Damn... You... Homework! *Dies* Well not really but this has been a horrible homework filled year. Guess 3 AP and 2 honor classes really do put you through the wringer. Laziness has had nothing to do with the lateness of this chapter. Just being busy. Also, the only week I had time to write was consumed by Sonic and the Dark Brotherhood. Currently I have no plans of adding that plotline to my stories, but if they do come out with a sequel it might be put in.
Sonic Unleashed is almost out and I cannot wait. Next chapter will probably be up sometime around Thanksgiving. Unless my life is completely consumed by Sonic Unleashed I should have a chapter or two. I will be focusing on this story until chapter 11 is finished, then I will work with the robots for a bit.
Be warned though. This chapter is going to be a very long one. A lot of information to get out.
Chapter 9
"Where is everyone?" Sonic asked desperately. He looked around the huge room that he, Shadow, and Amy were in. The room was ridiculously long, the nearby piles of blueprints helped explain that many of Eggman's flying fortresses were constructed in this room. Sonic, Amy and Shadow had searched most of the nearby areas, destroying tons of Eggpawns along the way, and still had yet to find anybody. "Could everyone have been captured?"
"There is a distinct possibility that the other groups have been captured. All of their tasks seem to have been fulfilled, but we would be able to hear if they were still fighting." Shadow said leaning on a nearby wall.
"What if everyone is...dead?" Amy asked with a look of fear on her face. Sonic instantly turned to look at her.
"They can't be dead. Our friends can't be killed that easily. Don't even think about that occurring!"
"While I usually don't do this, I do agree with Sonic on this matter." Shadow said frowning. "If Eggman had killed any of our friends he would have told us to demoralize us. That would be the perfect psychological weapon for him. I also do not believe Eggman has it in him to actually kill anybody. He may have tried to kill you on the ARK, but he has changed since then."
"So he captured everyone?" Amy asked.
"That is all I can guess. He couldn't let them continue to run rampant throughout his base and is doubtful that he could bring himself to kill them. His only choice is to capture them and imprison them." Shadow answered.
"We originally planned to attack him together so we need to get everyone back together. If Eggman had robots that were strong enough to defeat everybody, then his own robot must be ridiculously strong. It will take all of our combined power to defeat him." Sonic said.
"Well then, let's go!" Amy shouted, all of her energy returning. "We have to save Cream and Big and Tails and, well, everyone! Come on you slowpokes!" She shouted racing across the room to the large door at the far end. Sonic and Shadow both stood dumbstruck for a moment at being called "slowpokes" then shook themselves out of their trance and chased after her.
As Amy was running full speed with about a few minutes head start, it took a few minutes for Sonic and Shadow to catch up to her. "I am surprised at how fast she runs, her speed is much greater then I expected." Shadow said to Sonic as they were running.
"Well of course, she is always chasing after me so she had to become fast so I would not leave her in the dust."
"Ha. It wouldn't matter how slow she ran, you still wouldn't leave her in the dust." Shadow said smirking. Sonic, surprised at the sudden comment, almost tripped over his own feet.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Sonic asked when he regained his footing. Shadow just smirked at him again.
"I think you know exactly what I am talking about." With that not so cryptic comment, Shadow sped up. A slightly irritated Sonic followed suit and they quickly caught up to Amy who was standing near the huge doors.
"You guys took long enough. I actually had to wait for you guys. What happened to you two being the fastest things alive?" Amy asked smirking from ear to ear. Sonic and Shadow just glared at her. Amy's smile widened even more at the silence from the blue and black hedgehog. Maybe they will remember in the future that I am much faster than I seem.
"So why are you just standing here?" Sonic finally asked. He looked up at the huge door in front of them.
"Well I came across this door and I wasn't sure what to do. It won't open when I pull on the handles and it seems to need a password to unlock it. What do you guys think would be the best thing to do?" Amy said also looking up at the huge door.
"We don't have any idea what the password is so that is out of the option. None of us have hacking skills I assume," Sonic said looking at Amy and Shadow. They both shook their heads. "So I guess I could try homing attacking it." Shadow shook his head at the suggestion.
"I doubt it can withstand one of my chaos blasts so we might as well try that first." Shadow said as he gathered his energy. However Amy stepped forward in front of him.
"If we are just going to knock it down, I might as well help." When Sonic and Shadow looked quizzically at her she made a shooing motion with her hands. Both hedgehogs stepped back. The pink hedgehog closed her eyes for a moment and then summoned a Piko Piko hammer that was five times her size.
"What the heck?!" Sonic and Shadow shouted at the site of the huge hammer. They ran further back as Amy started to swing the hammer behind her. With a loud scream she smashed the hammer into the doors.
The doors had been made extremely well. Even thought they were dented horribly, they did not actually break. Same could be said for the hinges that held them to the wall. However, the same could not be said for the wall itself. With a tremendous crash the entire wall came crashing forward right on to the huge robot that had been about to attack the group.
