Chapter 17: Frozen World
Inside a metal room a sphere of electricity came around and dropped off our heroes, all of them feeling disorientated from the sudden stop from nearly plummeting a thousand feet.
"That was way too close." Hobbes said after the disorientation passed everyone.
Everyone nodded.
"Well, on the bright side we only have one emerald left to find." Ratchet said.
"And apparently is must be somewhere inside this building." Daxter said looking around. "This should be easy."
"Um there is a reason i teleported you in here." The MTM said.
"Why?" Calvin asked
Daxter was opening the door outside, but when he opened it a gigantic gust of snow blew into the room, covering him.
Sonic quickly ran to the door and closed it.
"That's why." The MTM said.
Daxters head popped out of the snow after a few seconds. With everyone trying their hardest not to laugh.
"Alright get me out of here!."
They managed to dig out Daxter, but it wasn't easy because the snow was a bit heavy.
As they did that The MTM explained what planet they were on.
"This planet was once a hospitable colony, however in an attempt to make living conditions better, they just made the planet's environment worse, it ended up nearly wiping the colonists out, now every month here there is a gigantic storm, it's like a blizzard, whiteout, and flash freeze mixed up into one, if that door was open for a few more seconds you all would have been frozen faster than something in dry ice."
"Wow, this is the second place we've been where something bad happened here." Calvin said rolling his eyes. "I guess the emerald, here and the one at the last location really hated the crowd's."
"So is there any way of getting out of here during one of these storms?" Jak asked.
Just then Ratchet decided to explore the place, and found a garage with a vehicle in it.
The Vehicle seemed to be able to once used for transportation as it had many seats in it, the pilot seat was in the front and had lights in the front presumably to help travel in the dark, and possibly the storm. Finally, it had treads instead of wheels so it could travel in the snow, upon closer inspection it had small spikes, so it could travel safely on ice.
"I think i found out how to get through the storms." Ratchet called out to the group.
Everyone came to where Ratchet was and stared at the vehicle.
"Well good job finding that vehicle." Sonic said. "But the bigger question is, does it still run?"
The MTM scanned the vehicle and after a few seconds, he said. "Well, Half of the fuel of gone, it has a 60% chance of failure, the treads could break, and the cargo part of the vehicle may or may not have air conditioning, but other than that it looks like it could be able to run."
"Well thats helpful info." Calvin said once again rolling his eye's. "Let's try it out anyway."
Everyone thought about what the MTM said about the vehicle, and weather or not to follow calvins lead.
Finally Sonic said. "Well i guess we take our chances with the vehicle."
Everyone nodded and proceeded to board the vehicle.
Ratchet with the help of Clank managed to start the vehicle, and soon they were on the move.
The storm would have made it hard to see, but Ratchet activated the ClearSight feature of the vehicle, so he could now drive clearly.
Meanwhile in the back, The MTM explained more info of the planet.
"The surviving colonists spent their last few months trying to search for food, however the experiment wiped out all the food so they had to survive with what they had, and the storms slowly but surely wiped the colonists, out. I'm Probably guessing that they used these vehicles as shelter from the storms. Eventually all of the colonists died off."
Everyone sat in silence as they heard the story.
"Wow." Daxter said. "That was a bit dark, especially since this story is rated K+."
"Agreed." Calvin said. "How do you know all of this MTM? Ratchet is usually the planet expert in this area."
"Well I have never heard or been on this planet until now." Ratchet called while he was in the driver seat. "I was going to research it but I guess the MTM beat me too it."
"Yes I did." The MTM said.
After about an hour they suddenly came to a stop, soon after that the lights went off.
Afer a few Ratchet then came up. "Ok i got bad news, the vehicle shot and it's not coming back on."
"Ok so now what?" Jak asked. "Do we stay here until the storm blows over."
"Actually." Hobbes said peeking out the window. "The storm seems to have passed."
Everyone checked the window Hobbes was peering out of. And he was right, instead of snow flying in the wind, and visibility reduced to two feet, it was now clear as day.
After Calvin looked at the window for a few moments he began digging through his hypercube
"So i guess were going to have to walk to the emerald." Jak said.
"That's going to be a bit difficult as most of us don't have winter gear." Hobbes pointed out.
"Oh really." Calvin said from behind.
Everyone turned saw calvin in a purple winter coat, a blue hat, red mittens, and winter boots.
"We go out with winter gear." He said before digging through his hypercube again. "I think I also have a few spare coats for some of you."
A few minutes later everyone came out of the vehicle. Jak had a brown wintercoat on with his red scarf pulled over his mouth, while Sonic had a brown scarf around his neck, Ratchet also had a scarf around his neck but his was blue.
