Ch.5: Capture Knuckles
"Let's see what information I can dig up today," said Eggman, wandering around the Metarex.
For weeks now Dr. Eggman had been working for the Metarex as thier chief inventor, while secretly he was picking out their files and figure out thier true intentions. The most recent of the stolen documents he downloaded from the Metarex's computer had been codenamed Operation: Fenris.
However, details about this top secret file had been restricted for Dark Oak's eyes to view. Well Eggman wasn't going a little thing like computer sercurity get in his way. Determined to find out what Operation: Fenris was about Eggman trudged towards the computer room.
He was about halfway there when the sounds of voices from the conference chamber suddenly attracted his attention. Putting his ear close to the door, Eggman held his breath and listened.
"Very interesting Black Narcisous" said Dark Oak's voice " this echidna and his Master Emerald could become a key element in my plan. Capture him and bring him to me,"
"Yes Master" said Black Narcisous's voice " shall I rescue Yellow Zelkova as well?"
"Of course" said Dark Oak, his voice tinged with an evil tone " it's only fair that the two friends be together, to witness thier final moments,"
Eggman heard enough and pulled out his communicator. It was immediately answered by Rouge. Rouge and Shadow had been heping the Doctor with his spywork on the Metarex. They had gone to investigate an outside lead while Doctor Eggman was at the base.
"What is it Doctor?" asked Rouge's voice.
"Trouble" said Eggman " Dark Oak's men are going after the Master Emerald as well as its Guardian. I need you two to make sure that doesn't happen,"
"Alright, we're on our way" said Rouge, cutting off connection, then looked at Shadow. " let's go,"
With that said Rouge and Shadow went off to rescue the crew of the Blue Typhoon.
"Where's Sonic?" said Knuckles, growing impatient " we should have taken off hours ago,"
"It's only been fifthteen minutes," said Tails.
"Fifthteen minutes to late," grumbled Knuckles, just when Sonic decided to speed in.
"Hey guys" said Sonic, holding out a yellow Chaos Emerald " look what I found,"
"The final Chaos Emerald" said Tails " good, now all we have to worry about in retrieving the rest from Dark Oak's base,"
"You'll never get inside" said Zelkova " there's to many guards. Besides, our location has been breached,"
"What makes you say that?" asked Chris.
Zelkova just pointed out the window and let the crew see for themselves that Black Narcisous's fleet was fast approaching.
"There's no room to takeoff !" said Tails " there's to many ships in the way!"
"Then we'll face them here" said Sonic " let's go team!"
"Just as I expected" said Black Narcisous when he saw Sonic and his crew come out to fight " troops, commense the attack!"
With that said dozens of robot solidiers poured from out the sky and started to fight againist Sonic and his crew. Amy bashed as many robots as she could with her Piko Piko hammer, while Sonic spin dashed through the center of all his opponents making them explode instantly.
Knuckles and Zelkova vouched for the hand to hand method, taking out as many Metarex soldiers as they could just by using thier fists. Black Narcisous smiled under his armor as he witnessed the one sided battle.
"That was just the appetizer" said Black Narcisous, pressing a button " here's the main course,"
New lizard-like robots with glowing green underbellies and eerie red eyes dropped out of the sky and started taking over the fight. Gaint red claws extended from thier hands and long, electric-charged tounges spat from thier mouths.
Amy's hammer was grabbed by one of the robot's tounges and absorbed into it's green belly. Weaponless, Amy had no choice put to run back to the ship where Chris and Tails were busy trying to fire up the Typhoon's weapon systems.
One of the lizard-bots broke through the window and absorbed Tails into its stomach. Before it could give the same treatment to Chris and Amy, Sonic sidewiped it with a super spin. The lizard-bot shook off the hit like it was nothing and then disappeared with Tails still inside its stomach.
"Come back here!" yelled Sonic, even though it was already to late.
Sounds from down below imediately turned the blue hedgehog's attention back to the battlefield. Cosmo had been absorbed by one of the other lizard-bots and taken away, while Knuckles, Cream and Cheese were all intwined in the other lizards electrified tounges.
"This is almost to easy," laughed Black Narcisous, enjoying each moment of his victim's pain.
His smug look was about to be cut off however when the reinforcements decided to arrive. With lightning speed Shadow zoomed in and destroyed the lizard-bots holding Knuckles, Cream, and Cheese captive. His red eyes glared at Zelkova for a bit, before moving on to take care of the rest of the robots on the field.
Overwhelmed and furious about not achieving his objective, Black Narisous fled with his two prisoners and escaped before Shadow could catch him. Once the last Metarex ship was gone, Rouge flew in and started checking the Typhoon's wounded.
"What are you doing here?" growled Knuckles at seeing Rouge.
" Helping you, what's it look like?" said Rouge, ignoring Knuckles angry expression.
"So much for gratitude," said Shadow.
"Why should I show you my gratitude?" said Knuckles.
"Maybe because this attack was set for you" said Shadow, looking at Knuckles seriously " hate to be the bearer of bad news Knuckles, but seems like you've been targeted by the Metarex,"