Chapter Seven
Espio
I felt weak, but at least I had a chance to live now that the machine wasn't sucking every bit of life I had. When I heard Tails scream, I finally felt enough strength to open my eyes. Seeing Charmy and Cream, I grabbed on to the end of the chain and yanked Tails up to the surface. Now, though, I felt like I would collapse. My sides ached and my throat was dry. Tails turned to me. "Espio's alive?" he asked. I panted, "Not… for long," And blacked out.
Cream
First Charmy was crying and now he's doing a jig. I don't get him one little bit. What's the big deal about a chameleon? Maybe he feels the same way about him that I feel about my mom. Maybe I was wrong about how he doesn't know how I feel. Maybe he knows all too well.
"Um, guys?" said Tails. "Yea! Espio's okay! Espio is- wait, what?" "We need to get Espio somewhere safe!" "Oh, yeah, well, we're off to find somewhere sa-afe! The wonderful somewhere-safe of… Somewhere!" Me and Tails exchanged looks and rolled our eyes. This would be quite a while…
Amy
For all my struggles going one way, it was ridiculously easy going the extra mile… No, more like half a mile. Dim light shone ahead. As I walked through, I gasped. It was Eggman's base.
I mean, it couldn't have been anything else. It had metal everywhere and tubes with robot- no, containers where robots should be. In the center of it all was a cyan chaos emerald. To the side was a large laser. Curious, I walked up to it. "Energy Drainer: Drains energy to a certain point to cause the being to be ordinary." Ordinary. I could only assume what that meant, but I could guess it meant an innocent bystander. Someone with no powers at all. Then I looked again. "WARNING: IF NOT USED ON INDIVIDUAL FREQUENTLY, THE BEING IN QUESTION WILL SLOWLY REGAIN THEIR POWER." Below that it said, "Comes with an emergency reverse switch."
Now, if only I could find that switch. Maybe it was the black switch labeled "Reverse". FWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Or not.
The laser gun blasted backwards into the wall, shattering everything in its path. However when it backed against the wall it hit a button. "Whirr, reversing process. Click".
Splendid. Now let's get that Chaos Emerald to round out my success.
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Dang.