spring platform to launch Kirby into the air, stopping him.
"Okay, now finish him off!" Dr. Eggman ordered before several robots started shooting at Kirby. The moment King Dedede saw this, he begin to question not only himself, but his motives as well. Back outside, Meta Knight sliced through robots and grabbed Kirby before landing.
"Nice work, Kirby, but you could have harmed our allies, suck up this instead," Meta Knight said handing Kirby a inactive bomb before returning to battle. He looked at the bomb before devouring it. A light consumes Kirby before disappearing revealing him with a blue hat and in one hand was a rather large bomb.
"What is this creature?!" Dr. Eggman asked before a large glass breaking sound is heard. He turns around to see that the tube containing the two chaos emeralds was broken and the two emeralds were missing, "I knew I shouldn't have trusted that duck."
King Dedede and Escargoon were seen running down the hallways of Eggman's base trying to find a way out.
"What's gotten into you? First, you change your ways, then go back to your old greedy self and now your deciding that wasn't the best decision?" Escargoon asked.
"The chaos emeralds had me blinded, I've realized now that I made a bad call, everyone was right," King Dedede pointed out before him and Escargoon are stopped by a metal wall that appears right in front of them.
"Going somewhere?" Dr. Eggman asked being behind King Dedede and Escargoon who turn around to face him.
"How did you...?" Escargoon asked before Dr. Eggman interrupted.
"I have an IQ of 300 and I had these traps installed in case something like this happened," Dr. Eggman pointed out before King Dedede tried to attack him, but gets restrained by Bocoe and Decoe before getting kicked in the face by Bokkun. Dr. Eggman then looks at Escargoon
"Hey don't look at me I'm just a servant," Escargoon said. Back with Kirby who tossed several bombs at the door of the base that explode on impact. After a couple bombs, the door was destroyed allowing everyone to enter the base.
"Looks like the drawbridge is down, everyone," Sonic pointed out as Meta Knight and his crew enter the main entrance with Kirby, Knuckles, Rouge and Sonic who race through the halls hoping to reach Dr. Eggman's control room.
"Dr. Eggman, the base is under full lockdown, but we need to think about evacuating soon," Decoe recommended.
"Not just yet. I have one last trick up my sleeve that I want to try before we do such a thing," Dr. Eggman pointed out as he grabbed the two chaos emeralds in his possession and placed them in what looks like a core before shutting it. He then climbs into a cockpit and shuts himself in, "get the prisoners loaded onto the escape pod."
Sonic, Kirby and everyone else with them made their way through the halls until they bashed their way into a massive chamber.
"We should be getting close. All we need to do is..." Sonic said before he was interrupted by shaking. A massive door opens revealing Dr. Eggman piloting a massive robot with elbow blades and heel blades.
"You may have thought I ran out of salvaged Metarex technology, but I always have one last trick up my sleeve, Sonic. And as for you aliens working with him, I've got plans to salvage your tech and use it to build my empire," Dr. Eggman pointed out.
"Your gonna be very disappointed to see that they're isn't much left," Meta Knight said obviously lying.
"Then I'll just beat the info out of you," Dr. Eggman said before charging at them. Sonic and Kirby rush at him and jump to attack, but he whacks them into a wall.
"Hm, I'll handle this," Meta Knight said before he flies up to attack dodging each attack before stabbing his sword into the robot's chest, but the stabbing had no effect.
"Something wrong?" Dr. Eggman asked grabbing Meta Knight, tosses him at the wall and tries to smash him with his hand, but Sonic grabs and pulls him to safety just in time before the hand of the robot could reach him. This frustrated him to where he looks over to find Kirby missing as well, "I could never get how someone shakes off an attack like that."
Sonic lands on the ground and sets Meta Knight down before getting back to the action.
"I'm surprised King Dedede isn't helping," Sword Knight pointed out.
"He's probably helping with keeping the base running," Blade Knight assumed as Meta Knight slid under the robot while dodging a fist coming down at him before he flies up and stabs it in the back.
"Hmm, nice try," Dr. Eggman pointed out before grabbing Meta Knight not paying attention to Sonic who spin dashes into the robots core only leaving a little dent in it.
"You've got to be kidding me," Sonic said almost surprised that the robot's armor was thick enough to shake off an attack like that.
"Metarex technology, remember?" Dr. Eggman asked before trying to crush Meta Knight, but out of nowhere, Knuckles uppercuts the wrist of the robot forcing it to let go of Meta Knight. Kirby finally gets up and sees everyone struggling with stopping Dr. Eggman before trying to toss a bomb at him, but he doesn't realize that the ability was gone and stopped the moment he realized this. He tries to smash the pink hero, but Rouge grabs him and flies out of the way in time.
