Zero Gravity Riders Episode 7: The Astral Babylon Mysteries Revealed
The blue rays of light come out of Babylon Garden and envelopes Babylon Gardens in a blue sphere of light as the garden falls apart. Suddenly, the light Babylon Garden explodes, creating a colossal shock wave that sweeps over the landscape, and breaks the Crimson Tower's windows. Everyone brace themselves as the shards of the windows start floating around.
"Wh-what the...?" Sonic asks, shocked.
Everyone looks to notice that Babylon Gardens has transformed into the appearance of a starship. And has created a black hole right before their eyes. Everyone is surprised to see what is happening. Soon, Crimson Tower begins to gradually pull apart. The black hole soon begins to suck up everything within its range. Everyone soon grabbed onto their surroundings. A lot of tornados are being formed outside, one even hits part of the Crimson tower.
"At this rate, the whole planet will be sucked into the black hole!" Tails cries out.
He soon loses his grip and pulls towards the black hole.
But, Sonic catches him in time, "Hah!"
"Thanks, Sonic!" Tails says.
"The world is doomed!" Eggman cries out, and presses a button and his chair retracts into the floor with him on it.
"If we don't do something the world will be sucked in!" Amy cries out.
Jet turns to Wave, "Wave! How can we stop this storm?"
"The core unit in the engine room powers the Babylon Garden. If we can disconnect it, that should do the trick," Wave says.
"But that means going inside of that black hole," Speedy says.
"I don't think we have any other choice!" Jet says.
Jet then turns his head to see Sonic, Eve, and their Team are already on their Extreme Gears
"We'll go on ahead!" Sonic says.
Team Sonic flies out of the window and towards Babylon Garden.
"Come on, we gotta go after them. They're going to need our help," Jet says.
With that, the Babylon Rogues follow them on their Extreme Gears.
Still in Crimson Tower, the Battle Lord contacts the communicator on his wrist, "Doctor. Status report!"
"The gravitational pull from the Arks of the Cosmos continues to grow and pull everything within its range. If this keeps up, the whole planet will be pulled into the Black Hole. I think it's time to head back to the ship before we get sucked in," Dr. Fukurokov says.
"Call an evacuation immediately and I'll meet you at the bridge," The Battle Lord says.
Then turns his head, "Speedy, we must get…"
However, the Battle Lord notices that Speedy isn't here, "Speedy?"
"Where could he have…" The Battle Lord wonders.
But realizes in shock, "He didn't…"
And looks at the Babylon Garden and realizes where he could have gone.
At Babylon Gardens, the team of Freedom Fighters fly into Babylon Garden, with the Rouges behind them.
Jet calls out, "Sonic! Eve!"
Sonic, Eve, and the others turn their heads to see the Babylon Rogues are riding on their Extreme Gears.
"Jet? What are you doing here?" Eve asks.
"Giving you guys a hand," Jet says.
Wave then brings out her device, "We need to work together so we can disconnect it."
"And we have to do it fast before the planet is destroyed," A familiar voice says.
Everyone flies over to see Speedy, who is able to catch up with them.
"What are you doing here?" Jet question with a frown.
"What does it look like? I want to stop this like you guys do. We want to find Babylon Garden so we can regain our rights as ruler of the sky, but not when it means the sky being destroyed itself," Speedy says.
"So what, you want to call it a truce or something?" Storm asks.
"I don't like it either, but we don't have much choice," Speedy says.
"He's right. We need to work together in order to stop the black hole before it sucks up Mobius," Tails says.
"But the robot took it. How are we going to find it?" Knuckles asks.
"According to the tracker, the robot and the Arks of the Cosmos should be right in the core of Babylon Garden, but the device is having trouble picking up the exact signal," Wave says.
"Then we'll just have to explore this whole place until we find our way to the center of Babylon Garden," Sonic says.
"Guys, look over there," Eve says, and points to see a glowing lightless light in a familiar room.
"That room, isn't that where we found the treasure of Babylon?" Sonic asks.
"I think it is, but it looks like it's deeper inside. I say we check it out," Jet says.
With that, the large group begins to travel inside the structure of Babylon Garden and go deeper and deeper into the building. Soon enough, they find themselves face to face with the SCR-HD, but have transformed and merged with Babylon Garden. The robot is practically ten times its original size, with a color scheme of silver gray, purple, black and red, and a large reg eye.
"There it is," Sonic says.
"It's huge!" Tails says.
"And this job just got harder," Jet says.
Suddenly, the robot looks down to see the groups and the Rogues, and Speedy.
Seeing them, the SCR-HD says, "Thank you. My plumes were removed a millennium ago. Previous navigational routine may now resume."
"Removed?" Eve says, confused.
