Authors Note: Apologies for the delay for the past 2 week's, suffered a bit of writers block, and was unable to get the chapter written for that week.
Anyways, enjoy.
Chapter 13: Captured.
Our heroes were right now looking for the next emerald through the MTM
"So where is the next emerald?" Ratchet asked.
"Let's see" The MTM said, as it got it's map out trying to locate it before focusing on the spot where the emerald was. "It should be somewhere around here."
Hobbes looked at the spot the MTM targeted. "Brown's general store is there, it must be somewhere around it."
"Well let's hope it wasn't confused for a souvenir, just like the last one was confused for a exhibit." Sonic said.
"Then let's go." Calvin said putting the MTM away. "We need to get the emerald before someone confuses the emerald for something."
With that they went off to Brown's general store.
Unbeknownst to them they were being watched by a ship. The pilot then radioed it's masters
"Sir they took the bait."
"Excelent" The voice said, it was clear the voice was Eggman. "Keep following them and let us know when to strike at them."
"Roger that sir" The Pilot said, and then followed our heroes.
Meanwhile our heroes reached Brown's General Store.
"So this is the location of the emerald." Daxter said as they approched the store. "A bit of a step down compared to the museum."
"Look My town doesn't have much in terms of attractions." Calvin said. "All we have is the aforementioned museum, this general store, and a stupid rock in the middle of nowhere where my dad take's us for his annual torture camping trips during the summer."
"There's a reason why this town is on the least desirable places to go on vication" the MTM said
"So your fathers a bit of a nature nut." Sonic said picking up on what Calvin said about his Dad.
"Pretty much." Calvin said "So much so that he hates anything that is electronic, loves to ride his bike even in the snow, and love's what he call's "Building Character" which no one likes."
"It's pretty much a wonder how me and Calvin managed to survive him for this long." Hobbes said.
"I'm most likely not going to invite him to any adventures after hearing all of that." Ratchet said.
Soon they reached the entrance of brown's general store.
"Ok we're first going to check the inside of this store, then the outside." Calvin said when they got to the entrance. "Just make sure to put everything back the way it was, we don't want to make it look like a break in."
Then Hobbes got out a fingernail, and put it in the keyhole of the door knob, unlocking the door.
"Are you going to tell us how you do that." Amy asked.
"Sorry that information is only known between me and Calvin" Hobbes said pulling his fingernail out of the keyhole.
They then entered the building.
Everyone looked around the store, checking the shelves, and behind the store counter looking for the emerald.
But they didn't find it anywhere.
When they had no luck finding the emerald inside they went outside to find it.
They searched around the building, they even went on the roof.
But there was no sign of it anywhere.
They met up to wonder why the emerald wasn't there.
"Maybe we went to the wrong place." Ratchet said. "I mean that emerald you thought was here is in a different place."
Calvin checked the map again, they we're right where the indicator said it was. "No we are in the right place."
"Maybe it's some sort of glitch" Tails said. "It could have mistaken something else for a emerald."
"Your right Tails maybe it is some sort of glitch." Calvin said "I'll look into it right now."
Calvin opened the MTM up for examination, and got out a sonic screwdriver to check wether or not it's a glitch.
If your wondering why Calvin has a sonic screwdriver read the season 4 episode rhyme time.
As Calvin was examining it, Daxter suddenly cut in.
"Oh sure it's probably a glitch." He said in a sarcastic manner. "WHEN HAVE YOUR INVENTIONS DONE ANY GOOD WITH US?!"
"Daxter we met these people hours ago." Jak said "We don't know much about them."
"That doesn't mean that we know everything about them." Daxter said "They could be wanted criminals."
"HEY" Calvin suddenly yelled closing the MTM after inspecting it. "Shut your mouth, why would a kid at age 6 be a criminal?"
"Oh I don't know, the fact that you have inventions that are clearly something a bit advanced to you." Daxter said. "Do you even know how to use this stuff?"
"Hey back off from Calvin." Hobbes said. "He knows how to use his inventions."
"Thank you Hobbes for standing up to my inventions." Calvin relplied.
"Don't get used to it" Hobbes replied.
"Look Calvin can you just tell us if it's fine, or just a glitch." Ratchet asked.
