A/N: Well, here I am again. This'll be the fourth installment of my story; and hopefully I'll be able to work out any spelling errors with it so that it'll be even better!
Disclaimer: Oh, heck! You already know about this! I only own some of the memories that I make up.
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So now there were three of us.
We continued to walk down the beach; waves chasing our feet with a sudden rush of the tide.
We still didn't have any sort of destination in mind, but there was something nagging me in the back of my mind. Something telling me that Robotnik would know the answers to this.
The only problem being...
Where would his new secret base be?
Robotnik had been chasing Sonic and Amy for a reason.
And it was high time that we figured out why.
He MUST know something about them, or he wouldn't have been constantly fighting with them when they found him.
But...
What was it that he knew?
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Still walking. No clues.
Maybe Shadow would know where Robotnik was right now?
"Shadow...would you have any idea where Dr. Robotnik is right now?" I asked him.
He turned to me. Puzzled.
"The Dr.? Why would you want to know where he is now?" Shadow asked me. "I just had a feeling that he might know what's wrong with Amy. After all, he's captured her time and time again." I replied.
Amy didn't even stir at the mention of some of the times she had gotten in trouble.
Just what was she thinking anyways?
"No, I don't. But I wonder if the Dr.'s old jungle base is still operational..." Shadow thought aloud. That was our only clue so far to anything. We needed to head to the Iron Jungle.
"Come on! We can get there using the Tornado III!" I exclaimed.
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Now we were back at the workshop. My home.
This is where the search began... I thought.
I had recently re-modeled the plane to be a two seated one.
Amy would have to be the person in the back seat.
I hoped Shadow wouldn't mind.
He shook his head when I asked him. "I'm fine with riding on the wing." He told me.
So, with a sudden burst of speed, the bi-plane took off into the open blue sky; gliding easily on the unusually calm winds. Usually there would be at least SOME turbulence.
Is this a testament to Amy's visions? I wondered.
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Surprisingly enough, it didn't take very long for the Tornado III to arrive at the artificial jungle. There were still many pipes and other machines running through it; but it seemed...
Empty.
When I landed on one of the steel walkways there was a loud echo throughout the area.
Nothing happened.
No alarms were set off, no bars shot up, no attack-bots appeared to bring us down. Nothing. Everything seemed eerily silent. This place must have been evacuated very shortly after the black arms invasion came to its end. Hopefully some of Robotnik's computers would still be functional.
Hopefully.
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I cringed every step that I took; the noise was almost unbearable with nothing else going on.
Still, nothing seemed to be affecting Amy.
Shadow was wary of everything that still remained; he had adapted a ready stance, his entire body ready to spring, in the event that something did try to attack us.
But it didn't.
We made it all the way to Robotnik's computer room without a single thing happening except for a few loose wires swaying slightly.
I let out a breath when one of the computers still happened to be online.
That was very ignorant of Robotnik to do that, but I suppose he wanted to get out as quickly as possible since his secret base had been found out. He had probably just forgotten that this was here in his haste to leave.
Lucky for us.
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It took no more than 5 minutes for me to log in to the computer and bypass it's security measures to get to the restricted files.
One of them was labeled 'regarding Tanya'
Easy as pie.
Unfortunately, it required a password.
R-O-B-O-T-N-I-K-L-A-N-D?
No.
E-G-G-M-A-N?
No.
C-H-A-O-S?
Wrong again.
I thought for a minute.
Suddenly, an idea. It was a stretch but it was worth a shot.
A-P-O-C-A-L-Y-P-S-E.
A flash of green light and access was granted.
Lucky.
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It was what appeared to be a journal entry from a time at least 13 years ago.
October 4th
As expected I have found the one that the prophecy told of. She is a very gentle and compassionate hedgehog from what I learned when I sent my spy-bots to gather data on her. Her name?
Tanya Hedgehog.
October 5th
She isn't quite what I thought I would be finding when I learned of a prophecy that there would be a hedge-maiden who would eventually bring upon the destruction of the world. In fact, she's the exact opposite of something that would be thought of to bring upon this planet's end.
October 7th
The prophecy said that a fair hedgehog's power would be released when her life would be reaching its end; and that the force of it would end mankind. If I could harness such powers and use them without fully awakening them, I'm certain that I could rule the world!
October 10th
Apparently Tanya has found out that I have been spying on her and she has fled with her new husband. Grr...I WILL find them!
October 20th
Tanya continues to elude me, but there has been talk of a strange pair moving to the 'cold world' and that they now have a daughter and son. If I can capture one of the children, then Tanya will be forced to come with me for their sake.
October 30th (3 years later)
At long last I have found a lead to this place that people call the 'cold world' I must begin immediately on a robot design to whether the area's cold climate so that I may track her down.
November 2nd
That blasted husband of hers! He came all this way looking for me and caused significant damage to my research!
...Luckily though My data about her and her children is still intact. Though most of my machinery is gone, I was able to put that menace in his place! He will no longer be a bother.
December 16th (2 years later)
At long last all of my research has been re-gained as I have created the ultimate snow-going mech! At long last I can capture Tanya and her children!
December 25th
When I finally caught up with her when I found her home, she had sent the children away. I had expected them to not be far away, but I can't even see a speck. One of them must be really fast! Unfortunately, I had to kill Tanya because she put up too much resistance. I was afraid that doing so would release the apocalypse, but it seems that the 'demonic gene' (as I have decided to call it) was passed down and is no longer a part of her.
I must find the children at all costs and obtain this power!
December 27th
No sign of the children. But they can't be dead. If they were the world would have ended by now. I will continue my search elsewhere.
The rest of the journal had apparently been saved to another file that was no longer there.
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Shadow and I stared at each other for a while in disbelief.
Amy had the power to destroy the world in the palm of her hand?
She was staring blankly at the ground. Luckily, she hadn't read a thing.
"Come on Shadow! We need to figure out how to get rid of that gene!" I exclaimed.
We hurried back to the Tornado III.
The demonic gene was beginning to awaken itself, and we had to stop it!
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A/N: Nyeh, for some reason I don't feel like I did a good job on this part. Oh well. I've got other things to do so Ciaozies! R&R Please!