Gaia Manuscrpt Hunt Is A Go!

Eggman's hideout, night. Sonic the Werehog, Amanda, Tails and Chip enter the room with Professor Pickle's holding cell and sees Pickle inside his cell.

"Professor Pickle! Are you all right? We got here as fast as we could." Tails tells the Professor.

"Hmmm..." The professor says to himself.

"Professor?" Tails asks.

"Uh, hello?" Chip greets the professor.

"How dare they call this culinary concoction food? Look here, do you see this sorry excuse for a sandwich? The bread should be no less than 3/4 of an inch thick. Upon it, one tablespoon of mayonnaise and a pinch of black pepper. The contents: FRESH cucumber sliced THINLY if you please!" The professor explains. "Am I quite right, Tails?"

"No, you can have it in a reverse way. Oh wait, that doesn't make a lick of sense." Amanda says.

"I know I learned something here today!" Chip says to himself

"P-Professor... It's good to see you haven't changed!" Tails exclaims.

"But tell me, what brings you here? The menu is hardly worth the trip, if you ask me." The professor asks

"N-no, Professor. We came here to rescue you!" Tail explains as he presses a button that opens Pickle's cell.

"Oh? Oh! I see, how rude of me. Right, first things first! It's about time someone taught the chief here how to make a proper sandwich." Pickle comments.

"You can file a complaint later, Professor!" Tails tells him.

"Let's get out of here before Eggman's welcome committee shows up." Amanda comments.

"Oh, yes. Quite. But let us be sure to collect the contents of that vault before departing." Pickle tells everyone as Sonic the Werehog nods and punches the vault open from afar. Tails flies in and retrieves the Gaia Manuscripts and presents them to Professor Pickle. "Ahh, thank you. Those documents are our only hope for surviving this crisis. Let's go. There's no time to lose. I'm half-starved after being fed nothing but those terrible sandwiches!"

"Want some chocolate, Professor?" Chip inquires a anwser from the professor.

"My, my! Don't mind if I do!" Pickle anwsers as he takes Chip's chocolate plate.

Professor Pickle and Chip leave. Tails and Sonic the Werehog shrug at each other and leaves the room. Amanda just looks at the open cell.

"He'll never find out, won't he?"

Pickle's Lab, night. Sonic the Werehog and Tails are listening to Professor Pickle while Chip and Amanda drinks tea.

"These ancient documents are known as the Gaia Manuscripts. They tell the legend of a disaster that befell our planet some tens of thousands of years ago." Proffessor Pickle starts to explain as Amanda spits her tea.

"Wait, a disaster...?" Amanda comments, while trying to wipe up the tea stains. "Sorry."

"Quite. And according to the Gaia Manuscripts... this isn't the first time the planet has been broken apart into pieces. The cause lies at the very core of the planet. All of the phenomena we've withnessed are the direct result of one creature- the hyper-energy organism spawned at the planet's core, Dark Gaia." Proffessor Pickle starts to explain.

Chip flies up to Amanda, asking for more tea, but Amanda does a dark face to him to go away.

"So how do we stop this Dark Gaia and put the world back together?" Tails questions about how to stop Dark Gaia.

"Luckily, Dark Gaia has yet to be fully reborn. We most likely have Dr. Eggman's pre-mature wake-up call to thank for that. If we act now, we may be able to restore the planet by returning power to the Chaos Emeralds. Sonic, you must travel to each of the temples listed in the Gaia Manuscripts. The planet's power will restore the Chaos Emeralds, and in turn the Chaos Emeralds will restore the planet and help it heal naturally." Pickle commands the trio.

Sonic the Werehog and Tails nods while Chip pours himself some more tea. Amanda is distracted by the bookcase.

Mazuri, day. Dr. Eggman and Orbot are in the village with a group of Egg Fighters. Kwami, Kofi, Yawa and Gwek form a defensive line against the Egg Fighters while Ana, Essie, Kwod and Yaya hide behind them.

"Wh-who are you?!" Yawa asks Doctor Eggman on who he is.

"Oh ho ho ho! Fear not my good villagers! If you all behave, I won't have to do anything nasty. All you need to do is tell me where the Temple of Gaia is." Eggman commands the villagers.

"We're not telling you anything!" A villager called Kwod as he throws a rock at Eggman.

Eggman is hit by kwod's rock, leaving him in a daze. Kwami pulls Kwod back while the rest of the village men get into defensive positions. Meanwhile, Orbot laughs at Eggman until Eggman folds him back together.

