This is probably going to be around 20 episodes… if I can remember to drag out the Devil Doom fight and the "Ultimate" Saiyan fight. Anyway, keep reviewing… if you want to.

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Episode 13: The Sixth Emerald and the Challenge Note

Zach's POV

"So you have returned… after all." I said to Black Doom, having taken down the umpteenth Black Arms soldier.

Dammit Corey! If you return I'll strangle you… unless you help us.

My POV

"We need to get the last two emeralds!" I stated clearly, as we ran as fast as possible toward the Earth Crest… and the supposedly Ultimate Lumina.

"But… we only have two emeralds!" protested Sonic, as though I would get the message. We all skidded to a halt, but I stopped a bit too late, and almost crashed headlong into a tree. I reached into my pocket, smiling to myself.

"NOW WE HAVE FIVE!" I said, pulling out the green, blue, and turquoise emeralds. "Nabbed these from behind Zach's back when I had turned to leave, sap."

They both blinked. I sighed to myself, and pulled out a brown bag. I had gotten these while their backs were turned, in other words, when we had stopped to rest for a minute… opening it, I pulled out a green bean, about the size of a pea, and stared at it as I closed the bag.

These senzu beans have always saved us before… maybe I should eat one for my massive energy loss and blood loss… that would worry them if I'm not up to full strength, for that little just-in-case feeling.

I ate it, and as soon as I swallowed it, my energy flow was restored, and my injuries were healed. As soon as I swallowed it, my premonition came true… about one hundred of the Black Arms giants came down. A hologram of Black Doom appeared.

"I will take care of you, just as I will your… GAH! Stop exploding you stupid giants! Can you not destroy three people! (Cough, deep breathing, continues) … friends soon enough! If you do manage to beat our fleet, you can get the purple Chaos Emerald. I doubt you'll be able to handle us, though! MUHAHAHAHA--! (Cough, cough, wheeze, cough) Dammit! I forgot to take my allergy medicine, I'm allergic to Earth!" it spoke, apparently from where I had left Team Neutral. If he had to be interrupted like that, apparently they were doing fine. All one hundred and three denizens in the area, including myself, did an anime fall at the last four words.

I stood up, immediately caked with dirt, and stared at the hologram.

"Then how come Shadow isn't allergic to Earth? I mean, wasn't he created from your DNA in the first place…? Anyway… you're wrong about one thing." I said, drawing out the last two words from the last sentence.

"Okay, two things, One, he probably got used two it, Two, what is the one thing that I'm sooo wrong about?" Black Doom shot, pouring on the sarcasm.

"I'm stronger than your stupid giants!"

"Okay, now I'll leave you!" Black Doom sounded very angry, and the hologram disappeared into nothing. My eyes shot up to the hundred giants, and I figured, I'd use the five Chaos Emeralds already in our possession to go three-quarters of the way Super… in a Super Saiyan 3 form… but the most pressing thing on my mind was something that truly scared me, just a little bit.

What if my body can't take the stress of "Nearly-Super" Super Saiyan 3…? I mean, Super Saiyan 3 alone is hard enough to maintain!

I swallowed hard, took a quick glance at my teammates, Sonic, well, at least right before a spindash frenzy. I sweatdropped and turned to face Amy, right before she pulled out the trademark hammer… (you know…) and twirled it, before she lifted off the ground. I rubbed my eyes in shock, and momentarily thought: Shit, she could fly all this time? Then another, more fearful thought on the subject of using the five Chaos Emeralds in my possession to go "Nearly-Super" Corey, Super Saiyan 3.

What if I die? It's been nice knowing you… but I need to do this to secure a safer future for Earth.

"HHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEYAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" I yelled, in a cry to use the power within, and as I had done never before, for this was an experimental transformation, a golden aura surrounded me, blended in with a cyan-colored lightning, my eyes a shimmering turquoise, my hair long and gold, with no eyebrows, all taking over, which were key physical characteristics for a Super Saiyan 3. Then I began to take the emeralds out, and thought instantly the following quote, just as it had came to me in a dream before the first formation of Team Saiyan.

"The servers are the seven Chaos… Chaos is the power… power is enriched by the heart…" there… even though I only have five servers…

I sense a great positive feeling flowing within you… Corey.

…The fork? Who is this? I'm pretty sure I've known you… but where?

