Chapter 20. Attack on Death Egg.
The Death Egg, possibly Eggman's best space station. When the villains arrived they found it completed, and ready to use, as well as the pieces of the device to awaken the universe eater.
Eggman was right now conversing with the man, who was there when the villains arrived. Keep in mind this is the first time they have seen him physically as they haven't seen him since he came to them to recruit them.
"I have to say Eggman you did a good job acquiring four of the emeralds when confronting the heroes." The Man said. "But let me ask you something, how are you going to get the rest?"
"Oh, I have a plan for them. Once they are here, I will reveal something that will force them to give me the emeralds."
"You've seen what those heroes could do Eggman, they won't give up without a fight." The Man said
"Oh, they'll back out the moment they see what I have planed in case of that."
Just then the man's radio started crackling. "Sir we have some unknown ships coming this way, we should probably go now."
The Man nodded. "It seems like you're going to have company, i'm going to go now."
Eggman looked confused. "You're not going to help us to fight. Your also going to miss me awakening the creature"
"Right now I would not like to get my hands dirty. As for you awakening the creature, Which is known as the universe eater by the way, I'll be watching from another location."
The man then walked out of the room, leaving Eggman.
He then went over to the main room of the death egg. Right now the rest of the villains were building the machine that would summon the universe eater. When they got here the machine was in pieces, and the blueprints for the machine were next to the parts.
Right now they were building the beam part of the machine, Erol and Nefarious were doing the heavy lifting with the help of some of Eggman's robots, while Earl was examining the blueprints, instructing the two on building.
Erol and Nefarious were moving the reflecting glass for the beam when Earl spoke up.
"Hey, the Reflecting glass is supposed to be facing the other way." He said as he showed them the blueprints
The two looked at the part, then looked at the blueprints, they groaned for a moment, and then they turned it around.
Eggman watched this for a moment, before going to the radar. "What do you have. The man who hired us said a ship was coming?"
"Well we have a single ship coming, it's not one of ours." The Radar man said
"Can you get in contact with them? Give them a warning?"
Just as he said that a crackle on the radio began, after few seconds a voice became audible.
"Eggman can you read me."
Eggman grinned. "Sonic, I see you received my call. Are you here to give up the rest emeralds?"
"No we're here to get back those emeralds, and stop you from awakening the Universe eater."
"Oh and how are you going to get to them with only one ship."
"Who said about one ship?"
Eggman then looked at the radar again, this time there were hundreds of ships on the radar.
"Last chance Eggman, Either give us the emeralds or we're going to attack."
Eggman boiling with rage, shut down the radio, and got on the announcer.
"Attention, we are under attack from our enemies. Send out ever ship we have, and destroy them."
Meanwhile back on Galaxoid and Nebular's ship, Sonic had hung up the ship radio, and now the rest of the heroes were watching Eggmans ships emerge from the death egg.
Right now there were hundreds of ships coming for them, in fact Eggmans ship's were beginning to outnumber their own ships.
"Let's hope Ratchet comes back soon." Hobbes said looking at the rapidly growing number of enemy ships. "If more ships come, we could have problems."
"Well, nonetheless we're going into giant battle." Sonic said. "We only have one shot at this."
Nebular then turned to Calvin. "You know what to do."
Calvin then got the radio, and called his orders.
"This is the earth potentate, the ships coming out of the death egg are your enemies, fire when ready."
"Roger that." one of the aliens said.
Calvin then got on the drivers seat on the ship and pressed the button to activate the weapons.
"You might want to hold on tight people." Calvin said grabbing on the the pilot stick. "Because this is going to get a little rough."
"Can you fly this thing?" Jak asked
"Hey it can't be any different from flying my time machine."
Just after he said that the first allied ship got hit by a missile.
"Ok, then can you fly us out of the range of Eggmans missiles?" Daxter asked.
Calvin then piloted the ship down, right after that the Anakorians began to fire against Eggman's forces.
Some of the ships flew towards our heroes with some going in front of them, and attempting to shoot them down.
Calvin responded by firing the ships lasers, destroying some of the ships in front of them. He then saw a laser fly past them, and with the ship's rear camera he noticed two ships preparing to fire more at them.
Calvin then piloted the ship upwards, just in time as the Eggman's ships fired, destroying the two in front of them.
Meanwhile the rest of the heroes were holding on because of Calvin's steering.