"Doesn't look like it's a glitch." Calvin said. "We're in the right spot."
"Then where is it then?" Tails asked.
"I don't know the MTM doesn't give specific locations of the emeralds."
"Well then your inventions aren't really helpful." Amy said.
"YOU'VE NEVER SEEN MY INVENTIONS IN ACTION, SO DON'T JUDGE ME." Calvin suddenly yelling.
"Because of that information I declare your inventions useless" Amy argued back at Calvin.
"OK THAT'S IT!" Calvin said getting a water balloon out. "YOU'VE ASKED FOR IT!"
Then he threw it at Amy soaking her.
She pulled her hammer out "Now your going to get it."
"Bring it on." Calvin said.
Just then something jumped on Calvin covering his eyes "HEY WHAT'S ON ME!" he yelled.
"HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT SIX YEAR OLD!" Daxter yelled revealing he was on Calvin's head.
"GET OFF OF ME." Calvin yelled struggling to get him off.
"Daxter get off of him" Jak said, he was grabbing Daxter's legs and was trying to pull him off.
"NOT UNTIL HE SAYS HIS INVENTIONS ARE USELESS" Daxter yelled maintaining a strong grip on Calvin
"MY INVENTIONS ARE NOT USELESS!" Calvin yelled still trying to get Daxter off of him.
Meanwhile Sonic and Tails were holding Amy back to prevent her from hitting Calvin.
"Amy Calm down all he did was hit you with a water balloon." Tails said.
"That's not all he did, do you remember back at our planet when he threw a water balloon at me, and on Jak's planet when he rejected me from going with me" Amy said trying to break hold.
"That doesn't mean he isn't a bad person" Sonic said.
Jak meanwhile was still having no luck on getting Daxter off Calvin's head.
"Ratchet i'm going to need a bit of help" Jak said still struggling to get Daxter off.
Ratchet went to Jak. "What do you need me to do" He asked.
"Grab his other leg, we're going to pull together to try to get Daxter off of Calvin" Jak explained.
They both grabbed one of Daxter's legs and puled.
But he still wouldn't let go.
By this point the only heroes not fighting or trying to stop another person from fighting were Hobbes, Clank and the MTM. They we're simply watching the fight.
Hobbes then turned his head towards the camera.
"Our heroes ladies and gentlemen, one moment their like a team, the next their fighting." he said before focusing back to the fight.
"How has It come to this." Clank asked.
"I'm not sure but I'm having this strange beeping noise that's coming from the side of the store." The MTM said.
"We should probably investigate it." Clank suggested. "It could be the emerald."
"Your probably right Clank" Hobbes said before glancing at the fight. "And it's not like their going to stop fighting anytime soon."
So they went to the side of the store as they neared the store the MTM started beeping quicker and louder.
"Hmm the beeping appears to have speed from every 3 seconds to every second." The MTM said. "And it's gotten louder too."
"Thank your Mr Obvious" Hobbes muttered.
The trio went to the side of the shop that had a trashcan in there.
"Stop" The MTM said "it's in the trash can."
Hobbes went over there and was instantly plugged his nose "Ugh have they ever cleaned this trash can."
"Probably not, it probably contains..." The MTM began.
"Please don't give me details." Hobbes said cutting off the MTM, before proceding to open the can.
What he found was a transmitter round and red.
"MTM what is this?" Hobbes asked.
"It appears to be a transmitter that is set to replicate the effects of the em..." The MTM began before suddenly stopping.
"Wait, can you repeat what you said please" Hobbes asked the MTM.
But the MTM didn't say anything.
"Did you hear me MTM?" Hobbes asked again.
Still no word.
"Clank what's wrong with him?" Hobbes asked turning to him and then he gasped.
Clank was shut down.
"What's going on" Hobbes asked then he noticed something sticking out of the wall.
Taking it off he saw it was a dart that said on the side.
EMP dart 500. Made by Eggman Co. Guaranteed to shut down electronics for 5 hours or your money back. Oh wait you just fired this you don't get your money back.
Hobbes paused for a moment then he turned over transmitter, and saw that Eggmans symbol was on it. Then all the pieces fell into place for, this was a trap.
Suddenly he felt a sting on his neck, he pulled it out and to his horror it was a tranquilizer dart.
