Chapter 23: Trouble in Central City
In what looks like a giant airship that's flying through the sky of Bygone Fortress someone is watching over the worlds through a hologram screen and that someone is Eggman who is sitting on a chair and with him are Bowser Jr., Masked Man, and the Deadly Six.
"Hehehehehehehe! Forming an alliance with that witch, Maleficent went smoother than expected. Now, those fools won't stand a chance against our combined might!" Eggman said.
"Don't get so full of yourself, 'Genus'. Bear in mind that the Key fools and their miserable friends are strong than what they appear." Zavok said.
"It's best to exercise some caution. Otherwise, we'll all face a shameful defeat." Master Zik said.
"Fortunately, I have thought ahead! The Chaos Emeralds! With their powers, they'll provide needed strength for our Black Xeti and Heartless army! It will also help to exterminate those wretched meddlesome fools! We should also go out and gather some Chao! They'll make a WONDERFUL addition to our Black Xeti and Heartless army!" Eggman said.
"And where are these 'Chaos Emeralds' and 'Chao'?" Bowser Jr. asked.
"Hehehehehehe! They're in the world I'm from, and as a bonus, with that pesky blue bug out of my way, I'll be able to take over that world! None will stop me!" Eggman said laughing manically.
"I hope for our sake, you're right." Masked Man said.
"Now, Egg Cruiser, set a course for my homeworld!" Eggman commanded as the airship starts going for a world.
Meanwhile Ky, Noel, Elena, Ken, Max, Tails, Blaze, Shadow, Storm, Grace, Kiyo and Zatch, Lucky, T.J., Zuko, Sly, Bentley, Murray, and Lucas leave Platinum City through their light portal and return to the space area while Sora, Donald, and Goofy are back in their Gummi ship and they start to move onto the next world and later on they come across a world that has another city but also has a forest and so Ky and Noel use their Keyblades to create a light trail and create a light portal and the group follow the light trail and go into the light portal while the Gummi ship lands in the world.
In a downtown city it's evening and many people are walking around the downtown city and walking past the people are two characters who are carrying paper bags with various groceries in them.
One is a pink female hedgehog with green eyes, wearing a sleeveless red dress, red boots, white gloves, gold rings on each wrist, and a red hairband.
The other is a small female rabbit and with her is a little Chao.
"Thanks for helping me with my shopping, Cream. Don't know what I'd do without you and Cheese." The pink hedgehog said.
"It's my pleasure, Ms. Amy. Cheese and I are happy to help." Cream said.
"Chao, Chao!" Cheese said.
"Still, I'm bored. Everyday's the same old thing. Same place, different day. I miss being around my hero, Sonic." The pink hedgehog named Amy said.
"I'm sure he's busy with doing good deeds." Cream said.
"Yeah, but he's been gone, and there's nothing to do, but shop 'til I drop. There's no excitement without Sonic around. I really miss him." Amy said.
"Please don't be sad, Ms. Amy. He'll turn up soon." Cream said.
"Thanks, Cream." Amy said.
Just then something turns dark.
"Huh? What's going on? Is this an eclipse today or something? I didn't hear a forecast about a storm." Amy said.
"Um, Ms. Amy? Up there!" Cream said pointing up.
Amy turns to look up and is shocked at what she's looking at.
In the sky the same giant airship is flying through the sky and many people who are looking at the airship are being panicked.
"That's not…Eggman, isn't it?" Amy asked.
"Why is he still being bad…?" Cream asked.
"Chao, Chao!" Cheese said pointing at something.
"What now?" Amy asked as she and Cream turn around to see Phantom Black Xetis and Shadow Heartless.
"Oh, dear…" Cream said.
"What're they?" Amy asked.
"Black Xetis and Heartless!" Cream said.
"Huh?" Amy asked.
"Ms. Amy, we have to get out of here! Quick!" Cream said.
"Okay!" Amy said.
Amy and Cream start to run but then more Black Xetis and Heartless block the way.
"More of them!" Cream said.
