SONIC HEROES: THE SERIES

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Chapter Seven: Special Delivery

Sonic and Amy were returning from their pick up job with the purple chaos emerald in hand. Amy handed Sonic the emerald and said "You better take this to Tails so he can put it in the storage." "Yeah, I'll do that." Sonic said as he stepped back a few steps, still fearing Recter's earlier threat. Sonic ran into the bases workshop and, as expected, found Omega and Tails working on a new invention. Deciding to have a little fun, Sonic stealthily snuck up to the genius duo and yelled "Hey, guys! Whatcha doing!" "Sonic!" Tails screamed in surprise. Tails unfortunately crossed a few wires and exploded his new invention in their faces. "Eh, could use some work." Sonic commented. "What is it, Sonic?" Tails asked while wiping the soot from his face. "Just need to put this away." Sonic showed off the chaos emerald. "A chaos emerald! We have to put that in the storage, right away!" Tails shouted excitingly as he jumped from his chair. Tails ran past his plane, the Tornado III, and skid to a halt in front of a blank wall with a handprint scanner on the side. Tails eagerly removed his glove and placed his hand on the scanner. The three stood for a moment as the wall slowly disappeared to reveal the hidden room behind it.

"Wow! You really tricked this place out!" Sonic exclaimed in shock and amazement. This was the first time he had ever been in this room and was nearly knocked out of his shoes. Most of the room was displayed with mementos from the heroes past adventures and some important items. Line along the walls were the cryogenic pods that contained Shadow and Kumori, a piece of the Black Comet, Sonic and Amy's Extreme Gear, Jet's book, 'Jet and the Secret Rings', rested upon a small podium, the scepter of darkness, and a piece of Metal Overlord's armor. But the main attraction was the Master Emerald resting at its shrine-like base in the center of the room. Many of the heroes still found it shocking that Knuckles actually took the Master Emerald from it original home to their new one. Not surprisingly, the trio found Blue sitting with Tikal at the shrine steps. "What do you think there talking about?" Tails asked curiously. "I don't know, but I bet it's not good for Blue." Sonic smirked. They noticed as Tikal moved in closer, Blue was becoming more uneasy. "Body temperature of subject Blue is steadily rising!" Omega stated, earning a chuckle from Sonic and Tails.

"Well, we better put this into a safe place." Tails said as he took the emerald from his 'brother'. "So where's the other one?" Sonic questioned as he noticed the other chaos emerald could not be found anywhere in the room. Just then, Tails placed his hand on the wall to open it up and reveal a small key panel. After pressing the buttons for a random code, the floor behind them slowly opened up. From beneath the moving floor came a miniature shrine with seven different colored holes indented in the center. The red chaos emerald was already occupying the red hole as Tails placed the new emerald in the purple hole. "Two down, five to go." Tails said. "Hey, Tails, where are the birdbrain's Gear." Sonic said as he noticed that the Babylon Rogue's Extreme Gear were not in the room like his and Amy's. "The commander called earlier for a delivery run. Since you or Shadow weren't around, we had them go get it." Tails said. "What's the thing anyway?" Sonic asked. "I don't know, but it must be very important if he wanted us to get it for him." Tails said.

High above the Pacific Ocean, Metal was stood besides Eggman and Mecha as they listened in on Sonic and Tails conversation. "I still find it incredible that you were able plant a miniature radio on Sonic during your previous battle." Eggman complimented. "You must know your enemy if you wish to defeat your enemy. That is one of the oldest, but most clever battle plans in recorded history." Metal stated. "Hmm. What ever that parcel might be could give us an advantage." Mecha commented. "Or it could be an incredible waste of our time." Metal pointed out. "Well, we don't know that, now do we?" Eggman said. "I'll have Bokkun inform Violet and her squadron of the current situation." Mecha said. "Good. What ever that package is, I want it." Eggman demanded as he walked out of the room. "This is pointless. I'm out of here." Metal said as he made his way to the door. "And join you little mech group?" Mecha questioned, causing Metal to stop in his tracks. "I know your secret, Metal." Mecha said threateningly. Metal shrugged his twin's threat off and proceeded out the door.

On the outskirts of the town of Soleanna in Dusty Desert, Jet, Wave, and Storm were riding their Extreme Gear through the desert to drop off the package they had just received personally from the G.U.N. commander. "I can't believe we are actually making a drop off to the princess of Soleanna! This is so cool!" Storm threw his hands up and cheered. Wave whacked Storm over the head with her wrench to shut the bird's mouth. "Calm down, Storm. If we want to be presentable to the princess, we must act with dignity and respect. If we mess this up, the consequences will be bad and..." Jet and Storm pretty much tuned Wave out after that. "Hey, boss, what do you think the princess will give us some kind of reward for this?" Storm asked. "Maybe. After all, the commander did say it was top priority." Jet said as he gazed at the package under his arm. "Maybe she gives us some gold or food!" Storm cheered. "You're always thinking about your stomach, aren't you?" Jet mumbled.

