Chapter 21. The Eater Awakens.
Sonic stood in horror on what he saw.
Calvin was inside his mind, trying to figure out how to rescue the hostages, but each plan ended in either their death, the hostages deaths, or both.
Ratchet and Jak were shackingly pointing their weapons at Eggman, and the Robots holding their friends hostage.
"Lower your guns." Eggman said. "Or your friends will die."
Reluctantly Ratchet, and Jak lowered their weapons.
Now let me describe the hostage list.
From Calvin's universe is Andy, Sherman, and Socrates.
From Jak and Daxters universe, Kira and Samos
and from Ratchets Universe was Captain Qwark.
All of them looked terrified.
"Why would you do this Eggman?" Sonic asked. "First threatening to kill Amy to get to the Emeralds and now this."
"I am willing to get those last emeralds at any cost and you won't stop me." Eggman said.
"But this is going too far. You would never resort to these things in the past."
"I AM GOING TO AWAKEN THIS CREATURE AND NONE OF YOU ARE GOING TO STOP ME FROM DOING IT!"
Everyone was taken aback by the sudden outburst.
"You're insane." Andy yelled. "I don't think you're even thinking about what you're about to do…."
He then got hit in the back with the weapon the robot was holding. "Shut up or i'll shoot you."
Andy went quiet.
"Look, Eggman you don't understand, the universe eater, it can destroy your own universe, and others." Calvin said. "Even if you awake the universe eater, you're putting your own universe in danger."
"SILENCE." Eggman yelled. "I will control it, you will not stop me."
"Eggman you can't control perfect chaos, or any other monsters you've unleashed. "What makes you think it's going to be different here?" Sonic asked.
"It will be different, and you will be the first victims of the universe eater." Eggman said pointing at them. "or else."
He then lifted his hand, and the minions pointed the guns at the hostages, as well as the villains pointing their weapons at them.
"Sonic what is your plan?" Hobbes whispered.
Sonic thought about it, he couldn't tell them them their plan, neither whisper it to the heroes because Eggman was next to them.
Neither could he spring the plan immediately, the hostages would be killed.
He could only do one thing.
"Can me and the others discuss this in private?" Sonic asked Eggman.
Eggman thought about it. "I don't see why not, just be quick about it."
Our heroes then went inside a room, and began to discuss what to do.
However what Eggman didn't know was that they were planning something. In order to misdirect the villains they spoke certain words out loud, such as this.
"We will….Give the emerald to Eggman." Hobbes voice said.
"I agree." Jak's voice said.
After a few more minutes, Sonic said. "Ok let's do this."
They then came out of the room, and walked towards Eggman.
"We've agreed to give you the rest of the emeralds." Ratchet said.
"Alright, give me them." Eggman said.
"But first Calvin would like to talk to you." Hobbes said.
Calvin walked up towards Eggman, and faced him.
"What do you want to say child." Eggman asked.
"I want you to remember two words, those two words are going to be important when you arrive in my universe." Calvin said.
"Yes." Eggman said eagerly.
"I want you to be close to my ear."
Eggman kneeled and turned his ear near Calvin's mouth.
"I'm about to say it."
"Yes, TELL ME!"
Calvin then hollered out. "I'M HOOOOOME!"
Instantly, Hobbes picked up that on his ears, and leaped towards Calvin.
Quickly, Calvin activated the time pauser, and ran to the minions holding the hostages and used his transmogrifier gun to blast them down.
He then resumed time with the time pauser, causing time to start up again, and Hobbes to pounce on Eggman.
Erol and Dr Nefarious were taken aback by the sudden attack, giving Jak and Ratchet an Opportunity for them to use their weapons and shoot at them. The two villains then collapsed.
Earl being the only one not attacked yet, was about to execute the prisoners himself when Sonic ran up and kicked him before he could do any harm.
After Hobbes finished clawing on Eggman, he went over to the hostages and cut their bonds.
After they were freed, they ran over to their respective friends.
First were Calvin's friends who were curious about what happened.
"Calvin, I have a few questions for you, not the least of which being why Sonic is suddenly a real character, as well as Ratchet, Clank, Jak, and Daxter." Andy said. "Number one is why you lied to us."
"Well i thought that if I told you that, you wouldn't believe me." Calvin said.
"Look, We fight alien invasions, and monsters under the bed every week. I think we would believe you." Sherman said.
Calvin sighed. "Look i'm sorry, I'll take you with me on the next adventure we have with them."
Socrates smiled. "It's okay Calvin, we're still your friends."
The rest of Calvin's friends smiled.
"Thanks guys. He said.
