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Chapter 10 – Unlikely Heroes

Tails flew Amy to Station Square and dropped her off. Tails waved goodbye as the two went their own way. He kept wondering about Sonic, would he be OK? Of course he would be OK, he's Sonic. His mind changed from Sonic to what he was going to do next. Chaos was still out there somewhere, The Tornado 2 was long gone and the location of Eggman's base was still unknown.

Speaking off Eggman, he appeared from the ocean rambling on about how Sonic defeated him and Chaos once again. Tails smiled knowing that Sonic has won again.

"Time for Plan B", said Eggman.

"Plan B?" asked Tails puzzled.

There was a short Earthquake and suddenly a missile appeared from the horizon. A giant missile.

"Oh no if that missile is fired..." said Tails

"Fire! I will take Station Square myself!" shouted Eggman.

The Missile fired into the air and Tails could only watch as the Missile crashed into the centre of the city. Tails closed his eyes awaiting his envitable death. But then nothing happened Tails opened his eyes to find Eggman fuming with rage.

"ARGH! It was a dud. Fine I'll go and set it off myself", said Eggman.

Eggman raced off into the city.

"Oh no! SONIC! SONIC! I guess it's up to me then. I just hope I can do it", said Tails.

His knees started to shake. Sweat drenched his fur. It was time for the sidekick to become a hero. Tails gathered the courage to fly after Eggman and hopefully beat the evil doctor to the missile.

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Meanwhile Amy pondered what to do with her bird friend. That green robot was gone for good it seems and Eggman clearly didn't want it no more. He took the Chaos Emerald from him.

The Bird didn't seem to care about that but he still looked sad. Suddenly the Bird flew into Amy's face showing off his locket.

"Huh? You want me to take a look at this?" asked Amy.

The Bird nodded and Amy opened the locket to find a group of three flickies. One of them being the bird in front of him.

"I see you just want to be re-united with your family. Don't worry I'll find them", said Amy, "Hmm! Eggman kidnapped you so they must be in his base. But where do we start looking. Hey I know Zero took us to the Mystic Ruins. Not much to go on but at least it's a start".

Amy and her bird friend took the first train out of Station Square towards the Mystic Ruins.

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Sonic crashed headfirst into the ground beneath him. That was the second time that happened to him in as many days. Angry that Eggman got away and from the pain from the fall he sprang to his feet ready to do some good.

He looked around and found himself in a jungle. In front of him was a giant pyramid temple.

"Where am I now?" asked Sonic, "I need to find Tails and Amy. Make sure they are OK"

A red light flashed in his face. A faint voice seemed to speak out to him.

"Follow me", it said faintly yet clearly.

The Red light headed towards a snake head shaped rock lying on the temple. Oddly the snake head started to opening revealing a passageway into the temple. Sonic felt compelled to investigate. Perhaps this red light spirit knew the way back to Station Square. Either way he only had two options. Search aimlessly to find an exit or follow the red light.

He followed the Red light and found himself inside the temple

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Tails followed Eggman into the Heart of the city. Following Sonic he had developed a nice pace of his own. Enough to catch up with most things. He landed on the highway road under construction. Eggman noticed Tails was following him.

"So Sonic's little brat sidekick is trying to keep me away from the missile. Give up, there's no way you could ever defeat me", said Eggman.

"Well Sonic's not around so I guess I need to save the day this time. See you at the missile Eggface", said Tails racing ahead.

"Ho ho! Well we'll just see about that", said Eggman.

ACTION STAGE: SPEED HIGHWAY (TAILS)

Tails flew from Rooftop to Rooftop resting his Tails in between. Eggman meanwhile kept a constant jet speed towards the missile but had to manouveur between the buildings. It was a close Race but all his racing with Sonic finally paid off. Tails beat Eggman to the missile.

Tails ripped out the trigger mechanism and threw it into the streets below. Eggman watched as the cities many vehicles drove over it.

"Why you little pest. I'll make you pay for this", said Eggman.

"Yeah right! You lost so why don't you run off to whatever cave your crawled out of", said Tails confidently.

"Enough. I'll crush you into tiny pieces", said Eggman flying downwards.

Tails flew after Eggman towards the ground. He watched as Eggman's eggmobile seemed to mutate. It grew giant legs and crashed into the floor like some sort of 4 legged spider. It was huge and Tails felt nervous once again.

"Leave. Before I make mincemeat out of you", said Eggman

"I can...I can...I can do this!" said Tails.

BOSS: EGG WALKER (TAILS)

The Egg Walker smashed it's way down the street kicking the parked cars towards Tails and trying to stamp on him. Tails ran to avoid the stamps but with every one Tails had to do his best to narrowly escape it. The Egg Walker was fast, strong and incredibly deadly.

Tails ran out from underneath the metal beast and headed away though Eggman simply jumped after him. It was an incredible leap and when it landed it created a small Earthquake.

Tails trying getting some height and flew into the air only to have one of the legs kick him away.

"You are nothing to me and nothing compared to Sonic. It's no use Give up and accept your fate foxboy", said Eggman.

Tails pulled himself off the floor after skidding across it from the force.

"Fat chance, Eggman", said Tails.

Tails examined the machine. He knew raw strength or agility wasn't going to be enough. He needed to find a weakness. And then it occurred to him. The weapons strongest element was also it's greatest weakness.

