A/N: Okay, who's seen my pen?
Pen: What do you want?
I need a pen. I can't write the next chapter...without...one.
Pen: Hey, don't look at me like that! *tries to run*
*Grabs Pen and begans to write* Hey Sword!
Sword: Yessers?
Disclaimer?
Sword: Yup yup! The author only owns Gauge. The other characters are owned by Sega. Ooo, that looks like fun Pen!
Hold still! I can't write if you don't hold still.
Chapter 7-Today You Die
Amy sniffled as she sat in her cage, that swung gently in the air as it hung suspended above the floor. Twice in one day she had been captured and held against her will. Right now, she prefered her original prison with Sonic. At least he had made Amy feel better.
"Sonic..." she moaned.
"Ho, ho, ho! No Sonic here!" a hearty voice chuckled. Amy looked up to see Eggman walking underneath her. He strode over to a control panel in the room and pulled a lever that caused Amy's cage to rise higher. Then he pulled another one that revealed windows all around the room.
The windows showed Amy the pale sky, with clouds lazily drifting pass. Amy figured that she must be aboard Eggman's carrier.
"Enjoy the view," Eggman told her, waving his arm to the windows behind him. "While you still can." He gave another laugh as he strode out of the room, leaving Amy alone once again.
"Sonic, please hurry," she prayed.
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"Ugh, I think I'm going to be sick," Gauge muttered as the group arrived on top of Eggman's carrier. He put his hands on his knees and leaned over, breathing heavily.
Cream came up behind him and rubbed his back. "My mama does this to make me feel better when I have a tummyache," she said to him.
"Don't worry about it," Sonic piped up. "You'll get used to it soon." He slapped Gauge's back, causing him to moan loudly.
"We don't have time for this faker," Shadow reminded Sonic. "We need to find Amy and Eggman."
Sonic nodded. "Right," he agreed. The group found a door nearby and, after having Knuckles smash it, ran inside and began their search.
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Alarms blasted their warning as Eggman sat at the bridge of his ship. He turned to several monitors on his control panel in front of him. The monitors displayed Sonic and the rest running down corridors.
Eggman grinned evily. "Perfect." He pressed several buttons on the panel, activating his security robots. "This time, none of you shall survive."
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Sonic and co. ran down the halls despite the alarms drowning out all sounds. Suddenly, the alarms stopped just as several bullets came right for them. Missing the group by inches, they turned around to see more of Eggman's robots and some Eggpawns as well.
"Eggknights and eggpawns! Attack!" Eggman's voice boomed over the intercoms lining the hallway.
"Knights and pawns?" Knuckles cocked an eyebrow.
"I guess he likes chess," Tails commented.
"Well in that case," Sonic dashed for the nearest robot, "Check!" He homing attacked its torso and soared into the air. "Mate!" he shouted as he kicked its head off.
The rest of the team joined in as the corridor become a mass of bullets, flying metal, and the heroes dodging attacks.
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Amy heard the fighting echoing throughout the ship. She raised her head, knowing that it was Sonic coming to rescue her. Her heart fluttered at that thought.
Amy stood up in her cage and summoned her Piko Piko Hammer. She held it in a batter's stance and took a swing at the bars on the cage. They held as she felt the vibrations travel through the hammer and up her arm. Nevertheless, she kept at it, giving another swing in hopes of breaking out to help the others.
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"Sonic!" Gauge shouted over the fighting. He stabbed a eggknight through its torso and kicked it off. "Go and find Amy! We can handle things here!"
Sonic nodded. He took off, with Shadow following him. Shadow caught up to Sonic. "Find Amy. I'll look for Eggman."
"Gotcha," Sonic replied as they separated at a fork. Gauge watched them go off before he returned his attention to helping the other. Knuckles was holding off several robots on his own as he ripped off their limbs or punched right through them.
Tails supported from the air, dropping down on unsuspecting enemies and beating them with his namesakes. Cream flew nearby him, throwing Cheese through robots and destroying a good amount herself.
Gauge grinned. "Hey save some for me!" he yelled as he jumped into the middle of one group and began wailing on them with his lead pipe.
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Sonic raced down the hallway, searching each room on his way and destroying the few enemies that dared to impede him. After several minutes, he came to the room where Amy hung in the air.
"Amy!" Sonic exclaimed both happily and relieved.
Amy glanced down at the voice. "Sonic!" she replied as her eyes lit up.