"We need to teach you how to fight," Rouge pointed out before putting Kirby in a safe spot. He then let's out a confused moan as she joins the fight. Back with Fumu and Tuff who were seen protecting the ship's core when they hear movement in the bushes and get ready for a fight. A female pink hedgehog comes out with a gigantic hammer, had a pink dress on and pink boots. She is joined by a female cream colored rabbit with brown secondary color to her fur, wore a orange dress with a blue tie and orange shoes.
"What are you?" The pink hedgehog named Amy asked.
"Are you friends of Sonic?" Fumu asked.
"Who's asking?" Amy asked.
"A couple of people just returning the chaos emeralds," Tuff answered.
"How do you know about those?" The small rabbit named Cream asked.
"One of them landed on our planet, so we decided to return it, until your pest Eggman shot us down," Tuff pointed out before Amy lowered her hammer.
"Well that explains the crash, but where's Sonic.
"He went to rescue Shadow from Eggman," Fumu explained
"Wait, Shadow's still alive?" Amy asked.
"Yes and he went to get something to move the our ship's core when we received a message that he was captured," Tuff asked.
"That explains where mister Sonic is," Cream said.
"Why didn't you just chaos control the core to where you need to go?" Amy asked before Fumu and Tuff look at each other. Back at Eggman's base, Sonic, Meta Knight, Knuckles and Rouge get tossed at a wall by Dr. Eggman before getting up.
"Try all you want, this time victory was meant for me!" Dr. Eggman pointed out before attempting to finish off the four fighting him, but Kirby with quick thinking starts to suck the giant robot in stopping him from smashing the four, "what? How is this possible?"
Kirby continued to try to suck Dr. Eggman's robot in while Sonic, Meta Knight, Knuckles and Rouge got up and recovered from the attack. Sonic was amazed by how strong Kirby's suck ability was, but then realized that this was the opportunity to strike so he quickly jumps to action as Dr. Eggman gets ready to smash Kirby with his fist, but Knuckles glides at the wrist and whacks it, preventing it from smashing their friend.
"Why you!" Dr. Eggman shouted before the robot trips over. Sonic quickly smashes into the chest of the robot and grabs the two Chaos emeralds inside.
"Looks like the tables have turned," Sonic pointed out as Kirby quits trying to suck the giant robot in. Dr. Eggman tries to escape, but gets stopped by Sword Knight and Blade Knight.
"Going somewhere?" Sword Knight asked as Meta Knight joins him and Blade Knight.
"Look, even if you've defeated me, your too late to rescue Shadow," Dr. Eggman pointed out before Sonic appears behind Meta Knight with Shadow, Escargoon and King Dedede.
"You were saying, Doctor?" Shadow asked.
"Of course," Dr. Eggman said in defeat.
"Sonic, we should think about getting back to everyone else," Cosmo pointed out before everyone grabbed onto Shadow and disappeared in a green flash of light. Back with Fumu, Tuff, Amy and Cream who were discussing what happened.
"And that's why we need to get this core back to Tails' ship," Fumu explained.
"I still can't believe Cosmo's still alive, Tails is gonna be happy to see her," Amy pointed out.
"I think he already knows," Fumu pointed out before they all jump in shock when everyone reappears with a green flash of light. Fumu and Tuff were shocked to see that King Dedede and Escargoon were with them.
"Don't worry, he's with us now, but I'll keep a close eye on him," Meta Knight said.
"We don't have a lot of time, we need to get the core to Tails' ship now," Cosmo pointed out, before, everyone gathered around Shadow and vanished in a green flash of light again. They then reappear in Tails' hanger near the blue typhoon and quickly got it inside. Eventually Tails and Cosmo arrive and help with getting the core in place before he checks the controls to the blue typhoon to see that the ship was accepting the new power source.
"Looks like all systems are green," Tails said.
"Good," Sonic said.
"When's the soonest we can get this Ship of yours moving?" Meta Knight asked.
"Well with the extra help, we should get it moving in about 3 and a half days," Tails answered.
"Well then we better gat to work," Meta Knight pointed out. Back at Dr. Eggman's base, Decoe and Becoe help the doctor up and gets him to the infirmary for healing.
"That could have gone better," Bokkun said giving Dr. Eggman something to drink.
"You have a point, Bokkun, but I'd like to know what that pink ball creature is," Dr. Eggman said referring to Kirby.
"I think I overheard them calling that thing Kirby," Becoe said.