"Well I guess he can fly the ship." Jak said holding on to a seat.
"I agree." Tails replied. "But I wouldn't trust him to fly my plane."
Sonic looked out the window and saw what was going on with the ankorian fleet. They were doing quite well against Eggmans forces, but some ships were still destroyed.
Still he had the feeling that it would not last.
Inside the death egg, The villains had completed the machine, and were now watching the battle.
"This isn't going well." Dr. Nefarious said. "If they keep up at this rate, they could defeat us before we steal the rest of the emeralds."
"We're not going to let that happen." Eggman said before turning the Erol. "Get an EMP laser ready, target the ship that has Sonic and his friends in it.."
Erol nodded and ran off to prepare the laser.
Eggman then turned to Earl and Dr. Nefarious. "You go in that room, and stay in there. I have a plan for them.
The two villains nodded and ran off into that room.
Eggman then got a radio out and said into it. "All robots, Prepare to execute Order 4H6."
The Robots then grabbed their weapons and began to teleport out.
If you're wondering what Order 4H6 is you'll find out at the end of this chapter.
But know this, the EMP laser is so Eggman can buy some time to do that order.
Erol had activated the EMP laser and had right now found the ship containing our heroes.
"I've locked on to them." Erol said.
"Excellent." Eggman said. "Fire when ready."
Erol pressed the trigger.
Calvin had been, dodging Eggman's ship's, and destroying them, and then a blue light flashed, and the ship shut down.
"Uh, What happened?" Sonic asked.
"Looks like we've been shut down." Calvin said as he tried to use something on the ship.
"Can you get the ship back online." Jak asked.
"Don't really know." Calvin said before turning to Galaxoid and Nebular. "Can you restart this ship in the event of an EMP?"
"Yes but we need to do it manually, in the engine room to be specific." Galaxoid said. "Turn everything off, wait about a Minute, and turn it back on."
"Ok. But does this require someone to sacrifice someone?"
"No." Nebular said
"Well good, because we all just got to know each other, and it would be very hard to make a sequel if one of us died."
Galaxoid nodded, "It's probably best if Hobbes came with us to help with the restart."
"Ok" Hobbes said. "Let's hope Eggman doesn't decide to blast us out of the air."
Galaxoid, Nebular, Calvin, and Hobbes ran off to the engine room.
The rest of the heroes stood in watching the battle in silence.
"How are we even breathing in here if the ship is shut down?" Tails asked
"I'm probably guessing that the oxygen is separate from the main power." Sonic said.
"I guess that makes sense." Jak said.
Meanwhile, Calvin's group had reached the engine room, and were right now flipping the switches to restart the ship.
"How long do the switches have to be turned off?" Calvin asked as he switched off the right engine power.
"About one minute in your time." Galaxoid said.
"Thanks. Does every switch need to be turned off in order to start the minute?" Hobbes asked as he shut off the weapons.
"Yes." Nebular said.
"Well that's a relief." Calvin said shutting off the left engine. "Any other thing to note on restarting the ship?"
"Well, we have to flip the switches to reactivate the ship all at once."
Calvin and Hobbes turned around, right before they were about to flip the final switch.
"What?" Calvin asked.
"If it was just two the engines, it would be simple, but thanks to Ratchets modifications, its going to take an extra hand." Galaxoid explained
"Oh." Hobbes said. "Guess we're going to talk to Ratchet when he comes back."
"Let's just try to find a way around this." Calvin said.
"Um did anyone forget about me?" The MTM said.
"Oh, Sorry I forgot." Calvin said.
"Well of course you have. I can assist you with reactivating the ship with my manipulator arms."
"Ok thanks MTM." Calvin said grabbing the lever, and looking at Hobbes.
"Do it." Hobbes said after a pause.
Calvin pulled the lever, shutting the ship off.
As the heroes waited inside the darkness, one of Eggman's ships flew in front of the ship, the robot eager to blast ships out of the sky.
Not knowing that he wasn't supposed to attack the ship, he aimed the blasters at them.
However, just before he fired his blasters, he noticed something out of the corner of his eye.
And that was the last thing he saw before his ship blew up.
The heroes on Galaxoid and Nebular's ship felt the explosion from there.
"What was that?" Amy asked.
"Did a ship explode near us?" Sonic asked.
"I think so." Jak said.