"Hang on Ames. I'll get ya out," Sonic told her, but at that moment the ground began to shake violently. Sonic turned around to see Eggman in a large machine that looked similar to Omega.
"Today hedgehog, you die!" Eggman shouted as he swung an arm at Sonic.
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Shadow entered what he assumed was the bridge as it was at the front of the ship. His eyes wandered around the room, but there was no sign of Eggman. Only simple droids that operated the controls of the ship.
"Damn," Shadow muttered. He decided that he should find Sonic, who might need help getting Amy out of here. With that thought in mind, he ran off.
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"That's the last of them," Knuckles stated as Gauge and him defeated the last robots. Tails and Cream came down from flying.
"Well, what now?" Gauge asked.
"We should try to find the others," Tails replied. Everyone agreed and followed the direction that Sonic and Shadow had gone. When the reached the fork, they tried to decide who would go where when Shadow ran into them.
"Nothing down there?" Gauge questioned.
"No," Shadow replied. Then he gestured to the path Sonic had taken. "C'mon. Faker might need help."
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Sonic dodged the arm and tried to jump up to Amy's cage. Eggman laughed and pushed a button inside the cockpit of the cage rose higher and directly underneath it, the floor opened up to reveal a pool of green liquid.
"Woah!" Sonic cried, stopping short of the pool. "What the?"
Eggman laughed. "It's acid you foolish hedgehog! Try another stunt like that and I'll drop her in!" Sonic glared angrily at Eggman. "Now, come over here so I can destroy you!"
Eggman again swung at Sonic, but he dodged it and ran up the robot's arm. When he neared the protected cockpit of Eggman's suit, he homing attacked it to try and break it. It gave a little crack, but not enough to do much damage. Eggman tried to hit Sonic off, but he dodged and Eggman ended up hitting the cockpit, cracking it more.
"Accursed rodent!" Eggman cried.
"C'mon Eggy," Sonic taunted. "You're movin' waaaayyy too slow!"
Eggman roared and tried to hit Sonic, but everytime Sonic kept dodging. Finally, one of the arms went into the pool of acid and instantly half of it was eaten away.
"That's enough of this," Eggman snarled. Guns on the robot's shoulders and torso popped out and took aim at Sonic.
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The group came to the door where Sonic and Eggman were fighting. The peered inside to see Sonic dodging Eggman's bullets.
Just then they heard a voice from somewhere outside the ship start to talk, which temporarily stopped Sonic and Eggman's battle.
"Dr. Eggman," the voice said. "You are to land your ship immediately or we will be forced to fire."
Tails looked out the windows in the room and saw several jets fly by with the G.U.N. letters printed on them.
"Well I guess Rouge got help," Knuckles said.
Eggman laughed, and fired at the windows in the room, trying to hit the jets. His bullets found the wing on one and sent it spiraling into an island that was right below them.
"You leave us no choice," the voice stated.
Suddenly, everyone felt rocking on the ship. "What was that?" Gauge shouted.
"It sounds like explosion! They must be trying to shoot down the ship!" Tails replied. Then he turned to Sonic. "Sonic, we got to get out of here!"
Sonic gave a thumbs up. He ran over to Amy's cage and tried to homing attack through it. Before Eggman could notice, Shadow, Knuckles, and Gauge distracted him by starting to fight him.
"Almost...got...it," Sonic said with each hit.
"Sonic? Mind hurrying up?" Gauge asked as he dodged the bullets. Shadow managed to take out one gun with a homing attack of his own and Knuckles was slowly wearing down the legs with well-placed punches.
After another hit, the bars to the cage gave way and Sonic was inside it with Amy. She threw herself at him and wrapped her arms around his neck. "Oh Sonic! Thank you!"
Sonic slowly gave her a hug back. "Anytime Ames," he whispered. They pulled back from each other and locked eyes. Sonic unconciously began to lean in towards Amy. Her heart nearly stopped. She closed her eyes and began to lean into him as well.
At that moment, another explosion rocked the ship and everyone began to feel like they were falling.
"The engines must be gone!" Tails explained over the commotion. "We have to go!" But before anyone could leave, the front of the ship crashed into the island, throwing everyone around the room. The last thing Sonic saw was Amy going headfirst into the floor. Then his vision went black.
A/N: There we go.
Pen: *gets out of author's hands* Why don't you ever do that to Sword?
Because I haven't needed to kill anyone. *looks at intended flamers* Yet. Anyway, the next chapter should be the last one and after that, I'll write a sequel. Yes, the adventure won't end with just this story.
Sword: So, please review!