(Hey Everyone, I was able to get this written out during my day off from classes yester- two days ago, so now here's Chapter five of this thrilling story, Sonaddin.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything in this story, they are the properties of their creators. Well except for my OC which will be introduced soon.
Now let's get this movie/book back on track and please, Read, Review, and Enjoy.)
The three, well secretly four, traveled through the plains and to a patch of desert created by the devastating weapons from the war. They approached the sole lake and watched as the giant head of the ancient Mobian God of Destruction, Chaos, rose from the lake's waters, which made up its head. Its light green eyes glowed as it looked down on Sonic more so than Tails.
"Who dared awaken me from my slumber?" The Spirit of Chaos demanded, looking down at the blue hedgehog and the yellow fox.
"I'm Sonic the hedgehog." Sonic stated, putting on a brave face.
After studying the blue hedgehog for a minute, the spirit of Chaos spoke, loudly, warning the blue hedgehog, "Very well, proceed. Remember, thine friend and thyself must touch nothing, but the lamp."
It then transformed its head and opened its mouth wide for the two Mobian to enter.
"Remember, Hedgehog! Bring me the lamp first, and then you both can have your rewards!" exclaimed the old man, yelling over the wind and the rumbling of the sky.
Tails, hearing the sound of lightning, flinched and clung to Sonic like a tree, shouting loudly, "I'm afraid of Lighting!" (AN: Couldn't resist. especially since I'm trying to make this funny for everyone.)
"Come on Tails." Sonic said as he approached the spirit's mouth, entering the cavern with no repeat of the last person to try and enter it.
After descending a long flight of stairs, they entered the grand archway that looked as though it led into someplace important to the ancients. Passed the archway was a ginormous room with mountains upon mountains of treasures from all over the planet. There were riches, jewels, and ancient artifacts that could be found since ancient Mobius times. The two of them stared in awe as Sonic murmured, "Look at that… just pockets full of this stuff could make us richer than all the kings on Northernca."
Seeing all these treasures made Tails stare blankly for a moment, his mind focusing on his one true desire. Finding his parents. He had looked everywhere he went when he was with the preforming group, the Destructix, and even throughtout the entire city with Sonic; but with this much gold he could finance his own mechanics and build robots to look all along the planet. Sonic, noticing the look on his friend's face, was about to say something when the hedgehog saw his two tailed friend flying quickly to a chest filled with gold coins and jewels.
"Tails!" Sonic cried out. He used his speed to grab his friend's foot, stopping him in his tracks.
Sonic knew that Tails wasn't acting like himself; it appeared that he had become possessed with all of the glittering treasures around him. "I know you need this stuff badly, but remember; we can't touch anything. We need to find the lamp."
Realizing that his words hadn't reached Tails yet, Sonic added, "I made you a promise back then and I keep my promises."
Tails finally heard Sonic, shaking his head out of his trance like stare, and asked, "Wh-what happened?"
"This place… it's playing tricks on you… Making your desire to find your folks overpowering your reason." Sonic explained as he looked around at the walls. Turning back to his best friend, Sonic stated, "We need to be careful."
Tails took in everything Sonic said and nodded. The two then began walking deeper into the cavern as they kept their minds on what they needed to find.
After walking a few steps, Tails heard footsteps behind him and turned, only to see an advance computer terminal there. Tails continued walking when he heard the sounds of footsteps behind him and turned to see a silver suit of armor that appeared to look like a turtle with wings resting over its shoulders.
Tails examined it, flying up to it to look over. He stared at its face and he saw what seemed to be something blinking in the empty eye socket. Tails gasped before flying very quickly to Sonic, accidently knocking him down just as Sonic asked, "Tails? What's going on?"
"S-Sonic that suit of armor… i-it blinked." Tails explained, pointing at the silver suit of armor.
Sonic blinked in response, unsure that it actually moved, but knowing that Tails was no liar. The blue hedgehog went as close as he could without touching it and looked at its helmet like face. Sonic felt something make his nose tickle and sneezed away from himself, the armor and Tails.
"Bless you." A voice said to the two from the suit of armor.
"Thanks." Sonic automatically said, before he and Tails shared a look before both turned to see the suit of armor moving. The metal of its body retreated into the main body inside of the shell; where once stood the metal looking thing was now a green turtle Mobian standing there.