"If they won't move, then I'll have to MAKE them!" Amy said as she takes out a yellow and red hammer.
Meanwhile on a floating island which is Angel Island someone is protecting a big green emerald which is the Master Emerald and the person guarding it is Knuckles.
"It's been too long since I've been made guardian of the Master Emerald. No matter what my fate is, I'm destined to guard the Master Emerald from harm." Knuckles said to himself.
"Then allow me to relieve you of your burden." A voice said.
"Wha…What's going on?!" Knuckles asked as turns to see that Phantom Black Xetis and Shadow Heartless are on Angel Island. "Black Xetis?! Heartless?! What're they doing on this island?!" Knuckles then sees the altar where the Master Emerald is. "Oh, no! The Master Emerald! It's GONE! Did you punks do this?! I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS!" Knuckled shouted as he tries to punch at the Black Xetis and the Heartless but just then something delivers a punch at Knuckles knocking him back. "What?!" Knuckles asked and he sees Zavok.
"Many thanks for your contribution, echidna. Quite a shame for what happened to your emerald, but we have a use for it." Zavok said as he's holding the Master Emerald.
"Do you know what you've done?! You had these Black Xeti and Heartless punks steal the Master Emerald! You've put us in danger! The Master Emerald has the power to neutralize the energy of the Chaos Emeralds!" Knuckles said.
"Thank you for telling me this. However, we have our way of controlling the Chaos Emeralds." Zavok said.
Just then a shaking occurs.
"No! It's happened! Now this island's gonna fall into the ocean without the Master Emerald's power to contain it!" Knuckles said.
"Well, it's about time to depart then." Zavok said as he and the Black Xetis and the Heartless leave and the Master Emerald is taken with them.
"Argh! No good!" Knuckles said.
Meanwhile somewhere in the city the light portal appears and Ky, Noel, Elena, Ken, Max, Tails, Blaze, Shadow, Storm, Grace, Kiyo and Zatch, Lucky, T.J., Zuko, Sly, Bentley, Murray, and Lucas fly out of the light portal before it disappears and Sora, Donald, and Goofy arrive.
"Hey, I know this place!" Tails said.
"This is…" Shadow stops talking.
(World of Central City)
(Field Theme: Central City)
"What's up?" T.J. asked.
"This is the world that Sonic and I are from!" Tails said.
"You could say I have an association with being here." Shadow said.
"Are you two glad to be back home?" Ky asked.
"Well, I suppose, but something's not right." Tails said.
"How so?" Sly asked.
"My techno map is telling me that there are Black Xetis and Heartless over at that direction." Tails said.
"Then, we'll take a look at what's going on." Noel said.
"We'd better hurry, because there are others that are not Black Xetis and Heartless, but they could be in danger." Tails said.
"Then haste, we'll make!" Ky said as the group start to move.
(Central City: Square District)
The group start to move through the square district and they go for the next area.
(Central City: Shopping District)
The group arrive at the downtown shopping district and hurry to follow where the Black Xetis and the Heartless are and as they keep going they find Phantom Black Xetis and Shadow Haertless.
"There they are!" Tails said.
"And we know what to do!" Kiyo said.
"Let's kick some ass!" Ken said.
The group confront the Black Xetis and the Heartless and Ky, Noel, and Sora take out their Keyblades.
"Stay back! We got this!" Sora said.
"Wait a minute…" Cream stops talking.
"It's okay! We'll handled this!" Ky said.
(Battle Theme: Live and Learn-Instrumental)
(Information: Defeat all Black Xetis and Heartless!)
