I know I said every other week, but I'm on a role here!
There will definitely be a lot of changes, trust me.
How exactly? Well…
I don't know myself! But there will be, that I promise or my name isn't… well you know my name.
Anyway… here's chapter three. After this, the chapters will be either episodes long, or halved.
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Right above the ocean, there was an island floating in midair. The island is known as Angel Island, where the shrine for the Master Emerald rests. Knuckles was atop the altar, asleep on the job, when he heard a whirling sound. He immediately got to his feet, and stared into the sky, watching as a giant robot descended from above. The robot landed inside the forest, sending a shockwave through the ground as it landed.
Knuckles was at the edge of the altar, growing more worried. "This looks like… trouble."
The giant robot's dome on the top of its head turned dark red, obviously being his eye. "Preparing area for Planet Egg removal." From the top of the devil-like horns from its head, lightning bolts shot out, destroying the trees around. Fires were started, as more and more trees exploded.
Knuckles was stunned by the attack on the forest. "If that thing isn't stopped, it's gonna burn up every tree in the forest!" Knuckles jumped from the island and started to glide to the attacker. The robot just stayed in place as the forest around him continued to burn.
"Hey, knock it off you firebug!" Knuckles threw back his fist, and launched it back forward towards the robot. The fist hit directly, sending a clang throughout the robot, but the blow didn't even dent it. The robot turned, sending its arm right at Knuckles, knocking him back into the forest. Knuckles manage to land on his feet, as he skidded to a stop.
From out of the sky, missiles flew right towards the giant robot. The missiles hit their target, exploding on impact. The X-Tornado followed, as an orange speck jumped from its wings, landing right by Knuckles.
"Looks like you need help."
"Tyler? Wait, me? Need help? Are you crazy? I can take that thing with one glove behind my back!"
Up above, Tails was circling around in the X-Tornado, with the smaller, green girl in the co-pilot's seat. She went with Tails and Tyler to help with fighting the Meterax robot, while Cream, Amy, and the taller, yellow girl were told to try and find Jerred, Kristen, and Muctarr, who headed home a while before the two girls woke up.
"This doesn't look good," stated Tails. He turned around to see the girl sitting behind him staring at the Meterax robot, not listening to him, just watching as the giant robot continued to destroy the forest.
Down below, Tyler and Knuckles dashed straight for the robot. "Looks like our only hope is to keep pounding away," yelled Knuckles.
"Don't worry," said Tyler, as he reached into his tails' fur. "I'll be able to take him easily with-" He stopped in his tracks, while Knuckles continued forward. "What the? Where the heck is it? Wait a minute…" Having his memory of the fight back, he recalled what happened towards the end. "Oh….crap!"
Tails steered his plane right for the Meterax. "We're going on the attack! Are you ready?" he asked the girl in the back. She nodded as they darted right towards the giant robot. He fired missiles as they exploded on the robot, still not causing any damage.
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Amy, Cream, and the other girl had found Jerred, Kristen, and Muctarr. They went off into the battleground as they watched from a nearby hill.
"The whole forest is on fire!" said Cream.
A thought came across Amy's mind. "This can't be just a coincidence." She turned to the yellow plant-girl. "I have a feeling that you and that other girl know why this is happening. You sure there's no way that you'll talk to us?"
The girl sighed. "I guess I have no choice… You deserve to know exactly what that is and why it's here."
"Why is it here?" asked Cream.
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"Do you know why it came here, or why it's destroying all the trees?" asked Tails, back in the X-Tornado. The girl had a sad expression on her face.
"Its mission is to find the life force of this planet and steal it away." Just as she answered, a blue streak flew by the plane, ramming the Meterax robot. The impact sent the robot falling backwards, as the blue hedgehog landed on the ground.
Amy and Cream easily recognized the blue hedgehog. "It's Sonic!" they said in unison. The girl with them stared at Sonic.
"So that's… the one."
"He's back!" exclaimed Tails, inside the plane. The girl behind him tried to stand up, bumping her head on the glass dome sealing them in. Tails heard the bump as he turned around.
"You okay?"
The girl was holding her head. "Yes. So that's Sonic, our only hope."
The Meterax stood back up, as it stared at Sonic. Sonic stared back, "You the one who's going down in flames now!" He let out his trademark grin, brushing off his nose.
"Heads up, Sonic!" came from above. Sonic looked up to see the X-Tornado pass by, as a power ring flew down to him. Sonic grabbed the ring, absorbing its power.
