Episode 4B: Enchanta Part 2
In a room that has a lovely canopy bed, a furniture with a mirror attached, and a balcony, Maria is sitting on the bed as she has her knees close to her chest. She simply hugs her knees as she feels uneasy about being in the room. She is going to be forced into marriage if she doesn't get out.
Maria sadly says, "Shadow."
Outside the castle, Shadow is the first to arrive at the front of the castle. Sonic, Amy, Knuckles, Tails, and Sticks arrive as well.
"So this is the castle the dragon took Maria in," Amy says.
Sticks brings out her staff, "I can use my staff to get up there."
"How?" Amy asks.
Sticks brings out a rope and ties one of the ends of the pole. She then throws it and it hits the door of the castle. Sadly, it falls off and lands in the moat.
"Well that didn't work," Knuckles replies.
"What now?" Tails asks.
Sonic looks down at the dark water. He gulps nervously.
Shadow rolls his eyes, annoyed, "Don't tell me you're still afraid of water."
"I'm not afraid of water! I just don't like getting wet," Sonic quickly says.
"Sonic," Amy says, annoyed.
"Enough of this," Shadow says.
Shadow then uses his rocket shoes to fly in the air. That is enough for him to fly over the wall.
Sonic calls out, "Make sure you let us in while you're add it."
Shadow growls in his thought. He looks around to see a large wheel with chains around it, and it's connected to the drawbridge. Shadow then removes the board that is keeping the chains in place. Then the drawbridge comes down and a part of the bridge lands on the other side, giving everyone access in. They walk over the drawbridge and meet Shadow inside.
"Thank you, Shadow" Amy says.
Shadow crosses his arms, "Whatever."
Sticks whispers to Amy, "Is there anything that can get through to him?"
"We're wasting time. Let's get going," Shadow says.
Suddenly, strange holes of dark green portals appear on the ground. Coming out of the strange holes are green water creatures with glowing red eyes. They appear around the group and prepare to attack.
Sonic brings out his sword, "Looks like we run into the welcome committee, it's show them how we appreciate their welcome."
Sonic is the first to jump in. He accelerates his speed and slashes the creatures with his sword. When that happened, they disappeared in puffs of smoke. Shadow speeds and slashes at the creatures and they disappeared as well.
Tails brings out his staff, "We better help them out."
"You're right," Amy says, bringing out her wand.
Amy and Tails use her magic items to zap at the creatures and they disappear into smoke. Knuckles and Sticks use their weapons to attack as well. Sonic and Shadow continue to use their sword and their speed to fight against the Shadow. Amy, Tails, Knuckles, and Sticks use the abilities they gain from the game to fight the evil creatures.
Sonic then slashes another creature, "Where did they come from?"
"If I have to guess, I think these creatures are ones we have to face in the board game," Shadow says.
After slamming his club at the creature, Knuckles asks, "What are you talking about?"
"For some reason, we've been sucked into the game after Tales read that paper. I thought it was odd, but I think it's actually a spell," Shadow says.
"A spell? So that means… we're actually in Enchanta the board game?" Amy asks.
"It makes sense why we're wearing these outfits. We dressed as the game pieces we chose for the game. The moment I read the spell, we were instantly pulled into the game and became the characters we chose from the game pieces," Tails says.
"That explains the outfits and weapons we got, but what about these monsters," Sticks says.
She swings her stick around and she screams" Hai ya!"
She then smacks the creatures that come her way.
"Being that this is a game, we would be coming across creatures that are being controlled by a certain user of the game," Shadow says.
"And who would that be?" Sonic says.
"We didn't get a close look at the board game, did we?" Amy asks.
"No. Whoever it is, is responsible for sending that dragon after us, having us being sent into this game, and kidnapping Maria," Shadow says, and says with a dark tone mentioning Maria's abduction.
"We're never gonna rescue her unless we defeat these creatures and find her," Sonic says.
Sonic then jumps in the air and performs a spin dash while holding the sword. That slashes the creatures from left and right. Soon, they all disappeared in smoke. Above them a red and black bird is flying over them. Soon, it's eyes begin to glow and look down to see Team Sonic and Shadow the Hedgehog fighting against the creatures.