Unbeknownst to the former thieving, Violet, along with nine black clones, was waiting for the Rogues behind a set of rocks. "Top priority huh? That just makes it even more valuable. All right, you know the plan. Break!" Violet commanded and the black clones scattered. "You know, this seems a little too easy." Wave commented suspiciously. "Eh, your worrying too much." Storm said. "I'm serious, you dolt!" Wave shouted. "D-d-dolt?" Storm stuttered. "That's what I said, you idiot!" Wave shouted again. '(Sigh) Here we go again.' Jet mentally kicked himself. As the birds continually argued, they failed to notice the three pairs of claws that popped out of the ground until it was too late. The claws grabbed the Rogue's Gear and forced to fall flat of their beaks in the sand. Another unfortunate event was that Jet accidentally threw the package away upon being forced off his Gear. The package then landed in Violet's claws as the rest of the black clones surrounded the Rogue's. "Aw, look what we have here. A group of birdbrains." Violet laughed. "Hey, give that back! It's ours!" Storm demanded. "You want this." Violet tossed the package in her claws. "Then come and get it. Black clones, attack!" the clones charged forward.

Two of the black clones jump Storm and wrap their bodies around his arms before pinning their claws to the ground to prevent him from escaping. "Hey! Get off!" Storm shouted as he struggled to break the bonds of the clones, but it proved to be in vein. A third black clone jumped in and gave a roundhouse kick to the side of Storm's face. After turning a complete 360 degree angle, the black clone continually punched the albatross in the gut. Storm's face wrinkled in pained from the powerful blows he was receiving. Having his arms pinned down, Storm could do nothing to save himself. Finally the black clone reeled its fist back fifteen feet and said "Game over, fatty." Big mistake. "I'm not fat! I'm big boned!!!" Storm snapped. Gathering an amazing amount of strength in his arms, Storm effortlessly pulled the black clones off and threw them at the third clone. "You had to open your mouth, didn't you?" one of the clones said. "I don't have one." the other replied. Just then, they noticed a shadow growing bigger and looked up. "Body slam!!!" Storm yelled as he crushed the clones under his fa... I mean big boned body.

Wave swung her wrench around to take a crack at a black clone, but the clone unfortunately dove to the ground to avoid the attack. The black clone grabbed her legs as two more bashed her in the back to drop her to the ground. "Ooh, you are so dead!" Wave exclaimed as she swung around to hit the copies with her wrench again. Unfortunately, one of the black clones grabbed her wrist and tightened its grip to force the purple swallow to release her wrench. "Pathetic little twerp." The clone says as he throws Wave to the ground. "Let's get this over with." Another one of clones says as they all show off their claws as a threat. But instead of being frightened, as the clones expected, Wave slowly got back to her feet and started chuckling. "Uh...did I miss the joke?" one of the clones questioned. Wave then held up her remote control, creating confused looks on her opponents faces. Wave then points downwards, causing the looks to look down and find small red button devices on their chests. "Uh oh." The clones said simultaneously. Wave flipped the switch on her control and the clones exploded.

"Come on, is that all you got?" Jet mocked as he dodged another one of the black clone's claws. Jet leaned back just in time to avoid the swiping claws, but did not notice another clone coming from behind and kicked him into the air. While in the air, Jet turned around and pulled out his fans to create a gale of wind to knock away the two clones. "Hey, what happened to the other one?" Jet questioned. Just then, the third black clone appeared from behind Jet and extended his claw to slam the emerald bird into the ground. "Ok, I am defiantly going to feel that one in the morning." Jet muttered while tending to his throbbing head. "You ready to give up?" one of the clones asked as all three surrounded him from all sides. "Heh! If I gave up, I wouldn't be the legendary wind hawk." Jet said, boasting about the title given to him by Shahra. "???" The clones gave a confused look. Before any of the clones could realize it, Jet's ring began to glow as he called out his signature technique. "TIME BREAK!" In a split second, the spot were Jet once stood became empty and Jet stood outside the circle of clones with his fans held out. And with a single snap of his fingers, the clones were reduced to harmless puddles.

