SONIC ADVENTURE 2: SHADOW
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Chapter Ten: Lift Off to the ARK
Sonic and his friends watched as Eggman used his, recently discovered, Eclipse Cannon to blasted off half of the moon in a single shot. "Whoa, what was that?" Sonic asked in surprise. "I don't know, but it can't be good for Earth." Knuckles said. Mach looked to the timer that Eggman had left on the screen and saw that they only had 23 hour and 20 minute left for Earth to surrender.
"We have to stop him, before he destroys the world." Mach said to the group. "But how do we do that?" Cream asked. "That beam looked like it was created by the energies chaos emeralds. So all we need to do is find another chaos emerald and it should lead us to the rest." Knuckles explained. "One problem, Eggman has six of them, thanks to Shadow." Sonic told the echidna guardian. "Shadow?" "Some faker hedgehog that is helping Eggman. The main problem is finding the last chaos emerald." Sonic told them.
Then Tail walked in front of the group and pulled out a yellow chaos emerald, the last one. Sonic looked at him in surprise and asked "Tails, where did you get it?" "Some guy was selling it and I bought it from him." Tails told him. Knuckles walked up to Tails and took the emerald out of his hand to inspect it. "I sense that you have the real one, but this one is a fake isn't it?" Knuckles asked.
Tails was shocked that Knuckles knew that the emerald in his hand was a fake and pulled out the real chaos emerald from behind his back. "Two of the same chaos emeralds? But how?" Mach asked in surprise. "Well, when I found the chaos emerald, I made a copy, just incase Eggman tried to steal it. It has the same wavelength and properties as a real one, but it's not as powerful, so it would be useless to Eggman. It is impossible to know it's a fake, even with computers. But Knuckles, how did you know it was a fake?" Tail asked.
"Well, a week after Chaos had attacked the city and returned to the Master Emerald, he taught me how to sense the energies of the chaos emerald and the Master Emerald. Just incase someone might try to steal them." The red guardian explained. "It must good to have a helpful guy, like Chaos, around." Mach said. "Yeah, but if we don't get the Master Emerald back, he won't be around much longer." Knuckles told them
"WHAT!" the group shouted. "The Master Emerald was broken a while ago. Tikal told me that if I don't restore it in five day, her and Chaos will disappear forever." Knuckles explained. "How much time do you have?" Cream asked. "The same amount as Eggman's timer." Knuckles said as the group looked at the timer to see they had exactly 22 hours left. "We better hurry. Knuckles can you use the chaos emerald to find the others?" Tails asked. "I can try." Knuckle replied.
Tails handed Knuckles the real chaos emerald and he closed his eyes to concentrate. After a few minutes of meditating, Knuckles opened his eyes and said "This isn't good." "What do you mean?" Tails asked. "The chaos emeralds aren't on the planet. They are somewhere on the thing in space." Knuckles said as he looked to the ARK. "In space. How are we going to get there?" Mach asked. "I remember following that bat girl, Rouge, who tried to steal the Master Emerald, who was following Eggman into a secret base in Egypt." Knuckles explain. "Then that's where we should go to. It might have something we can use to get to that thing" Mach said.
The rest of the group agreed with him while Sonic was bugging Knuckles. "Rouge, huh. Wow, Knuckles, didn't know were such a ladies man." Sonic joked. Knuckles was red with anger (When is he not) and shouted "I am not! She stole the Master Emerald shards and I need to find her to get them back!" "Don't worry Knuckles; we'll help you find your 'girlfriend'." Sonic continued to joke as he ran away from the enraged Knuckles. "Get back here, so I can crush you!" Knuckle shouted.
The group saw the duo run off into the distance. The only problem was, they were heading in the wrong direction. "They do know Egypt is that way, right?" Mach asked as he pointed to the other direction. "I'm sure they'll figure it out soon or later and run back here." Tail said with confidence.
---One Hour Later---
The group was bored and still waiting for Sonic and Knuckles. Mach decided to rest and lay back on a piece of rumble while Tail and Cream were playing with a checker board they found on the street. Then, Sonic runs by shouting "Come on guy, lets move!" "I told you it was the other way!" Knuckles shouted, close behind Sonic. "FINALLY!" the group shouted to the heavens. "Chao chao" Cheese said as he flew from behind Cream's head. (I was wondering where he went.)
