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Chapter 10: The Final Confrontation

Sonic had finally got out of that putrid underground dump. After finding the grey emerald he had to go through the pink water another five times! He was going to make the Egg head pay for making him go through… THAT. Sonic lifted up the cover fully, and looked around to see he was on the other side of the barrier, which meant Eggman was very close.

"Ready or not Eggman, here I come." He whispered as he jumped out of the manhole and ran down the passage. He found himself in a large hall, there was another barrier blocking his path, and the room's ceiling and ground was chequered, it was about 4 by 4 squares in size every second patch was a darker grey, and was sticking out a little. Sonic soon found out why, the one he was standing one suddenly vibrated as a rumbling echoed through out the room and it rushed up, he rolled out just in time, any slower and he would have been a pancake. He looked to the pillar he was standing on it had a great deal of glass, and glaring through it, laughing at him was Eggman.

"Ho HO!" he laughed "Do you like my Power Room hedgehog?"

"Not really." Sonic replied, he noticed that two more pillars had shot out, one from the ceiling and one from the floor, he realised that every spot on the floor that didn't have a pillar, was beneath one that would shoot out from the ceiling and visa versa. "I don't like the whole crusher thing."

"To bad, as this will be your final resting place. Oh and if the crushers won't get you… the laser will." He said as the pillar sank, just then five lasers in the ceiling shot across the room, focusing on one point, which then shot out and fired a laser at Sonic. The shot zapped past him, grazing his cheek.

"Erk." He yelped. Again the room rumbled as a pillar shot out of the ceiling, Sonic managed to dodge it, but only just. "This isn't good." Said Sonic, he cursed as he herd Eggman's laugh again. "So doc, why if I am supposed to die here, mind answering something?"

"What?"

"Why did you change your name from Robotnik to Eggman?"

"Well it's none of your business, time to die hedgehog. Then I can collect those emeralds that you have been gathering from your corpse"

The pillars retracted again and the laser let off another shot, this time hitting Sonic in the arm. "ARGH!" he yelled in pain.

'This is not good at all, if I don't think of something fast I am ether going to be roasted or a pancake.' He thought to himself. He suddenly had an idea. I wonder,

The pillars tried to crush him another time, and Sonic again dodged, he got himself ready as the laser charged, just as it fired he brought out the blue emerald, the laser hit the gem dead centre, and the gem reflected the shot, it hit one of the pillars. The hit pillar was melted into its place, it would not drop again.

"Score!" yelled the happy hedgehog. The floor rumbled again and sonic ducked under the unmovable pillar.

"What this? But how?" Eggman said in a bemused manner.

"You shouldn't have told me about the power of these emeralds doc. It reflected your attack!" Sonic Gloated.

"How DARE YOU!"

"Oh, shut up doc! You are only leaving yourself open!" said Sonic, he jumped into the air and kicked the glass on the pillar that Eggman was in, the glass cracked a little under the force of the attack before Sonic landed back on his feet. "See what I mean?"

"Gah! Very well, take this!" he yelled, the pillars retracted again and he tried to fire the laser repeatedly at Sonic.

Sonic had to dodge quickly in order to stop the lasers hitting him. Meanwhile he was lucky enough to get the lasers to melt another couple of the pillars in place. This meant only 13 where still operational, 7 in the ceiling and 6 on the ground, giving him plenty of manoeuvring room to dodge the pillars. Now he only had to worry about actually hitting Eggman's pillars.

Eggman growled in frustration as Sonic dodged Lasers the lasers and the pillars, how could it be going so wrong? This was supposed to be where the Hedgehog fell. Eggman was meant to get the other six emeralds; he was meant to rule the world!

It was then that Sonic finally smashed the glass on one of the pillars, and Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik's plans fell apart. Eggman retracted the pillar before Sonic could get to it and him. He pressed the eject button allowing him to jump out of the exit in the next room. However, this gave Sonic enough time to punch through the door with his speed; he chased Eggman till Eggman got to his Eggmobile, ready to escape.

"Not this time!" Sonic yelled, jumping up to thump the machine, damaging it badly. The doctor had to make an emergency landing outside the facility, back down at ground level, but not before pressing the self destruct button.

"WARNING, WARNING, SELF DESTRUCT ACTIVATED, 2 MINUTES TO SELF DESTRUCT" the computer announced as Eggman tried to regain control, slowly descending down the mountain.

Upon hearing that Sonic cursed and began to make his way out, until he noticed that there where more capsules in the area. No way was he leaving all those creatures behind to be blown up, so he quickly pressed the button on each. This made each of them spit out their animals. All except the last which had something odd in it. It was a normal sized Mobian.

"SELF DESTRUCT IN 1 MINUTE" the computer announced again

Time was running out, so Sonic just grabbed the mobian, a fox he thought, and ran out of the facility. It took every ounce of speed he had, but he actually escaped.