Can you tell that my writing has improved a little? Well you shouldn't be able to, because it hasn't.

So I've pretty much caught up, and I'll post the next one on Thursday.

Song used:

Prison Lane (This Way Out) – Sonic Adventure 2


Camerax Saga: Chapter 13 – Turbo Tails

Amy, Cream, Cheese and Blaze were sitting in the middle of a field, eating sandwiches from the picnic basket.

"Everyday is a great day, just like usual." Cream said.

"It's a shame Sonic couldn't be here..." Amy said with a sigh.

"Those three should be fine." Blaze replied.

"I sure hope so."

Back in the research factory, Sonic, Tails and Knuckles ran down the wide hallways, with Knuckles a bit ahead of the others as he punched the tentacled robots which came round the corners and out of rooms on the right and left. As they left the factory, half a dozen robots waited outside, which began firing at them. Sonic spin dashed through a few of them while Knuckles jumped and pounded the ground, knocking back the last three with a shockwave.

Tails knocked out a few with a rapid spinning tails attack as they ran across the city and behind the building where they arrived. They hopped into the Tornado which was left there, Tails started up the engine and they quickly took off.

In one room within the factory, one tentacle robot wearing black shades was contacted. "Hey, Sonic, Tails and Knuckles just made off with something important, take them out."

"Easily done." He said before running out the room.

Sonic, Tails and Knuckles were now at least half a mile away from the floating city. Sonic then scratched his forehead. "Man, that was easier than expected."

Knuckles looked behind him to see a tentacled robot coming towards them in a small red plane with missiles on both sides and a laser cannon in the middle. "It's not over yet, Tails, you may need to speed up."

Tails took a look back at the ship before speeding off at max speed. The tentacled robot fired a large heat seeking missile at the ship, which Tails tried dodging for a few moments before realizing it was a heat seeking missile. As the missile got close, he spun round and threw a smoke bomb, which hit the missile and made it explode a second later. The robot then fired the second missile, which at this point Knuckles got up. "This is most likely his last missile. I'll take care of it, so you'll be able to get away."

"You sure you'll be alright, Knuckles?" Sonic asked.

"Yeah, I don't think it's anything I haven't experienced before. Good luck, guys." Knuckles jumped off the Tornado as the missile approached it and punched the missile with a right hook, knocking it back before it exploded a second later, hitting Knuckles slightly in the explosion.

"Is Knuckles okay?" Tails asked as he turned around.

"Looked like it was a minor hit." Sonic replied. "He's taken worse going up against me; no average rocket would take him out. Come on Tails; let's get back to the base."

"Right!" Tails said with a nod as he spun round.

Suddenly, the ship which the tentacled robot piloted began glowing neon red and then fired a large solar cannon, which blew off the back of the Tornado, to Sonic and Tails' surprise.

"We're hit! We're going down!" Tails yelled.

"This reminds me of that one time in Sonic Adve-" Just then the ship plummeted, taking Sonic and Tails with it.

Knuckles regained consciousness and saw them pass him on the way down. "Seems my effort was unnecessary..."

Meanwhile, the robot resembling a refrigerator ran through a forest and eventually ran into Shadow. "Hmm, you must be Shadow the Hedgehog, are you not?"

"Do I happen to know you?"

"We've never met but I know enough to get by. It would be pointless to fight you in this body, nor was it my purpose to use this body for fighting. I know you're looking for me, but you're not what I'm looking for. Goodbye Shadow." The robot said before shutting himself off.

Shadow sighed. "What's with all these mysterious beings I've been saying lately, is it asking too much to get more answers than questions?"

"Apparently so." Shadow looked up and saw Rouge who landed by him. "That wasn't the robot speaking, but another being controlling the robot."

"And how do you know this?"

"Woman's intuition."

"What's the real reason?"

"I looked it up."

"On Google?" He asked, raising an eyebrow.

Rouge shrugged. "Sure, let's go with that."

A bit later, Tails woke up near the sewer area outside Twinkle Park in Station Square. He slowly opened his eyes, sat up and looked around before rubbing his forehead. "Man, my aching head..." He looked at his hand and saw blood. "That was some fall; I hope Sonic is okay, he's probably waiting for me right now." Tails slowly got to his feet and ran for a bit before flying off.