The saying "Power is enriched by the heart…" well let's just say the power of love will allow you to use this form without serious risk… If I can know you… well, I guess I could tell you… I'm Tikal.

...yeah… now I remember! I've heard of you from Sonic. You came out of the Master Emerald one fine day… anyway… well, that's good. Wait—how the hell did you know that I loved Amy…?

Precisely, but now I fear I must return to the Master Emerald…

Farewell… was all I could say before the vision ended, and my senses returned to reality. I looked down, and I saw Amy and Sonic, both staring at me intently. At first I was clueless to this, but then it came back to me in a rush: I was using only five Chaos Emeralds, AND I was in a form they'd never seen or heard of.

"I'm now a Super Saiyan 3… sorry this took a loud yell, but I haven't had much occasion to practice this! And as for the Chaos Emeralds… don't we all have various degrees of a super form within us?" I could help but ask, floating down to the ground, the emeralds beginning to circle me just slightly faster than before.

"Well I might but…" Sonic said… then looked at Amy, letting her finish the sentence: "I can't attain a super form." Amy hung her head, obviously embarrassed as to how her previous knight in shining BLUE armor, so to speak, and, well, her new love, in aforementioned terms, could both attain a super form, while she couldn't. I could see it in her eyes, she felt like crap fresh in the toilet, feeling so weak like that.

"It never hurt me to try!" I shouted out, remembering the first time I had attained a super form.

Flashback

"So, Gex, I've been through two adventures with my good friend here—," I motioned to Crash, with the seven Chaos Emeralds floating around me, "but what are these Emeralds, as they're called. I mean, they look a lot like the gems that Crash and I used to collect. They also float… woo."

"Hey, kid, bandicoot, I know you're—WHOA!" Gex said, cut off by a giant, cyborg-type Gecko, (it –IS- Stated in Gex 2 that Rez IS the aforementioned gecko's father!) zooming down in front of us. This was before the… well… let's just say perverted effect took over Gex. I was five, Crash was seven… and Gex was probably in his mid-teens.

"There you are… son… and I see you've brought me the Chaos Emeralds and a few friends. I'll put this as simple as I could possibly take it: hand. them. over. now!" the mechanical gecko Rez stated, this was his last leg, but with the Chaos Emeralds he would've gotten unlimited power. Before I knew it, Crash and Gex were down, and I was knocked off the side of the Media Dimension. I closed my eyes, and prepared for the last embrace of hard ground.

A voice in my head rang out: "The Servers are the seven chaos, Chaos is the power, power is enriched by the heart!"

The emeralds revolving around me began to come dangerously close to me, and then they went inside of my body (ever wonder why the emeralds AREN'T present when Super Sonic/Super Shadow make appearances, respectively?) and I felt Chaos energy coursing through my body.

"WHAT'S HAPPENING?" I demanded, as I felt the energy surge through my veins, and my tail fur went gold. I realized my skin was gold, and so was my hair, and as a shard of glass that happened to be falling, it was revealed my eyes were a dark crimson.

"I understand now… I'm Super Corey, with the power of these 'Chaos Emeralds'!" I shouted, flying up, and destroying the cable fiend once and for all with one punch…

End Flashback

I was too busy reminiscing to see that there were a few Black Arms aliens left, but I noticed that Amy was holding on to me, as if her life depended on it. I suddenly began to notice, the emeralds were coming closer to the two of us, and she was going silver.

"Amy? Are you sure you want to—try?" I asked uncertainly, but she nodded yes, sticking her head into my ribcage. My head hair and tail fur turned silver, and the lightning around me turned silver as well.

After that display was over, the three of us, Sonic, almost-Super Amy, and well, me, crushed the remainder of the aliens. Any nearly-Super formed person reverted to normal, and just as the sixth emerald floated into my pocket, a rock flew from nowhere, and a piece of paper was attached to it, hitting me in the forehead.

"OW!" I shouted, drawing back as the rock left a red mark on the spot.

Dammit Zach! Did you do this?

As though Amy read my thoughts, she scanned the note, quickly discarding it, and looked at me, saying: "It's from Team Powerpuff."

At the last word, my rage flared inside, "Do they have the last emerald?"

"Yes…"

"We can battle them then… I was going to fight them anyway…"

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