"So you dare to defy me, do you?" Eggman warns them. Sonic appears and destroys the Egg Fighters with the Homing Attack "Wh-whaaat?! Sonic!"

"Yo, Eggman. Thanks for that little skydiving adventure the other day!" Sonic greets Eggman with some modern talk to him.

"I should have known you'd still be alive, you stubborn little hedgehog!" Eggman tells Sonic.

".'The hell are you doing out here?" Adam asks the doctor.

"I see no reason to tell you! In any case, I'm busy. Farewell!" Eggman leaves the trio as he flies away in his Egg Mobile.

"Wha-? Hey! Wait!" Chip shouts at Eggman as he flies up and tries to grab Eggman while the villagers look on. "That's playin' dirty! Come baaack!."

"Just ignore him, Chip." Adam tells him.

"Is everyone here all right?" Sonic asks the villagers.

The majority of the villagers answer Sonic and thank him. Meanwhile, Yawa looks in the direction Eggman fled and Chip continues to grab after Eggman.

Savannah Citadel, day. Sonic runs down a wooden path where he catches up to Eggman flying beside the Egg Beetle in his Egg Mobile. Adam follows swiftley behind Sonic.

"Eggman!" Sonic shouts as Eggman notices him.

"Rrgh! How'd you get here so quickly? No matter. You road ends here!" Eggman warns them. As then he flies up in front of Sonic with the Egg Beetle while Sonic slides to a stop. "Behold! My new power! "Egg Beetle," GO!"

Eggman joins his Egg Mobile with the Egg Beetle and is prepared for battle. Sonic gets ready for the fight while Chip flies up beside him, striking a pose.

Savannah Citadel, day. Sonic, Adam and Chip finds the Mazurian Gaia Temple.

"It that the Temple of Gaia?" Sonic asks.

"Looks like it, yeah." Adam quotes.

"Let's check it out!" Chip shouts.

Sonic and Chip look at each other before jumping towards the Gaia Temple.

Mazuri's Gaia Temple, day. Sonic, Adam and Chip venture through the Gaia Temple.

"Whoa! Awesome!" Chip exclaims.

"What IS this place?" Sonic asks.

"It's from the not too distant past." Adam mentions.

"Hey, Sonic! There's something weird here, right in the middle!" Chip pointa oit to the middle of the altar and he looks down into the recess. "Hey, what's this hole?"

"There could be some kind of-" Adam warns him.

The Gaia Temples briefly shakes and the altar and Chip's necklace starts glowing.

Sonic stands ready while Chip hides behind him when a smaller pedestal emerges from the altar. Sonic and Chip slowly approach and look down at the pedestal. Contemplating their discovery, Sonic places the green Chaos Emerald in the pedestal. The Chaos Emerald rises into the air and Sonic and Chip watches in awe as the Chaos Emerald's power is restored

"Wahoo! The emerald's come back to life!"

"This was the Temple of Gaia! That's got to be why Eggman was so keen on taking the place over." Adam relaises as The Gaia Temple starts shaking again.

Mazuri's Gaia Temple, dawn. A column of light shoots into the air from Mazuri's Gaia Temple and a wave moves across the land. In space, Mazuri's continent moves back into place on the Earth's mantle and reconnects with it with a blue glow..

Mazuri's Gaia Temple, dawn. Sonic runs through the temple with Chip on his head when Tails calls out. Adam is chugging a bit behind.

"Sonic! Good news! The planet! One of the broken pieces of the planet moved back into place!" Tails tell him.

"All right! Nice job!" Sonic congratulates Chip.

Sonic shares a hive-five with Chip, causing Chip to spin around. Tails pulls out his Miles Electric.

"Take a look!" Tails tells Sonic.

Sonic, Tails and Chip sees a video on the Miles Electric that shows Mazuri's continent moving back into place on the Earth's mantle and reconnecting with it with a blue glow.

"Sweet!" Sonic shouts.

"At this rate, you'll have the whole world back together in no time, Sonic!" Adam then explains.

"A planet-sized jigsaw puzzle? Sounds like a great excuse to see the world!" Sonic says.

A/N - Sorry for the lateness of this chapter, due to stranger limits of time. Callum (from Ultra Chaos) will be coming in Chapter 4 onnwards, that's it. I'm too shattered. It is 1 in the morning now.

BattleOfDuty - 19th Febuary, 2015,