Chapter 15

READY!

"So what can you tell us about this area?" Zero said into communicator.

"Zero repeat transmission," Ciel replied. "I can't hear you. If you can hear me I've detected a high frequency in the area, find the source and destroy it. I repeat destroy the source of the distortion and try contacting me again.

"I can't get through," Zero said angrily. "but I was able to get one thing she said that there are some kind of machines that are preventing me from contacting them."

"All we have to do is blow them up," Sonic said cracking his knuckles. "But man why does it have to be in such a cold place?"

"Well duh," Zero said looking straight ahead. "Frost, as in the cold. Why not have him in the cold mountains?"

"Well can we just hurry up and get out of here?" Sonic mumbled while shivering. "I can feel my quills cracking. And trust me the ladies love the quills."

"But the question is do you love the ladies?"

Sonic paused and looked away. He had never been asked such a question. Zero looked back at Sonic and put his hand on the blue hedgehog's shoulder. "Just messing with you." Sonic tilted his head in confusion and then smiled. And with that the two walked deeper into the cold mountains.

"I'm scanning the area for any thing that might cause radio jamming," Zero said. "I've found one. This way."

Zero took running with Sonic trying to keep his speed at a slow pace to keep up. In the short distance Sonic could see what looked like a small tower with satellite on top. Zero stopped put his index finger against his helmet. "This is definitely the source of the radio jamming. If we shut it down…"

"Or maybe destroy it," Sonic continued. "Then we would be able to keep in touch with Tails and Ciel."

"You got it," Zero said with a small smirk. "Now all we have to do is find an entrance."

"Why don't we just make one?" Sonic curled up into a ball and shot into the tower's steel outer shell. After seconds of trying to cut through he kicked off the wall and landed next to Zero.

"No luck," Sonic said running his head. "Man that's one hard wall."

"Alright let's try this again," Zero pulled out his recoil rods. "Curl up into a ball again. This time charge up to full power."

Sonic nodded and curled back into ball. His body began to glow as did Zero's Recoil Rods. "Ready," Sonic shouted.

"Go." Zero shouted. "Recoil Ram!"

Zero slammed his weapon against Sonic causing him to slam into the wall of the tower Sonic released the power of his spin dash and crashed through the steel plated wall. He broke out of spin mode and retained his original form. "All done," Sonic said.

"Oh yeah," Zero said as he entered through the hole. "Now back to business. My scanners are picking up a high jamming energy frequency at the top."

"Well how do we get to the top?" Sonic leaned against the wall. Just then, the wall he was leaning on slid up into another wall. Sonic fell into what looked like an elevator. "Help."

"Relax it's just an elevator," Zero said as entered and pushed a button. "You are such a baby."

Sonic rolled his eyes and got back on his feet. Next to him was a window that revealed the outside of the icy mountains. When something caught his eye.

"Zero look," Sonic said. Zero quickly came to the window.

"What is it?"

As the two looked out the window Zero was amazed at what he saw. "Nothing," he said. "There's nothing there. What is this some kind of joke?"

"No wait there was really something out there. It was looking straight a me. You think it was that Frost Reploid we were told about?"

"Probably," Zero walking from the window. "But just hope it wasn't. Hopefully we won't fight him before we destroy the radio jammers."

Sonic replied with a nod and the elevator stopped and the door opened. Zero and Sonic exited the elevator to see that there was a round core floating in front of them. Zero drew his Buster Gun and aimed for the core. "You ready?" he asked without looking at Sonic.

"Oh yeah," Sonic replied preparing to attack. "3….2…..1!"

"GO!" Zero fire his gun while Sonic leaped into the air. Together the two destroyed the core.

Sparks shot from the core causing the room to rumble. Sonic kneeled down so he could absorb the shock while Zero stood his ground. He looked at the blue hedgehog who could barely stand.

"C'mon let's get out of here," he said calmly. "We've got a long way to go."

"The elevator moves to slow to make our escape," Sonic replied.

"Make our own exit." Zero aimed at a wall and blasted a hole into it revealing the outside. Sonic and Zero looked at each other for a split second then ran for the exit. They leaped into the air. Sonic looked down to see that they were really high in the air.

"We're too far from the ground we won't make it down in one piece!"

"Not a problem," came a voice as Sonic and Zero felt there selves being pulled through the air. Just as the tower exploded Sonic had passed out on the ground.

Moments later…

"Wake up," came Zero's voice into Sonic head. "Wake up already."

Sonic slowly opened his eyes and shook his head. Everything began to com clear. Before him was none other than Zero.

"What happened?" he asked.

"Not sure," Zero responded. "But take a look."

Zero pointed out in the distance revealing that all of the other towers had been destroyed. What could've happened while they were knocked out? Sonic looked back over to Zero who was holding a small piece of paper. "When I woke up this paper was sitting here in front of me. It's addressed to you."