"Well that was fun." Amy said smiling as she hopped over the wreckage of the wall and the robot. "Well we have to keep going. Stop spacing out you two." She then jumped into the next room.
"We better be careful about making Amy mad." Shadow said quietly.
"Yeah. Our lives could be in jeopardy." The stunned blue hedgehog said.
The group ran forward for only a few steps when panels in the ceiling opened dropping a huge host of robots into their midst. Sonic started to homing attack the small robots and spun the big ones in circles. Shadow started to use chaos arrows on the robots and chaos controlled the large ones to the ceiling where they fell and shattered. Amy just took out her hammer and smashed anything that got near her.
After a couple of minutes all of the robots were destroyed. "That group wasn't nearly as tough as they have been lately." Sonic noted. "I wonder why they were so weak? I managed to destroy thirty without breaking a sweat."
"I destroyed thirty-three." Shadow said smirking as Sonic glared. Amy sighed to herself.
"I only destroyed twenty-five. You both beat me." She suddenly flinched and fell over onto Sonic. Sonic barely caught her as she crashed into him. He looked down at her in surprise.
"Amy? What's wrong?" Sonic took one look at her and noticed that she was sleeping. "Did she just get tired after swinging that hammer around?" Sonic asked Shadow.
"She couldn't have just suddenly fallen asleep like that though. It doesn't make any sense." Shadow said confused. He then realized what was occurring. He tried to warn Sonic but it was too late as Sonic then collapsed with a dart sticking out of his neck. Deciding that becoming another casualty of the unknown assailant would not be smart, Shadow began to chaos control away.
Unfortunately he was too late as a dart flew into his arm. His power started to leave him and he fell to the ground. He looked up to see who had attacked him. To his shock a small blue little robot walked out of the shadows holding a dart gun that was bigger than him.
"Omochao???" Shadow yelled in surprise. "Why are you working for Eggman? What's going on?"
Omochao walked forward grinning maliciously. "I have spent so many years trying to help you guys. I gave you hints, told you how to use your abilities, and gave you assistance when you needed it."
"All you ever did was tell us all the stuff we already knew." Shadow said rolling his eyes.
Omochao ignored him as he continued his rant. "What did you give me in return for all of my hard work? You guys attacked me, threw me off cliffs, shot me, and just were cruel. So you know what I decided to do, I decided to get even. Hope you like being in Eggman's prison." With a final yell he flew off.
Shadow was just able to mutter "stupid robot" and fire one last chaos arrow as he fell unconscious. The last explosion he was able to see put a small grin on his face.
3 hours later
Sonic started to wake up. All he could see at first were the metal bars of the cell he was in and the cold hard floor. He then noticed that his side was really warm and turned and saw that Amy was lying right next to him. Sonic jumped up in surprise blushing furiously. After getting his bearings again he looked around to figure out where he was.
He could tell instantly that he was in some prison area. The walls were solid metal with huge thick metal bars on them. He looked down the corridor through the bars and saw the rest of his friends in their own cells. Some of them were awake while others were still sleeping. He could just barely see Knuckles, Big, and Tikal trying to break down their cell. So far they were unsuccessful.
"So Eggman did manage to capture everyone. But what is he going to do with us now that he has captured us?" Sonic looked around his cell again and saw that Shadow was asleep at the far end of the room. So I can't even ask for Shadow's opinion on what we should do.
Sonic sighed and sat down next to Amy. What should we do right now. I never thought that Eggman would be efficient enough to capture us all. Is there no way we can escape.
"Want some help?" A voice came out of nowhere slicing through Sonic's thoughts. He looked outside his cell and saw there was somebody standing outside his cell. The being was wearing a cloak so Sonic couldn't tell exactly who it was. However his voice seemed familiar.
"Who are you?" Sonic asked walking towards the person. The cloak was pulled off revealing a silver hedgehog.
"My name should be familiar to you. My name is Sonic, Sonic the hedgehog," the hedgehog smirked slightly.
"What are you talking about? How can you be me? You're silver and I am blue. So what is your story?"
"I am you from ten years in the future." Future Sonic chuckled as he saw Sonic sigh at the word future. "Yes Sonic, time travel. For the reason I am in silver, that is because I am in hyper mode. I am sure you remember hyper mode and the super emeralds?"