"What was your previous navigational routine?" Wave asks.
"The Babylonians formed many centuries ago," The robot says.
"So is Babylon Garden really a star ship?" Tails asks.
"Affirmative. It was removed by the Babylonians due to an irreparable malfunction in the Arks of the Cosmos, causing the creation of the Black Hole if used. Destruction of the planet would result. They refuse that responsibility, and settle on this world. The ship and the Arks of the Cosmos were hidden to prevent this occurrence in the future. As a result, they scatter across the planet and throughout time.
"Astounding! If the Babylonians settled on Mobius, then that means…" Wave says, shocked and yet amazed."
"The Babylonians, our kind, were beings from another world," Speedy says, surprised and amazed.
"So in other words, you guys are descendants from space aliens?" Eve asks.
"Aliens?"! Jet and Wave are confused.
"With the Arks of the Cosmos restored. I will proceed to orbit for optimal gravitational balance and initiate a wormhole jump. I suggest the evacuation of the planet, as it will be destroyed," The robot says.
Suddenly, the place begins to shake.
Outside, Babylon Garden and the Black Hole soon begin to move up and toward space. The BattleBird Armada soon notices on the monitor.
Dr. Fukurokov says, "Babylon Garden is floating up in the sky, but where is it going?"
"It doesn't matter. My son must be in there, and I'm not letting slip away," The Battle Lord says.
Then turns to the soldiers, "Quickly! Grapple it with the anchors! Where it goes, we go!"
"Aye, aye, sir!" The bird soldier says and attached the anchors to part of the garden when it reaches the close range.
Then the Battle Lord turns to Dr. Fukurokov, "Doctor! Have you contacted Speedy or the Rogues?"
"No response to communications! The Arks of the Cosmos and the Black Hole must be interfering with their signal," The Doctor says.
The Battle Lord says, "Then I don't have any other choice." and leave the control room.
"Battle Lord?" The doctor says, confused.
The Battle Lord walks to the deck of the ship and surprisingly has an Extreme Gear in his hand.
The doctor hurries out and calls out, "Doctor, where are you going?!"
"I'm going to get my son," The Battle Lord says.
He then jumps on the Extreme Gear and rides it towards Babylon Garden to retrieve his son.
Back in the core of the Babylon Garden, everyone looks at the robot to see that it's starting to take flight out of Mobius.
"We gotta stop that thing before it takes us to space!" Eve says.
I'll give it a try!" Jet says.
He calls out, "Auto Pilot! I am a Descendant of Babylon! I order you to stop!"
But the robot says, "Order denied. You lack sufficient security clearance. I must return to homeworld for repairs."
"Homeworld?!" Storm asks, shocked.
Jet turns to Save, "Wave! Could you reprogram this thing?"
"I don't think we have time. The only way for us to stop this is to disconnect the Arks of the Cosmos from the engine," Wave says.
"And the only way to disconnect it, is to defeat that robot!" Sonic says.
"Let's shut this thing down!" Speedy says.
Everyone soon speeds towards the giant robot on their Extreme Gears or light and begins to chase after the robot. They chase the robot until they reach close range and try to get to the core inside. Suddenly, a gravitational pulse appears, causing everyone to go in midair, including some platforms from the road.
Sonic says, "Guys, I got an idea."
Using the charged gravity, sonic bounces on the platform and uses it to strike at the robot, causing some damage.
"Good idea bro," Sonic says.
"Let's try it," Wave.
Just then, the robot lets out another charged gravity force. This time, Jet, Eve, and Wave bounce off the platforms and strike the robot at its core. It releases another gravity pulse, allowing Tails, Knuckles and Storm to strike it with force.
However, the robot fires large molten rocks, energy bolts, and continues to manipulate gravity at any time.
"We gotta keep going! If we keep striking at the center, we should be able to disconnect the core!" Wave says.
"Give it everything you got!" Sonic shouts.
The robot continues to fire all kinds of attacks: molten rocks, energy bolts, and other kinds of attack. And every so often, it manipulates gravity and makes everything around its area float. Using it to their advantage, the Freedom Fighters, the Rogues and Speedy use it to strike at the robot with full force and continue in order to disconnect the core. The assault from the robot continues as the groups continue to use the gravity to strike at the robot with all their might. At the final blow, everyone combines their attacks and strikes at it with all their might. With that, the robot soon begins to fall to pieces and the Arks of the Cosmos begin to fall out one by one. Speedy manages to catch one of them, the one that's once in his father's possession.
Suddenly, the robot says, "Warning. Loss power to engine. All system failing. Crash landing imminent."
"Crash landing?" Storm questions.
Suddenly, the place begins to shake again. Outside, the Babylon Garden's black hole disappears, but it's not falling into Mobius. In fact, it's making its way to space.
