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Chapter 2 – The Five Legendary Heroes

Deep in the tropical forest, Sonic drifted to the left around some palm trees then ran on ahead. There were randomly placed spikes along the path which he dodged by quickly moving left and right while keeping his speed. He soon hit a spring and flew over a waterfall before reaching the other side and speeding down a trail which slowly descended to the right. A few Eggman robots appeared, which Sonic ran straight through as he continued down the path, eventually coming to the sea. He grinded along a rail before leaping off it and landing on the side of a white pillar in the sea, jumped across several other pillars then ran to the top of the last one and grinded along yet another rail.

As he went along he back flipped onto a right rail as he reached the end of the previous one, then flipped onto a left rail as spikes appeared. He then flipped left, then to the right as the rail passed some trees, curled downwards and ended by another clear trail. Sonic then hit a speed pad and ran at full speed shortly before three big robotic bees slowly caught up with Sonic and began firing small lasers from their stingers. Sonic sped up, as the path occasionally curved left and right slightly as he picked up rocks he ran past and threw them at the bees, slowly damaging them enough to slow them down and explode.

Sonic continued on at full speed after the three bees had fallen, hit a ramp and spin attacked two flying robots before going through an air loop and shortly ending up at a large temple where Tails and Knuckles were waiting. "I'm assuming you guys took the shortcut?"

"Of course." Tails replied.

"Let's hurry and find this guy so we can get out of here." Knuckles said before walking in.

The three of them explored the temple, with Tails leading the way using his tracing device. As the Metallix member spotted them, he made a run for it seconds before Sonic saw him and gave chase. The robot fired a few missiles at pillars down one hallway as he passed them while Sonic ran under them and jumped over a few. As the robot turned the corner, Knuckles hit him with a nearby rock cube and knocked him into a wall. "Thanks goodness for that conveniently placed cube."

Tails flew over to them seconds later and the three approached the Metallix member.

"So what were you stealing back at that cargo area?" Knuckles said.

"I'm forbidden to tell you."

"Tell it to my fist!" Knuckles said, getting ready to punch him.

Tails placed a hand on Knuckles shoulder. "Hold on Knuckles, let's not resort to violence…yet." Tails turned to the robot. "So your superiors will kill you if you tell us information, huh?"

"Pretty much."

"How about we promise that we'll keep you protected until we beat these guys? You know, the kind of negotiation things they do in those cop programmes and such, like CSI."

The robot shook his head. "There's no stopping them, and my loyalty to them can never be undone. I'd rather die than tell you their plans."

Suddenly, a bomb flew out from nowhere and landed next to the robot. Sonic, Tails and Knuckles quickly jumped back before it blew up, causing a big explosion and blowing the robot to bits.

Sonic saw a figure run off from the corner of his right eye and quickly ran after him. He soon lost the figure as he arrived in a big hallway lit with torches.

"I see that you lost him." Sonic heard a familiar voice from above say. Shadow dropped down a moment later.

Yet again, Sonic continued his inner monologue. "This guy here is Shadow the Hedgehog. He's a rival and an ally when the time calls for it. We don't fight much these days, and seem to have a case of mutual respect for each other, without really having to point it out...Shadow? What are you doing here?" Sonic asked just before Tails and Knuckles caught up with them.

"The real question is, what are you guys doing here?"

"Chasing down this Metallix member to find out more about these guys."

Sonic and Shadow eyed each other suspiciously for a few moments before Shadow finally said, "Yeah, the Metallix thing, I'm doing that too."

"While we're here, let's look around these legendary hero ruins." Tails said as he walked along the corridor, looking at the walls with a flashlight. He stopped at one wall and gasped. "Guys, look at this one!"

Sonic, Knuckles and Shadow walked over and looked up at the mural which displayed an ancient painting of a massive muscular beast with only a ghostly tail where its legs should be, and a spiky forehead destroying a city with a river completely evaporated in the background.

"So what's this mural about?" Knuckles asked.

"There doesn't seem to be any information anywhere here on the wall." Shadow said, looking around.

As Tails, Knuckles and Shadow continued looking at the mural; Sonic walked on a bit ahead and saw a message written on a wall near the end of the path. He read it out loud which said, "Blue, Black, Purple, Red, Green...what does that mean?"

"Hey Sonic!" Tails waved at him. "We should get going."

"Right." Sonic said before glancing at the wall once more and then leaving the ruins with them.

As they left the ruins and walked down the stairs, Sonic said, "So Shadow, what are you planning to do now?"

"Do a little more research, because I've got nothing better to do."

Tails took out a card with his two tails on it and handed it to Shadow. "Remember, you can drop by my recently built base whenever you feel like it."

"I'll consider it." Shadow said, placing it in that place where characters keep the chaos emeralds when they aren't holding them. "Good luck to you guys." Shadow said before taking out an emerald and teleported using chaos control.

"Well, time to get back to the base." Tails said, while Sonic and Knuckles nodded.

A few minutes later after getting to the tornado, they took off and arrived in Station Square sometime later, despite the fact it should be underwater but was perfectly fine in Sonic Adventure 2. They flew to a quiet area of the city where there was a big white and red house and the garage door opened as they approached it. Tails flew the tornado in and the garage door closed.