The Phantom Black Xetis attack with their chains while the Shadow Heartless with their claws but Ky enters his Valor form and attacks with Dawn of Hope and then delivers a multi slash kick with Brave Star and then slams it down hard while Sora slashes with Kingdom Key and then delivers a vertical slash while Noel casts Thunder but then Robot Heartless appear and fire missiles at the group who dodge and Elena shoots magic concussive blasts while Ken casts Fire while Donald casts Blizzard but the Shadow Heartless sink into the ground and rise to attack while the Phantom Black Xetis shoot black beams but Storm delivers an electric tail whip while Grace uses Tackle but the Robot Heartless fire lasers but Bentley uses his RC Chopper to shoot while Tails shoots lasers from his blaster but the Phantom Black Xetis disappear and reappear to attack but Kiyo has Zatch use Zaker while Zuko lashes with his flame whips but the Shadow Heartless leap attack with its claws but T.J. slashes with his knife while Goofy bashes with his shield while Max uses Cyclone but the Robot Heartless fire missiles while the Phantom Black Xetis shoot their black beams but Lucky uses Headbutt while Lucas uses PK Freeze but the Shadow Heartless attack with their claws but Blaze delivers a flame kick while Shadow multi punches but the Robot Heartless fire lasers but the Phantom Black Xetis attack with their chains but Sly attacks with his cane while Murray triple punches and the group defeat the Black Xetis and the Heartless.
"That'll show them." Sora said.
"But more will keep coming." Bentley said.
"And we'll keep fighting them." Ky said.
"Gotta say, you're not bad. Thanks for the save." Amy said and the group turn to them.
"Well, as long as you're okay." Max said.
"I'm Amy. Amy Rose." Amy introduced.
"Hi, Amy. I'm Ky. These are Elena, Max, Storm the Pikachu, Kiyo and Zatch, Lucky the Yoshi, T.J., Sly, Bentley, Murray, Tails, Blaze, and Shadow." Ky introduced.
"Did you say, Ms. Blaze, Mr. Tails, and Mr. Shadow?" Cream asked. "Ms. Blaze!" Cream cheered hugging Blaze.
"Hello, Cream. It is wonderful to see you and Cheese again." Blaze said.
"Hi, Mr. Tails! I'm so happy to see you!" Cream said.
"Hiya, Cream. It's good to see you." Tails said.
"What?! Tails and Shadow are here?" Amy asked as she looks at Tails and Shadow. "Hi, Tails! Long time, no see!" Amy said.
"Hi, Amy. I'm glad to see you're safe." Tails said.
"Hmph." Shadow said.
"And I'm Sora. That's Donald and this is Goofy." Sora introduced.
"It's nice to meet you and your friends, Mr. Ky and Mr. Sora." Cream said. "My name is…" Cream was cut off.
"Cream, is that you and Cheese?" Noel asked.
"Ms. Noel! Mr. Ken! Grace! Mr. Zuko!" Cream cheered.
"Chao!" Cheese cheered.
"Hey, hey! Good to see ya again, Cream!" Ken said.
"Eevee!" Grace said.
"Hi, Cream. It's good to see you." Zuko said.
"Oh, you know them, Cream?" Amy asked.
"Yes. I was having an adventure with Ms. Noel. She took really good care of me and Cheese. She's very nice." Cream said.
"Wow, Noel. Cream and Cheese journeyed with you on your first adventure?" Tails asked.
"That's right." Noel said.
"But who is this boy? I've never seen him." Cream said.
"Oh, this is Lucas. He's new on our team." Noel introduced Lucas.
"Hello." Lucas said.
"It's nice to meet you, Mr. Lucas." Cream said.
"I am glad that Cream met another good friend like you, Noel." Blaze said.
"It's also nice to meet a friend of Cream's." Noel said.
"Same here." Amy said.
"Amy, why're the Black Xetis and Heartless doing in this city?" Tails asked.
"That's what they're called?" Amy asked.
"Yes, Ms. Amy. They're very bad monsters that want to hurt people." Cream said.
"But we're gonna take care of 'em!" Sora said.
"But what about Sonic? He should be here to deal with something like this." Amy said.
"Uh, that's the thing, Amy. Sonic's kinda…dealing with something else." Tails said.
"Like what?" Amy asked.
"Ms. Amy, Mr. Sonic said that he won't be back until he's finished with something. That's what I told you before." Cream said.
"Well, I guess without Sonic, you guys think you can handle this?" Amy asked.
