Zero Sagas
Chapter 9: A New Friend Arrives
(A/N), I own Zero, Sapphire, Nightmare, and Lifeform 0. I also own the idea of Zero Sagas. I DON'T own Sonic, Shadow, Amy, Knuckles ect. They belong to their respectful owners.
MEANWHILE…
"Whew… are we there yet?" A burgundy echidna asked her friend.
"No…not yet anyway…" A tan echidna called back
"Chao chao!" A female chao called out to her friends.
"Look! Quartz has found something!" The burgundy echidna called to the tan echidna.
The burgundy stepped up to her chao's side, she was tall and wore a light, long, purple vest with black satin shorts, and purple boots, her bangs were shiny and her eyes were lilac. The tan echidna approached her friend; she wore a violet dress with black shoes, her dreadlocks were pulled back into a ponytail, she was a short echidna and her eyes were dark brown.
"What do you think that is, Michelle?" The burgundy echidna asked her friend.
"I am not sure Julia." Michelle's eyes skimmed the valley as though she was trying to identify the area.
Bellow them was a giant valley, in the valley was a huge amount of ruins that seemed to have been destroyed and weathered by 100,000 years war. Trees lay on there sides and the area was covered in rocks and rubble. The sky was covered in clouds that could let rain down any second.
"Let's go explore the area, perhaps we could find out what happened, come on Quartz!" Julia beckoned to the chao, turned and ran down the hills, being sure not to trip on any rubble that lay in the way.
"Chao!" Quartz flew down into the valley to Julia's side.
"Hmm… something doesn't feel right…" Michelle surveyed the area one last time, turned and carefully walked down into the valley.
MEANWHILE…
Eggman stepped out of the interrogation room with Instro at his side. A robot walked to his side with some papers and charts in hand.
"Sir, The decrystalizer you requested has been finished. The updates for it have been installed and the chance of releasing the creature inside of it has been raised to 80 percent." The robot looked over his papers and up to his master with joy in his mood.
"Excellent, I have all of the things I need, now show me the decrystalizer." Eggman ordered his minion.
The robot turned and led Eggman into a room where there was a giant case; it was out lined with six inches of metal and glass so the crew would be protected if anything went wrong. The machine stood seven feet tall but the roof was high enough so the machine didn't touch the roof. It was connected to a monitor and a computer that helped operate the machine.
"Excellent! Everything is going according to plan!" Eggman approached the computer and started typing on the keyboard.
"Sir, how do you know this machine will work?" A robot asked.
"I shall show you." Eggman inserted his hand and withdrew a crystallized fly. He opened the door to the machine and set the fly in, he pressed a couple buttons on the keyboard and the door shut, trapping the fly. Eggman typed a couple more buttons and the machine charged up; it began to flash white and green and started to hum. The machine flashed brighter and brighter until it made a giant flash of lime green and the humming sound stopped. Eggman opened the door and the fly flew out of the machine, totally normal.
"Excellent! Now, bring me the hedgehog!" Eggman beckoned to his robots, which opened a door and wheeled out the crystallized hedgehog. "Now, since this is a pretty big crystal I will need this!" Eggman withdrew a Chaos Emerald from his pocket. The robots opened the door and set the crystal into the machine. Eggman set the Chaos Emerald into the power source and the machine's energy supply went off the charts. "Here we go!" Eggman typed quite a few buttons on the keyboard and the machine began to hum. It flashed white and green, and then began to hum and flash louder, faster, brighter. It began to get extremely loud and bright and the machine started to rock in all directions. It made a loud beeping sound and then it flashed a lime green color. Suddenly the beeping, and flashing stopped, then the machine's door opened.
A deep gray hedgehog stepped out. He looked down at his body and then looked around. "Who has released me from my imprisonment?"
MEANWHILE…
Michelle, Julia, and Quartz searched the area. They looked through piles of rubble to see if they could find anything, but to no avail. Quartz flew around picking up rocks and throwing them into little piles, Michelle stood on a tall pile of rubble with her hands on her hips, surveying the area around. Julia sat next to a large broken wall staring into the sky.
"Who could have done this? All these peaceful people, gone." Michelle gazed into the distance looking at the clouds, and the hills around them.
