Chapter 19: Battle for Snow Mountain (Part II)

Snow Mountain: with Mario's Team

"Hey!" Mario exclaimed, seeing a flash of light. "There it is!" He knelt down to pick it up when Dimentio struck him from the side.

"Sorry," Dimentio smiled, blocking the Chaos Emerald, which even he was surprised to find. "But this is the end of the road for you."

"You won't be able to stop us Dimentio!" Mario warned his opponent, who simply laughed.

"I'd like to see you try to stop me!" He teased.

"How did you know we were here?" Blaze asked him.

"Don't worry about that." Bowser Jr. said, walking up. "We're not gonna tell you."

"And we're not going to let you stop us!" Luigi said, jumping on Bowser Jr's. head, starting the brawl between the two teams.

With Sonic's team

"Hmm…no sign of it." Tails said, as he blindly walked right into Shadow.

"Sonic!" Shadow exclaimed, getting ready to fight his rival. "Prepare yourself!"

"Shadow," Sonic asked kindly, even though he also got ready. "Why are you working with Eggman?"

Shadow smirked. "That's none of your business!"

"We're not going to let you stop us from defeating Eggman Shadow!" Silver declared, standing next to Sonic. "It's no use for you to try to stop us!"

"That may be." Shadow said, catching Silver off guard. "But I won't know unless I try!"

"Sonic!" A blue robot which everyone recognized boomed. "I shall defeat you! And I shall show you that I am the ultimate Sonic!" With that he attacked the blue hedgehog, and the two teams began fighting.

Bowser's Castle: Dungeon

A Koopa with a green helmet was addressing his prisoners.

"Since your friends refuse to surrender to us," he said. "We will have to take some severe measure to persuade them otherwise."

"Please let us go sir." A high voice said from one of the cells. "We didn't do anything to do."

"Chao, chao!" Another voice agreed.

"Sorry, but that won't happen!" The Koopa laughed.

Just then Dr. Eggman walked in. "We will start our punishment fun by putting you all on 'the machine.'"

The young rabbit was frightened. "What does that do?"

"Not like I'll tell you." Eggman chuckled. "Hmm, you'll know soon enough. We'll put you on first!"

Just then a red echidna slammed his fists against the iron bars of his cell. "Let her go Egghead!" He shouted angrily. "You have no right to do this!"

Eggman merely laughed. "Sorry Knucklehead, but she is going to be the test subject for this. Hammer Bro," he turned to the Koopa. "Take her to the machine!"

"Yes sir!" Hammer Bro obeyed, opening the door and leading Cream and Cheese out of the room.

"Someone help us!" Cream pleaded just before the door closed.

"Grrr!" Knuckles clenched his fists. "You'll be sorry for this Doctor!"

"Sorry Knuckles, but that's not going to happen." Eggman said, turning toward the door. "Both you and your friends will be the price for not subjecting to my rule!" With that, he walked out and slammed the door.

"Knuckles!" A female voice said from another cell. "We have to save Cream!"

"Yeah, I know that." Knuckles snapped. He punched the door, but it didn't budge. "Darn it! I can't get through this stupid door!"

"Use this then!" She handed him her hammer, which with difficulty he was able to squeeze it into his cell. "If you combine that with your strength you should be able to break it down."

"Worth a shot." Knuckles swung the hammer, and with a mighty crash the door fell to the ground. "Hehe, now that's what I call a smash!"

"Ahem!" Amy cleared her throat, getting Knuckle's attention. "Enough with your jokes! Can you get me out now!?"

"Sure thing." Using the Piko Piko Hammer, Knuckles swiftly knocked down the door to Amy's cell.

"Now let's go help Cream!" Amy said, opening the door that Cream had been led out through.

"Yeah, but first we have to find her." Knuckles reminded her.

Snow Mountain: With Mario's team

The fight continued against Dimentio and Bowser Jr., but both teams were completely exhausted.

"Man…you guys are pretty tough…" Mario panted.

"You're not too shabby yourself." Dimentio admitted, also panting for air. Blaze quickly ran to him and used her Flame Tornado on him, badly burning him. "Ouch!" He exclaimed. "I didn't know you could do that!"

"I can do more than just that." Blaze said, as the heroes continued fighting.

With Sonic's team

"It's useless to resist!" Shadow said, dodging a boulder that Silver threw at him. "You should just stop fighting!"

"Sorry Shadow," Sonic said, narrowly missing a missile shot by Metal Sonic. "But we just can't do that."

Just then Silver picked up Metal Sonic with his telekinesis and threw him into Shadow. "Take that!" He shouted.

"You will pay for that!" Metal Sonic shouted, teleporting to Silver and punching him in the stomach, knocking the silver hedgehog down.

"Shadow…" Sonic said, kicking Metal Sonic back. "Why are you doing this?"

"I already told you." Shadow said, throwing a punch at Sonic, who dodged it. "It's none of your business. But when I defeat you Eggman better honor his agreement!"

"Well, I guess Egghead will never be able to." Sonic said, as he home-attacked Shadow.

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To be continued...