Chapter 3 Testing

"Give me back that Emerald!" Sonic yelled out as he got to his feat. Quickly the blue blur dashed towards the Liquid beast known as Chaos. However, the beast took little time as he stretched out his knew enlarged arm and smacked Sonic with it. Sonic flew and hit the ground but he quickly recovered. He then dashed back at the creature this time avoiding Chaos' responsive smack. Sonic reached Chaos and began to strike blow after blow but with little effect.

The others watched as the two continued to fight exchanging blow after blow but it seemed as only Sonic was taking any damage. Tails couldn't take it much longer as she pulled out her own electronic pistol from its holster and fire two shots directly at the creature. Chaos wasn't expecting the shots and they both found their mark in the creature s chest.

Chaos yelled in pain and ignoring Sonic, he turned towards Tails and began to advance on her.

"Not sure if that was your best idea," Jazz said as he began to back up as he had been standing right by Tails.

"It hurt him didn't it?" Tails said as she loosed two more shots at the creature. This time they sunk into the creature head as they hit something on the inside. Chaos yelped again as he brought his hands up to his head in agony.

So that's its weak point, Sonic thought to himself as he charged at the creature. As he got close he spun into a ball and struck Chaos' head. Sonic struck something hard as he bounced off of it and landed a back down.

Chaos yelled again as it continued to grip its head.

"I think it's time to go," Robotnik said.

Robotnik pressed a button on the dash of his machine and suddenly a bright flash lit up the area. When it cleared both Robotnik and Chaos were gone.

"Where'd they go?" Tails asked as she began to look around.

"Not sure," Jazz said as he walked over to his brother, Dash. He bent over and checks his pulse, "He's ok. Just knocked out."

"That's good," Tails said she then turned to Sonic who was standing there looking out over the hill and towards the ocean. Tails couldn't see his face so she didn't know what kind of mood he was in. So Tails walked up to him.

"You ok?" Tails asked as she got even with him.

Sonic didn't respond but after seeing his facial expression and how he was clinching his fists together, she could tell that he was not happy.

"Don't worry, Sonic," Tails said, "We'll get that Emerald back, Right now we should go ahead and work on collecting the others."

Sonic nodded as he turned and walked back towards Jazz and Dash.

"Don't loose the other one," Sonic said his voice not too kindly.

"We won't," Jazz said.

Sonic turned and headed down the cliff as Tails followed him.

Deep in the Mystic Ruins forest lives a Mobian. Now this Mobian does live alone for he has with him his best friend a rather large Frog by the name of Froggy. The Mobian himself was a rather large Mobian cat with a purple and white fur pattern. He goes by the name, Big the Cat.

Now Big the Cat lives in the forest instead of the city was because his friend, Froggy. You see the Forest had a nice fresh water stream and other things that made a rather great living environment for Froggy as well as this were the place where Big first met Froggy. So the duo spend lots of time together as the play games as well as do one of Big's favorite past times... Fishing.

Of course, it was during one of the times that Big and his best Pal was fishing that Big made a discovery earlier that morning for something had landed in the stream where he had been fishing. When Big went to find get it he discovered that it was a rather pretty Yellow gem. Of course, he had know idea that it was in fact the Yellow Chaos Emerald that Tails had dropped.

So Big kept the gem as he began to call it his Lucky charm and Big had it beside him as he continued to Fish.

"I think we'll catch a big one today, Buddy," Big told his Froggy, "Especially, since I have my new Lucky charm with me."

Froggy, however, seemed to be in a kind of of daze as he was staring at the Chaos Emerald. Big didn't seem to notice as he concentrated on the water's surface waiting for a bite.

Suddenly, Froggy went to the Chaos Emerald and swallowed it whole, Big noticed it.

"Hey, Why'd you do that?" Big asked in his simple toned voice, "That was my lucky charm."

Froggy then turned around as it then hopped away into the forest.

"Hey! Wait," Big said as he quickly reeled in his fishing rod. Once he did he gave chase to the Frog.

Flying through the Mystic Ruins Forest was a specially modified Eggomatic Hover craft in which Robotnik was piloting. You see after hearing about Chaos from Shadow, Robotnik not only acquired an aircraft Carrier which he made some adjustments to, He also found a simple research lab that was deserted deep in the Mystic Ruins Jungle. Robotnik took little time in turning it into a simple lab and hangar. Once he had those things set up he had done a little research on Chaos and found that he had exsisted long ago and had all most wiped out Mobius. However, legend had it that he vanished. Robotnik had come across a painting of the beast. It depicted a giant serpent like creature made of water. Of course, it came to a surprise when Chaos came out of the Emerald but after seeing what happened with the first Chaos Emerald that Chaos absorbed, He believed that for Chaos to get to that giant form he had to absorb all seven Emerald. Robotnik knew that if he could harness that power he'd be unstoppable. However, he doubted if it was even possible for him to do so.