Calvin and the group also felt the explosion. They were holding the levers, with the MTM using his two manipulator arms to hold two other switches
"I'm probably guessing that was an explosion." Hobbes said.
"Let's hope its not where the rest of us are." Calvin said.
"30 seconds." MTM said.
"Right." Calvin said. slowly counting down in his head.
"How long do you think Ratchet is going to take to get here?" Galaxoid asked.
"I don't think it should be long." Calvin said, with him counting 40 seconds.
"If so he's taking his sweet time getting here." Hobbes said.
45 seconds.
"Let's not forget, Traveling across universes takes a ton of time." The MTM explained "By the way you have 5 seconds."
All three got ready to flip the switches.
"Now." The MTM said, and all at once they flipped the switches.
Back in the control room, the heroes noticed that the ships systems turning back on.
"Well it looks like the Calvin gang got the power back up." Daxter said.
Just as soon as the power came back on the radio came back on. "Hello, Hello? Is anyone there?"
"That's Ratchet's voice." Amy said.
"Hello is anyone still alive?" Ratchet asked over the radio again.
Sonic quickly ran over to the radio and answered it "Yes we are still alive. We just got hit by an EMP and we had to restart the ship."
"I guess that explains why you weren't picking up my radio calls for the past minute."
"Yeah but, I have a question. What did you bring to help us?"
"Well i brought some help. Look outside to see what I bought for help."
Everyone ran out to look out the window, and saw Ratchet and Clank, waving in the aphelion in front of a ton of fighter ships, like Ratchet was the leader of this army.
""Like what you see?" Ratchet asked. "Brought my old Galactic rangers, I was once a sergeant of the army."
"You we're a Sergeant?" Jak asked.
"It's a long story." Ratchet explained. "You can execute your plan now Jak."
"Got it." Jak said.
He got Ratchet's old O2 mask, and as he walked towards the airlock, and opened it.
He stepped through the airlock, and went into space.
Now you've probably know that space has no sound. That's what Jak heard from the battle all around him, Nothing.
He had to use his sight to try to find one of Eggmans ship to Hijack, and even then he had to have perfect timing or else he would be floating in space.
To make things easier, he used his light eco powers again, he used them to slow down time.
And when a ship was near them he jumped.
He perfectly on the ship and began to walk towards the ships cockpit.
The Robot pilot meanwhile in normal time was trying to get Jak off the ship, but because he was in slowed time, he moved faster and soon he pulled the cockpit opened, and pulled the robot out into space.
Jak then closed the cockpit, and began to fly towards the death egg.
The robot that was flung into space radioed in to eggman.
"Sir you have a hijacked ship coming towards the death egg."
"WHAT!" Eggman yelled. "Who hijacked the ship?"
"It was the long eared fellow."
Eggman on the other end hung up.
"Uh sir?"
There was only silence, and he didn't see a piece of a destroyed ship that destroyed him.
Eggman meanwhile was thinking on ways to stop the incoming ship that Jak was piloting.
By then, order 4H6 had been carried out, and voices that were in the room Nefarious and Earl were in had been quieted.
"Can't you shoot them down with our ships." Erol asked.
"No they are implemented with a chip that prevents the weapons on firing on the ships." Eggman replied.
"You know for a evil genius you're not very smart." Earl said.
"There is only one option." Eggman said. "We have to shut the bay door."
"But Eggman, we have ships that are about to depart." Erol said.
"I DON'T CARE, WE HAVE AN ENEMY COMING TOWARDS US. SHUT THE BAY DOORS!"
Nervously Dr Nefarious got to the radio, and said shackingly.
"Cl..Cl...Close, th...th..the Bay Door's...Now"
The alien working on the bay heard the order, pressed the button, and the bay doors began to close.
Meanwhile the rest of the heroes noticed the bay doors were closing.
"Jak you better hurry, the doors are beginning to close." Tails said through the jet that Jak was in, they managed to hack into the communications of the jet Jak was on.
'I know, but I think i'm going to make it." Jak said.
"Let's hope so." Calvin said. "Because it would really stink if we lost a friend today."
"Right." Jak said.
Jak then flew at top speed towards the rapidly closing bay door.
He knew that there was only one shot at this, and he flew towards the rapidly closing gap in the door.
Just before the gap became too small to fit the ship through, Jak made it through the ship.
However he made a crash landing because some of the ship collided with the doors.
Eggman and the villains were watching through the cameras.
