Ch.3: Storming Heart
Once Zelkova was finally able to walk around a little, he spent his time exploring the Blue Typhoon with either Tails, Cosmo or Knuckles as an escort. Sonic and his friends weren't to keen on letting the Metarex explore around on his own. He hadn't earned thier complete trust yet.
Today's Zelkova's escort was Cosmo. The two plant-like beings shared many wonderful on what life had been like back on Gardenia. The flowers and trees were so beautiful, children were at play, and peace rained throughout the land.
For a moment, all those memories that Zelkova about his home planet, flooded back to him like a tidal wave, opening up a warm place in his heart. Things were so peaceful back in those times. That is until the invaders came and Dark Oak started prepping the Metarex for war.
Suddenly, Knuckles words came back to haunt Zelkova's thoughts. Were Dark Oak's actions really the right way to go in order to restore peace to the universe? Shaking off the gruesome thoughts, Zelkova followed Cosmo to the bridge where everyone was already gathered.
"What's that?" asked Cream, pointing outside the window to a pulsating red star.
"That's a Red Gaint" said Tails " it's a star in its eldest stage,"
"Why is it pulsating like that?" asked Amy.
"It's probably getting ready to explode," said Tails.
"Explode!" yelled Amy.
"Don't worry" said Tails " we're going to go right around this star,"
"Better get going Tails" said Sonic " that flashing is getting faster,"
"Right," said Tails, turning the ship around.
However, before the ship pull out of range, the Red Gaint exploded into a thunderous burst, making a massive shockwave shook the Blue Typhoon to the core. That shockwave though was just the begining of the trouble.
"Oh no" said Chris, his eyes widening with horror " the star's deforming. It's becoming a black hole,"
"Knuckles!" shouted Tails "get to the Master Emerald stat! We're going to blast out of here!"
"Got it!" said Knuckles, running towards the engine room.
As Knuckles was halfway to the engine room though a sudden pain surged through his head. Multiple images started to float throughout his mind; him in pain, Dark Oak, Zelkova, Sonic and the rest of his friends.
Finally the pain left, and Knuckles could feel his mind settle again. Confused, but with no time to understand what his vison meant, Knuckles rushed to the engine room and started to power up the Master Emerald.
Once fully charged Tails fired up the turbines and rocketed the ship away from the black hole. Another wave of jolting energy emerged from the black hole as it finished its completion, striking the Typhoon with shattering force.
One of the windows on the Typhoon cracked completely, and do to the pressure of the black hole outside, started to suck Sonic through that window. The blue hedgehog would have been lost forever had not someone grabbed his hand, before Tails emergency systems could repair the gap.
After the window was repaired, Sonic shook himself off from the frightening event and turned to thank his savior. His eyes widened in surprise when he found out the person who had saved his life was none other than Zelkova.
"Uh, thanks pal," said Sonic, uncertianly.
"Your welcome," said Zelkova, walking away.
"You know what" thought Sonic " I may have had Knuckles all wrong. Maybe Zelkova can be trusted. I mean he did just save my life. But we still better keep an eye on him just in case,"
"Tails, we got a problem!" Knuckles voice suddenly shouted through the speaker.
"What is it?" asked Tails.
"That last shockwave fried the engines" said Knuckles " we're gonna crash!"
As soon as Knuckles said that the sound of the engines died out, and sent the Typhoon plummeting towards a nearby planet.
Unfortunately, for the members aboard the Blue Typhoon one of the Metarex leaders, Black Narcisous, who on the planet surface at the time, saw the Typhoon crash. Things were about to get a whole lot worse from there.