He had to warn the others.
He quickly grabbed Clank and The MTM and ran to the other side, he could already feel the effects of the tranquilizer kick in.
By the time he got there he was dizzy, but he could still see them still arguing.
He had to get a good pounce, even with the tranquilizer effects. With every ounce of strength he had left, he jumped towards Calvin.
Meanwhile back to the fight Sonic and Tails we're losing struggling with Amy trying not to hit Calvin, and Ratchet and Jak was no closer to getting Daxter off of Calvin then they were when we last saw them.
Then Hobbes tackled Calvin just as Amy broke free of Tails and Sonic. And the force was enough to break Daxter's grip resulting Ratchet and Jak with their backs on the ground, and Daxter getting hit by a tree through the force.
"Hobbes why did you pounce on me." Calvin yelled, then said in a calmer voice "Even though you saved me from Daxter, and a hammer."
"The... Em..erald isn't... here... It's a...Tr..a...p." Hobbes moaned before he went silent.
"What do you mean it's a trap?" Calvin asked before noticing a couple things in his hand.
"Is that Clank?" Ratchet asked. "What happened to him?"
"Probably the same thing that happened to the MTM." Calvin said "Because I can't seam to activate it."
"Then what happened to both of them." Jak asked. "Because obviously Hobbes didn't deactivate them."
Sonic meanwhile grabbed the EMP dart that Hobbes picked up earlier, and read the text on the side Before turning to the rest.
"We need to get out of here." he said.
"What why?" Calvin asked.
Sonic showed them the dart. "This Dart was what shut down Clank and The MTM, it was fired by Eggman, this is all a trap."
"We kind of gathered that when Hobbes said Trap before going to sleep." Ratchet said.
"Hold on a moment." Jak said holding is hand up. "If the Emerald isn't here then where is it?"
"That is a question I will now answer." A voice said.
They turned around and as if on cue a bright light shined in their faces blinding them, but also revealing Eggman and his robots aiming weapons at them.
"Agh" Calvin said covering his eyes. "Why do villains always have to bright lights whenever theirs an ambush?"
"It just makes for dramatic effect" Eggman explained. "Now, you've just fallen into my trap!"
Then he burst out in a evil laugh.
After a few seconds of doing that evil laugh he coughed. While he did that our heroes looked at each other wondering if this person is really a threat.
After he finished coughing he then yelled, "TROOPS FIRE!"
And the robots fired at them, and instantly the heroes went unconscious
However Sonic was able to stay awake long enough to hear Eggman say. "Take our heroes to the prison" before going unconscious as well.
Clank woke up.
He slowly got up confused on how he got there.
The last thing he remembered was when Hobbes found something in the garbage can, and then noticing something in the bushes firing something, and then everything went dark.
Just then Ratchet noiticed him. "Finally your awake."
"What happened?" Clank asked.
"Long story short we went into a trap and you got disabled by an EMP." Tails explained walking up to him.
"Wait how many of us are in here?" Clank asked.
"We'll we never counted how many are in here yet." Tails explained. "But we're going to start soon as soon as..."
"Wait wheres Jak?" Daxter asked finally coming out of the tranquilizer effects.
Everyone who was there finally noticed that Jak was nowhere to be seen.
"Wait wheres Sonic?" Amy said also noticing that another person was missing.
While everyone was wondering who else was missing, the door opened.
Revealing that it was Eggman himself.
"Well, well well, Looks like I got all the cats in one bag." he said.
"Whatever that means." Daxter said.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH SONIC?" Amy yelled at Eggman.
"Well he's in a special cell, as well as Jak, and that boy and tiger." Eggman said coldly.
"Their called Calvin and Hobbes." Clank said looking offended. "And what exactly do you plan on doing with them."
"Oh their going to be my latest" Eggman paused for a moment as if he was going to think of something other then the word he was going to be saying. "Subjects to my new invention."
"Your not going to get that chance." Ratchet said "We're going to break out before you get that chance."
"Good luck with that." Eggman said with an evil grin "Because this cell door can only be opened by the guards or one of my companions."
Then the door closed. Leaving them with the dim lighting of the cell.
"I hope their alright" Amy said quietly.
"Even Calvin?" Ratchet asked.
"Even Calvin" Amy said.
