Hey everyone. Here's chapter 14. I'll be able to update more, now that school's out and all. Enjoy!
The gang was soon in the air, and off the small island.
"This plane is much easier to control than the other one," Nick stated.
"Yeah, everything seems to be going great, we should be home in no time," Emily said.
"Do you guys hear anything?" Josh asked.
"Only the plane engine," Ashley answered.
"No, it sounds more like-" Josh was cut off because a bullet had flown right by the plane!
"What was that!" Matt yelled. They al looked back to see seven planes behind them, all saying the words "U.S. Air Force".
"They must be after us!" Emily shirked. A man from one of the fighter planes was yelling to them over a megaphone.
"Surrender yourselves, or prepare to be shot down!"
"What do we do now!" Emily yelled in fear.
"The only thing we can do...fight..." Matt told them.
"How are we supposed to fight!" Nick asked, while trying to focus on flying.
"You search for any guns or lasers this plane might have. Knuckles and Amy, we have to fight by hand," He told them.
"What about Cream?" Ashley asked.
"Cream, you have the most important job of all. You need to fly Ash and I over to the planes. Knuckles can glide himself over so he's all set," Matt explained to Emily.
"But...you guys know that I can't fly..." Emily said, scared because the planes were now starting to shoot.
"You have to try for us," Ashley started. "It's the only way."
"Come on Cream," Josh said. Emily was ready to try. She got onto one of the wings, almost falling off. She stood there, trying to prepare for flight.
"Well?" Matt asked her, waiting.
"I just...can't do it..." She said sadly.
"(Sigh) Alright Sonic, get on my back. I'll bring you to a plane. Than I'll come back for you Amy," Josh told them. He then jumped off the plane and started soaring away, with matt holding on to the back of his head.
"Thanks for the lift!" Matt said jumping off Josh, and onto a plane. Josh then flew and got Ashley, and let her off at a plane.
"I found a gun!" Nick yelled, pressing a button. Out came a big gun from underneath the Tornado. He started firing at the fighter ships. In the meantime, Matt was trying to destroy the plane he was on.
"Take this!" He yelled as he jumped high up, and came slamming down onto the plane. He left a huge dent, and it started wobbling.
"Get off!" The pilot yelled to him. He started spinning around and upside down, attempting to cause Matt to slip off.
"Whoa!" Matt yelled as he held on tight. Just then, Nick hit the plane with the gun, causing it to fall from the sky.
"Mayday! I'm going down!" The pilot yelled.
"Help!" Matt yelled as he let go of the plane. And just in time, it then went up in flames. He was falling for the water, fast.
"Sonic!" Emily yelled in fear. She jumped off the Tornado, ready to try to save Matt. "Come on, Come on," She said to herself. Then she started flapping her ears, and soaring through the sky! "I'm doing it!" She yelled. She flew down and grabbed Matt's arm.
"Thanks Cream! You finally learned to fly!" Matt yelled to her.
"I guess I did!" She said back. Ashley was having problems of her own.
"Die you stupid plane!" She screamed, as she whacked it over and over with her new hammer. She was doing some serious damage, but the plane was extremely strong.
"Get off you little pest!" The pilot yelled at her.
"Don't talk to me that way!" She yelled back and swung one more time. That one time was enough. She knocked the plane out of the sky, and jumped onto another one that passed her. Josh on the other hand, was not having any trouble at all. He had already destroyed two planes, and was on his third one.
"This is easy as cake!" He said to himself, when something happened. The watch he had gotten from the lab started beeping.
"Knuckles, that's the ast one! Destroy it and get back here!" Matt yelled from the tornado.
"What does that beeping mean?" He asked himself aloud. The screen on the watch was flashing red. He then saw a crystal like rock inside of the plane. He broke in the cockpit.
"What in the world!" The pilot yelled, when shattered glass fell from above him. Josh just reached in and grabbed the rock. But it wasn't a rock, it was a Chaos Emerald!
"I'll be taking this," he said as he grabbed it. The beeping stopped as soon as he touched it. He pressed a button on the watch that was labeled "Storage" and a laser shot out that hit the emerald, and sucked it in! "What the...?"
"Give that-!" The pilot yelled, but never got to finish, Josh had hit the plane so hard, it was falling from the sky in second. Josh flew back to the Tornado, still wondering about the watch. He was amazed that it shot the emerald, and sucked it in! It was only the size of a normal watch too!
"Great job guys!" Matt yelled.
"Especially you Cream, you saved Sonic when he was falling, and you learned how to fly!" Ashley said.
"Thanks!" Emily said smiling. Josh didn't tell the others about the emerald. Something told him to just keep it to himself. Once home, they parked the Tornado in the forest, where they had first taken off the rings and revealed each other. Nobody ever went there, so they figured it was the best place.
"Alright guys, I gotta get home, I'm gonna have to think of a good excuse for my parents!" Matt told them.
"Me too," Nick said. They all said their goodbyes and took off.
'Josh seemed different on the way home,' Matt thought in his head. 'Almost like he was hiding something.' But he decided to forget about it, for now.
Well, there's chapter 14. Hope you all enjoyed it. Review if you want chapter 15!