SONIC HEROES
Disclaimer: I do not own the Sonic characters, just the OC's
Chapter Eleven: Mystery and Memories
Chaos, Rouge, and Omega had just finished with their battle against the mechanical menaces and were currently pursuing the black train, which Omega said contained Eggman from within. Because of her fast flying, Rouge was able to catch up with the train, no problem. Unfortunately, because of Omega's heavy body and Chaos' sluggish movements, the two fell way behind. Rouge landed at the backdoor of the train and waved back to the other two. "See ya later, boys! I got me a treasure to find!" Rouge called back before stepping through the door. "If I ever get my claws on her, I'll kill her." Chaos proclaimed as he skidded to a stop and watched the train turn around the corner, out of their sight. "Now what do we do?" Chaos asked his robotic companion. "Perhaps an alternative method would be effective." Omega suggested as he pointed to the side. Chaos looked to where Omega was pointing to see a gigantic canyon mounted to the top of a stone pillar. "Omega, if I had a mouth, I would kiss you." Chaos said. "Negative!" Omega exclaimed before the two ran towards the cannon.
Back inside the train, Rouge walked through the door to the last car, which surprisingly held no security onboard. "That's strange. If Eggman was trying to stay safe, you would think that he would have a few bodyguards on hand." Rouge thought out loud. Upon reaching the main engine of the train, Rouge spotted something that made her shout with glee. "A chaos emerald!" Rouge exclaimed. Indeed, there was the white chaos emerald connected to the engine of the train, locked inside a glass container. Just underneath the chaos emerald container was a control console for the train. As Rouge walked up to the console, she noticed that it needed a password. "This is too easy. M-A-R-I-A, Maria." Rouge entered the password. Rouge walked over to the container, expecting it to open, when suddenly, the alarm went off. "Intruder alert! Intruder Alert! Activating security defense system!" the Alarm blared. Several security guns opened out from the walls and all aimed themselves at Rouge. "Looks like the Doctor has finally changed that password." Rouge said.
Both Chaos and Omega were treading along the side of the stone pillar, using their claws to climb up. Suddenly, Chaos stopped and Omega noticed. "Why have you ceased from moving?" Omega questioned. "I don't know, but I have a feeling something bad is happening to Rouge. This is taking to long, we have to hurry!" Chaos exclaimed. "Confirmed! Initiating back jets!" Omega stated. And just as he said, Omega activated the jets on his back to pull himself up along the stone pillar, grabbing Chaos as he passed by. When they had reached the top, Omega, landed in front of a large steel door before let Chaos down. "You can fly?!" Chaos questioned. "Negative! Flight is impossible for my mass to carry." Omega stated, but Chaos didn't really understand. "Whatever, do you think you can get us inside?" Chaos asked as he pointed to the steel door. "Affirmative!" Omega replied. Omega walked up to the steel door and displayed his immense power by busting it down with a single swing of his fist. "Whoa. Remind me never to get you angry." Chaos said. Chaos and Omega walked inside the cannon and inside they saw a large piston in the center of the room. "This seems easy." Chaos said as he scanned the room. "Too easy." Chaos said suspiciously. Just then, a large number of white fighter mechs dropped front the ceiling to land in front of the two. "Like I said, too easy." Chaos said.
The white mechs all raised their guns in unity and fired at once. Chaos instinctively dropped to the ground to avoid the shots, but Omega, thanks to his heavy armor, just stood in place, allowing the shots to bounce off of him. "Enemy threat detected! Initiating attack sequence!" Omega stated. Omega retracted his claws to replace them with machine guns and fired at the mech in a wild and unusual manner. One by one, the mechs were being destroyed by Omega in the front, while Chaos reverted to his liquid form to sneak up on them from behind. Once he was behind them, Chaos changed to his solid form and extended both of his claws to burst through two of the mechs backs. "Alright, who's next?" Chaos said. The fighter mechs turned back to Chaos and started shooting towards his direction. Chaos quickly back flipped, accidentally falling into the piston. "This can't be good." Chaos said. And just as he thought, the piston suddenly moved up and mounted itself inside the cannon above.
"This feels really uncomfortable" Chaos said as he felt himself being stuffed inside the cannon. Back down with Omega and the mechs, Omega was shooting towards a group of red fighter mechs that had just arrived a few moments ago. Unfortunately the red mechs armor was made of stronger alloy then the white mechs and was immune to Omega gun shots. Because of the powerful missiles, the mechs had Omega was forced to hide behind a broken plate of steel. "Chances of a successful victory are dropping exponentially. Switch to alternative attack method." Omega stated. Omega retracted his machine guns to replace them for his claws. The sides of Omega's arms opened to reveal a series of small missiles latched to them. Omega moved out from behind the steel plate to fire the missiles at his attackers. Unfortunately, one of the missiles was off course and destroyed the control console for the cannon. "What was that?" Chaos asked himself when he felt that the cannon began to move. "This cannot be good." Chaos said. All of a sudden, Chaos felt himself being launched out of the cannon and was flying across the canyon.