"The Black Hole is gone!" Jet says
"But, but I think we're still heading into space!" Tails says.
"We gotta get out of here!" Amy says.
"Uh… maybe we oughta get outta here too!" Storm says.
"You're right. We have to go NOW! Wave says.
"Let's go!" Sonic says.
With that, everyone begins to leave the chamber and leave the robot and the remaining of the Arks behind. Everyone continues to fly through and evacuate from Babylon Gardens. They hurry as the many rocks and boulders continue to fall from the ceiling and one ends up hitting Speedy at his leg, causing him to fall. Speedy quick;y gets up and about to fly, but isn't aware that the rock is falling towards him. Speedy turns around to see the rock heading towards them. Before it can crush him, someone speeds towards Speedy and catched him. Then follow the way out of Babylon Garden.
Speedy opens his eyes, holding the stone in his hand and looks up to see, "Dad?! What are you doing?!"
"Getting you out of Babylon Garden, son," The Battle Lord says, and flies through the exit way of Babylon Garden.
Soon, Sonic, Eve, and their friends, the Babylon Rogues, the Battle Lord and Speedy escape from Babylon Garden and leave the area. The Battle Lord soon reaches the deck of the BattleShip.
He calls out, "Cut the anchors! And have the airship get out of the Garden's range!"
The soldiers say, "Aye aye captain!"
And with that, the soldiers have the ropes cut off from Babylon Gardens and the BattleBird Airship begins to fly away from Babylon Garden. Soon, enough, everyone watches as Babylon Garden has left the atmosphere of Mobius and is now orbiting around the planet as the sun rises into the sky.
At the Battleship, The Battle Lord and Speedy are looking at the now Astral Babylon in the sky.
"Father, will we be okay with this?" Speedy asks.
"Well, I must admit, what you explained is a shock, but even Mobius has some good qualities. We may have lost Babylon Gardens, but with the planet spared, we shall work hard more than ever to reclaim the skies and rule over it," The Battle Lord says.
Then says, "Come now, we shall depart and begin with our next goal to rule over the Mobian skies."
"Yes father," Speedy says, and follows his father.
Meanwhile, the Babylon Rogues are standing on a rock as they watch the Garden in the sky as well. They also see the BattleBird Armada airship is leaving the area as well.
"Geez. do you think they'll all okay?" Storm asks.
"I doubt a little thing like that will stop the Battle Lord," Storm says.
"Still, we're descended from aliens. That's heavy," Wave says.
"Yeah. It really changes things," Jet says.
Then turns to Jet and asks, "So, are you okay with all this?"
"Well, much as I'll miss the vastness of space, this world still has its charm... Besides…" Jet says.
Soon, the Babylon Rogues ride on their Extreme Gears and fly away.
A few days later, at Monopole, Sonic, Eve, and the others, including Shun and Jaz are in the car, and heading down a tube. Tails is behind the wheel as everyone is at their seats. As they sit in the car, they discuss Babylon Gardens and have a few questions about their adventure.
Amy is the first to speak up, "Hmm... I wonder what those meteors really were…"
"They had some programming that made them try to gather up the other units," Tails says.
"Yeah?" Amy asks.
"It activated when Eggman found the first piece and put it in the mother computer. All the robots went berserk because they were all connected to the network. At least, I think that's what happened," Tails says.
Then Sonic asks, "But who made that program?"
"I have no idea," Tails answers, "Maybe those ancient Babylonians... Or maybe someone even more ancient... Maybe it was a warning, for people to stay away from power beyond control."
"But the people of Babylon…" Knuckles says.
"I can't believe they were the descendants of aliens…" Eve says, amazed
Tails continues, " They crash landed on this planet in the ancient past… They disconnected the unit…"
"And left it in orbit, hoping that someday, it would fall back down to the surface," Eve adds.
"Every time they saw a shooting star…" Amy adds.
Sonic points to the sky, "I bet they'd wished they could get back to their home planet."
Suddenly, distances behind, something is speeding through the tube.
"Maybe that's why people started wishing on shooting stars," Amy says.
Eve smiles and says, "Maybe."
"Chao Chao," Jazz says.
Shun giggles with a smile.
From behind the pursuer is getting closer.
Suddenly, Jet's voice calls out, "Sonic! Eve!"
Sonic and Eve look behind to see Jet is chasing them. He then comes near the car and looks at the hedgehogs as he passes. Sonic and Eve turn to each other with a smile to nod. Then Eve passes Shun to Amy as she gently gives him a kiss on his forehead. Then Sonic and Eve get their Extreme Gears, and begin racing with Jet through the road tubes and among the cars driving through. They three continue to race and it will surely be a race to remember.