So Robotnik flew on towards his base finally arriving not long after. Robotnik flew his Eggomatic Hovercraft into the small hangar for it and then he set off towards the workshop he had set up there.

After Robotnik witnessed Chaos' weakness to the guardians pistols, he believed that Chaos alone would not be enough to keep the others at bay. True Robotnik did believe that after getting more Emerald Chaos would eventually become more immune to the electric pistols but it didn't hurt to have a few extra hands around.

Inside Robotnik's workshop as a simple machine he used to help him assemble the Robots. There was a few other tables for him to assemble different parts as well as to hold his different equipment.

Robotnik walked up to two tanks each holding a separate Robot. Both were Mobian in shape but there were a few separate features. The most noted was one was a silver color that seemed a bit bulky. The other was slightly smaller and had a blue color to it. Both Robots were currently offline. Robotnik looked at them then sighed.

"These two are just aren't ready yet," Robotnik remarked as he walked over to another wall. This one had six bases each with a separate Robot on it. the farthest left was a simple cylinder green robot. He had a sort of hovering mechanism and to mechanicals arms with what seemed to be a simple two piece hand. On the base was the name E-100 "Alpha".

The other robots in line had a more similar design. each with a slightly oval shaped body with a simple visor like head above. Each supported two arms and two legs. Besides the one next two Alpha, all the rest had one gun and one hand. The one next to alpha, who was named E-101 "Beta" had two guns for hands. Each had a different base color and they ranged from E-100 "Alpha" to E-105 with the appropriate number and Greek letter with it.

"These should work fine, " Robotnik remarked to no one in particular, "Only thing they need now is a power Supply."

So Robotnik left the workshop and came back with six cages each containing a bird in them.

Robotnik then proceeded to open up the E series Robots and place the birds inside.

"There we are," Robotnik said as he tightened the last bolt on E-105, "Now to turn them on."

Robotnik pulled out a simple remote from his pocket and pressed a button on it. Instantly the Robots came to life. All of them looked at Robotnik awaiting his orders.

"Welcome to the living E Series," Robotnik told them, "I've made each of you and you will in turn serve me with out question. If you do however, I can simple turn you off at the press of a button."

The Robots didn't really seem to concern, then again who could tell, but they each nodded their heads.

"Good, " Robotnik said, "Now if You'll follow me I'll lead you to a simple target arena."

Robotnik left the lab and each of the E series Robots followed him. The training course was pretty simple. Targets had been set up among a group of trees.

"Now, I'd like each of you to shoot the targets, " Robotnik said, "Follow the arrows marked on the trees and you'll find the last target."

So they Robots headed into the course all except Alpha.

"Hmmm... That's right, " Robotnik said, "You don't need to practice however, I do have a special job for you."

Robotnik walked closer to Alpha.

"Now listen up, " Robotnik said, "I've found out that there's a Chaos Emerald in Station Square. It fell out of a plane. So I'd like you to go and fetch it for me."

Alpha nodded and left Robotnik's base. Robotniks turned his attention back towards the course, as the robots proceeded.

Each of them seemed to do about the same. Well all except Beta and Gamma. Those too seemed to be ahead of the others. Finally, they reach the final target. It was a doll of The Blue Blur. It was of course a rabbit instead of a hedgehog but it still served it's purpose. Each of them targeted the Rabbit doll and fired. The laser s hit and the doll was vaporized.

Robotnik grinned.

"Perfect," He said, "Now come back."

The E series Robots came back to where Robotnik stood.

"Not bad, " He said as they got up to him, "Not bad at all. Especially Beta and Gamma. So I've decided. I want the two of you to fight each other. Let's just see which of the two is better."

The Robots made room and the two, Gamma and Beta began fighting. At first the robots seemed evenly matched as they maneuvered out of the reach of the others shots. but then Gamma got the upper hand as went up to Beta and using his arm with the hand to pin Beta's arms down. Gamma then released shot after shot to Beta's body.

"I believe that's enough, " Robotnik said and Gamma stopped and released Beta, "I can see that Gamma is the better of the two. Now all of you, follow me to the egg carrier. Bring him too we could always use some spare parts."

So the E series Robots took Beta and followed Robotnik onto the Egg carrier.