Okay, this is the third chapter of Chaotic Emeralds, so I might as well put in a disclaimer.
Sonic and all those guys belong to Sega,
Lightning streaked across the mighty storm clouds, which was dark as night. But something darker lurked within the clouds. A sudden jet black shape protruded forth from the chaotic mass like a parasite bursting out of it's victim. The shape was one of Eggmans battle ships that had survived the skirmish earlier that day. The Ebony airship was shaped like a shark, and even had a shark's face painted on the nose of the ship. Eggman was forced to make this ship, the skyshark, his temporary base of operations after Sonic had destroyed his flag ship.
Within the bridge of the ship, Dr. Eggman fumed over his earlier defeat. He sat in his throne-like mechanical chair that could transform into the Eggmobile at the push of a button. On the wall before him was a large computer screen, or rather, the wall was a computer screen. On the screen was a map of Sunday island.
"Computer!" Eggman demanded. "highlight the location of the remaining six chaos Emeralds."
The computer was supposed to highlight the location of the chaos emeralds in red dots, but the entire screen went red.
"Blast!" Eggman exclaimed. "there must be some sort of interference!"
Eggman turned to Metal sonic, who had been standing next to him the entire time.
"Metal sonic, I need you to go down to the island and collect all the chaos Emeralds."
Metal sonic simply stared at the doctor. The robot cursed his creator for designing him without free will. One day he could overthrow the fat man.
"What!" Metal sonic asked, anger rising in his voice. "You don't expect me to find six chaos emeralds without any scanning assistance, Do you?"
"You will do as I command!' Eggman bellowed. "now get to it!"
'you can go to hell.' Was what Metal Sonic wanted to say, but instead all that came out was "yes, my master." A door slid open and Metal sonic left the room as a blur. What Metal Sonic really wanted to do was to rip the human's head off, but his programming would not allow it. Eggman had put specific restrictions on any actions that would lead to mutiny after the Neo Mecha Sonic situation. Metal Sonic could not fully disobey his creator or carry out acts of violence against the man, but he could make his life more difficult.
Shadow was skating up the side of the mountain . he eventually came across a large crater in the ground, and he thought he saw something red twinkle at the bottom of the pit. He slid down the muddy sloap and found that is was indeed the Red Chaos Emerald. Shadow bent down to pick the Emerald, but a sudden red light exploded all around him and he pulled his hand back. Red lightning arched up and around him and struck at the mountain. The power bolts caused a land slide to rush down the mountain.
"Damn." Shadow said as he scooped up the Emerald and tried to run up the side of the crater. But the mud was too slippery and the dark Hedgehog slid back down. Shadow was considering using the Emeralds to Teleport out of there, when the landslide spilled over the edge of the crater. Boulders rained down on shadow, and without thinking, he simply put his hands over his head and caught the boulder before it could crush him. He held the man sized rock over his head, but more stones came crashing down atop of him. huge boulder piled atop of him, and shadow could not hold on much longer. Suddenly, the red Emerald Glowed brightly, and a red aura appeared around Shadow. Shadow suddenly felt as if the boulders were as light as a pile of pillows. He bust out of the landslide with his new found strength.
As the Avalanche of mud and rocks rumbled down the mountain, a shimmering red light exploded up from beneath the tide. The red light shot up into the sky like a laser and left a huge cloud of dirt in its wake.
Shadow found himself falling through the sky with the rain. The power of the two emeralds coursed through his body as if he had all seven of them, and he had a feeling that he had only scratched the surface of their true power. Shadow landed on a stable rock pillar, and leapt off it into the jungle before the landslide could make the pillar collapse.
The jungle became a blur around Shadow as his jet boots carried him across the island. He figured that it was strange how he only felt stronger when the red Emerald gave him power, as if the red Emerald enhanced his strength specifically. Shadow skidded to a stop, kicking up sparks and mud. He had come to a crossroad that led to tow different directions. He could go back to Sonic's hut and give Tails the red emerald to do experiments on, or he could look for the other emeralds.
Shadow knew that he should find the emeralds as soon as possible since Eggman's army was on it's way, but his curiosity got the best of him and he headed to the cliffs to get some answers about the Red Emerald.
Before leaving the ship, Metal sonic stopped by the room containing the light blue Emerald. He took it from it's pedestal and walked into the elevator. Without the Emerald in Eggman's protective care, the ship would eventually lose power. The Metal hedgehog took the glider attachment from a locker and stepped out onto the runway atop the Skyshark. He strapped the folded up glider to his back and started running at full speed along the Runway. His turbo engine kicked in as he leapt off the side of the ship and unfolded the wings. The wings were as black as the hull of the airship and resemble bat wings. Metal banked left and turned to face the Island that he would ravage till all of the chaos emeralds were in his grasp. The chaos emeralds were more powerful then the doctor realized, and Metal might be able to change his own programming if the New Chaos Emeralds had abilities that he anticipated. If he could not destroy the fat man, then he could perhaps destroy everything else on the planet with the emeralds. Metal Sonic would burn Sunday Island to the ground for that power.