Meanwhile Jak was talking to Kira, and Samos
"I knew you were somewhere Jak." Samos said. "Even if you weren't here."
"It's a bit of a long story." Jak said. "I'll explain once this is all over."
"I think me and Samos already got the whole thing down." Kira said. "You got transported to another universe, and made friends with people with others universes and went on an adventure to find artifacts of power."
"Uh yeah, thats pretty much sums it up." Daxter said.
"We're just glad we're okay." Samos said.
"I guess so." Jak said
FInally, Ratchet and Clank were talking to captain qwark.
"I tried to fight them off." Qwark explained. "I managed to destroy some of the robots, but they just kept coming. Eventually they captured me, and when i woke up i was held hostage by them."
"Well you can't win them all." Ratchet said. "You should be glad that you at least try to fight them off."
"Yes." Clank said. "You should be glad about that part."
"I guess so." Qwark said.
Sonic then walked up with the rest of the emeralds in his hands.
"Ok, I got all the emeralds, lets get out of here before Eggman and the rest of the villains wake up."
Now you'd think that this would be the end of the story, right? The heroes go back to Galaxoid and Nebulars ship, and fly away.
Did you forget we still have two chapters left?
Just as they were about to walk through the door, Eggman, who managed to get up, pressed a button and activated a field preventing them for exiting.
"Did you really think I would let you leave that easily." Eggman said weekly.
"Let us go Eggman, you've lost." Sonic said dangerously.
"I've lost? This hasn't even begun." and Eggman pressed another button, and it revealed another army of robots, and aliens.
Dr. Nefarious and Erol got up. Apparently faking death.
Finally Earl came up and pointed a blaster at the heroes.
"KILL THEM ALL!" Eggman yelled. "AND GIVE ME THOSE CHAOS EMERALDS!"
All of the robots and aliens charged at the heroes, and their friends. Except this time they were ready.
"Kira, Samos, you better hide." Jak said, aiming his blaster at the robots.
"Jak, theres too many of them." Samos said.
"Did you forget I made friends in this adventure?"
All of the heroes got ready to battle.
"NOW!" Sonic said.
All of the heroes then leaped into the battle, and began to fight.
Calvin used the transmogrifier gun, to turn some of the robots into bombs. That helped out in wiping some of the robots, and aliens out. He also had the help of Hobbes who was pouncing on some the robots and aliens
Ratchet was using his various weapons to destroy the minions, including but not limited to, The Black Sheepinator, The Shock Cannon, The Negotiator, and finally, the RYNO V.
Jak was using his various modes of his morph gun such as, the blaster mode, and the gyro blaster mode, the Peacemaker mode, the arc welder, and the mass inverter mode. With occasional use of his dark and light eco powers.
As for Sonic, he was using his super speed to take down the minions, Tails was using one of his blasters to shoot the Robots, and Amy was using her hammer to take out the minions
Even the hostages were fighting with the heroes, Andy was using The atomic Freezer, one of Calvin's inventions, to Freeze some of the robots in place, and kicking them. Socrates was using his various prank tools, as well as the time pauser to beat the robots in comical ways.
Kira was using her wrench to fight off the robots and the aliens, while Samos was using his cane to hit the robots, though it didn't destroy them, it was pretty effective.
As for Qwark he was using his blaster and punches to beat the robots and aliens.
So far things were going well for the heroes.
Then the main villains began their attack.
Calvin and Hobbes were blasted away by Dr. Nefarious, Earl attacked Jak and Daxter as well as Ratchet and Clank, Erol blasted Sonic, Tails and Amy.
This left the group separated, and now had to fight the villains that ambushed them.
First up is Calvin and Hobbes vs Dr. Nefarious.
"Well, it looks like it's just you two and me." Dr Nefarious said.
"Did you really have to say that?" Hobbes asked. "That phase is just getting old."
Dr. Nefarious just laughed, and threw one of his energy balls on the ground, causing it to turn into a line that quickly traveled to Calvin and Hobbes.
In order to avoid being shocked, they had to jump over it.
Dr. Nefarious didn't take this well. So he threw more energy projectiles on the ground, and they had to jump to avoid those too.
"So you're having fun jumping over my projectiles eh." Nefarious said raising his other hand to fire another projectile. "Now lets add a twist to this game."
All at once Nefarious threw a projectile on the ground and another towards the two heroes.
The two jumped, and the other projectile hit Calvin.
"CALVIN!" Hobbes yelled and he ran to his fallen friend.
Dr. Nefarious meanwhile, laughed at his victory.
However Nefarious forgot one thing you should never do around Hobbes, and that is hurt his best friend Calvin.
In Hobbes anger he did a big pounce towards Dr. Nefarious.