Both thieves were surprised. Sonic asked, "A Mobian? Here?"
"Hello. My name's Tommy Turtle. I'm pleased to meet you both." The turtle introduced himself politely.
"Hey, I'm Sonic the Hedgehog." Sonic greeted, giving his signature stance like he did with the spirit of Chaos back on the surface.
"Hi, I'm Tails, Tails Prower." Tails said, shyly greeting the turtle.
"Oh, then you must be the one who the spirit of Chaos let in seeing as you haven't become ahh… well…" Tommy broke off as he paused.
Both young men nodded, causing Tommy to smile widely. He approached, "Tell me is that horrible Great War going on or has it finally ended? Who won?"
"We won… the Mobians I mean." Sonic said as he explained how the Mobian forces were able to win thanks to a traitor from the Overlander's side who assisted and helped to win the war for good.
Tommy nodded as he listened and smiled, sighing in relief, "That's good… I was worried what might have happened if the Overlanders won…"
"I must ask: How long was it when the war began?" Tommy asked, his expression becoming serious as he looked to the two modern day Mobians.
"Umm the war went on for about eighty years, so it's been about sixteen or eighteen years since it ended so in total that's…" Tails explained as he began doing the math.
"Ninety-eight years?" Tommy asked, shocked to hear this. His body became metal as he leaned against the nearest treasure chest.
"I've been down here for nearly a century?"
Sonic approached and placed a hand of comfort on the turtle's shoulder, "It'll be all right… we're orphans too."
An idea popped into Sonic's head as he asked, "You mind helping us with something?"
"Yes, yes of course." Tommy said, coming out of his stunned surprise. Anything to get his mind out of the troubles would be a welcome change.
Sonic looked Tommy in the eyes as he explained why they're here, "You see, we're looking for a lamp."
"I believe I know just the one you might be looking for." Tommy said as he created the same metal wings from his shell and flew up some feet into the air thanks to a jetpack. He looked down to the two Mobians and told them, "Follow me."
Sonic and Tails high fived each other before following Tommy through the cavern's littered treasure.
As the three walked, Sonic and Tails learned that Tommy was able to touch the treasure because of the nanites injected into his body. He told them how he was "volunteered" to take part in a secret scientific project by Overlander scientists who wished to use selected Mobian prisoners and turn them into weapons against their own kind. Tommy was almost completely under their control until a blue hedgehog, Tommy's dear friend, was able to free Tommy from the Overlander's mind control and helped him save millions of lives when the Overlander forces tried to use a new weapon on the Mobians and sacrificed himself for them to get away. He told the two teenagers that he remembered falling until he hit water and reached the bottom of the lake. Tommy's nanites reacted to their host's situation and made him take on the same silver looking appearance that he had taken when the three of them met. And somehow being thought of as a piece of treasure made someone come to the turtle's rescue and allow him shelter inside the cavern. When asked about how he was able to survive for so long, Tommy said that his nanites were not only able to replicate themselves when they devoured matter around them but also sustain themselves. Because he was their host, their top priority was to keep him alive so the nanites fed him the nutrients as well.
When the three arrived in a large section of the cavern they noticed that water surrounded a very tall mound so that no one could see the top. From a distance, they could see what looked like a red star on the top of the mound. Sonic gulped at this; he greatly feared water because he couldn't swim so he needed to be super careful while in this room.
Tommy turned to his two new friends, "Here it is, as I said."
"The lamp's a star?" Sonic asked, confused.
"No, you'll see when you reach the top."
"All right, let's go buddy." Sonic said and began walking. Tommy, however, stopped him, "I'm sorry, Sonic, but only you can go. If your friend goes with you that'll get the spirit of Chaos angry and well… it's not pleasant…"
Sonic gulped at the water again, sighed and said, "Okay…"
Turning to Tommy, Sonic asked, "Will you stay with Tails and make sure that this place doesn't get to him again?"
Tommy nodded and stood with Tails. Sonic looked at Tails and said, "I'll be back soon, big guy. Remember, stay with Tommy and keep your eyes from the treasure."
"Gotcha Sonic." Tails said giving his friend a thumbs up.