Knuckles appeared moving towards the Mystic Ruins area as he glided and landed in the upper area near the waterfall. Big the Cat was fishing in the background. He then began walking back to the Angel Island area. "I ought to check on those guys but I'm sure they'll be fine, things always work out for those two, for now I should get back to the Master Emerald before it ends up stolen again."

Tails arrived back at his house to see Amber there waiting for him. "Hey there, Tails, here you go." She said before handing him a letter.

Tails opened the letter and read it. "Hello there, if you're reading this you should now know your friend, Sonic has been captured by us, the Camerax Crew. You may think you can do a lot with that data disk, but it's pretty worthless. We knew that demon girl was actually good, we knew you'd get information from her, and we knew you'd come. Don't bother coming back, your presence would make me laugh, what can you do? Nothing. Have a bad day, Miles Prower." Tails closed the letter and sighed. "He's right, I can't do it."

Amber slapped him. "Get a hold of yourself, Tails! You can do it!"

"I'm not sure..."

Amber slapped him again. "Though if you need cheering up, we can play a certain game of my choice..."

"No thanks." He said with a sigh.

Amber slapped him again. "Don't give up! Think of all the good times you and Sonic had! Let that be your motivation! Now man up!"

Tails suddenly thought about the time he and Sonic ordered pizza, and then ate it as they watched The Incredible Hulk, he then recalled the time he and Sonic took down a robot DJ by performing a breakdancing routine. He then remembered the time he and Sonic took a bubble bath together as he sat in Sonic's lap. He then cringed at the thought. "I honestly don't remember that happening, nor do I want it too."

Amber pumped her fist into the air. "You can do it!"

Tails turned to the television as a parade was going on, with several dozens of civilians chanting, "You can do it!"

SA2 appeared outside the window and yelled, "You can do it!" before walking off.

Tails raised his fist into the air. "Yeah! I can do it! I'll show them! I'll reveal something I've been saving for this moment which I saw coming for some unexplained reason!" Tails ran off into his laboratory in the basement. When he came back up a minute later he was wearing a metal suit of armor. The suit was a shiny orange-brown color, with a brown utility belt around his waist with two pockets on each side, he had an orange jetpack on, and orange gloves with his signature two tails icon on it. "I'm ready to do this." He said with a look of determination in his eyes.

"Good for you, Tails." Amber smiled at him.

"Y'know, you're not as bad as you seem."

"That means a lot coming from you."

Crystal showed up seconds later with a blue rucksack on her back. "Hello? Sonic, you here?" She entered the living room and saw Amber. "What are you doing here?"

"I could ask the same of you."

"Just seeing a friend."

"I see..."

While Tails remained a little confused, Amy walked in the front door and saw Tails. "Huh? Tails, why are you all dressed up like that, did something happen?"

"Sonic's been kidnapped by some robots, I'm going to save him."

"Then I'm coming too!"

Tails shrugged. "I guess I could use the company." Tails said before he and Amy left the house.

Amber turned to Crystal, who gestured towards the door. "After you." Amber flew out the door a moment before Crystal did.

Somewhere in the depths of the factory, Sonic woke up, chained to a wall in a massive room of darkness. Something ahead of him within the darkness began speaking. "You're awake, Sonic the Hedgehog."

"Who are you, and where's Tails?"

"He should be fine; he's no threat to us. Eggman will be pleased with us."

"So you're working for Eggman, what a surprise..."

"Eggman didn't create us, but we're working with him for now. Our plan shall commence soon enough, and you'll have a front row seat for the event."

"That's what you think. Well you're wrong; Tails will beat you guys easily. He'll be back, and maybe Knuckles, and maybe in some case, Amy, and in a much rarer case, maybe Shadow."

Outside, Tails, Amy, Crystal and Amber were approaching the floating city. Amber carried Amy while Tails flew at a steady pace using his jetpack. Tails turned to Amy and said, "Just in case, take this." Before giving her a device to place on the right side of her face and had a green lens covering her eye.

"This looks like one of those scouters..." She replied.

"I know..."

"I'll handle everything outside." Amber said. "You guys know where to go, right?"

