Episode 9: Destiny of the Guardian
Back in New Mobotropolis, Kyle, Nicole, and Hikari are still tacking into the Dark Legion's system. Kyle continues to type on his computer while Hikari and Nicole help from their end.
Suddenly, Kyle stops and says, "Guys, I think I found something."
Sally talks from her end of the comlink, "What is it? Is it important."
"As a matter a fact it is. They won't realize their system is not hack proof," Kyle says. Then continues to type on the computer.
Then turns to Nicole, "It might take some time, but with your guys' help, I'll be able to stop the Dark Legionnaires."
"May I suggest we check on the others. Sonic and the others were trying to find Knuckles so we should see if they were able to find them," Hikari says.
"Good idea," Kyle says.
Hikari then uses her ability to make one of the screen changes to the room where Knuckles is. Seeing the screen, cause the three to gasp in shock. They see Sonic and the others fighting the Dark Legion and Knuckles is facing Dimitri alone.
"Oh no. The Legion have found them and turned into a painful fight," Hikari says.
"This is getting crazy down there," Kyle says.
"Um, is Knuckles fighting some kind of robot?" Hikari says, confused.
"That's Dimitri. Be careful, he's the Grandmaster of the Dark Legion and practically his entire body is robotic," Sally says.
"If he is robotic I might be able to hack into his system too, but it might take me some time," Kyle says.
"Just do the best you can. We can only hope Sonic and the others hand handle themselves until then," Sally says.
Then Sally mutters, "I hope."
Back at the storage room, Sonic and the Freedom Fighters, Chaoitx, and Rouge are fighting against the Dark Legion. Everyone uses their own ability to fight against the tech using echidnas. Sonic spin dashes and lands on the ground.
He takes a deep breath, "These Dark Legionnaires are tougher than I thought."
"Well, we're not going to let them get us or Knuckles," Bunnie says. Then fires her blaster at the Legionnaires.
"Where is Knuckles?" Vector asks.
"Dealing with Dimitri if I can guess," Sonic says.
And Sonic is right, Knuckles is having a fight against Dimitri in the other room. Knuckles tries to punch Dimitri, but he is proven to be a challenge. Dimitri throws his fist at Knuckles, but the young echidna dodges the attack. Knuckles then punches Dimitri to the wall and he falls down. Dimitri gets up to see Knuckles walking towards him with anger in his eyes. Dimitri then tackles Knuckles and the two continue to fight. Dimitri tries to punch Knuckles, but he dodges. The hard punch to the floor causes it to crack around then. Then the floor breaks from under them and they fall.
The two continue to fall until they reach the deeper level of the Dark Legion's base. Knuckles is able to kick Dimitri off of him. Knuckles stands up and becomes shocked to find himself on some hot rock. What's more, he can see a river of lava close by.
"What in the…?" Knuckles exclaims in shock.
He watches as the lava flows slowly some of the rock falling into the heated liquid.
"The Dark Legion's base is in a volcano," Knuckles says to himself in shock.
Back above the fight of Sonic and friends vs the Dark Legionnaires continues. Those like Sonic, Vector, and Locke are using their physical strength to attack while Bunnie, and Espio use their weapons to attack.
Rouge jumps up and shouts, "Screw kick!"
Rouge then spins like and drills past the Legionnaires, knocking them out. Espio throws kunais that have some paper on them. The next moment, they explode causing the Legionnaires to be covered in smoke. Vector grabs one of the legionnaires and throws him to the others, knocking them out.
"These Legionnaires are not making this easy for us. How long is Sally and the others going to keep us waiting," Vector asks.
Sonic punches a Legionnaire in the face, "They're doing the best they can. Kyle and the others might have trouble getting into the system. All we can do is buy them some time."
"Fine," Vector says.
With that the group continues to fight against the Legionnaires. Back underground where the base of the volcano is, Knuckles is still shocked to find out where he is.
"This is insane. How did they manage to have a base built here," Knuckles asks himself.
He then shakes his head, "Never mind that, I need to get to the others and get out of here."
Before he can, Dimitri tackles him and has the young echidna pin to the ground.
"Don't lose sight of your enemy, Knuckles," Dimitri says.
Knuckles grabs Dimitri's arms and struggles to break free from his grasp.
Knuckles demands, "Why are you doing this?"
"Power and control of course. Not that you can understand," Dimitri says.