Smiling, convinced of Tails' good heart and commitment, Sonic went and jumped from one foot stone to the other until he reached the base of the mound.
Sonic reached top of the large mound, where an altar stood, and in the center of it was a ruby made lamp. Its solid ruby red body made the same red star like glow that the three Mobians saw from below the mound.
Back below, Tails remained watching Sonic sped up the stairs, concerned for his friend. However, another kind of glowing or red light attracted the fox's attention, causing him to turn and saw the largest gem that he had ever seen. Instantly, Tails began seeing the same images that played in his mind again.
He saw as he reached the gem and snuck it away with Sonic, who had the lamp, and Tommy, leaving the cavern. Sonic handing the old Overlander the lamp while the old man gave the two more treasure for Sonic to impress and get to marry his princess. Tails saw himself handing the gem to one of the main dealers of anything technological in the city. Then he saw himself working on his own satellite array as he used the money and his new inventions to search all over Mobius to look for his parents. He then saw both of his parent waiting for him as he got off a biplane and hurried to embrace his parents. They hugged him back and told him everything he wanted to hear as to why they left him alone, and why they hadn't come for him sooner.
"He's reached the top. Now all we have to do is wait and…" Tommy began, but stopped when he saw Tails not nearby, but slowly approaching the large gemstone being held by a troll like idol. Tommy was beyond fearful and ran to stop Tails from touching the gem.
Sonic cautiously approached the altar. With both hands held on to the lamp's smooth surface, he pulled. The lamp came off it with no problems or traps of any kind going off at all.
"This is it? This cool looking red lamp's what we were…" Sonic asked looking back to see Tails, under the treasure's influence again. Tommy doing his hardest to hold the young fox back by the tails when the young boy broke free and flew to the large jewel.
"TAILS! NOOOOOOO!" Sonic cried but it was too late as the deed was done. The entire cavern shook as they heard the spirit of this cavern as soon as Tails' hands touched the gem.
"DEFILERS! Thou has touched the forbidden treasure! Now thine avarice will send thee to an early grave!" the Spirit of Chaos roared, sensing what had been done. After coming to his senses, Tails tried to return the large jewel to its place but to his horror, Tails watched as the jewel and the idol holding it began to melt, until it became a big puddle of molten metal. The altar was soon engulfed in fire as the caverns began to become unstable.
With the lamp in hand, Sonic sped down the stairs before the steps crumbled and became a long ramp which made Sonic go faster than he intended. Before he could stop himself, Sonic ran into the air where the pool of water became a pool of lava. Just as Sonic was going to fall in, Tommy and an air board flew to the blue hedgehog, who landed on the board. Quickly getting the hang of how to use the board correctly, Sonic flew alongside Tommy as they swerved and avoided the falling rocks from the top of the cavern's ceiling. Tommy's metal wings helped slice through the rocks that got in their way as well as using the weapons made by his nanites.
They looked around and found Tails trapped in the middle of the stepping stones as, one by one, the stones exploded into the lava's fiery depths. Tails would have flown but with the large number of rocks falling around him, he though it wouldn't be the greatest of ideas to fly to Sonic and Tommy.
Seeing his best friend trapped, Sonic leaned forward with his body and foot to make the board lower in descent as the two flew to where Tails was trapped.
"Sonic! Hurry!" Tails cried. He knew that he didn't have much time. Sonic took Tails' outstretched hand and pulled his best friend onto his board. With Tails safe and all three able to have the means to escape, they flew back the way they came to the main treasure hold as the lava followed them, the two dodged a large boulder from the ceiling falling towards them.
Swerving downwards briefly, Sonic and Tails avoided the falling rock when the blue speedster felt Tails holding his waist tightly. Sonic said, "Tails… calm down, we're too cool to panic."
