Chapter 10: Driller's Revenge
Knuckles and Shadow were walking around the base Amy was in looking for the exit. They finally found it and ran outside. They could tell they were in Nightmaronka but they didn't know where in Nightmaronka. Nightmarians immediately surrounded them. They attacked.
Knuckles and Shadow fought them off. Shadow used a chaos blast that killed most of the Nightmarians and Knuckles killed the rest with his fists.
"That was too easy." Knuckles said without lowering his guard.
"I have a bad feeling about this." Shadow said as he and Knux walked slowly through the dark place.
Knux and Shad felt the ground shake after walked for half an hour. They saw Driller's drill come out of the ground. It was a little bigger than last time but it was mostly the same.
"I am going to destroy you both today! I'm not letting you get away again! I don't need to capture you anymore Shadow the Hedgehog! You know too much and must be destroyed! That is what my new master ordered me to do!" Driller screamed from inside his drill.
"Who is your new master?" Knuckles asked.
Driller answered "The almighty Nightmare, true king of Nightmaronka! There are some resistant Nightmarians but they shall be destroyed soon. Now bow to the great King Nightmare or die!"
"We will never bow to that evil king!" Knuckles screamed but to his surprise Shadow bowed. "What are you doing Shadow? You really don't think we can lose to this punk do you?"
Shadow pulled Knux down and made him bow too.
"Fools! I'm not falling for that! If you really do want to be a servant of King Nightmare then prove your loyalty by killing the echidna." Driller ordered.
"As you wish." Shadow said.
Knux got up and backed away. Shadow slowly walked up to him. Knux tripped and landed on his back. Shad approached him and then immediately spin jumped onto the drill. He busted through the cockpit and messed up all the controls. He jumped out, grabbed Knux, and ran. The drill exploded. Driller walked out of the debris. He was tall, muscular, and wore brown from head to toe. He had cloth on all over. He face was covered up. All you could see were his bright red eyes.
"That is what Driller looks like?" Knux asked in surprise.
"I'm gonna kill you both." Then Driller pulled out a Nightmare emerald. "With this! Nightmare Beam!"
A huge, black blast came from the emerald and went straight for Shadow. It hit him and knocked him back. Knux ran at Driller but was blasted away by a Nightmare Beam.
"He's too strong!" Knuckles screamed while he was lying on the ground injured.
"You got that right. I'm gonna kill you both. Are you ready to be tortured?" Driller said with a smirk inside his clothes.
He walked over to Shad and Knux who were still on the ground and the emerald floated above them. Driller walked backwards a distance away from them. A huge blast was let out by the emerald. It engulfed Shad and Knux but Driller walked too far back for it to hit him.
After the explosion was over, Driller walked over and grabbed the emerald again.
"This is fun. Let's start torturing you first, Shadow." Driller said as he made black chains around Shad's limbs and neck. The chains made Shadow hover above the ground.
"What are these chains?" Shadow asked barely able to speak.
"These are Nightmare chains, pure Nightmare energy in the form of chains. Now I'm gonna make them tighter." Driller explained.
Shadow screamed in pain as the chains tightened.
"Now it is time for the torture part. Heh heh heh heh heh. This is gonna be fun."
Driller put the Nightmare emerald between Shadow's eyes. He sent energy into Shad's brain which caused the nervous system to act up and resulted in severe pain all over the body. Driller continued to torture Shadow for the next few hours. He was about to kill Shadow when he was shot in the stomach. He got up and looked at who it was. It was an Eggbot. Around that Eggbot were many other Eggbots.
"My former master Dr. Ivo Eggman Robotnik sent his Eggbots after me to get revenge for me betraying him, huh?"
"Incorrect." The Eggbot that shot Driller said. "We have been sent to retrieve Shadow the Hedgehog."
"Oh yeah. Eggman does want Shadow for some reason. But I will not let you take him! He is going to be killed not captured!" Driller screamed.
"Resistance is futile." The Eggbot said in a monotone voice.
The Eggbots charged at Driller. Knux got up and freed Shadow. For once they were actually teaming up with the Eggbots so they could kill Driller. Shadow sat down and recovered while Knux helped the Eggbots. The robots were getting easily destroyed because of Driller's incredible power but they were still hurting him some. Driller finally used the Nightmare Emerald and blasted all of the robots into scrap metal. While the smoke was still clearing Knux leaped at Driller and punched him in the face. It knocked Driller out of the smoke and Knux leaped at him again. This time he was swatted down by Driller.
"You are going to die, echidna!" Driller screamed as he shot a nightmare beam.
Knuckles dodged it and punched Driller again. Knux unleashed massive attacks against Driller until he accidentally punched the Nightmare Emerald. It activated it and created a small explosion affecting only Driller. It hurt Driller and then teleported him away. Knux fainted from exhaustion. A few hours later he was awoken by Shadow. They went over to the debris of Driller's drill.
"So, the hypnotized Rouge is somewhere in Darkness Palace which is in Darkness City. SO we need to find Darkness City." Shadow examined.
"Good idea. First we need to find out where we are now." Knux said.
End of chapter.
Sorry for the delay of posting this chapter. I had writer's block on this story.