After a long trek through the Egyptian desert, the group had reached their destination with Eggman's pyramid fortress only a couple yards away. Tails looks at a small portable television to check how much time they had left. "We only have 14 hours to stop Eggman and save Chaos and Tikal." Tail told them. "That's plenty of time Tail. The pyramid is right there. We'll just go in and borrow one of the doc's ships." Sonic said with confidence.
The heroes reached to the inside of the pyramid with, surprisingly, no security to stop them. "It's weird how we get in with no one coming to blast us to pieces." Mach said "Maybe the doc's having an off day." Sonic joked. The heroes continued to walk until they had reached a steel door blocking their path. "I can tell, Eggman's ship is in here. But the problem is that we need a key to get in." Tail said. The group looked to Knuckles and he asked "What?" "Go find the key." Sonic said plainly. "What! Why me?!" Knuckles shouted. "Because your the treasure hunter. Unless you've been lying to us all this time. He's probably too afraid to look on his own." Mach said tauntingly. Knuckles erupted and said "Oh, yeah?! I'll show you!"
Knuckles was seen wondering around the corridor, looking for the key, and was grumbling about something. "I can't believe they trick me again. When I find that key, I'm gonna give them a piece of my mind!" Knuckles shout as he threw his fist at a stone wall. Wait…stone wall? Knuckles looked up to see gigantic stone golem looking down at the emerald guardian. Normally, he would just destroy the thing in an instant. But instead, he had an idea. ('Hallelujah' plays in the background.) "Where did that come from?" Knuckles asked, referring to the music.
The rest of the group was waiting for Knuckles and becoming very impatient. Well, Sonic was anyway. "Where is that Knucklehead? He should have been here by now." Sonic said fidgeting "He's only been gone for five minutes. I'm sure he's on his way back" Mach said, hoping to calm down Sonic. Just then, the ground started shaking and everyone tried their best to stay standing. The group looked down the corridor to see Knuckles being chased by the large stone golem.
"Everyone, get out of the way!" Knuckles shouted. The group followed their orders and moved away from the steel door. Knuckles ran at the door, while the stone golem sent a mighty punch straight at him. At the last second, Knuckles jump on the wall and bounced off it to let the golem's fist break the door. The newly formed hole gave the heroes a chance to get in and reach one of Eggman's ships.
"Hey, Knuckles, need any help?" Sonic offered. "No thanks, I'm good." Knuckles declined. Sonic just shrugged and ran to the ship with the rest of the gang. The stone golem once again launched a powerful punch, but Knuckles avoided it pretty easily. Knuckles jumped and sent his fist to Golems arm, but no damage was done. "What the?" Knuckles questioned. The golem's arm moved to swat Knuckles, like a fly, to the wall.
"Ok, that didn't work. Now what?" Knuckles asked himself, rubbing his aching head. When the golem moved, Knuckles noticed a glowing blue node on top of its head and guessed that was its power source. Knuckles then took notice that the stone golem was swinging at him and jumped up into the air to avoid the attack. Knuckles used this opportunity to run up the golems arm and land on its head. "This is it for you." Knuckles stated. Knuckles used his fist to destroy the node and the golem fell to the ground, no longer working.
Knuckles landed on his feet as the golem fell and figured that he had wasted enough time already. Knuckles went inside the room to find a large white rocket in the center of it. "Hey, Knuckles, get in. we're about to leave." Tails said into the loudspeaker. Knuckles arrived into the cockpit a few minutes later and took his seat. "What took ya so long?" Sonic asked mockingly. "Shut up." Knuckles responded. "Alright, everything is ready to go. Prepare for lift off." Tails announced.
Tails pressed a few buttons and the top of the pyramid began to open up. "Count down initiated." The computer announced. Everyone to their own seats and buckled up with Tails in the pilot's seat, Sonic and Knuckles in the next row, and Cream and Mach in the last row. "Launching in 5…4…3…2…1." The computer counted. The rocket took off with a loud roar as they began their flight to Space Colony: ARK, to put an end to Eggman's plans.
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