Shadow Saves Them All
Chapter 6
Dr. Eggman, the single most crazy man in the entire world. Countless times he has tried to take over the world and create the Eggman empire, and every time Sonic has been there to take him down a couple of notches. This time, he has something really nasty up his sleeve, wonder what it is?
"Ohhhh! Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho! Bokkun! This is without a doubt, my best plan ever!" Eggman said laughing crazily. Bokkun flew over to the Doctor with his same stupid smile and laughed along with him.
"Yeah! Way to go Dr. Eggman! Your plan is great!" he said clapping his hands.
Eggman looked at him with an annoyed face.
"I haven't even told you what it is yet you idiot!" he yelled at Bokkun. Bokkun was blown backwards and landed in a bunch of crates. He dug himself out with a box still stuck on his head. He looked at the wall behind him and said;
"Ohhhh! But I know any plan you have is going to be amazing Dr. Eggman!" he said waving his arms in excitement. Eggman looked over at Bokkun and pounded his fist on the control board in front of him.
"I'm over HERE Bokkun!" he yelled again. Bokkun jumped in fright and hid back underneath the crates.
"Stupid robot," he thought to himself. "My latest plan will be the best ever, and with Sonic out of Commission, I will be able to execute it without any problems!" He thought of the cocky look on Sonics face, it made him want to smash him down once and for all!
I decided I was going to head for his base, if Egghead had any emeralds, it was best to get them away from him immediately. I mean, we all know what happens when the bad guy has great power: T,R,O,U,B,L,E. I ran for his base far out in the plains. The moonlight shined on the grass as I ran, I knew he had to be somewhere around here. I checked my belt for the time, it said 1:36 A.M.
"Goodie, Christmas Eve morning and I'm already looking for trouble,"
I spotted a light out in the distance and boosted my speed even more to get closer faster. I stopped once I had a better view of the light, it was Eggman's base. It was a large building that looked like a small skyscraper with small courthouse buildings around it. All surrounded by a large steel wall. Each courthouse building was labeled; "EGG ROBOT FACTORY"
"He's preparing for something… but what?" I had a plan. Get in, learn his plan, get the emerald(S), and get out in one piece. I ran and jumped the wall easily, I ran straight through the courtyard and didn't trigger any alarms or run into any searchlights. I made it to the side of the skyscraper building and jumped as high as I could reaching the twentieth floor. I grabbed the ledge and hoisted myself up. I jumped up again and this time I made it all the way to the roof.
I landed perfectly and ran through the door on the rooftop. I went down the stairs and opened another door which opened into a hallway. I looked to my left and saw big double doors with an Eggman symbol on it. To my right was a dead end and on my left there was also a hallway on the right side.
"That's gotta be Eggman's Headquarters," I said to myself. I was about to run straight into the doors when I heard Eggmans voice. I saw his shadow walking around the corner with a small robot floating in the air next to him. Bokkun. I thought fast and pulled two daggers out of my backpack. I jumped up to the ceiling and dug my daggers into it. I had daggers placed just under the soles of my shoes just in case something like this ever happened. Best. Twenty Bucks. Ever.
"So Bokkun, now I will tell you about my latest plan!" he said manically as he turned the corner headed for the double doors, he didn't appear to have noticed me.
"Ohhhh yay! I can't wait to hear it Dr. Eggman!" Bokkun said happily.
"Suck up," I thought to myself. They walked through the doors and I couldn't hear them talking anymore. I jumped down from my hiding spot and sheathed my knives. I couldn't go through the doors, too risky. There has to be another way in. I looked at the wall just to the left of the doors. High up on the wall was an air vent. Bingo.
I jumped up to it and pried it open. I crawled inside and started to move through the vent system, I went left, then right, then right again and then after a while another right. I stopped when I came to the vent cover. I looked down and saw Eggman and Bokkun. Bokkun was stuck in a pile of crates for some reason and was talking to a wall with one on his head. Weird even for him. I pulled off the cover and slid down the wall to the top of a support beam. I landed on it and nearly fell off, I had slipped on a loose sheet of metal which fell to the ground. If I wasn't so high up I wouldn't have had enough time to climb down on the backside to hide from Eggman.