"Thanks, Tails!" Sonic, with his new power, unleashed a powerful spin-dash, and slammed right into the Meterax, knocking him back. The robot roared as he unleashed little mechanical claws from all over his body. The claws were about to hit Sonic, when they stopped in their tracks. Suddenly, the Meterax was lifted into the air, a tossed across the forest. As Sonic landed, he saw Kristen, Muctarr, and Jerred, who was panting.
"Man, I need pant to workout more! That pant thing is heavy!"
Sonic gave a thumbs up. "Thanks for the help!" Suddenly, Knuckles came flying into view, as he landed on the ground next to Sonic. Tyler was running behind him, to check on him, when he saw Sonic.
"Nice to see you're not dead!" said Tyler with a smile. Knuckles struggled to his feet.
"Yeah, yeah, hellos can come later! Right now, we need to defeat this thing. It's pretty tough!"
Sonic had some sweat coming from his head. "Yeah, but we can beat him if we work together."
"Gotta plan?" asked Muctarr.
"Team up and take him out!" said Sonic before dashing forward. Everyone else followed as they charged for the Meterax. The giant Meterax unleashed red lightning bolts from his head, stopping everyone in their tracks. Tails fired more missiles from the X-Tornado, still not budging the Meterax.
"We'll have to use the Chaos Emeralds to stop this thing! You and Tyler can use them to take him out," exclaimed Knuckles. He saw Tyler scratching his head, facing the other way, while Sonic started chuckling nervously.
"Yeah, about that…" started Sonic.
"Well, where are they?" asked Knuckles. Tyler turned to Sonic.
"Yeah, Sonic? Why don't you tell him hat happened?" repeated Tyler, who knew the answer.
"You're not helping. Anyway, well… me and Tyler got into this fight out in space and, uh… the bad guy was gonna take them from us, so…I sent them away!"
Knuckles was quiet for a moment, until he snapped out. "You threw them away?"
Sonic nodded. "Exactly!"
Knuckles grabbed Sonic, panicking. "YOU IDIOT! WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO?"
Sonic smiled. "Uh, I guess try and find them again." Suddenly, a claw from the Meterax swooped down on them, knocking Sonic and Knuckles back, while everyone else saw it coming and dodged it.
Suddenly, from the center of the forest, a light shone from the ground. The Meterax advanced towards it. "Proceeding with Planet Egg removal." The light started to tear the ground, as it grew bigger. Soon, it engulfed everything with its bright light. Afterwards, the light faded, leaving a crater where it first started to shine. Inside, a small crystal appeared. The crystal was cubed-shape, and had a small galaxy in the center of it. The crystal started to float into the sky.
"What the hell?" asked Tyler.
The X-Tornado flew above. "He's found the Planet Egg," said the young girl.
Tails was curious. "What's the Planet Egg?"
"It's the life-force that sustains your world," answered the older girl, who was asked the same question by Amy and Cream.
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The ground around them all started to turn grey. The trees that managed not to be hit by the Meterax's attacks were dying immediately. The leaves disappeared as the trees died.
"The Planet Egg is what gives your world the power to support life. Without it, everything here will soon perish."
Everyone watched in horror as their planet was dying. The giant Meterax used one of its claws to grab the Planet Egg. "Procedure complete. Liftoff." The giant Meterax then took to the skies.
"Hold it!" screamed Sonic, as he spin-dashed at the giant Meterax. The robot threw one of his claws at Sonic, knocking him back towards the ground.
"I gotcha!" yelled Knuckles, as he dove for Sonic. He managed to catch him as he landed hard on the ground. Jerred ran over to check on them, but quickly noticed that they landed right past two trees that resembled the posts for an end zone. He couldn't resist.
"Touchdown!" he yelled, throwing up both arms. He started to snicker; all the while the Meterax flew farther and farther away.
"Oh, no you don't!" yelled Tyler. He commenced twirling his tails, as he headed for the X-Tornado. He landed right next to the cockpit. He knocked on the glass. "Tails, follow that thing!"
Tails nodded as he controlled his plane to fly upwards, following the Meterax. He was starting to gain on the Meterax, but the robot picked up speed, leaving them behind. Tails pushed the throttle, but it was no avail, for the robot was out past the atmosphere. The plane slowed to a stop as Tails reverted it back towards the ground.
"I can't go any higher! This plane wasn't built for outer space!" He heard some moaning coming the back, as he turned around to see the girl with a dizzy, sick look on her face. "Are you alright?"
"I feel… dizzy." She started to shake her head back and forth to become focused again. She put her hand on the glass. "Could you… open this for a moment, please?"
