SONIC THE HEDGEHOG: SOLARIS
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Chapter Five: Eggman's Invitation
Sonic tried chasing after Elise and Eggman, but lost them thanks to Silver's interruption. Sonic ended his chase near the docks close to the Wave Ocean entrance. Just then, Tails showed up flying over his head before landing in front of the blue hedgehog. "Sonic, thank goodness I found you. Where's Elise?" Tails asked. "Eggman, he kidnapped her while me and Amy were..." Sonic was cut off. "Hold on! Did you just say Amy?" Tails questioned in surprise. "Yeah, it turns out that Mach was Amy all along." Sonic answered. "Great! Cream will be so happy when she finds out!" Tails exclaimed. "Anyway, Eggman took Elise and I don't know where he went with her." Sonic said. "Maybe I can help you there." A third voice entered the conversation.
Sonic and Tails looked over to find, to their surprise, Knuckles the Echidna walking over to them will a red card in his hands. "Knuckles, what are you doing here?" Sonic asked his hot tempered rival. "Rouge contacted me for help when I saw Eggman on the outskirts of the town." Knuckles said as he threw the red card to Sonic. "He wanted me to give you this." Knuckles said. "Sonic stared into the card until a holographic projection of Eggman appeared from it. "Sonic the Hedgehog, if you want me to return the princess, you must first give me your chaos emerald. Meet me at my base in White Acropolis, just south of the town" the projection instructed before it disappeared. Sonic threw the card back to Knuckles who just threw it down and stomped on it.
"He's pretty cocky." Knuckles said. "He's defiantly up to something. It's got to be a trap. I don't think Eggman will honor his agreement." Tails said. "I'm going." Sonic said. "Huh?" Tails questioned. Sonic pulled out the chaos emerald that was given to him by Elise and stared deeply into it. "Since Eggman went through all the trouble of telling me where Elise is, I think I should thank him personally." Sonic said. "Well if that's the case, we better get going. Eggman said his base was just south of town. We better hurry before he changes his mind." Knuckles said. Sonic nodded his head in agreement and ran south of the town with Tails and Knuckles following.
Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles trekked through the harsh, cold tundra of White Acropolis until they reached a steel door entrance that obviously led to the inside of Eggman's base. "Ok, we're here, now what?" Knuckles questioned. "I would be happy to answer that, Knuckles." Eggman's voice echoed through the mountain. "Huh? Where did that come from?" Sonic questioned. Just then, another projection of Eggman appeared in front of the group. "What do you want, Eggman? We're bringing you the chaos emerald like you asked." Sonic said. "Yes, but I've decided to have a little fun with you three before you do. Try to get past all my defenses and then you will find me in my laboratory. Oh, and can you do me a favor?" Eggman asked. "What's that?" Knuckles asked irritantly. "Try not to die." Eggman laughed before his hologram disappeared.
Just as the hologram disappeared, a large number of white fighter mechs and one yellow mech dropped from the sky and landed in front of the group. "I knew we couldn't trust him!" Knuckles exclaimed. The white mechs aimed their guns and fired at the heroes. Acting fast, Sonic grabbed Tails and ran behind a rock while Knuckles pulled out his shovel claws to burrow underground. Sonic peeked over the rock for a moment, but dropped back down when the white mechs resumed their fire. "I have to admit, Eggman sure knows how to throw a party." Sonic said. The white mechs stopped firing for a moment and cleared a path for the yellow mech. The yellow mech lifted its right arm to fire a small missile at the rock where Sonic and Tails were finding. The missile disintegrated the rock on contact, which left Sonic and Tails completely exposed. "Uh...hey guys." Sonic said nervously. The white mechs opened fire again, but Sonic quickly grabbed Tails and used his super speed to avoid the shot. "Got any ideas, Tails?" Sonic asked. "Just one." Tails says as he reaches into his backpack and pulls out his explosive rings. In a burst of blinding speed, Sonic quickly passes all the mech, placing the explosive rings on them. The rings exploded and completely destroyed the mech. "We did it!" Tail cheered. "No thanks to Knuckles. Where is he anyways?" Sonic asked.
A few moments later, Knuckles plowed out of the ground and found himself completely lost. "Ok...where am I?" Knuckles asked himself. He scanned the area and found that he was still on the mountain, only things were much different. There were search lights everywhere, an unknown building in the center and a steel door on the other side. It took a minute before Knuckles realized that he accidentally burrow under the entrance and into Eggman's base. "Well, I better let them in." Knuckles said as he walked over to the steel entrance. But then, the searchlight spotted him, which activated the alarm. With the alarm blaring all over the mountain, several flying mechs floated above Knuckles head and surrounded him. "So that's how you want to play, huh? Well then, bring it on!" Knuckles challenged.