Sonic just remained quiet as his future counterpart continued to explain. "In the future all of our friends are killed. It is all because of a force that is controlling Eggman right now. Its strength is horrifying and yet amazing. We managed, just barely though, to beat Eggman. With the last of his machines strength he blew it up and knocked almost all of us out. Only Shadow and I were able to stay conscious. That was when the force decided to appear. He killed Eggman first as a "punishment" for not being able to defeat us. He then attacked with a huge energy orb. Shadow and I managed to just barely chaos control most of the group… but the Chaotix didn't make it. If we had even had a second more we may have been able to get to them in time."
was not finished yet with his story. "But that was not the end of our suffering. The monster slowly took over the world capturing city after city, country after country. He was a one being army at first, but he was not an insane monster like Dark Gaia or Chaos. He was intelligent and built an army of his own from the countries he conquered. My friends and I joined with the remnants of GUN to fight his vicious assaults. However, his brilliant military strategies stopped us at every turn. One by one all of our friends got killed.
In the end it was Amy, Shadow, Knuckles, Tails, and I left. We gave it everything we had. We even used the chaos emeralds to turn super. We attacked him and we believed we defeated him. Suddenly his body changed and he grew to his true size. We had no warning at all as he swept through our group and killed Tails and Knuckles. He then darted forward and stabbed Amy."
Future Sonic was silent for a couple minutes after that as Sonic tried to understand all that he was listening to. Finally Future Sonic looked up again. "It has been ten years but I remember every moment. I lost it right then when she was killed. Every dark emotion I have ever felt burst out of me. My fur turned black and this wave of bloodlust overwhelmed me. I started to attack faster then ever, beating back the monster who had taken everything away from me. Tears poured from my eyes, I was probably screaming as well, as I pounded him. He eventually used my chaotic state to his advantage and caught me in a trap. If I had been normal I would have seen it easily but not when I was like that. He darted forward to rip me apart. I could see the end of my life drawing near."
"And he stabbed right through Shadow. We had both forgotten about him at this point. I stared in horror at him as he slowly looked up, blood coming down his chest. He then spoke to me, 'Sonic, this is not who you are. You are not a monster of hate. You are the force of justice that will always fight for the good of everyone. You can't let anything make you give that up, especially not a monster like him.' This was the first time he had really acknowledged me like that. That alone broke me out of the hateful state I was in. He looked at me one last time, 'sayonara, Sonic the hedgehog.' With those last words the ultimate lifeform also passed on."
"Once again something snapped inside of me. This time was different from the first time. It was like everything became clear to me. I knew what I needed to do. I then changed on my own to hyper form. I broke out of his trap, grabbed my dead friends and chaos controlled out of there. For the next ten years I fought with him all the time. In hyper mode he could not defeat me, but alone I could not defeat him. We were in a constant stalemate as he slowly took over the rest of the world. I am one of the only ones left that can still oppose him."
Sonic was quiet for a long time as he digested the information. He knew that what he had just been told was real; the pain was evident on his counterparts face. "How and why did you come here then? What should I do differently to stop this from happening this time?"
"Good question. It was just recently when I met a strange being after finishing a fight with the enemy. The best description of the being was godlike. He was amazingly strong, stronger then anything I had ever seen before. He gave me this."
Future Sonic took out a large silver emerald. "Even though this looks like the grey super emerald it is not. This is known as the Ultimate Chaos Emerald. Its power is amazing, I tried to access all of its power and it almost killed me. When Eggman goes to blow himself up you need to use this to warp him out of the area. Only use it for that purpose, you are not strong enough yet to use it for any other reason. Don't even try to go super with it. If you try to go super the energy will flood into so quickly it will knock you out before you can do anything with it."
"Is that all you came to tell me?" Sonic asked as he grabbed the emerald.
"There is more I wish to tell you but I am not allowed to. The being gave me a chance to save my future so I will do anything he asks. This includes only telling you as much as I have already told you."
"Well can you help me out of this cell?" Sonic asked.
"Oh, of course, sorry." Future Sonic said. He snapped his fingers and released a huge blast of chaos energy. Every single cell door exploded open as the energy crashed into them. Inside the cells the energy awoke all of the sleeping prisoners as well. They all went out of their cells to where the two Sonics were standing.
"What is going on?" Knuckles shouted. "Why are there two of you Sonic. Did Eggman clone you?"
"Time travel." Sonic said simply. Knuckles just raised his eyebrows and did not ask any more questions.
"Hey Sonic. Here you go." Emerl said and gave the thirty five chaos emeralds to Sonic. They started to float around the group lazily. "We collected those from Eggman's weapon storage."
"Wow. We could all go super with these. Correct?" Sonic asked Future Sonic.
"At the very least you can all get a power increase from them. Not all of your friends have the ability to actually change form like you do." Future Sonic said slowly. "Somebody is missing though."
As if on cue the final member of the group joined the party as the GUN commander smashed through the ceiling with his machine. So that's how we originally escaped .Sonic realized. He looked at Future Sonic and saw him nod in confirmation to the unspoken thought.
Vector ran up to Sonic. "We need to be careful. There is a weird but strong guy that is running around this place he knocked us and the robots out really easily. Future Sonic looked up in surprise.
"Was he a human wearing a blue cloak?" Future Sonic asked. After seeing the Chaotix nod he started to murmur to himself.
