Chapter 4: A Woman of Ice
It turned out that everyone that had been teleported from Eggman's base was still in the Egg Grapes, and nothing has changed except for the fact that he decided to roboticize everyone instead of using their life force as power for his machines. Sonic was still trapped, just like everyone else had been except for Vector, who had escaped thanks to Kyousuke. Funny thing was is that they were all in the Egg Grapes, but they were all outside and not inside any building. Eggman was deciding who he should roboticize first, seeing many different options to choose from. He decided to choose Sonic first, and get rid of his nemesis once and for all.
"I'd better get that annoying hog off my list." Eggman says to himself decisively, as Sonic's Egg Grape is moved towards Eggman, for him to mock Sonic before connecting it to the roboticizer. "How would you like to be my first test subject?" Eggman asks sinisterly, as Sonic shrugs and smiles sarcastically towards him.
"You never learn, do you Eggman?" Sonic says insultingly, as Eggman responds back with pure logic.
"I've already sent someone to stop both that decisive kid and that loud-mouthed croc!" Eggman says, as Sonic keeps the conversation going, trying to postpone the roboticization.
"Oh yeah, and who's that." Sonic asks inquisitively, as Shavecke gives Eggman the Chaos emerald, and Sonic looks at him with pure irony and shock. "Is that Vector?" Sonic asks stunned and somewhat upset, as Mighty looks over to be mind-blown by Shavecke's appearance.
"This creature is a multi-genetic clone, containing Shadow and Vector's DNA, as well as the blood of Kyousuke Watanabe." Eggman says, grinning happily and cleverly afterwards.
"So that's that kid who set Vector free." Sonic says cleverly while making an assumption, as Mighty remembers Kyousuke trying to save him. Sonic chuckled as he wanted to see if Eggman was just lying. "If it's really what you say, then why don't you test it on me?" Sonic says, confusing everyone else.
"Sonic, what are you doing?!" Tails asks shocked, as Sally prepares to say something, before being interrupted by Shavecke. He sends a blue bolt of electricity through his index finger at Sonic, and Sonic struggles to deal with the pain.
"SONIC!" Tails and Sally shouted fearfully, along with Amy and everyone else who was watching it all. Shavecke only looked pleased by their reactions.
"Call me a thing again, and you're going to regret it." Shavecke says, warning Sonic who is struggling too much to even hear everything. Eggman was chuckling at how useful Shavecke would be to him, but wanted him to stop torturing Sonic.
"Now now SVK, let's give them a break before they meet their end." Eggman says, as Shavecke walks back and lies against the metal wall, having his arms crossed and looking at the ground like Shadow normally would.
"Sonic, are you ok?!" Tails asks concerned, as Sonic looked at him reassuringly.
"Don't worry buddy, I'm ok. I'm just a little surprised to see someone who acts like Shadow and looks like Vector." He says impressed, as Shavecke didn't seem to care. "Don't worry, we're all going to be fine Tails." Sonic says confidently, as he looks back at Eggman while Tails sits down inside the Egg Grape, looking at the grass down below from inside the Egg Grape.
"I hope so; I have faith in you Sonic." Tails thinks to himself, as he is soon proven wrong when Eggman controls the machine and connects the roboticizer to Sonic's Egg Grape.
"I don't think so blue boy. It's time to say goodbye, hedgehog!" Eggman says, entering a stream of uncontrollable laughter as Sonic is about to be turned into a robot. Sonic, however, starts to shiver instead and he can also see his breath inside of the Egg Grape. Sally and Tails, along with Amy had also started to shiver too.
"Oh my!" Sally says, trying to keep herself warm, as Tails and Amy do the same.
"What's happening?" Tails says surprised, as they start to see their own breath in the air as well.
"It just randomly got freezing cold all of a sudden!" Amy points out, as Sonic is a little annoyed by this.
"Hey Eggman, could you at least keep me warm before you turn me into a robot." Sonic says for enjoyment, shivering while Eggman stares at Sonic confused.
"What do you mean? If you're cold, then that's very perplexing." Eggman says, as he grips his chin in wonder, before noticing all their Egg Grapes turning white like ice. "What the?!" Eggman shouts shocked, as he sees a huge amount of frozen ice on top of the four egg grapes. They start to crack open like stepping on a thin sheet of ice in a lake, as Eggman starts freaking out. "What! This is preposterous!" Eggman says, as the ice cracks finally connect from top to bottom, ready to break open at any minute. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Eggman screams in horror. Sonic's Egg Grape shatters to pieces and Sonic spin dashes towards the machine, aiming to destroy it. However, Shavecke intervenes and punches him down with immense strength, launching him straight into the ground like a rocket. Sally, Tails and Amy's break free as well, and they fall straight to the ground, picking themselves up and running over to Sonic.