Sonic took the letter and began reading it:

Don't even think about about saying thank you. And you really don't want to come looking for me hedgehog. Do and I'll break your legs both ways.

Sonic rolled his eyes with a smile on his face. He knew who wrote the letter. "We better get going now. Who knows what else could happen while we're out here."

"What did the note say?" Zero asked.

"Nothing let's go. Have you tried making contact with Ciel and the others?"

"Oh yeah," Zero put his hand to the side of his head. "This is Zero do you read? This is Zero come in."

"Tails here," came a familiar voice into Zero's COM link. "Ciel's here too what's your situation?"

"You guys were right about the radio jammers. Do you guys have any idea of where we are supposed to go now/"

"Let's see," Tails replied. "Oh I've found something. It's a chaos reading not too far from away from your position."

"Got it thanks kid."

"Let's go," Sonic said already walking ahead.

Minutes later….

"So is this the cave he was talking about?" Sonic asked.

"It must be since this is the only thing here."

Just then a harsh wind blew from out of the cave. Sonic hugged himself as hard as he could, trying to keep warm. Zero drew his Z-saber, he knew what was about to happen. After the wind cleared a large chunk of ice was left behind. Sonic shuck all the pieces of snow and ice off him and slowly crept over to the ice. Inside he could see a what looked like….

"It's him!" Sonic shouted. "That's the guy I saw from the window of the elevator. It's Frost B. Lizard."

WARNING

The ice began to break apart and small shards shot all over the place, revealing the evil reploid inside. "So you've made it at last," he said.

"Yeah," Zero struck his traditional fighting with his Z saber in hand. "You gotta problem with that?"

"Oh indeed," Frost responded. "Master X would be most angry with me if I just let take his emerald."

"Well I guess we'll gonna have to take it," Sonic yelled running at his opponent.

Frost put out his hand which caused a thin wall of ice to appear. Sonic slammed into the wall. He attained the position for a few seconds and then slowly slid off. Zero rolled his eyes and slashed through the wall of ice. Frost let out an evil smile and snapped his fingers. All of the sudden a pillar of ice came from the ground lifting Zero into the air. Sonic dashed up the side of the pillar trying to keep up with Zero. Zero tried to maintain as the pillar went higher into the air, he looked up to see that he was approaching the ceiling of the cave. Zero pointed his saber up preparing for an impact.

"Hold on Zero!" Sonic yelled as continued up the pillar. "It's so slippery. With every step I go up I slide down just the tiniest bit."

"Let's just this will hold me until he gets up here," Zero said in his mind.

He was just about to make contact with the ceiling. He kept his saber tight hoping not to lose grip. Then it happened, Zero's saber hit the ceiling. He struggled to hold off the pillar.

"Almost," Sonic said. "Woah."

Sonic slipped off the pillar and fell all the way back to the ground. There was no time for him to run back up.

"HAHAHAA," Frost laughe maniacally. "What to do? You can choose to fight me or you can go rescue you're friend. What'll it be?"

Sonic looked up at the pillar then back at Frost then the pillar again. He didn't know what to do now.

"Sonic fight him!" Zero yelled from the top of the pillar. "I can handle myself. I'm not sure for how long so hurry it up will ya?"

Sonic nodded and struck a fighting stance. He knew that he had this quick. And quick was his style. He dashed toward his opponent as fast as he could with a harsh fire in his eyes. Frost summoned a second wall of ice trying to block the hedgehog's way. Sonic wasn't falling for the same trick twice. He stretched put his fists and crashed through the wall. Once through Sonic broke out with a chain of punches and kicks. Frost broke away and grabbed Sonic's leg, throwing him away from him. Sonic recovered in mid air. He kicked of a wall and curled up into a ball. Sonic shot through the air and went right through Frost's mid section. Frost fell on one of his knees growling.

"Curse you," the evil reploid said. "Master X…"

"Shut up," Zero said as he came crashing down on Frost with his saber. The weapon went right down the middle cutting Frost B. Lizard in half. "You were getting on my nerves."

"Zero!" Sonic exclaimed. "You're okay."

"Yeah I barely made it from under that pillar."

"Great," Sonic replied rubbing the sweat from his forehead. "Now let's find that emerald.

"The emerald should be right on top of you," Ciel said through the com link.

Zero and Sonic looked up and down, but they couldn't find the emerald. Then it hit Sonic. "We're standing on a layer of ice."

Zero switched to his Recoil Rods and crashed through the ice. Underneath they found a shrine with the Chaos Emerald.

"Alright," Sonic and Zero said as they struck there victory poses.

Sorry I took so long but I was having some problems with my computer again. I'm going to continue this and many other stories too.