"What's wrong?" Sonic asked.
"Well that being would be the guy who sent me here. I don't know why he would have attacked you guys. But he must know more things about the situation then he is letting on. He might have attacked you so that he could get everybody together faster. Getting everybody captured is one way to do that."
"He said something like that to us." Metal Sonic said nodding. "Something about how it would be a waste of energy for us to try to save you all. And since he did not steal the emeralds and the commander came to get us anyways, I guess he can't be all bad." Future Sonic nodded again.
"Sounds like him. Right now you should all get ready for the next battle. Sonic and Shadow should lead with the gathering of energy to change super. Then send all the extra energy to those around you."
Everyone nodded and walked together. The emeralds started to spin faster and faster around the group. First Sonic and Shadow changed to their super forms. Tails and Knuckles followed after. Eventually Amy also managed to transform for the first time. The rest of the group became surrounded by a golden energy field. The robots just accepted the excess energy to go to full power.
As the group was getting used to the new levels of power, Eggman appeared on a large screen. "So you think that you are at full power do you. Well then come and get me you furry freaks. He pressed a button and the whole complex started to shake. Buildings rearranged themselves as the whole base transformed into a giant battleship. "I am at the helm of this ship. Come and get me and we will see who will be victorious in the end. I will kill every last one of you!!" Eggman shouted, spittle flying everywhere. He still looked insane with manic eyes and a large vein pulsing on his forehead. It was obvious to all that this was not the normal Eggman.
I truly believe that he is being controlled. Eggman would never act like this. But then why would that dark force imprison us? Future Sonic's story showed that it had no qualms about killing us all, so why didn't he do earlier. Perhaps he still does not have one hundred percent power over Eggman. Perhaps Eggman still wanted to be able to fight one last time against us in one of his machines. In any case we will have to defeat him if we wish to protect everything.
Shadow then walked over to Sonic. "Is there anything your future form wants us to do?" Sonic looked over at Future Sonic who shook his head. "All right then. All of this rests on your shoulders Sonic. You better not mess up.
"Is there anything else Future Sonic or shall we go?" Sonic asked.
"There actually is one thing that I have wanted to know for a long time and never got a chance to ask." Future Sonic said slowly. "Tikal, didn't you used to be a pacifist who didn't like to fight. When did you change to a person who likes to fight?" Tikal looked a little taken aback that the question was directed at her but still managed to answer.
"It was mostly because I spent so long in the Master Emerald with Chaos. Inside the Master Emerald I was able to watch the problems with the ARK, the chaos Metal Sonic caused, the coming of the Black Arms, and the splitting of the continents by Dark Gaia. I just started to feel really helpless because I knew that people were being hurt and I could do nothing. After Chaos' defeat I was able to leave the Master Emerald whenever I wanted, but what good could I do if I had no fighting abilities? I would have just been killed myself."
"I finally asked Chaos how to fight so I could help out when people are being hurt. I spent a long time training with him and he taught me how to use the earth as a weapon. Unfortunately some of Chaos' personality also joined with mine, mostly his wrath when he is called weak. I would still be happy if I never had to fight anybody else for the rest of my life. But that won't happen any time soon."
Future Sonic slowly nodded as he took in the information. "Thank you for explaining that. It was always a bit of a shock seeing you suddenly fighting when before you had been so against it. I guess we should thank Chaos for helping us get another ally."
Sonic finally started to tap his foot on the ground. "Can we go now?" With a nod from Future Sonic the group started to run towards the back of the ship. When they reached the center of the ship hundreds of robots walked out to block their way. As the group got ready to fight Future Sonic stepped forward and took the Ultimate Chaos Emerald from Sonic.
"Let me get rid of the pests. CHAOS TIDAL WAVE!!!" A monstrous wave of pure chaos energy crashed into the robots obliterating every single one in seconds. Where the whole area had been bursting with robots, not one survived the carnage. Future Sonic spun around and gave the emerald back to a wordless Sonic. "This is the last act I can do. It is up to you guys now. Do whatever you can to win. And do not, under any circumstances, forget what you need to do Sonic." With one last nod from Sonic, Future Sonic warped away.
Shadow walked up to where Sonic was standing. "We are all ready when you are. If you have anything left to say to us, as long as it is not about the power of team work, we will listen." Sonic glared at Shadow for a moment then shook his head.
"Alright team. You heard what the other me said. We will bring Eggman back to Earth one more time. LET'S GO!" Sonic shouted as the group ran forward.
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That ended up being even longer then I expected. Changed quite a bit from the original but I believe it is better. I played and beat Sonic Unleashed. It was really good. Only minor complaints from me. I put two mentions of it in this chapter just for fun. No spoilers though so don't worry. Don't have any timeline for next chapter.
Anyways review if you liked it. Thanks.