In the throne room, there is a large mirror and Surge is watching them fight against his creatures.
Surge cackles, "So those are the foolish friends of Maria. No matter. Even if they manage to get inside the castle, they'll never be able to beat me and leave this place."
Then thinks, "And I have to wonder how my little princess is doing. She'll come around in due time."
In the room, Maria is still sitting on the bed with a sad sigh. Suddenly, Maria hears some strange sounds. She turns to hear the sound coming from outside. Maria gets off the bead and walks towards the door leading to the balcony. She opens the door and walks out to hear a loud sounding coming from it.
"What is that noise?" Maria asks.
She looks down and becomes surprised to see a fight coming on. What's more, she sees Shadow, Sonic, and the others are fighting against the monsters.
Maria smiles, "Shadow. Sonic and the others are there too."
Maria calls out, "Shadow! Sonic!"
So far, no one hears it.
Maria then calls out, "Knuckles! Sticks! Amy! Tails!"
Maria then calls out louder, "Shadow!"
However, Shadow, Sonic, and the others continue to fight against the monsters.
Maria worriedly says, "They can't hear me. I need to reach them, somehow. The door is locked so I can't escape."
At the castle yard, Sonic and the others continue to fight against the strange creatures. When Tails tries to use it's magic, one of the creatures hits the staff and throws off his aiming. With that, the magic blast strikes under the balcony Maria is standing on. Soon, he begins to fall apart. Maria screams as she begins to fall. She quickly grabs hold of the brick ground with her hands.
Maria screams, "Shadow! Shadow help! Help!"
Back at the battle, Shadow, slashes one of the creatures when he hears someone crying for help. Shadow looks around for a second and turns his head to one of the towers close by. He becomes shocked to see Maria is dangling from the broken balcony with her hands.
"Maria," Shadow says, shocked.
Shadow hurries on his shoes to rescue Maria. Maria tries to hang on to the balcony as best as she can. Sadly, she loses her grip and begins to fall off the balcony and the tower is around five to six stories high. Suddenly, she feels that she lands in someone's arm and begins gently lowering to the ground. Maria opens her eyes to see the familiar black and red hedgehog.
Maria smiles, "Shadow."
Then hugs him, "I'm so glad you're here."
"Yeah. I'm glad you're safe," Shadow says.
Shadow continues to lower himself and Maria down until his feet touch the ground. Once safely land on the ground, Shadow helps Maria stand on her feet. Of course, her arms are still around his neck. Maria then kisses Shadow on the cheek causing him to blush a little. At the battle field, Sonic and the others defeat the creatures and notice Maria.
"Maria, you're safe," Amy says.
"You okay?" Tails asks.
"I'm okay. I… I was scared and I almost fell if Shadow didn't catch me," Maria says, shyly smiling.
"At least you're safe now. I say we get out of here," Knuckles says.
"Hold on, we're not going anywhere. Not until we find the Mastermind behind this," Shadow sternly says.
"We beat his creatures, I'm sure we can beat whoever controls them," Sonic says.
"I don't think Surge is someone you should underestimate," Maria says.
"Surge? What is a Surge?" Sticks asks.
"Surge is the ruler of this place when he overthrew the original ruler. He's said that he sent a game board like this so he can trap people and make them his subjects," Maria says.
"So this Surge is behind all this," Shadow says.
"Yeah," Maria says, blushing a little.
"You're okay? You seem embarrassed?" Sonic asks.
"Well, he said that um… he wants to make me his queen. He wants to uh, marry me," Maria says.
Sonic and the others become confused and blink their eyes, even Shadow is speechless.
"Yeah… there's no way we're going to let that happen," Sonic simply answers.
"Not gonna happen," A voice says.
Everyone turns their heads to see the green hedgehog wearing the light green and black color armor. Everyone is shocked to see him, especially Sonic for how his appearance is.
"It's a hedgehog that looks almost like Sonic?" Tails says, shocked.