"What?"
"This thing can open up while you're flying, right?"
Tails was still confused from the question. "Well, yeah, but, I don't think that it's safe to open it up at this altitude."
"Please, Tails."
"Okay, there you go…" He pushed a button, as the glass dome pulled back. Tyler was still out on the wing.
"What are you doin- HEY!" Tails looked to see the girl jumped out, falling right for the ground.
Tyler and Tails were dumbfounded. "The heck she do that for? Tails?" Tails shook his head.
"Don't look at me. She asked for me to open it up."
Tyler sighed. "Tails, Tails, Tails… You just can't say no to girls, can you?"
Tails was taken aback by the question, before realizing something. "Hey, shouldn't we be helping her?"
Tyler slapped his head. "Duh! I'll get her." He dove from the plane and headed straight for the girl.
"Always wanted to sky-dive!" He spun his tails to propel him forward, but he soon fell past the girl. He stopped himself from falling, and flew back up from the girl. She was using her dress as a floatation device, and was softly falling to the ground.
"You know, we could have just flown you down!" yelled Tyler.
"Sorry…"
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"You didn't put up much of a fight against that thing, Sonic. You sure you feeling okay?" asked Knuckles. They had met up with each other, so the one girl would explain what happened.
"It's been a long day. Jeez, lay off!" yelled Sonic.
Amy turned to the girl. "So what exactly was that thing?"
"Well-" she stopped as she looked up. They all looked up to see Cosmo floating down, with Tyler flying down right beside her. They both landed in the center of the group. Cosmo dusted off her dress, before looking up to Sonic.
"Well, should we start by introducing ourselves?"
Sonic shrugged. "I guess."
"My name is Cosmo," said the younger, green plant-girl, "and we've come a long way to find you."
The older, yellow plant-girl went to the center. "And my name's Angelique. Cosmo here is my little sister."
Kristen smiled. "Ooohhh, you two look just alike! I should have seen it before!"
"I woulda guessed twins first if Angie or whatever wasn't taller," said Muctarr.
"Hey, she said her name's Angelique!" stated Tyler. He turned to Angelique. "You'll have to excuse him; he's screwed up in the head."
"Oh, okay," said Angelique, nodding her head.
"What are you saying? You're the most screwed up one here!" stated Muctarr.
Tyler held up a fist. "You're about to be screwed up even more if you don't shut up!"
"Why are they fighting?" asked Cosmo.
Kristen chuckled. "That's every other day with us."
Angelique turned away from the fight. "Well, anyway, Cosmo and I have sought you out, Sonic, because you have the power to control the Chaos Emeralds."
"What?" screamed Tyler, in another high-pitched voice, who stopped in the middle of his fight with Muctarr. "You serious? I can use the Chaos Emeralds better than him!"
Sonic laughed. "Yeah, right! I've been using them way longer than you!"
"Yeah, but can you use Chaos Spear or Chaos Blast? I didn't think so…"
Cosmo was confused. "So, you can use the Chaos Emeralds too?"
"We basically all can! I can, Sonic can, Kristen, Jerred, Muctarr… I'm even teaching Tails how to use them!" exclaimed Tyler.
Angelique held her hand up. "So, you all can help us?"
Tyler nodded his head up and down. "Just tell us what to do and we'll do it! Nothing's too hard for us!"
"Well, the reason we needed Sonic in the first place was to save the galaxy," stated Cosmo.
Tyler almost fell over. "That might be a problem… Especially considering the fact that we can't go into space."
"We need to go into space?" came a voice. Everyone turned to see Tails walking up.
Cosmo nodded. "Yes, in order to fight the Meterax, we need to go into space."
Sonic shrugged his shoulders up. "And we have no way of getting there!"
Tails let out a smile. "Oh, yes we do."
"We do?" they all said in unison.
"Yeah, follow me to my lab and I'll show you!" Tails took off running in the direction of his lab, as everyone else followed.
'Looks like we're in for a fight,' thought Tyler. 'Who knew that a wish could bring a war with it? Note to self, never, ever, EVER, make another wish again!'
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I knew. I know everything. In fact, right now, you're thinking that "Wow! This story is great! I can't wait for the next chapter! Maybe I should pay C. Tyler Prower money so he can finish the next chapter as soon as possible!"
Ok… maybe not the last part, but…
Everyone's introduced, so now, this is when the story kicks into action! So be sure to read the next exciting chapter of Brothers United 2: Brothers and Sisters!