Disclaimer: If repeating myself was a job I get paid for doing, I'd probably have enough money to live out the rest of my life for the next 50 years… too bad it ain't a real job. Oh well… here's the Disclaimer… again: I don't own anything in this story except my OC!
At Angel Island, Metal Sonic was racing across the jungle, making his way over to the Master Emerald shrine. As he was gliding around trees, the sensors in his head detected an abnormal reading somewhere nearby. The robotic menace slowed to a halt and landed in the dense sea of trees. He activated the sensor's pinpoint feature and resumed flying in the general direction of the new abnormality. The object in question was laying out in the middle of a clearing resting on a huge boulder. Once the robot found the strange object, he recognized it as a violet chaos emerald. When the Metal Sonic scanned the gem for authenticy, the results ended up to be true: it was the real deal. The thing that now bugged the metallic menace was this: it had all the properties, energy levels, and structures of the seven chaos emeralds he already knew about.
The robot also knew that the seven chaos emeralds he knew were well guarded by Sonic and his friends. Metal Sonic decided to analyze the emerald later, and flew off towards the master emerald shrine. By the time he got there, he was taken aback by what he saw… the master emerald wasn't there. Listing down the possible situations, he chose the one that he thought made the most sense: Eggman stole it while Knuckles raced to tell the others about the legend of the 'ultimate emerald'. With that situation recognized as his new objective to investigate, the metallic menace fired up the rockets in his 'feet' and headed towards the fat man's lair.
Somewhere on the moon, an alien with three eyes and a strange necklace was recovering from a certain dark hedgehog's betrayal. "Curse that Shadow! I gave him life, and he betrays me" The dark alien muttered to himself as he hovered there trying to heal his wounds from the incident at GUN Headquarters where he and Shadow faced off after the alien invaded the Earth. With all those incidents still haunting him, Black Doom swore to get back at the ebony anthro. The alien then remembered something about his research on the Earth before he planned to invade it: there were some herbs that, if properly prepared with specific ingredients, could dramatically heal the consumer physically. The side effect of the concoction is the loss of their chaos powers for a day.
With the research in mind, Black Doom came up with a devious plan to get revenge on Shadow and Eggman. The alien thought of a clever plan to use that research to heavily cripple the ebony anthro's combat capabilities and limit his strategies. He now knows that if he somehow feeds Shadow the concoction before fighting the dark hedgehog, he might have a big advantage. When he planned out his strategy for Shadow, he then devised a plan to get rid of Eggman and complete his revenge on both of them. He smirked about the possible outcome of the strategy and began making preparations immediately. With those things in mind, he set off towards Earth in search of those herbs and spices.
Shadow was busy practicing some new chaos abilities, until he noticed a cloaked figure flying above him going towards Centropolis. At the first glance of the mysterious figure, Shadow got a bad feeling about what might happen. Sure enough, his intuitions were right as he recognized the cloaked entity as Black Doom. Shadow muttered in frustration, "Damn! I thought I got rid of him already back at GUN HQ! Whenever he's around, I know he's up to something huge. I get the feeling he's looking for something, and that something might mean trouble for me." With those thoughts in mind, the dark hedgehog raced after his alien father (no pun intended).
Out of Black Doom's eye, he spotted something of interest and descended to investigate. He looked around for the source of the object that caught his attention, until he saw the prize laying on a rock. Once the alien grabbed the object of interest, he immediately recognized it as a chaos emerald, but it was brown in color. "Ah, yes. My first find today: a chaos emerald". When Black Doom finished that statement, he flew off with the gem in hand in search of his original targets. Shadow tried to keep up with the alien, but lost sight of him. The ebony hedgehog decided to quit chasing Black Doom for the day and headed off to Eggman's base.
Somewhere in the city, Espio had a hard time finding one of the chaos emeralds he was looking for, until he came up with an idea he might regret later. He went to go see Rouge and ask her if she had any Chaos Emeralds. The moment he left the park in search of the jewel-loving bat, he found the anthro in question flying above him heading north for an antique store. "Hey, Rouge!" The chameleon yelled out to get her attention, but surprisingly she stopped to look for whoever it was that called for her. "Alright, who called?" She asked out loud, as if to ask everyone in the vicinity. The chameleon spoke up and told the bat his intentions. "Oh, my. This sounds interesting, but is this what you're looking for?" with those words, she pulled out a green gem from her pockets and showed it to Espio. "I'm not sure if it is, but Knuckles might know if it's the one I'm after." The chameleon said, then took her towards Tails' workshop.
