Chapter Nine
Sonic
Everyone ran up to join us. Holding the red Chaos Emerald in my hand, I faced them and noticed Tails' blue emerald, Amy's cyan emerald, and Cream and Charmy holding a yellow emerald. Espio whipped out a purple emerald, and Knuckles showed me the green Chaos Emerald he'd found powering the warp portals. Six emeralds, I thought. If we only had one more…
"Looking for this?" said an all-too-familiar voice behind me. I whirled around to see the two hedgehog statues at the gate were gone. In their place was Shadow, holding up the gray Chaos Emerald, and Emily standing beside him.
Knuckles
Just as we were having fun, Metal Sonic, Metal Knuckles (half looking like me, half not), Metal Amy… the three most powerful mechs created. But by this time we were all super, so it didn't matter much. I knocked my fists together as I was surrounded by a purplish pink aura. I glanced to the side and saw Sonic and Shadow turn golden and Tails turn lighter as three light yellow flickies flew to join him. Amy turned golden as well as she swung her enlargened hammer. Espio became really shiny as large sparkles the color of the Chaos emeralds surrounded him. Charmy and Cream didn't have super forms but they were charged up with Chaos energy nonetheless. Zipping around at light speed, we made quick work of the three robots.
Shadow
I was the one with the first move. I zoomed with the chaos power flowing about me straight into Metal Knuckles' head. Charmy quickly zoomed behind him and dashed towards him, stinger first. I then used my most powerful punch to send him flying. Super Knuckles was waiting there to deliver the death blows. He did this quickly and with ease. "You'll never succeed!" Metal Sonic said, when all of a sudden, Amy dashed from behind him and gave him many powerful blows with her hammer. Cream gave him a quick kick, when all of a sudden, an enormous pink laser zoomed. But Amy was ready. Soon, I could tell Metal Sonic's laser system was destroyed. Suddenly, Metal Amy came up, about to slash her double…when Sonic rammed her to the ground with a powerful head-butt. Then Tails came up. "Get 'em, girls!" The flickies zoomed around, causing destruction and damage to the robots wherever they went. We all slashed, rammed and crushed the robots. Then Super Sonic and I were ready.
"CHAOS CONTROL!"
The severely damaged robots disappeared to an unknown destination.
Cream
Well, now that the robots are all dead and gone, I guess there's only one place to go. Home! I can't wait to see my mom!
Amy
I walked up to Sonic to congratulate him on this next success. Surprisingly, he thanked me first. "Amy, thank you for destroying the energy drainer." "Your welcome. And thank you for helping fight the robots." "Perfectly welcome I'm sure"
Tails
A while later we heard the full story. Shortly after Eggman had captured us, Metal Sonic and the other robots rebelled because they thought that Eggman wasn't making enough use of his captives. So they locked Eggman up and ran things themselves. This had its consequences; for example, since the robots were always fighting among each other, they broke a lot. But Eggman was the only one who knew how the fix them; so they had us make new robots instead. Before that, though, Eggman had come close to finishing a machine to turn people into robots. He tested it on Shadow and Emily when they'd wandered into his base, but it hadn't worked properly and had turned Shadow and Emily were turned to stone. His robots, unaware of this fact, decided to turn us into robots, even though it wouldn't have worked. However the machine needed a lot of power; so they kidnapped Espio to put in an energy drainer and made it look like an accident. Then they copied Knuckles' data and transformed Metal Knuckles into a copy of him. Then they turned off Knuckles' warp portal so he wouldn't give them away. However when Amy reversed the laser and we met with our Chaos Emeralds, Shadow's emerald reacted with them, turning him and Emily back. Then… well, you know the rest, don't you?