"Yeah. You just saw us take down those Black Xetis and the Heartless. We'll stop 'em, no problem." Ky said.
"If you say so. But, don't leave me out here! I want to be able to save the day, like my hero, Sonic." Amy said.
"What's with her and Sonic?" Donald asked.
"Amy has a…thing for Sonic." Tails said.
"Oh, really?" Murray asked.
"Wow. So, she's…Sonic's girlfriend or something?" Zatch asked.
"I wouldn't say that…" Tails said.
"Sonic runs away when she's in sight." Shadow said.
"Hard to get, huh?" Sly asked.
"Well, at least I'm not THIS obsessive." Elena said looking at Ky.
"It's best if they come with us, so that way, the Black Xetis and the Heartless won't hurt them." Kiyo said.
"Good idea." Ky said.
Just then something comes on a screen and it's Eggman.
"Ahem! Citizens of the world! Lend me your ears, and listen to me very carefully!" Eggman said.
"Dr. Eggman!" Noel said.
"What does that asshole want now?" Ken asked.
"Mr. Ken!" Cream berated.
"As you fools are aware, I still haven't let go of my ambitions of dominating the world! I have my new means of finally having control of everything! You don't have that pesky blue hog you call a hero to defend you anymore! I have a army of powerful creatures of darkness known as the Black Xetis and the Heartless, and they follow my every whim! As you can see, resistance is futile! You will either submit to my rule, or my Black Xetis and Heartless will devour your hearts for dinner, and you'll be reduced to nothing! Hahahahahahahaha…HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Eggman said laughing as the screen comes off.
"So, Eggman thinks he's all that, huh?" Sora asked.
"He's forgotten who he's messing with!" T.J. said.
"We just saw that huge airship flying through the city. We think that's Eggman's." Amy said.
"Do you know where it's at now?" Noel asked.
"No. It just flew away." Cream answered.
"Then, we'd better find that ship and see if Egghead is in there." Ky said.
Just then more Black Xetis and Heartless appear.
"Not now!" Lucas said.
"We need to get going!" Noel said and everyone nods.
The group start going through the city while fighting off Black Xetis and Heartless and Ky, Noel, and Sora slash with their Keyblades while Amy also helps by swinging her hammer and attacks the Black Xetis and the Heartless and the group continue through the city and they return to the square district area but then more Black Xetis and Heartless appear.
"Outta our way!" Amy yelled.
"Back off!" Ky yelled.
Before the Black Xetis and Heartless could attack someone comes and delivers some kicks defeating the Black Xetis and the Heartless.
"What the…?" Donald asked.
"Who did that?" Goofy asked.
"Show yourself." Shadow said.
"My, my, is that any way to speak to your partner, Shadow?" The person asked and it's a female white bat.
"Rouge." Shadow said.
"She a friend of yours?" Ky asked.
"She's just a partner. Nothing more." Shadow answered.
"Hmph. That's always like you, Shadow. You haven't been here in a while, and you don't even bother to say 'hello'. I guess your time away from here hasn't changed you. You even have that same grumpy look on your face." The bat named Rouge said.
"Where is the Doctor? We need to track down his airship." Shadow said.
"And you're always to the point. This is quite a coincidence. I'm on a government assignment to find the Doctor myself. However, I'm also to secure the Chaos Emeralds he's after." Rouge said as she takes out four emeralds which one is blue, the other is red, the third is green, and the fourth is yellow.
"You've already the Chaos Emeralds?" Tails asked.
"How'd you find them so quickly?" Amy asked.
"Does the term 'treasure hunter' not mean anything to you? I'm able to find anything. I was gonna find the remaining three, but those disgusting creatures got in my way." Rouge said.
"What are Chaos Emeralds?" Murray asked.
"They're gems that have great power and if you collect all seven, then a miracle should happen." Tails explained.
"Mystical gems, huh? Sounds like my type of jewelry." Sly said.
"Ah, we have something in common, Raccoon boy." Rouge said.
"We should find these other Chaos Emeralds." Ky said.
"But how?" Noel asked.