"I wish I knew… whoever did must have had a real problem with those who lived here." Julia examined some of the stones she was standing on then looked into the distance.
"Chao!" Quartz flew to Julia and pointed into the distance
"Wha?" Julia looked to the area Quartz was pointing in, then she called to her friend. "Michelle, look! Someone's coming!"
A few feet away was someone advancing toward them, 'who is that? It looks like a girl; it must be a survivor of this war.' Julia thought to herself.
Only when the figure was closer could Julia identify her, she wore a purple tank top; black shorts, along with black boots, she also wore a cape which had dark blue waves across it. Julia jumped down from the pile of rubble and approached the pink hedgehog.
"Who are you?" Julia examined this girl. 'She is pretty dirty; she looks like she has been here for a while'
"My name is Haze the Hedgehog. I am looking for a friend called Sapphire the Hedgehog, have you seen her?" Haze asked
"No, I haven't." Julia wondered who this 'Sapphire' was.
"How did you get here?" Michelle asked.
"I have been traveling this place for a while now, I just returned to see if Sapphire has returned here." Haze looked at Michelle then back at Julia. "I see that you have many questions, come with me, I shall answer them all for you."
Haze turned and led Michelle, Julia, Haze, and Quartz down into one of the ruined buildings, she lead them into an old, dusty hallway and they sat down on one of the side laying Obelisks.
"Now, what questions do you have?" Haze asked them
"Well, one of my questions is, where are we?" Julia looked around the room for a second then turned her attention to Haze.
"This is the hall of the Oracle, this town is, or was, the ancient city of Matiar." Haze explained.
"What happened to this city?" Michelle asked
"Well, this is where the great war of darkness was held, this is where the legendary hedgehog sealed away the great evil of Chaos." Haze looked at the ceiling then back to Julia and Michelle.
"Tell us about this 'Sapphire'" Julia asked.
"Sapphire was an old friend in the time of the war, we lived in this town, she was devoted to saving the hedgehog she loved, his name was Zero." Haze smiled and looked at Julia
"Wait, how long ago was this war?" Michelle looked at Haze with a curios expression
"Sorry, I can't say." Haze gave a small frown and looked to Michelle
"Tell us about Zero." Julia requested.
"Well, Zero is, or was, a great explorer, he didn't live in one specific town and he traveled around. When he arrived to this town Sapphire fell in love with him, but the town elders didn't really approve, let alone her father." Haze looked at the ceiling again. "Zero came to this town and got possessed by the evil spirit of the Master Emerald. This spirit was power hungry and forced Zero to steal all the Chaos Emeralds, the spirit then used all of the energy of the Chaos Emeralds and the Master Emerald to become a solid being, but could not leave Zero's body. We all knew Zero was a good guy but when we learned an evil spirit had possessed him it was too late. When he started stealing the Chaos Emeralds from the town the elders became outraged, they went after Zero but got a horrible shock. Zero absorbed all the energy of the Chaos Emeralds and the Master Emeralds and became the unstoppable might of Lifeform 0. He killed the Elders, raised an army of Omega Knights and attacked this town." Haze looked down to the floor and rested her head in her hands.
"So you mean Lifeform 0 is the evil spirit of the Master Emerald!" Michelle jumped to her feet with a shocked expression on her face.
"Yes, when all hope seemed lost a legendary hedgehog showed up and imprisoned him inside a crystal." Haze looked at Michelle.
"That Lifeform 0 must have been an evil guy." Julia thought aloud.
"That is why I'm looking for Sapphire, I have reason to believe he is going to be resurrected by a power hungry human in this world." Haze stood to her feet.
"Eggman!" Michelle suddenly realized. "He is the type of power hungry evil man to do that!"
"Oh no! We must do something! If we don't the world could be destroyed! We must find Sapphire!" Haze demanded.
"Okay, you can join Team Chaotic!" Julia stated.
"Team Chaotic?"
"That's the name of our group." Michelle explained
"Okay!" Haze replied, "Let's go!" Haze turned and led Michelle, Julia, and Quartz out of the hall of the Oracle.
To Be Continued…
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