Knuckles grits his teeth and says, "I understand plenty. You want to use me for some crazy experiment. You want to turn me into this Enerjak and use me to take over Echindaopolis. I'm…"
"Not going to let you use me!" Knuckles shouts and kicks Dimitri off of him.
Knuckles tries to get out of the cavern, but Dimitri punches him on the stomach. Then strikes him on the back of his neck, knocking him out.
Dimitri smirks, "Well, I see you will soon be taking care of."
Dimitri then picks up Knuckles and begins to carry him away. Suddenly, Knuckles wakes up and punches him in the face, knocking him to the ground. Then he grabs the robot by his throat.
Knuckles says, "I'm going to be beaten this easily."
"You… little... Brat," Dimitri says as he struggles.
He then tries to punch Knuckles, but Knuckles grabs his fist and a strange glowing green energy emits from his hand. Knuckles and Dimitri are shocked to see Knuckles's hand is starting to glow a green aura.
Dimitri says in thoughts, "So Knuckles has finally unlocked his Chaos Force."
Knuckles lets go of Dimitri as he steps back in shock. He looks to now that both of his hands are beginning to show the strange green glow.
"How… how am I able to do this?" Knuckles asks himself.
In his thoughts, he remembers what the strange voice says, about him unlocking his Chaos Force and how it's been dormant.
The voice suddenly says, "Young Guardian, you have finally released your dormant Chaos Force. Your determination to protect your friends and stop evil is what fully awakens them. Use them wisely."
Knuckles thinks, "Yes. I will."
Knuckles turns his head to see Dimitri raise his fist as they try to attack him. Knuckles counter attacks with an uppercut with his new Chaos enhanced fist, sending Dimitri to the base. Dimitri becomes paralyzed from the attack and isn't able to move.
Knuckles is shocked to see the new Chaos force he has from his hands.
"These powers…. They're incredible," Knuckles thinks to himself.
Knuckles suddenly hears blasting and sounds of fists punching and kicking.
"I gotta get back to the others," Knuckles thinks in his thoughts.
Knuckles then flies up through the ceiling to help the others.
Back in the storage room, Sonic and the others continue to fight the Dark Legionnaires and they are turning the battle in their favor.
Charmy takes deep breaths, "I'm starting to get tired."
"Me too, sugar. But we need to keep fighting them," Bunnie says.
"Just how long can we fight them?" Vector asks, and punches a legionnaire in the face.
"We must hold them off as long as we can, so our princess and friends can hack the Dark Legion's computer system," Antoine says, fighting against one with his sword.
Sonic spin dashes a six legionnaires like they're bowling pins and they all fall to the ground.
"I'm sure Sally and the others will have the system hacked by the time we beat them up," Sonic says.
"I don't know if we can hold them out much longer," Vector angrily says.
"Then it looks like you can use a hand," A familiar voice says.
Everyone turns their heads to see Knuckles flying out of the hole of the ground and punches one of the Legionnaires with his Chaos force fist on the spot. Sonic and the others are shocked to see Knuckles' spiked hands are glowing a green energy. Knuckles then punches and kicks the Legionnaires in the room. Sonic, and the others watch as Knuckles and his new found energy continue to defeat the Legionnaires until they're knocked out. Knuckles stands on the ground as he takes deep breaths.
"Knuckles… that was crazy!" Sonic says.
"Yeah. I didn't know you can make your hands glow and you were like… smack… punch… hie yaaa… ka pow…!" Charmy says, and throws his fist around.
Vector covers Charmy's mouth, "We get the idea Charmy."
Rouge walks to Knuckles and says, "I have to admit, that is some trick you were able to pull together. Thank you for the save there."
Rouge then wraps her arms around Knuckles neck and winks her eye in reply, causing him to blush that his muzzle turns red.
"Still how were you able to do that?" Sonic asks.
"I'm not sure. All I know is that I woke up the Chaos Force that's actually been dormant inside of me," Knuckles says.
"Chaos Force?" Sonic says confused.
"I'm not sure much about it either, but it came in handy with dealing with Dimitri and the Legionnaires," Knuckles says.
Locke walks to Knuckles and says, "I see that your Chaos force has finally awakened in our time of need. Now we must leave and find your friends."
"That is not necessary, Locke," The voice says.
The group turns their heads to see Dimitri out of the hole and is holding a vicious glare on his face.