"You can help me. I won't bite, much." Rouge said.
"I can determine the location with my techno map!" Tails said.
"I'll do the same thing." Bentley said.
"Then it's settled." Max said.
"I'm on my way to Mystic Ruins right now. They should be there." Rouge said.
"Okay. Lead the way." Zatch said.
The group follow Rouge through the square district while fighting off more Black Xetis and Heartless in their way and later on they go for the next area.
(Central City: Train Station)
The group arrive at the train station of Central City and they go for the train and the group board on the train and it starts to move for Mystic Ruins.
(Central City: Mystic Ruins-Campsite)
(Field Theme: Mystic Ruins)
The train arrives at a forest place which is the Mystic Ruins and the group get off the train and are now on the Mystic Ruins.
"Here we are. The Mystic Ruins." Rouge said.
"Okay, let's go find these Chaos Emeralds and fast before Eggman gets his hands on 'em." Ky said.
"It might take a while to find them, but we should be fine." Elena said.
"This won't be a problem. With Bentley's and my techno map and Rouge's treasure hunting skills, we'll be able to find the remaining emeralds in no time." Tails said.
"Let's get started." Sora said.
"Yeah. Let the treasure hunting start." Sly said.
The group start moving through the campsite area to find the Chaos Emeralds but just then more Black Xetis and Heartless appear in front of the group.
"Not here too…" Cream said.
"How annoying!" Rouge said.
"You know what to do!" Ky said and everyone nods.
Before the group could attack the Black Xetis and the Heartless someone rises from underground and delivers a big punch at the Black Xetis and the Heartless defeating them.
"Huh?" Sora asked.
"Black Xetis this, Heartless that! I'm gettin' sick of them!" Someone said.
"That voice… Knuckles, is that you?" Noel asked and it's Knuckles.
"Wha…?!" Knuckles asked and he looks at Noel. "Noel?! What're you doing here?" Knuckles asked.
"What? No 'Good to see ya' or somethin', Knucklehead? Bastard." Ken said.
"Never thought I'd see your vulgar mouth again, Ken. It looks like Grace and Zuko are here too." Knuckles said.
"Great to see you too, Knuckles." Zuko said.
"Another friend of Noel's, huh?" Ky asked.
"It's good meetcha, Knuckles." Goofy said.
"Same here." Knuckles said and then he sees Tails and Shadow. "Tails? Where've you been?" Knuckles asked.
"I'm travelling with Ky. We came here to find the Chaos Emeralds." Tails answered.
"Is that right? Well, I'm on a hunt myself. The Black Xetis and the Heartless just stole the Master Emerald, and because of that, Angel Island just fell." Knuckles said.
"That's terrible!" Noel said.
"Tell me about it." Knuckles said.
"There's a good chance that Eggman might've stolen it." Sora said.
"I'm not surprised. Whenever he's around, no good comes from that." Knuckles said.
"Well, don't blame me, Knuckie. I'm on my own hunt." Rouge said.
"That still doesn't mean I have my off you, Bat girl!" Knuckles said.
"Do you want our help with finding the Master Emerald?" Noel asked.
"That'd be great. I'll also help you find the Chaos Emeralds." Knuckles said.
"Cool. Let's go find 'em." Ky said.
The group continue through the campsite area to find the Chaos Emeralds and later on they make their way for the next area.
(Central City: Mystic Ruins-Jungle)
The group arrive at a jungle area of Mystic Ruins and they start searching the jungle for the Chaos Emeralds and while exploring the jungle Tails' and Bentley's techno maps start to go off.
"We're getting something!" Bentley said.
"Over there!" Tails said pointing at a cave.
The group go for the cave and they search around for it and later on they find a cyan emerald.
"There's a Chaos Emerald." Amy said.
"So, that's what it looks like?" Zatch asked.
"Okay. So, we only got two more left, right?" Sora asked.
"Yes." Shadow said.
"C'mon. We have find the other two before Eggman does." Elena said.