"Yeah, the tall steel one with the cannon high above." Tails replied.

They arrived at the city shortly after, then Tails and Amy ran on ahead avoiding the robots coming at them while Crystal and Amber took out the ones which got near them. As Tails and Amy entered the large building, they went two different directions while Crystal and Amber continued to take out the robots trying to enter the building.

As Prison Lane from Sonic Adventure 2 started, Tails travelled down a long and narrow path and blasted one robot as he turned a corner; he then carried on and whacked the next with a wrench as he turned another corner before arriving in a large room with massive gears suspended in midair with tentacled robots working on them.

He leaped onto one and began running across it, knocking two robots out of the way with his wrench before hitting a spring and landed on another further to the right. He ran along the next one, blasting at the few robots working on them with an arm cannon before flying onto a path a bit higher up. He ran along a narrow corridor and through a neon blue section with lasers about as Tails dodged them. He then went through a loop and passed five robots which fired cannons at him, with the last hitting a glass screen.

He came to a small room with two walls and a path much higher up. He used his jetpack to fly further up and landed on the path. The dozen enemies along the path suddenly turned their attention towards him before he charged at them. Tails went through the robots, whacking them about with his wrench before blasting two of them. He hopped on one and flipped off the robot before knocking several more out the way with a spinning tails attack. He then threw three bombs which blew up more robots before he ran on ahead and entered an elevator.

After exiting ten seconds later, he jumped down a tunnel ahead and slid down the circular path as it curved in several directions and lasted around 25 seconds. He arrived at the end of a hallway by a steel door with four lights unlit. He then contacted Amy who was running down a long corridor, then hid behind a wall and hit two robots with her hammer as they came round the corner.

Amy continued down the path then as she reached a large gap, she flipped high into the air using her hammer and onto a small area ahead with the switches ahead. She somersaulted out the way of one robot's attack and whacked it twice before walking up to the switches. She pulled the four switches, and then suddenly the steel door in Tails' path flashed and opened up.

Tails rushed in and jumped over an electrical field which came towards him, then slid under the second, he then avoided flames of fire coming from the ceiling, he then ran past spears coming out of the walls then flew over a few pits which opened up before reached the end of the corridor. He then flew far up the area ahead using his jetpack as the song ended.


Song used:

Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? – Rockapella
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At GUN HQ, the Commander sat at a desk reading a paper when Sonic, Tails and Knuckles suddenly walked in wearing tuxes as Sonic said, "Yeah!" The three causally walked up to the desk then Sonic slammed his hand on it.

It then cut to a scene of Rouge drawing a route from Kiev to Carolina, then carrying a bag of jewels from Berlin to Belize, and then slowly floated across a river on a boat in China. It then cut back to Sonic as he said, "Tell me, where in the world is-"

Knuckles quickly interrupted as he said, "Carmen Sandiego."

Rouge eventually passed through South Korea, Antarctica, and past a group of singers singing the blues from Red Sea to Greenland. She soon passes through Arkansas and Mekong carrying several chaos emeralds. It then cut to Sonic again as he said, "Tell me, where in the world is-"

"Carmen Sandiego." Tails and Knuckles said in unison.

Sonic began sliding around the room as he pop locked while saying, "She go from Nashville to Norway, Bonaire to Zimbabwe, Chicago to Czechoslovakia and back!"

Rouge ran off with a lorry in Pakistan, then stole a gem in Scandinavia, then flew to Perth in Australia and stole another jewel there, then stole some magic beans in Lima. It then cut to Sonic again as he said, "Tell me, where in the world is-"

Shadow suddenly walked in and said, "Carmen Sandiego."

"Oh tell me where in the world is, oh tell me where can she be?"

Sonic began pop locking again as he said, "Ooh, Botswana to Thailand, Milan via Amsterdam, Mali to Bali, Ohio, Oahu!" The others clicked their fingers and nodded along for quite a long while afterwards.

Shadow then cleared his throat. "Well she flies around the globe and she'll flipflam every nation, she's a double-dealing diva with a taste for thievery, her itinerary's loaded up with moving violations."

Sonic pointed at him. "Tell me, where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?" This carried on as Sonic, Tails and Knuckles randomly danced around the room while Shadow and the commander were left utterly confused.