"That's it, Kirby," Dr. Eggman pointed out, "I'd like to know how that creature works."
Back at Tails' workshop, Tails was making repairs to the main bridge when Cosmo walks in.
"How are things going in here, Tails?" Cosmo asked.
"Just repairing this last bit of the console... that should do it," Tails pointed out before getting up from being on the ground.
"What now?" Cosmo asked.
"Next I want to work on the power canon. It was fragmented after our last battle with The Metarex after I... had to... shoot... you" Tails said before remembering what happened what happened to Cosmo who gently grabs his hand.
"You don't have to dwell on that anymore, Tails, that was hopefully a one time thing," Cosmo pointed out.
"The keyword being hopefully," Tails said worried, then out of nowhere, Cosmo gently hugs him.
"I'm sure that'll never happen, after all, we have the Star Warriors backing us up," Cosmo explained before leaning her forehead on Tails' "what happened before was in the past, okay?"
Tails was extremely nervous being this close to Cosmo, in fact he didn't know what to think of the whole situation. Part of him wanted to pull Cosmo into a small kiss, but he didn't, for he did not want to make her uncomfortable. Tails instead pulled away when suddenly Cosmo just smiled at him, making him blush even more before Cosmo lips started to drift slowly towards his. He gave in and let his drift towards her's.
"Hey Tails, that Meta Knight guy wants to know..." Sonic said walking in only to see Tails and Cosmo inches from their first kiss, but they stopped when Sonic spoke and looked at him, "well I didn't think it would happen this soon."
Tails and Cosmo got extremely uncomfortable when Sonic said those words.
"Hey it's okay, if you two wanted some time alone I would have understood," Sonic said joking around.
"What is it, Sonic?" Tails asked, a bit mad that Sonic ruined Tails' opportunity to show Cosmo how he felt about her.
"That Meta Knight guy wanted to know what your call was on adding a few extra defenses on the ship?" Sonic asked.
"That wouldn't be a bad idea, the only thing is I would need the resources to make them and that would take an extra couple of days," Tails pointed out.
"It was just a thought," Sonic said before running off at high speed.
"I need to get started on the power canon," Tails pointed out before walking off, but Cosmo stops him to plant a kiss on his cheek before walking off herself, "guess it wasn't all for nothing."
Later that evening, Cream returned to her home where an older female cream colored rabbit in a dark pink dress was seen sipping on her tea when she spots her daughter walking in.
"Oh there you are, Cream. What happened?" The older rabbit known as Vanilla asked.
"There was a ship that crashed, luckily no one was hurt, but we have a few visitors," Cream pointed out as Vanilla looked shocked.
"Is it those Metarex things you told me about?" Vanilla asked.
"No, they're friendly," Cream said before a familiar, curious moan gets her attention. Her and Vanilla look to see Kirby standing there in the living room.
"Aww, who's this?" Vanilla asked.
"This is Kirby, one of the visitors from that ship," Cream answered.
"He sure is cute for an alien," Vanilla pointed out as Kirby walked over to inspect her.
"Kirby, why did you follow me?" Cream asked almost forgetting that Kirby can't talk. Then a small light blue flying creature called a chao flies in and inspects Kirby.
"Chao," the creature squeaked making Kirby curious.
"Chao," Kirby squeaked.
"Aww, that's so adorable," Vanilla pointed out.
"Looks like you made a friend, Kirby," Cream pointed out before Kirby let out a confused moan.
"This is my special chao friend Cheese," Cream answered.
"Poyo," Kirby said all happy.
"Hey Kirby, you should probably get going, you may have the others worried," Cream pointed out before Kirby left and heads back to Tails' workshop. Meanwhile with Dr. Eggman who was seen recovering from his bruises.
"I knew that duck couldn't be trusted," Dr. Eggman said before Bokkun flies in.
"Eggman I followed the pink one to Tails' workshop and found out they're rebuilding his ship," Bokkun pointed out surprising Dr. Eggman.
"Which one?" Decoe asked.
"The blue typhoon," Bokkun answered.
"Now why would they repair that ship when the Metarex did a good amount of damage on it?" Dr Eggman asked thinking.
"Maybe they could be planning a large scale invasion on us," Becoe said guessing.
"If so, then we need to act fast," Dr. Eggman pointed out.
"I heard them mentioning something about aliens looking for the chaos emeralds," Bokkun quickly said.
"Well then we need to get a head start. How soon can we get my ship ready?" Dr. Eggman asked.
"You destroyed it, remember?" Decoe asked making Dr. Eggman freeze in position.
"I what?" Dr. Eggman asked, "curseeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssss!"