By the time Dr. Nefarious noticed Hobbes coming right towards he was nearly 3 feet away.
"Oh…" Nefarious began right before Hobbes hit him with the force of a train.
In fact the force of the pounce was so great that Dr. Nefarious head popped off. Don't worry he's a robot so hes alright.
His head landed about 5 feet away from his body.
Believe it or not, Dr. Nefarious's head was still functioning.
"Why did I not see that coming." Dr. Nefarious asked looking at his body.
Hobbes then ran to Calvin's body. "Calvin, are you alive?"
Calvin slowly got up. "Yeah, I am."
Hobbes then smiled and hugged him. Glad that his friend was still alive.
Meanwhile, Jak, Daxter, Ratchet, and Clank were fighting Earl.
Their weapons so far had no effect on Earl as he had some sort of shield around him.
"My Employer made me this shield that allowed me to resist projectile attacks." Boasted Earl as the 4 tried to shoot him.
"Yeah but how did Sonic manage to kick you when we freed the hostage's." Daxter asked.
"Well he didn't make it melee proof."
Jak then tried to use the Peacemaker on Earl but it didn't harm Earl at all.
To counter Earl put out a gun and fired it at Jak, creating a type of energy rope, and dragged him towards him.
Ratchet tried to shoot the weapon out of Earls hands but the shield protected him.
As soon as Jak was close to Earl, Earl then wrapped a tentacle around Jak's neck.
"You have no hope of defeating me with this shield." Earl said still boasting. "I've helped conquer planets with the Zokians, what chance do you think you have with me."
"You can barely conquer earth." Ratchet said. "I think we all know we can defeat you."
"Yes but that is because of my Idiot crew, but because they are idiots no longer, I shall conquer Earth days after the Earth Potentates's universe is conquered."
"Well if...you're going to….conquer Calvins universe." Jak said with Earls tentacle still wrapped around his neck. "Tell your boss that his shield has a design flaw."
Earl then looked back and Jak, and his smug boastful expression turned into a surprised expression.
Jak had his hand out, and had Dark energy around it, and then he brought it down to Earls face, creating an explosion that knocked Ratchet, Clank and Daxter back.
When the smoke cleared Earl was lying on the ground with his shield in pieces with Jak standing over him.
"Is he dead?" Clank asked.
"No, he's just knocked out." Jak said walking away.
Daxter took a quick look at Earl, and he didn't look any different. Aside from the face that seemed to be frozen in fear.
Finally we get to Sonic, Amy, and Tails fighting Erol.
They seemed to be doing very well, as Erol was trying to get Sonic but he was too fast, and Erol was too busy trying to shield himself from Tails and Amy's attacks to fight them.
However he had a plan to counter them.
He noticed Sonic was running around him, so he extended one of his arms and grabbed him, and threw sonic on the ground.
Then he used a shoulder blaster to fire at Tails and Amy, causing the the two to be knocked back and Amy's hammer to fly out of her hands and be near Erol.
"Did you really think I would stay down on your attack and try not to fight back." Erol asked. "Now, its time to destroy you."
However what he didn't know is that Sonic was crawling towards Amy's hammer.
He managed to grab it, and began to sneak up on Erol, who was beginning to Arm his cannon so he could use it on Amy and Tails.
"Now, it's time for you to die." Erol said as he aimed his Cannon at them.
"Hey, Metalhead." Sonic said.
Erol turned around and Sonic used the hammer to hit Erol on the head, and then in the arm when Erol tried to use the cannon on him.
"Thanks Sonic." Amy said standing back up.
"No problem. Heres your hammer back" Sonic said giving Amy back her Hammer.
They looked around and saw that the rest of the heroes had defeated their respective villains.
"Looks like we've won." Tails said. "But where's Eggman?"
Sonic turned and noticed that Eggman had moved. He also noticed that he wasn't holding the chaos emeralds.
Then he head a voice that made him shiver.
"Emerald Calibration Complete"
He turned around and saw to his horror, Eggman had placed the emeralds in the machine that would summon the universe eater.
And he was about to push the button that would activate the machine.
"NO!" Sonic yelled as he tried to run to Eggman to stop him.
But not even the fastest thing alive could stop what happened next.
The button was pressed, and instantly a laser began charging.
Everyone stopped what they were doing and turned around to watch what was happening.
The laser tore through the front of the Death Egg, and Explosive decompression set in.
Multiple robots and aliens were sucked out, and flew into the darkness of space, and the heroes held on to anything that was nailed down, trying not to get sucked out into space themselves.
Eventually an invisible air bubble and gravity simulators settled in, but the heroes weren't bothered by this as they watched as the laser reached a point in space, and a portal began to open.