In the dense jungle of the Frog Forest, Vector asked the inhabitants if they saw a mysterious stone that glowed and had strange powers. A lot of them replied with a 'no'. Just as soon as the croc was about to give up, a HUGE alligator jumped out of the swamp waters and was thrashing around wildly. When Vector saw this, he jumped onto the oversized reptile's back in hopes of avoiding death. This attempt was cut short when Vector heard something coming from the raging alligator's mouth. Since Vector was reptilian, he could barely understand those sounds due to his lack of experience of his animal's language. What Vector did understand was that the overgrown swamp dweller was in pain. The thing that puzzled Vector at that moment was what could cause the mad alligator so much pain. Trying to recall the reptilian language he nearly forgot over the years, he tried to calm the beast down enough to ask what's wrong. Sure enough, it worked and the scaly monster said to Vector, "I was yawning after waking up, and when I closed my mouth, I felt a huge surge of pain coming from one of my teeth." Vector replied, "How about I check out that problem for ya?" The monstrous alligator nodded and opened his big, gaping mouth to let the smaller reptile in (after Vector jumped off the scaly beast's back once calmed of course) The monster told Vector to get on his tongue so he can show the smaller reptile the tooth that had been hurting. As the larger reptile moved his tongue closer to the source of the toothache, Vector saw the problem immediately. It was a purple chaos emerald stuck between the large alligator's teeth. "Aha! Here's the problem, there was a shiny emerald stuck between your teeth." After the smaller reptile went outside the monster's mouth, the overgrown reptile was overly grateful for Vector's help and submerged into the swamp waters without another word or sound. With the emerald in hand, the Chaotix Team leader made a mad dash towards their clients' workshop.
Charmy was flying around the aquatic city of Soleanna in search of the chaos emerald he was told to seek out. It took him about half an hour to comb out the west side of the watery capitol, an hour to search the northern part, twenty minutes in the east, and ten minutes in the south. After searching the corners of Soleanna, he landed to rest his wings at the center of the aquatic city. It wasn't long after he landed until he heard a girl's voice calling out to the bee to ask him a question. The young lady was wearing a mini-dress with matching shoes and a 'crown' of feathers. She was Princess Elise, the one who contains Iblis within herself, and ruler of the city. She walked up to the naïve Team Chaotix member and asked, "Is something wrong, Mr. Bee?" Charmy, who didn't notice her approach, jumped up the moment she asked and turned to face the person talking to him. "Whoah, you startled me" He said when he turned to face the princess, then continued, "To answer your question: Yes, I'm actually looking for something. I'm looking for a chaos emerald…" Elise interrupted, "I've heard of those! Is this the one you're looking for?" with that, Princess Elise reached into her pockets and pulled out a silver-ish gem. Charmy instantly recognized it as the target objective: the chaos emerald he was looking for. The princess hesitated for a moment, and said, "It's yours if you want it, but there's something I need you to do for me first."
The now hyped-up bee eagerly responded, "Name it and I'll do what I can!" The ruler of Soleanna then explained, "I need you to take this scepter of darkness to the bank here and also…" she then took out a piece of paper and handed it to Charmy, "…give this to the bank teller. It contains instructions on what they have to do with the scepter. There is one more thing you should know: if you break the scepter, you will unleash the deadly evil contained inside." Charmy gulped at the thought of the consequences if he wasn't careful, and eagerly accepted the job. He stuck the note inside the helmet he was wearing, and held the scepter like a metal rod that street punks bang on their hands to show intimidation. The trip to the bank was pretty much smooth considering the fact that he was flying above the people, which lowered the odds of Charmy dropping the staff by mistake. The moment he arrived at the bank, he went up to the bank teller and handed the employee the staff of darkness. He then took out the note he had under his helmet and gave it to the bank worker. He nodded in acknowledgement and thanked the bee for delivering the staff to him. With that, Charmy left the bank with excitement to tell the princess that he completed his job.
"Hey, miss! I delivered that staff for you." The bee said when he met up with Elise again. She turned to face the bee, and said, "Thank you, and sorry I haven't introduced myself before, I'm Princess Elise, the ruler of this magnificent city, Soleanna." The bee whistled in awe knowing that he's in the presence of the most powerful person in the city, then introduced himself to her. She then handed Charmy the chaos emerald she promised him and he left before she could even say 'goodbye'.
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