Sonic, however, stopped when he saw the flat wall of sheer rock heading towards them. Feeling a bit redundant, Sonic told his best friend, in stunned tone, "Start panicking…"
Tommy, however, took control over the air board with his nanites and both he and the board flipped downwards; Sonic and Tails held on as Tommy kept flying them back the way they came. They entered the main treasure room when the lava came in causing everything to melt away and explode. The resulting explosions and shaking caused more of the cavern's ceiling to fall at a faster rate. Tommy saw a huge boulder heading for his two friends and he move to intercept the boulder for them. The huge piece of rock slammed into him. Before the impact Tommy's body was covered completely in the metal armor as both he and the boulder fell. They were safe, and Tommy looked as though he was unharmed, but without the turtle's focused mind, the air board began to lose the extra power that they needed to escape from the cavern. They felt a lurch forward. Tails grabbed onto Sonic's hands and flew them to the remaining stairs that led out where the old man stood, waiting. Something caused Tails and Sonic to loose each other's grips, and Tails was sent flying out of the cavern's mouth, with Sonic holding on to dear life to the remaining steps. The blue speedy hedgehog saw a large shadow and realized it was the Overlander that led them to this death trap. Trying to keep going, Sonic reached for him, but saw the man immobile.
Outside the Cavern, the disguised Robotnik made sure not to go into the light of the spirit's eyes. He wondered if the fools of those two Mobians had fallen into a trap or decided to stay in there just to mock him. But then he heard the Cavern's declaration and figured one of them, most likely the hedgehog's doing. He watched as they saw what looked like both Mobians and another creature flying out, but the third one was forced to the ground by a large boulder. He saw the air board that the two Mobians were riding lose power so that meant they would need to fly with the fox boy's ability to fly so they could make it out. If both were able to get out on their own they would ask him all kinds of questions, questions that can be easily avoided if a little accident occured to separate them. Robotnik secretly used one of the many miniature machines that he had brought with him just in case the two refused to do anything he said. Taking aim, the evil Overlander sent a pulse of some kind at them, forcing the two-tailed fox to become separated from his blue friend. He approached the hedgehog, ready to claim what he believed was truly his.
"What're you waiting for? Help me!" Sonic asked reaching for the man's hand.
"Toss me the lamp!" said the old man reaching but not as far as Sonic.
"I can't! Give me your hand!"
"First give it to me!" Sonic pulled out the ruby lamp from his vest's inner pocket and gave it to the old Overlander. The old Overlander held the lamp above his head, laughing maniacally as he proclaimed loudly, "Yes! At last! It's mine!"
He continued laughing and placed the lamp into his cloak. He noticed Tails using the old man's cane to help pull Sonic up when the Overlander grabbed Tails and tossed him away with surprising strength.
"Whoa! What are you doing?" Sonic asked, outraged.
"Why, giving you your reward… your final reward, Hedgehog." The old Overlander said, pulling out a wrist worn laser, his voice sounding more metallic and frightening as he did. He was just about to fire on the struggling hedgehog when he felt something push against his legs from behind and he fell backwards. Tails was there and had tripped the old man up. The old man grabbed the yellow fox and this time, he chucked the fox boy at Sonic. The impact between the two caused both Mobians to fall.
Using what power he could, Tommy was able to get his nanites to not only free himself but to fly and catch both of the falling Mobians before they hit the ground. The spirit of Chaos roared monstrously before it, like before, but with more force slammed its mouth shut and returned to become nothing but a lake and an underground cavern.
"Finally. I have it! It's mine at last!" Robotnik said, taking off his disguise. He fumbled through his pockets looking for the lamp. He even shook Snively violently, just to make sure his diminutive nephew didn't steal it from him. However, the lamp was gone. With frustration, Robotnik yelled, "No, NOO!"
Snively, however, was fearful for himself. Whenever his uncle did not get what he spent so much time and planning on, the minute Overlander would've been the one to receive such negativity. However Robotnik did nothing of the sort this time; his uncle began ranting quietly about hating the hedgehog.
(Wow... Yeah this version of Robotnik/Eggman is really evil. I mean throwing children into their certain doom, i don't think the current Eggman in the games, nor the Eggman from Sonic X or Sonic Boom would be able to do something like this. The Eggman from the comics however, its in the wind really. So what did you think of Tommy's background? How he knew where the Lamp Sonic and Tails were searching for? How the cavern was playing tricks on Tails' mind? I didn't like it but how else would we have the cavern about to close the exit on them without breaking Tails' character.
Please let me know what you think in the reviews. and remember Stay Way Pass Cool and waiting for the next chapter where the heroes will discover why the Overlander wanted the lamp. Until then, have a great time y'all.)