Back on the train, laser fire could be heard from inside. Then suddenly, Rouge burst through the window to land outside on a steel walkway. "Whew, that was a close one." Rouge sighed in relief. She smiled proudly as she held the white chaos emerald within her gloved hand. "Well, at least something good came out of this." Rouge said as she stood to her feet. Just then, her sensitive ears caught the sound of a gun reloading from behind. Rouge turned to see three white fighter mechs aiming their guns at her head. "Uh...hi?" Rouge chuckled nervously. All had seem finished for Rouge until a blue blur dropped from the sky and collided with the mechs, causing them to fall off the walkway and drop down into the canyon. Rouge took a closer look to see that her rescuer was Chaos, who was dizzily trying to get back up. "Ok, that hurt." Chaos said while trying to get up and almost fell until Rouge caught him. "That was a crazy thing you did." Rouge said. "Well, I'm a crazy guy." Chaos said. "Yeah, that obvious." Rouge chuckled. "What were you doing anyway?" Chaos asked. "Look what I found." Rouge said as she held out the chaos emerald. "Let me see that." Chaos said as he took the emerald from Rouge's hands. Chaos stared at it, entranced by its shining gleam, until a flash of light appeared inside his mind.
---Flashback---
Chaos found himself in an unknown area and spotted a beautiful, newly built shrine. "What's that?" Chaos asked himself as he moved closer to the shrine. As he drew closer, he noticed a large emerald standing at the top and someone kneeling at the steps of the shrine. It was a beautiful echidna girl surrounded by many chao. Those who knew her referred to her as Tikal and she looked sad for some reason. Chaos moved close to her, but didn't even seem to register his presence. He reached out to touch her, but his just passed through her body. "What is happening?" Chaos asked. "Please, you must leave. If you don't, I fear for your safety." Tikal said. Chaos looked around to see who see was talking to, but spotted no one. Then, he witnessed the water around the temple as it began to move, as if it was trying to talk to Tikal. To his surprise, Chaos actually understood what the water was saying. Strangely the voice sounded like his own.
"No, Tikal, I cannot do that. I must remain where I am." The water replied. "Please, you must. My father will attack the temple and I don't want you hurt." Tikal said with tears ready to fall from her eyes. The water moved once more. "Tikal, my brothers sacrificed their lives so that I may succeed it defeating Nazo. I cannot let their deaths be in vein." The water replied. "I understand. You must protect the emeralds from those who wish to use them for evil. I will try to convince my father to stop this once more. Please be safe." Tikal said. "Thank you, Tikal. Don't worry, if I could survive the battle against Nazo, then a few echidnas should prove to be no trouble." the water said and everything disappeared in a flash of light.
Chaos found himself awakened when Rouge began slapping him across the face. "Hey, quit it!" Chaos yelled, ending Rouge's slap fest. "Well it's about time. I was starting to think that brain of yours fell out." Rouge said. Chaos made no effort to reply to Rouge's mockery and Rouge noticed this. "Hey, what's wrong?" Rouge asked. "Nothing. Come on let's go. We still have to pick up Omega." Chaos said. The two were prepared to leave until the sound of jet engines reached their ear (that is, if Chaos even has any). The duo turned around to witness a gigantic red hawk-like machines passing over the canyon walls to float in front of them. After a close examination, they noticed Eggman sitting at the pilot's seat.
"My, if it isn't Rouge and Chaos. How have you been?" Eggman asked cheerfully. "Doctor Eggman." Rouge said, perking Chaos' interest. "So this is Eggman. Now's my chance for some answers." Chaos though. "Get ready, you fools." Eggman said as he prepared to press a random button until. "Hold on!" Eggman looked to see Chaos moving towards him. "Eggman, please, I must. Tell me, why can't I remember my past?" Chaos asked, making Eggman laugh. "You fool. The reason you can't remember your past is because you don't have one to remember." Eggman stated. "What?!" Chaos shouted in shock. "Now, where was I. Oh, yes. Prepare to meet your doom!" Eggman proclaimed.
Eggman pressed a button on the control panel to activate the Egg-Hawk's laser turrets. The laser turrets turn to shoot at Chaos and Rouge, but the white bat had already taken to the skies. As she looked back, she noticed that Chaos remained standing in the same spot as before. "Chaos, move!" Rouge shouted. "Too late!" Eggman shouted joyously. As the lasers came closer, no one noticed the chaos emerald being absorbed into Chaos hand. The lasers landed their mark and the spot was covered in a layer of smoke. "Chaos." Rouge said in a sorrowful manner, believing Chaos was finished. When the smoke had cleared Chaos was still standing without a scratch and had changed. He was now taller, bulkier, and had a line of bones with the chaos emerald in his right arm. He had become Chaos 1. "Time to end this little game." Chaos 1 said with an evil tone. Chaos 1 charged at the Egg-Hawk, sending the evil doctor into a panic. "No, no, stop him!!!" Eggman yelled. The turrets fired their lasers, but Chaos merely swung the laser fire away with his right arm. When he was right under it, Chaos jumped up to crash through the Egg-Hawk and it exploded.
It was at that time that Omega had finally reach Rouge and the two of them walked over to the crash sight to see Chaos, in his default form, standing in front of Eggman. "Eggman unit has been destroyed!" Omega stated. "Don't be too sure." Chaos said. Rouge and Omega looked at Chaos in confusion until he kicked Eggman's side, which, to their surprise, caused his chest to open and reveal a mechanical Eggman head. It had become obvious that this Eggman was a fake. Omega shook his fist in anger while Rouge spotted something next to the fake Eggman. It was a head and not just any head, it was Chaos' head. Rouge watched as the cause head dissolved into a useless puddle of water and guessed that Chaos noticed it as well. "Chaos..." Rouge tried to speak, but Chaos interrupted. "Come on, let's get moving." Chaos said as he started to walk away with his teammate behind him. But when Team Dark had left, the fake Eggman dissolved into a silver puddle and took upon another form. "It would seem that Chaos has doubts about his existence. Hmm...This may work to my advantage."
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