Maria stands behind Shadow and is still frightened.
Shadow firmly glares the green hedgehog, "I take it you're Surge."
"That's right stripes, and I see you're with my new queen," Surge says,.
Maria shakes in fear and hides behind Shadow.
Shadow presents his sword and has Maria staying behind him, "I'm not going to allow you to take Maria and force her into something she doesn't want to do."
"Yeah. Maria's our friend, not some piece of property," Sonic says.
"We're leaving this game whether you like it or not," Amy says.
"That's too bad, you all are going to remain in this game forever. Your shy princess will become my princess," Surge says.
Surge then uses his magic to create a magical green aura around him. The next moment, Surge has transformed into the same large dragon that has abducted Maria.
The dragon bellow, "Ready to die!"
"Not happening fang face," Sonic says.
Sonic jumps up and spins dashes the dragon. Amy and Tails use their magic to attack the dragon. Surge uses his tail to swat at them, but they are able to duck down and jump over it. Knuckles slams his club at the dragon's body and Sticks runs on his back and hits her staff at it. However, Surge growls in anger and begins to attack Sonic and the others. The next moment, the dragon raises its claws and swats Sonic, and Knuckles, sending them crashing to the wall. Then swings his tails at Amy and Tails, sending them to the ground.
Surge turns his head to see Shadow defending Maria as the poor girl stays behind him.
Surge says, "So you dare to challenge me hedgehog and get away from my bride."
"She's not your bride! I refuse to allow Maria to be kind, smart, and special. You don't deserve someone like her by your side," Shadow says.
Maria blushes to hear Shadow commenting on her.
"You think you can stop me boy, well think again," Surge angrily says.
Then asks, "Now Maria, why not be a good girl and come to me."
"No…" Maria answers.
"No?" Surge says, confused.
"That's right. I refuse to go with you. I… I refuse to be your queen. And… I'm not going to allow you to hurt my friends, you… you bully," Maria says.
Suddenly, Maria's begin to glow. Shadow becomes surprised to see Maria glowing. Sonic, Tails, and the others are surprised too.
Determined, Maria says, "Your game is over and my friend and I are going back home."
Maria sends out a powerful magic that surrounds the whole area. Everyone is surprised and are being covered by the white light.
Out in the real world, the vortex comes out of the board game and spouts everyone out of it. Everyone falls out from the top of the twister and they land on top of each other. Maria ends up sitting up as she rubs her head. Shadow holds Maria in his arms in concern.
Shadow asks, "Are you alright, Maria?"
"I think so. I… did I… saved us?" Maria says, cheeks beginning to turn red.
Shadow shows a small smile, "Yes. You did. Thank you."
"You… you're welcome," Maria says, blushing.
Suddenly, he hears Sonic asks, "Hey you two love birds, how about getting off of our backs."
Shadow and Maria look down to see they're sitting on Knuckles' back. Who is laying on Amy's. Who is laying on Tails'. And who is laying on Sticks'.
After getting off of each other, everyone quickly put the board game back in its box and closed it shut. Now they're trying to decide what to do with it.
"What are we going to do with the game?" Maria asks.
"I saw we bury it," Knuckles says.
"It sounds like a good idea, but then someone else might find it and get sucked in," Maria says.
"She's right. We need to get rid of this game for good," Sonic says.
"But how?" Sticks asks.
"I think I know what to do," Shadow says.
Then turns to the window to see that it's sunny outside, "And it's a good thing it stopped raining."
Sometime later, everyone is in a boat. They have collected rock from the island. Maria puts the board game box in a chest. Then Sonic, Amy, Sticks tosses rocks inside. Tails closes the chest and locks it with a key. Finally, Knuckles and Shadow each grab the handle of the box and toss it into the sea.
Sonic says, "Now that's over, can we please get back to shore."
Amy rolls her eyes as she starts the engine to the boat. Then they begin to head back to shore. Shadow and Maria turn their heads to where they dispose of the game. Shadow simply hugs Maria and Maria leans close to her. They hope to never see the board game again and no harm will come to anyone.