Everyone in the cell thought about it in silence.
Sonic slowly came to and he heard voices.
"Did Daxters grip leave any marks on me?"
"No it looks like a few minor scratches"
"Thanks for trying to get daxter off me, Hobbes how can we escape from here."
"We can't this cell is sealed like a unopened can of tuna."
Finally Sonic got up, revealing that, Calvin, Hobbes and Jak, we're with him.
"Oh your finally awake" Hobbes said. "Now we can get a few things out of the way."
"What things?" Sonic asked.
"We'll through my few bouts of concussions I gathered a few things" Calvin said. "Firstly, the others are in another cell, Secondly, were going to be used as "subjects" for a new invention, Finnaly they took all our items, and the emeralds."
"Now that we have that out of the way what do you plan on doing Sonic" Hobbes asked Sonic.
"Nothing." Sonic said.
"What?" Jak asked "You must have something to get us out of here."
"No for once I don't" Sonic said "It was my fault that I didn't question why the emerald wasn't at the store, it was my fault that I didn't stop the fight from going out of control, and it's my fault that we got captured. And because of that my plan is to sit down and wait for Eggman to take us away and use his invention on us."
With that he sat down.
Everyone in the room looked at Sonic. While Jak looked silently at Sonic, Calvin and Hobbes looked at each other knowing one of them went though this before, and they knew what they had to do.
They went to Sonic, and Calvin said to him. "Your right Sonic it's your fault."
Sonic looked up both shocked and confused "What?"
Calvin continued his speech "In fact it's not just your fault, its our fault. Its our fault that we got into that fight, it's our fault we didn't stop the fight before it got out of hand, and it's our fault we got captured. When I first saved my world, I inadvertently caused my imagination to take over the world and I blamed myself, but Hobbes told me that I had to fix my own mess. We got ourselves into this mess and we can get ourselves out of this mess, but we need you to help us because you have led us though."
Sonic stared at him for a moment, and then finally said "Thanks for the motovation."
He soot up and gathered the others. "What other things did you pick up Calvin?"
"That the guards and the villains have carts that open the cell's and the various doors to this prison." Calvin said remembering another bout of concussions.
"We'll obviously we need the key card, just need to grab it from a guard." Jak said.
"However we need the blueprints to the prison" Hobbes said. "and we don't have them"
Suddenly the door opened, and saw that an alien had opened with a package.
"Hello prisoners" the alien said. "We're going to call you for the invention in just one hour, normally we would check the package but we're in a rush today so we don't have time for checking them"
"Um thanks." Jak said grabbing the package.
"No problem, see you at the test" the alien said closing the door.
They gathered around the package, as Hobbes opened the package with his claw, and they observed what was inside.
Inside was a guard card, the prison blueprints, a envelope, a smoke bomb, and a green glowing cube.
"My Hypercube" Calvin said grabbing the glowing cube and quickly observed the contents, well they have the most of the inventions except for the MTM, and the chaos emeralds aren't in there, no doubt Eggman took them."
"Wonder what this envelope contains" Sonic asked opening up.
In is was a letter it was.
For the sake of this letter I would like to keep my identity a secret, I have been tracking you since you began your adventure, I know you are in prison, and I gave you the tools to escape, use these tools to plan. Once you got your friends out, get to the shuttle bay and escape.
I'll be watching.
They read the letter for a moment.
"Well whoever sent us this must want us to succeed" Jak said.
"But who could have sent it?" Hobbes asked.
"We don't have time for questions" Calvin said checking his watch, "We have 55 minutes till they come to take us to Eggman's invention of his."
So they started making a plan, With Calvin duplicating the security cards with his mini duplicator, and handing them to each.
I'm not going to go into any detail of the plan, just wait until the next chapter.
55 minutes later the robots came.
By then they had made the plan and put the equipment that they got away.
The robots expected protest but to their surprise, it robots had expressions they complied with their orders.
After taking them out of their cells they went to the elevator, and pressed the button where Eggmans mysterious invention was.
The plan to escape had begun.
Authors Note: Will our heroes escape the prison? Who sent the package? What does Eggmans invention do? And Will I post and update next week?
3 of these questions will be answered next week.
R.I.P Robin Williams 1951-2014. We've never had a friend like you.