Chapter 2
Never miscalculate your enemy's power.
They flew into the city, and Tails parked the Tornado near the outskirts. It didn't take them long to hear the sirens, and to see what they were chasing. A green car came zooming by, twisting at the second corner they came by, and the police all went the wrong way, thinking they had turned the first corner. Fortunately, Sonic was paying attention, and the three raced to them.
The car the robbers were in was a normal car, surprisingly, and both Tails and Knuckles managed to get in front of it. When they saw Knuckles in front of the car, claws out, they tried to run him over, but he was far too strong for that. He stopped it with one hand, and the car braked, seeing that they would be unable to continue in the car. Tails hovered above, in case of any surprises.
"Alright, step out of the car. That's an order!" Knuckles yelled to them. The three robbers stepped out. They were wearing some gun armor, and worse, had guns at the sides. Seeing that Knuckles was unarmed, they pointed their guns at him. They were huge, and Tails noticed something odd about them. If anything, they were too big for an ordinary gun. Perhaps it launched some sort of explosive?
Sonic and Knuckles laughed. "You can't fire at the Blue Blur!" Sonic mocked them. One of the thieves had a sinister smile on his face, and it chilled Tails to the bone.
"I've heard of you, and I knew you'd get in the way." He told him. "Boys, fire!"
What surprised Tails most was that they did not fire bullets, but blasts of water. Sonic was blasted toward the wall and Knuckles too, though he managed to find the strength to dodge a few.
"Water! Water! I'm going to die from water!" Sonic cried. The thieves laughed in delight. Tails wouldn't stand by, however, and he quickly hovered down, delivering a solid punch to the back of one their heads, knocking him out cold. (But it did cause him to recoil in pain from the effort.)
This was the robber that was blasting knuckles, and he quickly charged at one of them, picked him up, and threw him against a stack of barrels. He fell, unconscious, and a jewel fell from his pocket. It must have been a diamond. Knuckles then turned to the last robber while Tails went toward the diamond and picked it up. "I'll make you a deal. You give me the gun, and I'll let you go free. You can even blast Sonic one more time if you'd like."
The thief stopped shooting Sonic, and turned to Knuckles, about to hand him his weapon. However, Sonic finally recovered, and punched him in the back of the head, then took the weapon himself and blasted Knuckles to the wall. "You'll pay for that, Sonic!"
When the police came to the scene and took the criminals, the store owner walked toward the scene. "Where's the diamond, where is it?" He asked them.
"Here it is, Mr." Tails walked toward him, the diamond in his hand. The diamond was a pure white, and it felt somewhat heavy in his hand. "Take it."
The store owner shook his hand, fearfully. "Oh, oh, oh no! That diamond has brought me misfortune from the very beginning. Robbers, muggers, assassins, they all want it. Oh, oh, I'm not keeping that horrid thing. Keep it, fox, and you can keep the trouble of the diamond."
Tails was confused from his fearful reaction. "Are you sure?"
"Yes, yes, take it! Take it! Just get it away from me!"
As the police and the store owner (still acting odd, muttering curses at the diamond) all left the scene, Tails took another looked at the diamond, shrugged his shoulders, and carried it to his home.
From above, someone else watched the scene, making observations. His henchman had failed him, and he would have to find someone else who would not fail him. Some one new, something that Sonic would not be able to defeat… If water wouldn't do the trick, then it would have to be great power. Yet who could possibly wield such a thing, and in what form?
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