Hobbes stared at Sonic for a few moments.
"You know this seems oddly familiar." Hobbes said.
"Agreed." Sonic said.
Ratchet activated his planet map and checked where the emerald was.
"Ok we are about a mile from the emerald, if we can get moving soon we can be there in about an hour and a half."
"Sound's good." Hobbes said before turning to Calvin and whispering. "You know these are the times when i wish our toboggan had a motor."
Calvin nodded.
And so our heroes were off. However they didn't notice a small flying drone, spying on them.
The people watching it were none other then Dr Eggman, Erol, Dr Nefarious, and Earl.
"They are coming to where we are." Erol said watching our heroes walk in the snow.
"Excellent." Eggman said. "Sonic and his friends shall soon learn that I am more dangerous then I am."
Then he pulled out an object from his pocket.
It was the last chaos emerald our heroes were looking for.
Meanwhile, our heroes had been walking for about an hour and now they were wandering across a mountain. By them they had become tired, but they couldn't stop because the cold was relentless, and it felt like if they stopped for a minute they would freeze.
"Wow, i never imagined this planet would be cold." Hobbes said slightly shivering.
"Well it's probably just me but this beats dad's walks any day." Calvin said. "How long until we get to that emerald MTM?"
"About 45 more minutes." The MTM said.
Almost everyone groaned.
About 10 more minutes later, they finally managed to get around the mountain, only to come across a slope so steep that none of them could walk on.
"Well, unless anyone has a plan to find a path that can get down the mountain, we're going to have to slide down there." Sonic said.
Eveyone considered their options, when Clank noticed a fireball flying across the sky.
"I think this may help make your decicion." Clank said pointing to the fireball.
Everyone stared at it as it made impact on the mountain, causing an avalanche.
"Ok we'll slide down the hill." Daxter said quickly to Sonic.
Calvin quickly pulled out his tobogan from the hypercube, and he and hobbes got on, while Jak grabbed daxter and got his hoverboard, and Ratchet grabbed clank, put him on his back and activated his hover boots.
No one had time to check if Sonic, Tails, and Amy managed to get ready to slide down the slope as the moment they got on their sleds they went down the slope.
And after a few seconds Sonic and his friends caught up to them on snowboards.
Calvin looked at them and asked "Where did those snowboards come from?"
Sonic thought about it for a moment. "You know i don't even know where the snowboards come from."
Calvin shrugged, and Hobbes asked another question. "Are we litteraly trying to outrun a avalanche?"
"Yes of course we are." Calvin said trying to keep his focus. "I saw it in a movie once."
"But what happens in a movie doesn't really happen in real life!" Hobbes cried out.
"Hobbes in case you noticed we are in a story where we meet people from other…" Calvin said before hobbes stopped them.
"Shh don't spoil the surprise for the other characters."
"Oh right."
"By the way we are about to crash into a rock."
Calvin quickly turned and managed to dodge the rock by just a centimeter.
"You need to teach me how to ride the tobgan." Hobbes said. "You teached me to ride the wagon after all."
"Nice try hobbes." Calvin said. "but unlike the wagon, it's not repairable."
Hobbes rolled his eyes in response.
As our heroes rode down the mountain, the avalance got closer and closer to them.
Finally, Ratchet spoted a rock level high enough to block the avalanche behind a rock that looked like it could make a good ramp.
"I think we can use that rock to escape the avalanche." Ratchet said pointing to the sloped rock. "The rock wall behind it could block the avalanche."
"WHAT!" Daxter yelled "Are you crazy, we don't even know if it would block part of it!."
"Unless you plan is to stay behind and let the avalanche bury you, thats ok with me." Ratchet said.
"Fine i'll go with your plan." Daxter grumbled
So our heroes turned in the direction the rock was in and went off it, just as the avalanche reached them.
"Yahoo." Calvin said. "We're safe, and i think that slide shaved off a few minutes of time to get to the emerald."
Hobbes then looked down. "Uh, Calvin i don't think you should be celebrating just yet."
"Why?"
"Because we are over chasm."
Calvin looked down and saw what Hobbes meant.
"Should we panic now?"
"Yes, lets."
Then they both screamed "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
The rest of the heroes looked down to see what they were screaming about. When they saw they all acquired shocked expressions.
Finally the laws of gravity decided to kick in and they plummeted down into the chasm.
They screamed as they fell down.
Authors Note: Don't worry they survive, if they didn't this would have been the end of the story, and that would not have been good.
and Yes the brown scarf on Sonic is supposed to be a reference to Sonic Boom.
Also I apologize for the slow pacing of previous 2 chapters, and the short length of this chapter. Trust me, the next chapter is going to be more exciting.