Phantom's gang rocks the Scrap Brain Zone!
Chapter 9: The Showdown" Burst, why are you chewing on your bars?" Spectra asked.
" Must get out! Must play games! Nuuurrr!" the gamer growled in between bites. Already his bars were worn down.
" I hope that Phantom is okay…" Sugar said worriedly.
" Did my message reach him?" Mecha wondered to herself when a voice crackled on her headset.
" Mecha? You there?" Phantom asked.
" Phantom? Wazzap!" Burst yelled.
" Wazzap!" Phantom replied.
'Wazzap!' Cursive wrote.
" Knock it off!" Sugar shouted.
" Typical Phantom…" Spice sighed.
" Where are you?" Mecha asked.
" We're on our way to the Scrap Brain Zone as we speak!" the white chao whooped.
" We?"
" There are others with me fighting the doctor's robots. We're moving in. Phantom out." Phantom said and broke contact.
Outside, the chao stood at the gates of the Scrap Brain Zone. A tower rose out of a sea of scrap metal.
" This is it! Ready?" Phantom asked.
" We came this far, we're not runnin' off!" Blitz confirmed as the rest cheered.
" How are we going to get in?" Blade wondered. He then saw a robot ride a cycle through the scrap.
Moments later, the gates to Robotnick's headquarters burst open as a motorcycle crashed through the door. Seven chao operated the bike. Phantom drew the Dragon Fang and sliced through any robot in the way. Alarms echoed through the base as the gang ripped through the complex.
" What? We need more robots? What happened to the unit at the entrance? Alpha wing? Beta wing? All destroyed?" Robotnick asked through a comm system. He then punched a few buttons on his console activating a claw over the cages. It picked up the cage containing Spectra and moved it over the conveyor belt. Robotnick stood in front of a window laughing madly, unaware of the motorcycle flying at it.
" BANZAI!" Phantom yelled as the bike shattered the glass. The force of the impact sent Robotnick flying into the console, dropping Spectra's cage into the robotcizor. Phantom immediately jumped in to save her while the rest tried to get the chao out of the cages.
" Spectra! Hang in there!" Phantom yelled as he ran along the conveyor belt dodging saw blades and pounding pistons. He finally reached Spectra who was unconscious, hoisted her over his shoulders, and sliced through the machine. Mean while, Dr. Robotnick hopped in his craft and lowered a wrecking ball from it.
" Prepared to be crushed!" the doctor cackled as the ball swung at the heroes. Blitz used his kunais to cut the chain supporting the ball. It was then that Phantom emerged from the rubble of the robotcizor and gave Spectra to Frost to heal.
" Sugar, Spice! These belong to you!" Phantom shouted and tossed them the Angelfire and the Muramasa. His sisters escaped from their cages and joined the fight. Robotnick's next trick was a revolving shield of eggs. Phantom sliced through the shield while everyone else pummeled the mech. Robotnick fell from the craft and tried to limp away when a blue hedgehog appeared.
" You little guys are safe now!" the hedgehog exclaimed and opened the rest of the cages by turning into a buzzsaw. The chao from both gardens emerged from their prisons including a lavender dark chao girl with an orange flower on her head who walked up to Frost.
" You are a healer as well?" she asked Frost.
" Yes, who are you?"
" I'm Lillith, the medicine woman for the Dark Garden. I've never seen a healer use her hands before." Lillith introduced. Spectra awoke and looked around.
" Am I… dead?" She asked.
" No, you're still alive. It's a good thing that Phantom jumped in and saved you." Frost answered. Phantom was talking to his sisters when he felt a pair of arms wrap around his neck.
" Thank you for saving me, Phantom. I'm eternally in your debt." Spectra said and gave him a kiss. It was very easy to see the white chao blush.
Back at the Council, Phantom, Blitz, Mauve, Sienna, Blade, Frost, and Mason received medals from Sugar, Spice, and the council elder.
" Phantom, The council now recognizes you and your friends as heroes. Go home and rest, you've all earned it." The elder said. At the Neutral Garden, Luna greeted her son with a hug that almost crushed his ribs.
" Mom, this belongs to you…" Phantom said as he handed the Dragon Fang to Luna.
" Actually, this is yours now. Use it as a sword thrust towards a new era, not as a shield held against it!" Luna replied and handed the sword back.
" Enough of this gooey sh… show of emotions! Let's Party!" Burst whooped. The heroes partied into the night. All of them except Blade who went up to the Hero garden to see his son.
" Trez is that you?" Blade asked a gray chao.
" Who are you?"
" I'm your father."
" I have no father."
" I had to leave because if I didn't work with this guy, he would have bumped off both you and your mother. I had no choice in the matter. I know it's hard to forgive me, but could you?" Blade explained.
Trez lowered his head in thought for a few minutes.
" I need to think about this." He said.
The next chapter will jump ahead a year!