The Legs! Their huge which means a lot of energy is needed to move them. If I could just somehow break one, or damage one

Tails raced towards the legs and started attacking the feet. His spin attacks started to damage the outer coating of the foot, and then damaging the foot itself. The foot exploded and knocked the Egg Walker off balance.

"What in the world! How did you", said Eggman.

"And now for the other three", said Tails.

This time though Eggman was ready for it. He confirgured the machines balance and lifted the leg Tails was attacking into the air before smashing it into the ground. It was Tails' turn to be knocked off balance this time. Tails immediately sprang to his feet and kept attacking the feet. Tails was ready for Eggman's attacks and managed to avoid them.

When all the feet were destroyed the legs crumbled and the Egg Walker crashed into the floor defeated.

"NO. THIS ISN'T HAPPENING. I CAN'T LOSE TO TAILS", screamed Eggman.

"I did it! Without Sonic I actually did it", said Tails jumping for Joy.

A crowd gathered a began to cheer for Tails. Tails blushed. He wasn't used to so much praise. So much so that he waved goodbye and left Station Square to find Sonic. He looked back to take one last look at his victory though and was annoyed the Eggman had escaped completely.

"Oh well Eggman always gets away even from Sonic I guess", said Tails, "I can't wait to tell Sonic about this"

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Amy spent a couple of hours searching the Mystic Ruins for some sign of Eggman's base and when they found it she couldn't believe how she missed it. A gigantic tower at the other end of the Jungle.

She had suddenly realised that she wanted to head into Eggman's base, I mean really wanted it. She wasn't scared of Eggman no more and that she could be a hero too. She didn't need Sonic to protect her even though she still wanted him to.

Amy ventured into Eggman's base to start the seach for the birds missing family.

ACTION STAGE: FINAL EGG (AMY)

As soon as Amy entered the base she felt a chill run down her spine. Something was going to happen and at that moment it did. A deafening explosion behind her boomed out through the metallic corridors of the base. To her horror as she turned around there was Zero.

"Objective Capture bird and bring to Dr. Robotnik", said Zero.

"NO WAY! ARGH!" said Amy running in the opposite direction.

Zero chased Amy down the metallic corridors. Amy used her advanced speed to get some distance and tried to hide from Zero but it was no good Zero kept finding her. Amy just wanted to get out but she had a mission to take care of.

Amy headed towards the prison halls to look for the bird's family. She found nothing but Zero waiting for her. Amy smashed Zero across it's head with her hammer and smiling she ran off towards the exit and narrowly made it through. She ran into the Jungle and out towards the train station. Zero was nowhere to be found.

"Phew! Well I guess your family aren't in Eggman's base. Hey wait you came from the Egg Carrier. Maybe they are there", said Amy.

Amy looked out over to the Ocean and saw the shiloutte of the Egg Carrier in the Ocean. She climbed down to the ocean and found a small raft she could use to get to the Egg Carrier. Little did she know that Zero was watching her from above.

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Knuckles wasted no time in heading for the Shrine. He stood in front of the unfinished Master Emerald and brought out the last few shards. He placed the Chaos Emeralds next to the Master Emerald and looked out towards the horizon.

Shortly afterwards clouds began to fall into the mountains and Angel Island began to rise again.

"Phew it's finally over!" said Knuckles.

But it wasn't. Soon afterwards the Island fell straight back down again. Knuckles fell onto his backside as the island crashed into the water again.

"WHAT NOW? I GOT EVERY PIECE OF THE MASTER EMERALD. WHY WON'T IT RISE BACK INTO THE AIR?" screamed Knuckles in rage.

Knuckles punched the floor before sitting on his backside to think. It was his duty to restore the Master Emerald, but something is still missing, what?

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Gamma landed in the Mystic Ruins area and immediately started scanning for E-Series Robots. Two Robots were nearby. E-103 Delta and E-104 Epsilon must've been banished to remote dangerous areas. Delta was amongst the Tornados in Windy Valley and Epsilon was stuck in the Volcanos of Red Mountain.

Angel Island seemed to be rising into the air at that moment and Windy Valley was closest. Gamma had his first objective. Destroy E-103 Delta and release him from the Doctors sinister program.

ACTION STAGE: WINDY VALLEY (GAMMA)

Gamma flew through the tornados blasting any rock in his way. Delta seemed to just stand there doing nothing. Gamma felt another emotion, Pity. Pity that this Robot with so much potential, so much like him was reduced to a lifeless state.

"Do not worry brother I am here to free you", said Gamma.

"Free me? Scan indicates that you have deleted your Robotnik program. You have gone Rogue. Threat level assessed, High. You will not defeat me or our glorius leader Robotnik", said Delta.

Gamma raised his Gun and fired at Delta who avoided the blast.

Beating Delta is going to be harder than he thought

BOSS: E-103 Delta

Delta retaliated with several slow homing missiles. Which Gamma just blew up using his laser fire. However while he could take care of the missiles actually hurting Delta proved more difficult.

Gamma charged towards Delta firing at his missiles as he came closer and closer. Gamma rammed straight into Delta and knocked the blue robot onto it's metallic backside. Then raising his laser he proceeded to finish Delta off with a succession of quick laser blasts to the chassis.

Delta exploded and a small animal popped out.

"E-103 Delta destroyed. Rescue Complete", said Gamma while firing his gun in the air in celebration.

The very next moment Gamma headed straight for Red Mountain to take out E-104 Epsilon.