"Sonic! Are you alright!" Sally asks shocked, as Tails is helping and Amy gasps while covering her mouth with both of her hands.
"Man, I never knew Vector had this much strength." Sonic say surprised, as Shavecke stands in front of them with his fists clenched. Amy looked at Shavecke with nothing but anger, and decided to take action into her own hands.
"No one messes with my Sonic!" Amy yells, angrily pulling out her Piko Piko hammer and swinging it at Shavecke, only for him to teleport away from her and over to where she previously was.
"You're chances of winning against me are slim, girl." Shavecke says, holding a yellow chaos emerald with his index finger and thumb, shocking all of them that Eggman was indeed correct.
"He can use chaos control with only one emerald!" Sonic says astonished.
"He's just like Shadow!" Tails exclaims, as Sally is caring for Sonic and Amy is still angrily looking at Shavecke. Shavecke hears Theotrin calling for him, and pulls out a wireless audio transmitter to answer the call.
"You're little genetic counterpart, Shadow, has escaped! Get here and stop him immediately." He says angrily, as Shavecke accepts the mission and puts away the transmitter.
"Sorry, but I don't have time to play. Gotta go!" Shavecke says, holding up the Chaos Emerald, as Sonic gets up quickly.
"If you're fast enough!" Sonic says; spin dashing at Shavecke, who teleports away before Sonic even touches him. "Wow, he's faster than I thought too." Sonic says, as Eggman plans on using the roboticizer right then and there.
"Sorry Sonic, but your little game has been shut down!" Eggman says sinisterly, as he laughs again while the roboticizer is activating, and they have no chance of escape.
"We're doomed!" Sally says in panic, until a large shard of ice comes and goes straight through the roboticizer. It causes it to shut down almost immediately, as an ice blue skinned, female elemental is standing right behind Eggman.
"Who's that?!" Amy asks baffled, but the woman ignores the question.
"Go! Now! I've got him under control." The woman says, as she creates a small shard of ice in the palm of her hand.
"What makes you…" Eggman says, only to realize that his feet are frozen in by her powers.
"What?! Ice!" Eggman screams, as Sonic smiles and all four of them escape. The woman's glowing, ice blue hair was flowing in breeze, as she was ready to attack.
"You're immobilized now. You have no chance of escape." She says, as she prepares to thrust the shard into Eggman.
"Yes, but I do." Theotrin says, standing a few feet behind her, as she grips the ice even tighter and see his green skin reflecting off the metal floor.
"You bastard!" She yells, spinning around extremely fast, trying to slice him as he dodges it easily, while he tries to suck her into a vortex of wind. She launches the shard at his face, forcing him to block the shard and stop the vortex.
"I see you're more skilled than I expected, Alisa. Not many female elementals have this level of battle skill." Theotrin says impressed, as Alisa covers her hands in sharp ice.
"Is that supposed to make you better than me?" Alisa says, looking at Theotrin, who has a long pointed head and ovular, alienated eyes that are glowing white.
"Yes, it does." Theotrin says pridefully, as Alisa only gets more irritated. Before she starts to attack, however, something then hits her mind that she would've never thought of before.
"I can't fight him here. Everyone else will be killed by the brutal way he fights. I'll have to stop him later." She thinks to herself, but still regrets as it would only allow him to get farther into his plans.
"Sorry, but I'm not your toy this time." She says, transforming into a mobian falcon, flying into the air and leaving a trail of snow as Theotrin does nothing to stop her and Eggman smiles in astonishment. Everyone else in the Egg Grapes saw, and they were completely mind-blown, to the point of even some fainting.
"Did she just, transform into a mobian?" Eggman asks Theotrin, as he steps on the ice on Eggman's feet, smashing it apart and setting him free.
"Yes, most elementals have mobian DNA to begin with. In fact, Kyousuke has mobian DNA as well and so does this earth knucklehead that tried to stop me at one point." Theotrin says, as Knuckles overhears them, and so does Mighty.
"Intriguing, is he an Earth Elemental?" Eggman asks, to which Theotrin agrees.