"Hmm?" Eggman looked over to see the sheet had fallen to the ground. He looked up by the beam and put on a suspicious look.
"Damn birds!" he yelled. "They ruined the mood!" Bokkun walked over from the crate pile and pulled his head out of the box.
"Dr. Eggman? Your plan?" he asked.
"Ohhhh! Right! Thank you Bokkun!" Bokkun smiled widely. I was relieved. I got back up on the top of the beam and listened carefully to what they were saying. Eavesdropping time.
"Now then, as you know Santa Clause is the source of all the happiness and joy this time of year," he pressed a button on the control board and an image of Santa popped up on the large television in the room. It showed a mall Santa with a child on his lap. He switched it to a picture of a Santa ringing a bell for charity.
"And because he has no idea what he's doing, I never got any presents!" he said angrily gritting his teeth.
"Yeah!" Bokkun said jumping in the air, egging him on. (Get it?)
"He's crazy, I mean you always hate all the right things right? Like Sonic, and rainbows, and fun, and…"
"Alright! Enough Bokkun," Eggman said shutting him up using a mute button. Bokkun didn't seem to notice and continued to speak, though he made no sound. Of all his inventions, I'd say that one was the most useful. Now if he could only make one for himself…
"So! This year I'm going to destroy Santa Clause and his workshop! Devastating children around the world!"
"Yay!" Bokkun cheered, making no sound.
"Now, past efforts have shown me that Santa has a special force field around his Factory that allows people on the good list to enter. But…" he said walking over to a table with something on it. It was something covered in a white blanket. Eggman pulled it off and revealed a helmet that had the Eggman symbol on it.
"With this I can't fail!" he pressed the un-mute button on his remote control and Bokkun's cheering could once again be heard.
"Yayyyy!" Bokkun stopped suddenly and looked at the device for a moment and then asked;
"What is it?" Eggman fell down anime style and continued, irritated.
"This is my latest invention! It has the ability to mind control whoever wears it! I'm going to use this on Shadow!" This grabbed my attention, why would he use it on Shadow? He wasn't as fast as Sonic, he couldn't use psychokenesis like Silver and only god knows if he made the nice list. I certainly don't know. Then it hit me, he's the only one who's healthy enough to do it! And he's always by himself so if he was outnumbered it would be no problem to brainwash him! That's why he attacked Sonic and Silver, so no one could stop him! Everything fell into place, and I had to stop him.
"Ooohhh! How does it work Dr. Eggman?" Bokkun asked enthusiastically looking at the helmet.
"It's powered by a chaos emerald, thankfully we were able to find one and secure it in the base. Within the hour I will place it into this helmet and Shadow the Hedgehog will be ours!" he said.
"Ohhhh Ho Ho ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho!" he began to do his normal insane laugh, I couldn't believe it, but this plan was actually good! I had to get the emerald from the base and escape immediately. I ran back through the vent as quickly as I could and made it back out to the hallway. I took the left into the hallway Eggman and Bokkun came from and ran as fast as I could. I took a large flight of stairs down about Ten floors until I saw a door labeled; 'Containment Facility,' That had to be where he was holding it.
I ran inside and saw the room was huge! The ceiling was high up and shaped like a dome, and when I moved to the center of the room I saw above the entrance door was a balcony and another door labeled; Employees Only. As if. In the center of the room there was a small column with something on top of it, it was small and covered in a white blanket. The Chaos Emerald. I pulled off the blanket and saw it, it was a glowing Chaos Emerald just like I thought, but something was wrong, it was Blue.
I looked into my pocket and checked to be sure, there it was, the blue emerald. I had the real one Sonic gave me, so that means this one is a fake. A fake? Why would Eggman put a fake emerald in his own base unless… IT'S A TRAP! I heard a machine whirring and got ready to run, but it was too late. A large glass jar slammed down on the ground around me and the column, capturing me. The bottom of the jar clamped down into the ground preventing me from escaping. That's when Eggman walked through the door up by the balcony and walked down it laughing some more.