The portal eventually competed opening, and Eggman watched with glee while the heroes watched with horror as the Universe Eater emerged.
It had a round appearance, and was purple, except for its face, which was blue, it had a bright purple gem on it's forehead, and yellow eye's, with multiple sharp teeth, and tentacles with black spikes, it's hands were also tipped with black thick claws.
When it finally got out, it let out a roar, and the heroes noticed that there were two mouths, the other was on it's stomach.
Eggman let out an evil laugh. "YES, I HAVE DONE IT! I HAVE SUMMONED MY KEY TO UNIVERSAL DOMINATION!."
"Eggman, What. Have. You. Done?" Sonic slowly asked.
"SILENCE YOU HEDGEHOG!" Eggman yelled turning around. "I HAVE AWAKENED THE UNIVERSE EATER AND NOTHING CAN STOP ME."
"Eggman, this isn't just another doomsday monster that will end a planet, this is a monster that could destroy everything." Calvin said. "As Sonic said, every time you unleash a monster it turns on you, you simply can't control it."
"We'll see." Eggman said turning to the universe eater. "UNIVERSE EATER, DESTROY THE HEROES."
The Universe Eater raised it's giant claws and swiped them, but not at the heroes.
Instead they hit Eggman, knocking him back against a wall on the death egg.
"Well, what do you know." Tails muttered. "He failed to control another monster.
"Guys how are we supposed to beat this thing?" Ratchet asked.
Everyone looked at the Universe Eater, who had by now turned to the heroes, and had roared at them.
Just then Sonic noticed the chaos emeralds, and that gave him an idea.
He ran over and opened the capsule containing the emeralds and got them out.
"Sonic what are you doing?" Hobbes asked.
"Calvin can you duplicate the chaos emeralds." Sonic asked.
"I'll try." Calvin said getting the mini duplicator out. "Let's hope universes within a 2 million mile radius don't get destroyed when i try to duplicate them."
"Wow, that's the first time I've seen you be concerned on using your own inventions." Hobbes remarked
"Look, these are very powerful objects. Something bad could happen if I try and duplicate them."
He lowered the mini duplicator to the first emerald and duplicated it.
BONK!
Calvin opened his eyes and saw that there were now two of the emeralds that he used the duplicator on.
"It looks like it's working." Daxter said.
Calvin then duplicated the other emeralds. "What exactly is your plan Sonic?"
"I need you to make a beam for your MTM, and a missile for Ratchet's ship. Sonic explained "I'm guessing if there is 3 beams of the chaos emeralds energy, it could kill the universe eater."
"Thats a good idea Sonic, but who's going to use the 3rd beam?" Calvin said duplicating the chaos emeralds again.
"I'm am." Sonic said. "Now get the duplicated chaos emeralds away from the real ones."
Hobbes grabbed the 14 duplicated chaos emeralds and dragged them away from the real ones.
The heroes then watched as the real emeralds began to rotate around Sonic, and he began to glow, and then there was a flash of light, in which the heroes shielded their eyes from.
When they could see again they saw Sonic now had Yellow fur, and his eyes were red.
"I'll try to hold him off, while you convert the emeralds." Sonic said before flying towards the universe eater.
The heroes then turned around and noticed that their friends were still trapped in here.
Thinking quickly Ratchet pressed the button that disables the energy field. and ran up to qwark.
"Qwark get these people to safety. It's getting too dangerous here"
Qwark nodded. "I will protect them with my life. Come along fellows."
The captured friends ran out the door with Qwark, Except, Andy, Sherman, and Socrates.
Calvin turned around and noticed them. "What are you still doing here?, You heard Ratchet it's getting dangerous in here."
Andy then stepped up to Calvin. "We're your friends Calvin, We'll follow you no matter where you go."
Calvin stopped to think about what he said, and noticed Sherman was on his shoulder and Socrates was next to Andy.
"I guess you're right." Calvin said. "Come on help me with converting the Chaos Emeralds.
Meanwhile the rest of the villains had regained consciousness, and were now walking out the door.
Well, except for Nefarious, the villains were carrying both his head and body out the door with them. However it was not to stop the hostages
Jak noticed this, and knowing he can't let them escape, he grabbed Daxter.
"Where are we going?" Daxter asked.
"We're going after the villains." Jak explained. "We need to find out who brought them together."
Tails noticed Jak running through the door to follow the villains, yet didn't mention them.
Meanwhile Calvin and Hobbes were looking at Sonic facing down the universe eater, while they were beginning to build a machine to convert the emeralds to an energy form.
"And so the final battle begins." Hobbes whispered.