The group search the jungle for the Chaos Emeralds while fighting off Black Xetis and Heartless in the way and keep searching the jungle but then Tails' and Bentley's techno maps go off again and the group are near the location for the next Chaos Emerald and later on they come across a river and the group find a purple emerald.
"That's the second one." Cream said.
"Good. We only got one more to find." Rouge said.
The group continue to explore the jungle for the last Chaos Emerald and later on they arrive at a ruined area and they feel like they're getting close.
"The last Chaos Emerald has to be here." Tails said.
"Let's search the place until it's found." Ky said.
"Why bother? It's already found!" Someone said and the group see Bowser Jr. on the ruins.
"Bowser Jr.!" Max said.
"Doesn't this brat have anything better to do?" Murray asked.
"I bet you were lookin' for this?" Bowser Jr. asked taking out a white emerald.
"You've got to be kidding!" Donald said.
"Hand it over!" T.J. demanded.
"Sure. In exchange for YOUR emeralds!" Bowser Jr. said.
Just then lightning appears at the group dodge but someone strikes at Rouge making her drop the other six Chaos Emeralds.
"My jewelry!" Rouge said.
"YOUR jewelry?!" Knuckles asked.
Before the group could go for the six Chaos Emeralds someone already takes them and it's Masked Man.
"Thank you for getting these emeralds for us. You went through that work just to give us these." Masked Man said.
"Like hell we did that for YOU!" Ken yelled.
"Please give those back." Lucas asked.
"Ha! Ya really think we'd just hand 'em over? I don't think so! We need 'em for our means! With these emeralds' power, our Black Xeti and Heartless army will grow STRONGER!" Bowser Jr. said.
"That's not happening!" Ky said.
"Oh, I think it might! Unless…" Bowser Jr. stops talking.
"Chao! Chao!" Cheese cried.
"Cheese?" Cream asked and she sees Ludwig, Larry, and Lemmy grabbing hold of Cheese who is in a container of other Chao. "Cheese!" Cream said.
"Unless you want anything bad to happen to these little maggots!" Ludwig said.
"You're kidnapping the Chao too?!" Tails asked.
"How sick are you?!" Amy demanded.
"How dare you capture these innocent creatures!" Noel yelled.
"Hahahahahahahaha! They won't be so 'innocent' anymore as we make 'em into Black Xetis and Heartless!" Bowser Jr. said.
"What?!" Sora asked shocked.
"Have you lost your mind?!" Sly asked.
"There's NO way in hell you're having your way!" Ky said.
"You wanna stop us? Then go ahead and try!" Bowser Jr. said as he, Ludwig, Larry, Lemmy, and Masked Man leave and take the Chaos Emeralds and the Chao with them.
"This is terrible!" Cream said.
"I know. We have to stop them now!" Zuko said.
"They're probably heading for Eggman's airship. We have to find it right away!" Kiyo said.
"Yeah." Tails said.
The group hurry through the jungle to find Eggman's airship and later on they reach near a cliff area and see Bowser, Ludwig, Larry, Lemmy, and Masked Man going into the giant airship.
"This must be it." Noel said.
"Good. Let's go in after them!" Donald said.
Just then the Egg Cruiser starts to take off.
"Oh, no! It's starting to fly off." Knuckles said.
"We have to hurry and go in." Bentley said.
The group quickly go for the airship as it's about to fly and they manage to go in before the Egg Cruiser starts to take off into the sky.
There you go! New chapter done! I hope you enjoyed this! Yep. This is it. The Sonic world. I hope you liked what I put in for this. Next time, Ky, Noel, Sora, Donald, Goofy, Elena, Ken, Max, Tails, Blaze, Shadow, Storm, Grace, Kiyo and Zatch, Lucky, T.J., Zuko, Sly, Bentley, Murray, Lucas, Amy, Cream, Knuckles, and Rouge are now in Eggman's Egg Cruiser, and they start finding the Chaos Emeralds, Master Emerald, and the Chao, while also dealing with Eggman himself. I'll see you all in the next chapter! Take care, and goodbye for now! Don't forget to favorite, follow, and review! Bye!