"Ohhhh! Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho Ho! Welcome to the Egg-Base Interloper!" he said triumphantly. I was annoyed at myself for falling into such a simple trap, how stupid could I have been?
"You know, putting the word EGG in front of everything doesn't make it more evil! It just wastes time!" I shouted at him through the glass.
"I don't care, and I really don't think you're in any position to be insulting me when you're my prisoner. Now you won't be going anywhere!" he shouted.
"And just to make sure you don't use that fake emerald to break out…" he pressed a button on the control board on the balcony and the blue emerald exploded, the small bits and pieces flew around in the container and made a small cloud of blue dust.
"Well there goes the fake emerald," I thought to myself with my back turned to the Doctor. That's when I had an idea. I reached into my pockets and grabbed two emeralds firmly and turned to Eggman quickly. I pulled my hands out of my pockets emeralds in hand and shouted;
"Chaos! Contr-oooaaahh!" I felt something pulling me upwards and before I knew it, I was stuck to the black ceiling of the container! What was worse I dropped the red and green chaos emeralds out of my hands when I was pulled up here!
"What? What is this?" I asked in desperation.
"That is an electromagnet! It homed in on your wrist devices, belt and shoes and pulled you up to it!" the jar container unclenched from the ground and Eggman came down from the balcony. The container rose and Eggman walked under it and picked up the two Chaos emeralds. He looked at them with a cocky smile on his face.
"I learn from my mistakes you know. As soon as I heard that metal falling from the ceiling back there I knew you were here!" he said looking up at me.
"How did you know I'd be coming!?" I asked.
"Whenever my plans are on the verge of fruition, you always manage to eavesdrop on me and then go tell one me to Sonic! Well not this time! I had a little robot of mine do some undercover work! Does this ring a bell?" he pulled out a baby's rattle and shook it around a bit. A baby's rattle? Where did I… WAIT! In the hospital, in the elevator with Amy! There was a woman and her baby! Then… that means…
My train of thought was interrupted by Bokkun rushing into the room in a baby's outfit, he looked exactly like the child in the carriage except for the face. He pressed a button on his pajamas and a holographic baby face appeared disguising his own. Eggman had been spying on us in the hospital and heard our plan, he was one step ahead of me! Eggman saw my face and knew I had figured it out.
"I thought I'd give you a taste of your own medicine. How does it feel having your plans ruined? Having so much hard work destroyed? All because some irritating hedgehog stuck his nose where it didn't belong and stopped the rise of the glorious EGGMAN EMPIRE!?"
Eggman was shouting by the end of the last sentence, his rage was put into every last word of what he said. I had to admit, it felt pretty terrible, so much hard work destroyed… But I wasn't about to join Eggman because of a small sympathy trip. Eggman breathed heavily for a minute and then returned to his normal crazy mood.
"Now then, that magnet is detecting several other chaos emeralds on you. It's also programmed to vaporize anything with a chaos emerald kind of power on it, so if you value your life, you'll give me the remaining emeralds," he said with a crooked grin.
"How did you know I had more emeralds on me?" I asked suspiciously.
He smiled again. "Because you just told me!" he said laughing some more.
"DAMMIT!" I thought to myself. He did to me what he did to Tails in the Sonic Adventure 2 story. I lowered my head in shame and defeat, he had actually outwitted me, I had lost. I pulled my wrist off the magnet just long enough to push my right jacket pocket inside out, letting the last three emeralds fall out. Eggman picked up all three from the ground and held the five emeralds in his hands. He stared at them, admiring their raw power, their beauty, he stared at them because his wit had won them for him.
He walked out from under the container and got back onto the balcony and pressed some more buttons. First the container lowered back down and clamped into the floor, then the magnet deactivated. I fell to the ground and it hurt, but it didn't hurt as much as being beaten by Eggman. He turned away from me on the balcony and began to walk to the door he entered from.
"By the way, the magnet is set to magnetize to you and vaporize you immediately should that safety glass container be broken," he said waving his hand as he walked out of the room with Bokkun following behind him. He opened the door and shouted; "HAVE FUN!" and then slammed it shut. I sat there in the room, alone. I lost… to Eggman.
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