Sonic, Manic, Jennifer and Sonia looked impressed when the giant submarine just showed up in front of them on the beach.
"Ho... How'd ya do that!?" Manic asked, surprised.
Cyrus smiled, and put a remote control back in his pocket. "Teleporting! Trevor just invented it. You can transport anything to anyplace!" he said,
"Well now... We should test that submarine!" he opened a hatch to the craft with another remote control, and he, Manic, Sonic, Jennifer, Sonia walked inside, and sat down in the seats. They looked dumbfounded at the cockpit. There were a lot of buttons plus radar's, and everything.
"Hey, Cyrus! Do you think WE can drive THIS!?" Sonic asked.
Cyrus shrugged his shoulders. "You can learn it! I can drive it!" he said.
"Of course YOU can! You've built it!" Manic said.
"And I can teach you to do it! Come on guys!" Cyrus said, and closed the hatch.
"Honestly! We can't find the last emerald without trying, so why give up?!" Sonia said.
"If you don't wanna learn to drive it, I will!" Jennifer said, and folded her arms.
Sonic and Manic sighed. "Those girls never give up! O.K. then!" Sonic said.
Sonia and Jennifer smirked to each other.
"Great! Well, first, you use the handles to drive the vehicle itself. Push, and you'll dive, pull, and you'll go up!" Cyrus said, "You push the blue button to start the engines, and the green to stop... The second handle is to the claw. You activate that with the yellow button, and grip a thing with the button on the handle. To deactivate it, just pull it inside with the yellow button again. The lever beside Jennifer is the turbo. That's actually everything you have to know!" he pointed at the buttons one by one, and then, sat down in a seat beside Sonic, who looked surprised at him.
"Are ya goin' with us?" he asked.
Cyrus nodded.
Sonic shrugged his shoulders. "O.K. then! Let's find that wreck! We're DIVING!" he said, and started the engines.
They were still at low water, so they couldn't dive yet. Several minutes later, Sonic pushed the handle down, and the submarine began to dive, slowly.
"Here we go!" Manic said, and looked out the window while the water enveloped them.
"Manic! The map!" Sonic said.
Manic nodded, pulled the map out of his bag, and unfolded it. "Straight out until we come to a cliff, then, turn left." he said, folded the map up, sat back, and looked out the window again.
A lot of different animals swam around wherever he looked, and there were a lot of colors too.
"It's beautiful, huh?" Jennifer asked, and looked at Manic.
He nodded. "Yeah. It's like being in the air while everything around you floats!" he said.
"At least Robotnik can't invade under the sea!" Sonic said, "Maybe you should turn on the turbos, J. We're here to test this craft!" he pointed at the lever beside Jennifer.
She nodded, and pulled the lever. The craft began to move faster, and suddenly, a cliff wall showed up.
"The wall. Push the handle to your left!" Cyrus said.
Sonic pushed the handle to his left, and the craft turned.
"What now, Manic?" Sonic asked.
Manic looked at the map again. "That's all!" he said.
"Are ya sure? I can't see any wreck!" Sonic said.
Manic nodded. "Sure, dude, sure!" he said, leaned back in his seat, and closed his eyes.
Suddenly, a great wreck showed up. "Whoa! I think you were right, bro.! There it is!" Sonic said.
Manic smiled, opened his eyes, and then, gasped when he saw the wreck. "It... It looks like a phantom ship or somethin' like that! Spooky!" he said.
Jennifer nodded, and shuddered. "That isn't the word for it!" she said.
"Could that be Aphrodite!? I thought it would be a beautiful ship with a name sounds like that!" Sonia said.
"It WAS a beautiful ship! Until it sank many years ago!" Cyrus said.
Sonic smiled. "Well, let's check it out! We've got to find that emerald!" he said, and drove towards the wreck.
"We're... We're going in there!?" Manic asked.
"Of course! Are ya SCARED, bro?!" Sonic asked, and grinned.
Manic shook his head. "No, I'm not! It's just that... This place isn't the coolest I've ever seen before!" he said.
"Ditto here!" Jennifer said.
Sonic snickered. "Yeah, right!" he said, and drove the submarine through a great crack, and entered the wreck.
Everything seemed old in there. "Aw, man! Did this ship sink before the time of the dinosaurs!?" Manic asked.
Cyrus turned a transportable computer on. "No, not exactly… It sank in 3224. Or that's what the data says!" he said.
"Wow, so this ship is as old as we are!?" Sonic asked.
Cyrus nodded. "Maybe older. It SANK in 3224, I don't know when it was built!" he said, and turned the computer off.
"Pretty impressive. Honestly! I can't see anything!" Sonic said, and looked out in the dark. "You COULDN'T! Watch this!" Cyrus said, and pressed a button. A floodlight turned on.
Sonic smiled. "Great, Cyrus, great!" he said.
"What did you expect?" Cyrus asked.
Suddenly, the ceiling over them began to rumble, and a skeleton fell down on the roof of the submarine. Everyone screamed, and Sonic drove the craft into a wall by accident.
"What the heck!?" Sonic asked when a hole opened in the wall, and a yellow emerald showed up in front of them.
"The last emerald!" they all said in unison. Sonic pressed the yellow button, and activated the claw, which sat on the front of the submarine.
Sonia grabbed the handle to the claw.
"O.K. sis! You can do it!" Manic said.
Sonia drove the claw close to the emerald.
"Get it, sis!" Sonic said, and Sonia grabbed the emerald with the claw, and pulled it inside.
"We got it!" she said, and deactivated the claw. Sonic smiled.
"Nice, sis! Well, let's get up! I think Orc is waiting for us!" he said.
Cyrus walked over, opened a hatch, and took the emerald from the claw. "So this is a royal emerald!? Amazing!" he said, and sat down on his seat again.
"Yeah! Our family secret is sealed inside each of the four royal emeralds. I'm just wondering why mother didn't tell us about it before now!" Sonia said.
Cyrus gave the emerald to her.
"Well, it's O.K. now. All four emeralds are where they belong!" Jennifer said.
"O.K., we're goin' up! I wanna get back to where I belong! On the ground!" Sonic said, and pulled in the driving handle. The submarine began to move upwards, and suddenly, they were over the water again.
Cyrus opened the hatch to the submarine, and everyone walked out. They were back at the beach where they started. "Thank you for helping me to test the submarine! You were a big help!" Cyrus said.
Sonic winked. "You're welcome anytime, Cyrus! Thanks to you too!" he said.
Cyrus waved, and went off. "Let's get back to the van... The other emeralds are there!" Sonic said, and jumped down from the submarine. The others followed, and suddenly, the craft just disappeared. "Cyrus did it again!" Sonia said, and followed the others.