As Tails landed the tornado, a robotic voice said, "Welcome back, Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles. Did your mission go as planned?"

"Not necessarily." Tails said with a sigh as he got out of the ship. Tails looked on ahead and said, "This here is an assistant type robot to look after this house I built, I named it P.A.L. He's really just a security camera built in areas around the house with a voice."

"Tails, who are you talking to?" Sonic asked.

Tails shrugged. "I have no idea. So as I was saying, I built this place about a few months ago, and we usually meet up here now for dealing with evildoers and such, and I also live here, and occasionally with other people, if they wanna stay round."

Sonic looked around. "Is there someone else here I'm not aware of?"

"Oh, just so you know, Sonic, this girl came here looking for you earlier, so I let here stay here until you came back." P.A.L said.

"You don't mean..."

Amy suddenly came through a wall and hugged Sonic from behind. "Sonic, there you are! I was waiting ages for you!"

"It was only 10 minutes." P.A.L replied.

Sonic, yet again, continued his inner monologue. "This energetic girl here is Amy Rose. She seems to have a thing for stalking me and trying to hit me with her Piko Piko hammer if I somehow tick her off. I should really get one of those restraining orders...So how did you find this place, Amy?" Sonic inquired.

"I followed you here yesterday, silly."

"You've gotta stop doing that..."

Knuckles who was still sitting in the tornado with a dull look on his face said, "So, are we getting something to eat in the meantime before investigating this Metallix thing further?"

"Well I'm pretty hungry myself." Tails said as he got back in the drivers seat.

Sonic slipped out of Amy's grasp and onto the right wing. "Let's go!"

"I'll come with you guys!" Amy said before grabbing onto the back.

"Have fun, you four." P.A.L said.

"I'll bring back some metallic food of some kind, P.A.L." Tails said, starting up the engine.

"Would you? I'd be ever so grateful."

And with that, the tornado soared into the sky moments after the garage door opened.

In a mysterious location, surrounded with gas and steam, the figure from within the ruins entered a dark room where someone else was waiting. "Did you complete your mission?" The second figure asked.

"Yes, it went just as planned."

"I love it when a plan comes together."

"As do I, boss, as do I..."

Back in Station Square, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles and Amy were still flying across the city in the tornado and eventually flew past SA2 riding a flying unicycle.

"Tails, how long till we get there?" Amy asked.

"About five minutes or so, you won't have to hold on a lot longer."

Sonic looked down from the right wing. "You'd think you would've sped up the engine speed on this thing with all the free time you have."

"I work with what I've got." Tails replied.

When Sonic looked up, in front of him he saw a young teenage girl with angel wings and long black hair, tied into pigtails. She was about 5'8", had purple eyes and wore a white robe with three black stripes at the end of the sleeves for her arms and legs. She wore purple shoes and had a golden pendant, which was shaped like a thin, long crystal. "You know, you could have just ran there instead."

"Whoa!" Sonic said in shock, moving back slightly, which got the others attention. "Who are you?"

"Excuse my manners, I am the Psychic Angel, it's just the alias I go by. You're probably wondering why your friends can't see me, but that's a secret."

"And why are you here? Did you come to drag me off on an adventure in another world? That seems to happen a lot."

"No, nothing like that, I came to thank you because you freed me."

"Freed you? How?"

"Remember that message on the wall about the colours? That's how. My friends and I were sealed away there for ages, until you came along and read that out. My friends are off doing…um…something, I don't really know."

"You mean to free you guys I only had to read out five colours in connection to each other?"

The angel shrugged. "Pretty much."

"That's stupid."

She shrugged again. "Pretty much."

"Why is Sonic talking to himself?" Amy said, turning her attention to Knuckles.

Knuckles shrugged. "If Sonic wants to talk to himself, that's his decision."

Sonic continued his conversation with the angel. "So what do you plan to do now?"

"Well, I just have this feeling something bad is going to happen soon, I just know it. Or it could just be gas, I'm not entirely sure."

"Bad things happen here at least once a week, that's why we usually take care of that."

"I mean something worse, something powerful enough to destroy the earth."

"That just gives me another reason to find the emeralds and go Super Sonic on its ass."

"So I was thinking I could follow you guys until I find out what I should do about this problem..."

Sonic shook his head. "Sorry, we've got important business at the moment, and I'd feel responsible if you got hurt because of me."

"I'm a legendary hero; I can take care of myself, trust me."

"It still wouldn't feel right..."

"Aren't you Sonic the Hedgehog, the guy who's willing to help out anyone who has a problem as long as it's possible to do so?"

"Of course I'll help you, but right after we take care of a few things. Maybe this Metallix thing is somehow connected to what you're suggesting."

"I'd be shocked if it somehow wasn't."

"Though I'm kinda busy, so it'll have to wait quite a while."

"C'mon! Help a girl out, please?" She pleaded.

"Tails, can you speed it up?" Sonic asked nervously.

"Only if you stop talking to yourself." Tails replied, keeping his eyes ahead.

"Deal."

Tails hit a button on the tornado and the ship flew off twice as fast, quickly getting away from the angel girl. When Sonic looked back, he saw that she had mysteriously vanished.