The flying mechs used their guns to shoot at the guardian echidna, but Knuckles held up his shovel claws and used them as a shield to block the shots. But while he wasn't looking, a one of the mechs snuck up behind Knuckles and shot him in the leg. Knuckles winced in pain, which him to drop his guard for a moment. Seeing that his defense was down, the mechs fired all they had against Knuckles and forced him to the ground. The mechs ran empty on ammo and inspected their work. Knuckles had been hit by over a hundred bullets and now laid on the ground covered from head to toe in his own blood. There was no way he could have survived that. But, to the mechs surprise, Knuckles slowly pushed himself off the ground and back on to their feet. "It'll take more then that to finish me." Knuckles said weakly. The mechs tried to fire their guns, but then remembered that they used all their ammo on their previous attack. "Nothing left, huh? Well, that's fine by me." Knuckles said as he held up his shovel claws threateningly.
After being able to finish off the last of the flying mechs, Knuckles limped over to the steel entrance door. Upon reaching the door, Knuckles found a control console that required a password to open it. "Screw it." Knuckles said before he destroyed the console with his sharp fist. Lucky for him, that little stunt was able to override the password and opened the entrance. Outside, Tails noticed the entrance had opened and alerted Sonic. "Hey, Sonic, look!" Tails exclaimed as he pointed towards the entrance. "All right." Sonic said as he and Tails walked through. Upon passing the entrance, Sonic located Knuckles leaning against the steel wall. "Hey, Knucklehead. Where have..." Sonic trailed off when noticed that Knuckles was covered in blood. "Help...me" Knuckles pleaded before he passed out.
A few minutes later, Knuckles woke up and felt strangely warm in a cold environment. Knuckles sat up and noticed his body was covered by a small blanket to keep him warm. Knuckles removed the blanket and inspected his body to see that all the bullet wounds were completely gone. "What the?" Knuckles questioned. "Hey, Sonic, he's awake." Tails voice could be heard from the side. Knuckles looked over to find Tails and Sonic hovering over him. "Well it about time, Knucklehead." Sonic joked. "What happened?" Knuckles asked. "You passed out from lack of blood. You would have died if I didn't work fast." Tails explained. "Thanks." Knuckles said. "Yeah, yeah, whatever. We have to hurry if we want to save Elise." Sonic said. "Right!" Knuckles said. Sonic and his friend quickly ran into the building in the center of the mountain, where Eggman was waiting.
Sonic and the other ran into the central part of the base where Eggman said he would be. "Your late." Eggman's voice was heard. The trio looked up to see Eggman standing behind a safety glass window. "Well, we had to deal with your little pets." Knuckles said. "Where's Elise?" Sonic questioned. "My, aren't we impatient." Eggman said before he pulled Elise into view. "Sonic!" Elise cried. Sonic and the others were prepared to strike until. "You better not move. Now, the chaos emerald." Eggman demanded. Seeing that he had no choice, Sonic pulled out the blue chaos emerald and showed it to Eggman. "Place it there." Eggman instructed as a small pedestal came from under the floor. Sonic did as Eggman said and placed the chaos emerald on the pedestal and watched it sink into the floor. "Now!" Eggman exclaimed before he pressed a button on the nearby console.
All of a sudden, the three heroes were surrounded by a red energy field. Knuckles tried punching it to break free, only to be pushed back. "It's no use. It's power is too great for you to overcome. Now allow me to introduce you to my latest creation. This is the Solaris prototype." Eggman explained. Elise looked at the mad doctor in shock. Did he really recreate the monster that killed her father ten years ago? "With this machine, I will be able to control the flow of time itself!" Eggman shouted in victory. Eggman pulled a lever that activated the machine and pulled the heroes straight into the air. The heroes tried to escape, but it was futile, and disappeared in a flash of light. Elise could only stand there and watch as her only hope was taken away.
"Rest assured. They're not dead...yet." Eggman said. Eggman walked over to another control console in the room to show the files of the Solaris Project. "They've just been teleported by my glorious invention to another time. Who knows where they'll end up?" Eggman said as he downloaded the information on a portable disk. "It could be the distant past or the far future. But my machine still requires some fine-tuning. In fact, what my machine needs in order to be complete, is your power." Eggman stated. "My power?" Elise questioned. "Yes, I can finally complete my plan...now that I the chaos emerald and you, the princess of Soleanna. That's all I need to revive the Flames of Disaster. And with its power, I will be able to control everything and rule the word!" Eggman shouted manically.
After finishing with his little speech, Eggman walked over to the console and pressed a series of buttons. Just then, the pedestal with the chaos emerald was raised from the floor in the center of the room. Eggman reached over to grab it, but the chaos emerald somehow moved on its own a floated behind him. Eggman looked back to find an unknown figure holding the chaos emerald. The figure was hiding in the shadows, so it was impossible to see his face. But Eggman did notice the pulsating blue aura that surrounded him. "Who are you?" Eggman questioned. "You have made a mistake, Eggman." the figure said. "Oh, have I?" Eggman said. "Because of you, Mephiles is free and the timeline is in danger. If you free Iblis, everything will be destroyed." The figure stated. "Iblis?" Eggman questioned. "Do not make the same mistake again or everyone will die." The figure warned before it used chaos control to disappear.
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