"These clones are completely useless." Violet muttered. "Hand over that box before we have to get rough." Storm threatened while pounding his fist into his hand. "Please, you idle threats don't effect me." Violet shrugged. "The maybe this will!" Storm shouted as he charged forward and swung his fist. Unfortunately, Violet reverted to a puddle form, causing the albatross to slip and piledrived his beak into a nearby rock. "I just knew that was going to happen." Wave commented as she shook her head in embarrassment. "Listen, just give us back the box and we can get this over with." Jet tried to reason with the female Chaos. "Can't do that. Eggman wants it for himself." Violet said. "Why? What's in that thing anyway?" Wave asked. "I don't know. Let's take a look." Violet said as she opened the box. Once the box once opened, Violet gave a vacant look for a moment before closing the box back up. "Here. You can have it back. Metal was right, this was a waste of time." Violet muttered as she threw the box back to the Rogues and gloomily walked away. "What was that all about?" Jet asked. "Who knows? Let's just grab Storm and get to the princess's palace before anything else happens." Wave said. Shrugging off what just happened, Jet and Wave both picked up Storm and made their way to Soleanna.

Inside the beautiful palace of Soleanna, the current ruler, Elise, stood at her balcony and watched as the sun went down. It reminded her of the time Super Silver stood against Solaris, the Flames of Disaster. His gold quills shining rays of hope in the dark world that was destined to be the future. The say the least, she was actually quite surprised she still remembered that event even after the timeline was altered. "(Sigh) Things sure are boring without Siler or Amy around." Elise said as she remembered her small adventures with the two. "Excuse me, Miss Elise." One of the soldiers said as he walked up to the princess and bowed to her. "What is it?" Elise asked while still gazing at the sunset. "A group of anthro birds have arrived, claiming they have a package for you." the guard informed. "Oh, it must be that package for the minister. Tell them I'll be down there in a minute." Elise instructed. "As you wish, Miss Elise." The guard said. "(Sigh) I wish there was at least some excitement around her." Elise silently complained before exiting to meet with the Rogues.

"Wow!" The Babylon Rogue's mouths fell to the ground upon entering into the palace. The whole palace with covered in polished marble floors and walls along with many valuable works of art. "Ow!" Jet exclaimed as Wave slapped his hand away from touching one of the statues. "Don't touch." Wave exclaimed with authority. "Excuse me, are you the ones that are making the delivery?" the group turned to the staircase to see Elise walking down the steps with an elder man. "Uh...yeah." Jet said s he handed her the package. Elise then turned to the elder and the package to him. "Thank you very much for bringing this to me." The elder said. "No problem." Storm said. "By the way, old man, what's in that box?" Jet asked. "Why, my dear boy, inside this box is..." The elder trailed off dramatically as he slowly reached to open the box. Elise and Rogues watched unblinkingly as the elder slowly opened the box. "...Absolutely nothing." The elder laughed as he opened the box to reveal that it was empty. Everyone, including Elise, facefaulted to the floor. "What the hell kind of ending is that!!!" Jet screamed.

Back at the Egg-Carrier III, Metal slowly walked out of his secret room and shut the hidden door behind him. "I'm guessing the mission was a failure." Metal quesioned as Mecha suddenly appeared beside him. "You were right, it was a watse of time. apparently, the minister likes to colect boxes." Mecha said. "What a fool." Metal chuckled as he walked past Mecha. "How long until your plans will be set in motion?" Mecha asked. "The time stone won't be active until three days from now." Metal stopped and informed his creation. "So you really intend to go back to your origional time?" Mecha asked. "If my plans are to succeed, then yes." Meta; answered. "Very well. I won't tell Eggman...yet. But there is still the threat of Nazo. he has been chasing you for quite a while. it's only a matter of time until he finds us." Mecha stated. "I know, that's why I created that machine to save Violet. Violet is the only one who can activate Nazo's weakness." Metal informed his counter part. "He won't stop until he gets back what you took from him." Mecha said. Metal gripped his claws and said "I know."

In the dreary castle of the Dark Rulers, Nazo snaps his fingers and summons Black Doom, Erazor Djinn, and Mephiles into the main chamber. "What is it, my lord?" Black Doom asked. "Those blasted heroes aren't taking us seriously. They think our our monsters are nothing but a joke. It's time we made our move." Nazo said. "And how do you intend to do that?" Erazor questioned. "It's like I said before, it's time we take matters into our own hands. Prepare yourselves, for tomorrow, we strike." Nazo said in his usual sinister manner. Black Doom disappeared with chaos control, Erazor turned to black smoke, and Mephiles conjured one of his purple energy balls. They knew tomorrow would be a big day for everyone. Once everyone was gone, Nazo summoned the chess board again and picked up the figure of Metal. "Hopefully this will draw you out, Metal. I swear, one day, I will take back what you took from me." Nazo said as he placed the figure one space ahead of it original position.

Nazo prepares to make his move as Metal's plans further develope. How do these two know each other and what is it that Metal took? Stay tuned to find out.

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