"We won't allow anyone to leave this place. Now that Knuckles has finally awakened the Chaos Force within him," Dimitri says.
Suddenly, Legionnaires begin to surround the group and hold out their blasters at them.
"Oh great, this must be the rest of the Legion," Knuckles angrily says.
"I didn't realize there are so many," Sonic says.
"You meddlers have interfered with us for the last time. You will soon be…" Dimitri says as he walks towards them.
Suddenly, Dimitri is unable to move his robotic body and they begin to emit a little green electricity.
"Wha-? I… I can't… move," Dimitri says, shocked.
Suddenly, the Dark Legionnaires are starting to become paralyze as they are unable to move their body, and drop their weapons to the ground.
Seeing the Legionnaires and Dimitri being stopped in their tracks and dropping their weapons have some of the group members confused.
"What's going on?" Vector asks.
Sonic says, "It must be Kyle. He did it."
Suddenly, they hear Kyle's voice from the PA, "That's right. It took me a while, but I'm able to hack their system and paralyze them."
Then says, "On that note: Next time Dumb Legion, you should update your beck next time!"
Dimitri becomes mad with full rage. He tries to move towards Knuckles and punches him in the face. However, Knuckles punches Dimitri with his Chaos Force, hard. Knuckles then punches Dimitri down creating a powerful pulse and sends Dimitri in the deeper level under the base. Then debris and rocks from the ceiling falls on him, and traps him down there.
Suddenly, they feel a strong rumbling on the base. In the computer room, Sally and the others notice the strange rumbling as well.
"What's going on?" Sally asks.
"Why is this place shaking," Amy adds.
Sonic turns around and asks, "What's going on?"
"Great… I forgot to mention that the base is in an active volcano."
Everyone screams in panic.
Sonic shouts, "Are you telling me that the Dark Legion are crazy enough to put their lair in a volcano and now it's going to erupt?!"
"I think they would," Vector says.
Sonic then turns to the PA from above, "Kyle,let go of the Legion's tech. Everyone, let's get out of here!"
Everyone begins to hurry to leave the building. They soon meet up with Sally and the others.
"There you are. Kyle hacked into the Legion's system and gained valuable information, " Sally says.
"Never mind that, we need to get out of here. The volcano under the legion base is going to erupt," Sonic pics.
"What?" Sally asks, shocked.
"A volcano!" Amy exclaims.
"Alright, calm down, everyone, we need to get out and fly away from here as possible," Sally says.
The group of heroes begin to make a run for the exit so they can escape from the blast. As the Freedom Fighters and Chaotix escape, the Dark Legionnaires are getting into the escape pods to get away from the lair as well. What they don't know, Dimitri's robotic hand breaks through the pile of rocks he's been buried in.
Outside of the lair, Sonic and the others hurry out and into the ship close by. Once everyone is inside, Julie-Su activates the ship and takes off into the sky. As they fly away, everyone watches the volcano erupting from the top. Cream and Cheese are so scared that they are hugging Amy. Amy and Bunnie do their best to comfort them.
Sonic sighs, "That was too close. Another minute longer and we would have had barbecue."
"Yes. At least we got out just in time," Sally says.
Amy turns to Knuckles and his father, "Do you think the Dark Legion were able to get out in time."
"I think they did," Knuckles says.
Then Locke says, "I believe they were able to escape in time when the volcano erupts, including Dimitri."
"Do you think Dimitri and his legion might try to capture Knuckles and steal the Master Emerald again?" Sonic asks.
"It's possible, but because we in a way destroy the base of operation, they will need time to recover," Locke says.
"I agree. We messed that place up like we did with Eggman's base," Sonic says.
"By we, you mostly mean you," Amy comments.
"Yea yea," Sonic replies.
Then turns to Knuckles, "So Knuckles, what do you plan to do with the Dark Legion, and your new power."
"Well. I'll figure it out soon. Until then, I'll do my best to control my new power," Knuckles says.
Julie-Su continues to fly the ship away from the Dark Legion lair and hopefully back home.
Sometime later, the volcano has finished erupting and the lava turns into rock. Suddenly, a robotic hand sticks out of one of the rocks and grabs on to the ground. Pulling himself out of the volcano is Dimitri. Dimitri does receive some damages on his body, and has lost his right arm.
He growls in anger and says, "Next time guardian, you will feel what true fear is when I destroy you. Once and for all."