Chapter 14 - Rebellion.
Eggman materialized from the shadows on his infamous Egg-Carrier. Something had been chained to the bottom of it.
"The Roboticiser!" Sonic exclaimed gravely.
"Ho, ho ,ho.. I bet you missed my beautiful creation," Eggman laughed.
"Aeronniell... Why?" Sonic asked, clenching his fists.
"Where's Karn?" Aeronniell demanded ignoring Sonic's question. Aeronniell took some more water out of the sphere so he could just manage to stand.
"Aeronniell, answer me!" Sonic demanded. Aeronniell said nothing.
"Aeronniell, please.. Let us go," Tails begged as his eyes grew wide and his bottom lip began to tremble. Aeronniell wanted to scream in frustration and punch a wall.
"I'm sorry Tails but I can't," she choked. "Now, Eggman.. Release Karn, or I'll release Sonic and Tails," she said strongly.
Eggman sighed and pressed a few buttons on his Egg-Carrier. The bottom of the Egg-Carrier suddenly opened up and Karn dropped onto the stone floor. "Karn!" Aeronniell exclaimed.
"Stay where you are!" Eggman demanded, and he drew a laser gun. He fired it at Shadow who grunted in pain. The laser wrapped around him and kept him restrained on the floor. Aeronniell then ran over to Karn, as she did she deliberately knocked the Chaos Emerald and it rolled very close to Shadow's hand. Aeronniell checked Karn's pulse. He was alive, but seriously wounded.
Aeronniell helped Karn to his feet and began to help him walk. But she turned, "I had no choice.. He was going to kill Karn," she said quietly.
"You should have told us," Sonic scowled. "We would have helped,"
"I couldn't tell you, Eggman has a microphone imbedded in my hand," Aeronniell argued. "Come on Karn, we're going home," she muttered.
"Oh no you don't.. You serve ME now!" Eggman laughed.
Suddenly sparks of electricity began to fly off Aeronniell's arm, the electricity spread until it was around her entire body. Aeronniell screamed and dropped Karn. Aeronniell hit the floor and curled into a ball, was her body was violently shaking and jerking.
"Aeronniell!" everyone except Eggman exclaimed at the same time.
It must have been at least ten, agonizing seconds until the electricity finally stopped. Aeronniell's powers stopped working. Sonic and Tails were free. Tails rushed over to her side. "Aeronniell," Tails breathed. Aeronniell tried to get up, but could only get onto her hands and knees.
"I.. I guess it serves me right," Aeronniell smirked.
"Sir, the force field hasn't dropped, the Elemental still has the emeralds protected," a robotic voice reported.
"How is she doing this?!"Eggman yelled. "How hard can it be to get those blasted Emeralds!?" Knuckles stared at Aeronniell, was she still protecting the Emeralds for him?
Sonic had ran over to Shadow and shoved him out the way of the lava and tried to figure out how to get him free. When Eggman suddenly shot at Sonic. "Alright Eggman, what was the plan this time?" Sonic called as he dodged the lasers with ease.
"Well I'm so glad you asked. As you can tell, with Elementals on my side I am unstoppable! The Roboticiser requires all the Chaos Emeralds, which I find are very hard to obtain," he explained.
"You're welcome," Sonic called sarcastically.
"SHUT UP AND LISTEN HEDGEHOG!" Eggman yelled. "Anyway, as I was saying. I soon found this unusual white Fire opal. The power in this alone can power my machine, with plenty of energy left to spare! I intend to destroy everything and rebuild my Incredible Interstellar Amusement park (that you rudely destroyed last year),".
"What abouwt the Forwest?" Stephenson asked, innocently. " You said dat we could wrule the Forwest!," he yelled.
"Oh shut up you fool, I'm going to destroy that too," Eggman snapped.
Whispers began to weave through the Elementals. The Elemental that was holding the laser gun at Knuckles, switched it off. Knuckles jumped to his feet, and ran over to Tails and Aeronniell.
The Elementals dropped their weapons and most of them walked out. Some however, stayed and prepared for battle.
"ENOUGH!" Eggman bellowed as he used the laser gun to throw Shadow of the cave wall with incredible force. Sonic jumped over the lava and crouched by Shadow, desperately trying to protect him.
"Shadow.." Aeronniell said weakly as she tried to get up to help him but fell to the floor.
"All of you pick up your weapons, now!" Eggman demanded. None of the Elementals did as instructed, so Eggman hit Shadow of the wall and electrocuted Aeronniell, yet again.
Aeronniell managed to get to her feet and carefully drew her bow. She aimed for Eggman's hand and fired. The arrow grazed Eggman's hand and forced him to drop the laser gun in his hand. The gun fell into the lava. The laser beams instantly disappeared, leaving Shadow free but he was still winded and it took him a while to get up.
"Fwore the Forwest!" Stephenson yelled, and so all of the Elementals began to fight Eggman's robots. Everyone joined the fight but Tails stayed with Aeronniell and Karn. Eggman pressed a button and two aerodynamic arms flew out and desperately tried to grab Shadow, but Sonic stood in front of him and attacked the arms, forcing Eggman to keep back.
"THAT'S IT, ROBOTICISER GO INTO SELF-DESTRUCT MODE , AND DESTROY THESE LITTLE PESTS!" Eggman thundered as he teleported off.
The Roboticiser suddenly shuddered into life and a little digital timer appeared on the screen. Two minutes Aeronniell thought. If we get out of here it will be a miracle.
"Tails, Do you think that you can stop the bomb?" Shadow called.
"I don't know Shadow, I.. I don't think I can do it," Tails said, looking quite stressful.
"Tails," Sonic called, as he zoomed over. "You can do this, we all know you can! Just try Tails, please," he encouraged.
Tails took a deep breath and sighed. Aeronniell passed him one of her knives so that he could remove the metal panel. Once Tails removed the metal panel and studied the metal wires he panicked. Sonic and Aeronniell were beside him and stopped any robots from getting to Tails.
"Sonic, I can't do this!" Tails yelled.
"You have to Try Tails, your our only hope," he said whilst fighting a robot.
Aeronniell looked at Tails, "Tails you can do this. Prove those bullies wrong, just concentrate," she smiled encouragingly. Tails gulped and picked up Aeronniell's knife. After staring at the wires for a while, the countdown had now reached ten. Tails closed his eyes and cut the wire. The countdown stopped at 3 seconds.
"I DID IT!" He exclaimed, leaping in the air. Everyone cheered, including the Elementals.
"We all knew you could," Knuckles smiled, before turning to look for Aeronniell.
Aeronniell was sat beside Karn, her hands were trembling as she checked his pulse. Knuckles watched as she burst into tears and cried on Karn's chest. "Karn, get up!" she wept.
Knuckles walked over to her and put his hand on her shoulder. Aeronniell just turned and hugged him as she cried. Knuckles quietly comforted her.
An Elemental suddenly walked up to Aeronniell. It was Stephenson. He crouched next to Karn as his hand began to glow green. He placed his hand onto Karn's chest for a moment..
Suddenly, Karn sat bolt upright. "Karn, you're alive!" Aeronniell exclaimed wrapping her arms around him. "Thank you Stephenson," she smiled as she lightly kissed him on the cheek, crying precious tears of joy. Stephenson began to blush.
"Come on let's get out of here," Aeronniell smiled, as she helped Karn to his feet. Stephenson moved all the rocks away from the entrance, with a click of his fingers. Everyone quickly made their way towards the exit...