CHAPTER 19

THE EGG CARRIER'S DESTRUCTION

"Now that Sonic is out of the way…" Shadow said as he looked at the warriors. "I can take care of you and receive my payment."

"We can take him!" Rai said.

"Where's Jack?" Kim asked.

Meanwhile in the control room, Jack was just about done tinkering with the Egg Carrier's controls.

"Changing Chopsticks!" He yelled as he jumped out of the system.

"What did you do in there?" Chase asked.

"It's a surprise." Jack answered.

Jack walked back into the main room and walked up to Eggman.

"Mr. Eggman," He said. "I'm a fellow genius, and I think it would be best to activate the defense systems in this room."

"Right you are!" Eggman replied. "I'll do that right now!"

He ran into the control room and pressed a couple buttons. For a moment, nothing happened.

"Where are all the guns?" He said.

There was a rumble. In a few seconds, just before Shadow was going to deliver the final blow, an alarm went off.

"Foolish Eggman." Jack said as he walked into the control room. "That's the self-destruct button!"

"No it's not!" Eggman replied.

"I guess I must have switched them around!" Jack said.

"NOOOOOO!" Eggman screamed.

Meanwhile the monks and Shadow were struggling to keep their balance, but to no avail.

"Let's get out of here!" Jack said as he flew around with Chase holding onto his foot.

Rai activated the Wings of Tanabi and they all flew out of the Egg Carrier.

When they landed, the whole ship blew up and caused a fireworks show. Sonic's lifeless body, however, was on the ship.

"He was a good hedgehog." Clay said.

"I'm right here!" Someone called out.

Everyone turned around and saw Sonic, waving.

"What the? How did you survive?" Rai said.

"I simply grabbed an extra life! You can never have too many of those!" Sonic replied.

The monks looked at him in amazement. Then, Jack spoke up.

"It's raining pieces!" He yelled.

And it was. The remaining 200 pieces fell through the air, and landed on the ground next to them. Omi picked them all up.

"Well," Omi said. "It is time for us to go. Goodbye, Sonic!"

"Goodbye, Omi!" he called as they all disappeared. "Freaks."

"We did it!" Kim said. "We gathered all 1000 pieces! Now we can rest."

"Don't get too comfortable." Jack said. "Cause there's only 999 here."

Dear readers,

Where is the piece that's missing? Hmmm. Maybe… At duel academy? Keep reading and reviewing!