"Is he dead?" Dr Nefarious asked.
"If you're not certain, how about you send a squad out to investigate." Eggman said. "If he is alive, execute him
"Eggman aren't you getting a bit too relentless on trying to get the rest of the emeralds?" Earl said.
"Oh I don't know, why don't you go down there and see for yourself so that if he is alive, you can get shot by him."
Earl then shut up.
Meanwhile the investigation squad slowly approached the wreckage of the ship, their guns pointing at the wreakage.
As soon as they were close to the ship, purple electricity began crackling around the cockpit area.
Then Jak's hand emerged from wreckage, except it had dark claws, and the skin was a purplish pale.
Then the entire cockpit area blew up in front of them.
"OH GOD, HE'S UNLEASHED SOME SORT OF POWER WE NEVER KNEW, AND NOW HE'S DESTROYING US, SEND HELP." One of the robots yelled before the robot was destroyed.
The villains were watching the entire thing in shock, except Erol
Eggman, Dr. Nefarious, and Earl turned to Erol and gave them glares that would turn a person to stone.
Erol looked away from them and slowly backed away, and went into the room where Eggman ordered Nefarious and Earl to go into when he executed Order 4H6.
Meanwhile in the control room, the alien inside it was holding his blaster towards the door, trembling and afraid.
The door opened, revealing Jak, back in his normal form.
"DIE!" The alien yelled as he pulled the trigger.
However the blaster didn't fire. In a panic he threw the blaster at Jak, which missed and he ran off.
Jak casually walked up and pressed the button that deactivated the anti air lasters, and opened the bay doors.
Outside our heroes noticed the bay doors beginning to open, and the anti air lasers lowering on the Death Egg.
"Looks like Jak did it." Daxter said.
"I guess he did." Calvin said, piloting Galaxoid and Nebular's ship towards the Death Egg, and began to go into it.
Then he called Ratchet. "Ratchet the anti air guns are down, prepare to go in."
"Roger that." Ratchet said.
Together, the aphelion, and the alien ship flew into the death egg.
Inside they found Jak next to the crashed ship, and a door.
Calvin surprisingly landed the ship softly, and they got out.
"So how did you get through them, we heard the robots coming towards you, and then we lost communication."
"Oh i had a bit of help with my dark powers." Jak said.
"I guess that makes sense." Sonic said.
Calvin then turned to Galaxoid and Nebular. "I think it's best if you regroup with your leader, I think you've done enough to help us."
"Earth Potentate, I thank you for your concern for us." Galaxoid said.
"We wish you good luck on saving the universes." Nebular said.
Hobbes nodded.
With that Galaxoid and Nebular flew went back to their ship, and flew off.
Sonic then turned to the group. "Ready to finish this?"
Everyone nodded and went through the door leading to Eggman.
Meanwhile in the main room, Eggman was beginning to calibrate the universe eater summoner to the four chaos emeralds he had, when the doors behind him exploded.
Eggman turned around and saw the alien from before a bit dazed, he opened his mouth as if he was about to say something, but then he collapsed, revealing the heroes.
"Did you miss us Eggman?" Sonic asked.
"Sonic, wait you don't understand…" Eggman stammered.
"I think we all know what you're going to do now Eggman." Ratchet said. "Your going to make universes bow to you, and in order to do that your going to use some monster that eats other universes."
"Look please that isn't my real plan." Eggman said trying to press some buttons.
However he was just pretending to press buttons.
"Just give us the rest of the chaos emeralds, and we'll be on our way." Jak said
"Face it Eggman you've lost." Sonic said.
However, Eggman turned around with an evil grin. It was the same evil grin from when he first revealed he had the chaos emeralds. Sonic once again felt his blood run cold.
"Oh, Sonic." Eggman said shaking his head, you must really know that every evil genius has a back up plan."
Then all at once the lights turned on.
All of the heroes were shocked at what they saw, this time for all the same reasons.
Eggman had their friends.
They were on their knees and had their hands tied up, with aliens and Robots holding guns to them, and all of them looked terrified.
Now you know what the point of Order 6H4 was
"Now here are my Demands, you either give the emeralds to me, or all of your friends die."
Authors Note: I apologize for the huge gap between the last chapter and this one, laziness caught up to me once again.
I'm going to try to get this done before the start of summer, so the next few chapters may be a bit rushed. The Next Chapter will be out on Sunday