"Yes, but neither of them do I know what type of mobian DNA they contain." Theotrin says, as Eggman starts on a plan to construct a new robot.
"Well, let's do some research, shall we?" Eggman says cleverly, pulling a brand new idea from the back of his head. Theotrin was leaving, until he randomly stopped for a minute. "What is it?" Eggman asks, as Theotrin informs him of something.
"One thing that surprised me was that Kyousuke was never beaten in a swimming competition, even against me." Theotrin says, as Eggman grins in content. "Though, I was never good at swimming anyway." Theotrin admits, finally leaving the room as Eggman smiles even more.
"What a surprise." Eggman says, laughing uncontrollably again, which drove Knuckles past the point of angry.
"EGGMAN! You laugh ONE MORE TIME and I'm going to GET OUT OF HERE and WIPE THAT STUPID SMILE OFF YOUR FACE!" Knuckles yelled angrily, as Eggman felt insulted past recognition.
"Jeez, calm down." Mighty says bugged, but Knuckles was too infuriated with Eggman's stupid games to care.
"Alright, Knucklehead, you'll be my first subject once I fix the roboticizer." Eggman says, walking out of the area to begin his new robot plan. Mighty looks at Knuckles in disappointment while he just crosses his arms and looks away. "Oh well, I've had it with his stupid tricks." Knuckles says irritated.
Meanwhile, Alisa is flying and sees Sonic talking to the rest of the group, and flies down towards them. Amy notices her first and points out to her.
"Who's that?" She asks, as Sonic and the others see, and rush over to her once she lands.
"You're Sonic the Hedgehog, right?" Alisa asks, as Sonic looks at Tails and Sally before answering.
"Yeah, that's me? Why do you ask?" Sonic asks, as Alisa performs a ritualistic stance. She then glows blue and returns to her elemental form, shocking everyone.
"Hey, you're that woman who saved us!" Sonic points out, as she yet does another stance, transforming into her human form, with long black hair and icy blue eyes. She wore a grey t-shirt with a black leather jacket, and blue jeans with brown shoes.
"That Eggman is working with Theotrin, isn't he?" Alisa asks them all.
"You mean that green elemental working with Dr. Eggman?" Tails asks, as Alisa confirms it.
"He plans on diseasing everyone here to gain ultimate power. He'll even kill the doctor once he's done with him." Alisa informs them all, as they all gasp in fear.
"How do you know about this?" Sally asks her, as she makes a saddened expression on her face.
"That's what happened to my people." She says saddened, trying to not let her emotions out. "I was almost a victim, but I escaped through a portal that appeared on the planet. Even someone named Kyousuke tried to save me, but I told him to save his own life instead." She says, gripping her left arm so she won't start to cry.
"The doctor told me that someone named Kyousuke is here and that he was the one who created a large bolt of electricity who set him and Vector free." Sonic explains, as Alisa grabs his arms in hope that it's true.
"Are you sure about that? Is it really him?!" She asks anxiously, as Sonic is a little startled by her, as she continues gripping his arms tightly.
"Yeah it's true, he told me right when he showed us his new co-worker." Sonic says, as Alisa starts walking around in circles, overjoyed.
"Thank god he's alive!" She says, as everyone else is surprised by her reaction, but also feel happy for her.
"Do you plan on being with Sonic, because if you are, then back off cuz he's mine!" Amy demanded, as Sally and Tails looked at her ticked-off.
"AMY!" They screamed at her, as she only turned her head away in disappointment. Tails looks at Alisa apologetically.
"Sorry about that, Amy can be a little self-centered at times." Tails explains, as Amy gets very angry with him.
"What did you say?!" Amy says irritated, as Tails acts like he said nothing and Amy looks away again. "I thought so." She says annoyed. Surprisingly, Alisa isn't aggravated by this whatsoever.
"No offense taken." She says politely, as she then gets ready to start making a plan. "So Sonic, what should we do now?" Alisa asks her, as Sonic takes a minute to think about it, as he then gets an idea.
"Let's group!" Sally says, as they all group up to talk about the plan.
"Alright, this is what we're gonna do." Sonic says, as they all start to formulate a plan.
Meanwhile, Vector and Kyousuke finally get to the end of forest, and Vector spots a purple spot in the middle of a small valley that leads to Eggman's new location. He squints to get a better view, and then it instantly hits him.
"What's that?" Kyousuke asks, as Vector is surprised to see what he never thought he'd see.
"Hey, it's Espio!" He says relieved, as he finally saw his old friend once again.