Chapter 34:
It took a bit of riding and flying from Shamar and over the oceans, but we eventually made it to Adabat and saw it was on the former grounds of one of the smallest of the islands, that being Lanai, which had since been coated in overgrowth along with the only town around being coated with ruins and the only inhabited area being the town of Adabat itself, which was a fishing village that lived on a boardwalk town.
"Ah... home sweet home! I forgot how good the air smelled here... stick with Sticks, I'll show ya where the Super Emerald is AND the temple. I used to sleep in it, see?" Sticks smirked as we then followed her lead and proceeded to go through the day stage of the level Jungle Joyride, Sticks leading us through the entirety of the level until we reached the end of it in the game, which was where the Super Emerald was hidden, right underneath a piece of removable floor tile, which I then touched and felt... super awesome! I felt like I'd become so strong, I could be mistaken for a goddess! And a visible aura of power emanated all around my body!
"Wow! You have so much strength inside you now! Egghead won't know what hit him!" Sonic smirked, me sighing contentedly as I hid all of it as we moved towards the temple... and then were stopped by a giant machine in the form of Eggman's Egg Lancer, which was the Egg Beetle, but with a ton of lasers!
"Ohohoho! Having a lovely stroll through the jungle, hmm? Well, time to end this game of cat and mouse," Eggman smirked as he then proceeded to do something that made me surprised. He tried to go after me and grab the different gems that were stored on me! But I was faster than his machine by 10 times at this point, so I sidestepped and then grabbed the arm he tried to grab me with and yanked it forward, causing the giant machine to slam into the ground before then landing in a nearby inlet of water! And after it touched the water, a massive explosion happened and Eggman was sent flying into the sky with his Eggmobile.
"Looks like Eggman's blasting off again!" I smirked, which made the others smirk at how I said it.
"Something from your original world, I assume?" Tirsiak smirked.
"Pokemon, one of the catchphrases of Team Rocket," I smiled.
"Pokemon... I recall that a group of Pokemon were summoned by Area 51, but all of them were killed off over the years, and none of them were able to see the light of day," Elsa sighed.
"Oh... sorry, Elsa..." I sighed, her smiling at me.
"It's fine, you didn't mean anything by it. And I'm used to it," she sighed. Anna then touched her hand to Elsa's, not caring about the freezing chill that came after.
"Elsa... I don't know what you went through, but I want to let you know that, back home, I never gave up hope that I'd see you again... and I was given my wish on my death bed, all thanks to Cheryl and the Phoenix," Anna smiled at her.
"That makes me happy... thanks, Anna," Elsa smiled as we then proceeded into the temple and restored the next emerald, it being the purple one. And when we did so, we then exited and went back to the village... and when we did, we saw that Metal Sonic was there and waiting alongside Tails at the plane.
"Uh, guys, we have a big problem," Tails said as Metal Sonic looked at us and spoke next.
"Doctor Eggman has finally created Eggmanland, using the emeralds against your group," he said, which made me confused.
"Explain," I frowned seriously.
"He knew you'd be restoring the emeralds to rescue the world, so he set up a machine that would bring the energies of Dark Gaia to him, which got stronger with every emerald that was restored. And he managed to get all the rest of the Dark Gaia sources across the world that haven't been inside of you or your group. And using that, he plans to power Eggmanland for eternity and, using it, he plans to kill you all before you can reach the final temple," Metal Sonic said.
"Well, what's the issue, then? We could always just avoid Eggmanland and go to the final temple itself, right?" Amy smiled.
"Not likely, because Eggman built Eggmanland overtop the temple. If we want to save the world, we need to go to this messed up theme park and, on the way to the temple, we have to get through TONS of security. And due to this, I recommend we have a different plan of attack," Tails said as he gave me the final Super Emerald from the plane he had, me seeing that the plane no longer had any strength to it. "Take that Super Emerald, the Chaos Emeralds, and those freaky rings, and take a specific few allies to go to the innards of the theme park. Only 5 will go, because we don't want to take any risks. Got it?" Tails asked, me nodding.
"Okay, I agree with everything you said. In the meantime, everyone else that isn't joining us will be going to Shamar to protect my cousin and Professor Pickle." I then made up another illusion with the green ring for us while making another illusion with the Phantom Ruby for the others. What was the illusion for my group?
"What the? That's one big dragon..." Priscilla gawked when she saw it, me smirking as I explained.
"This is Kanna Kamui, her dragon form. And best part, if I were to combine the powers of the ruby, the green ring, and the rainbow emerald, I could make her her own entity, much like with how I changed Yang's appearance in Area 51. But I want to wait to do that until we save the world," I smirked. As for my ride, it was in the form of a rocket car, which looked like the same thing from Jimmy Neutron in the alien game show episode.
"But it wouldn't be the original, right? Because I don't want you to just bring others from their worlds to here all willy-nilly," Tirsiak frowned at me.
"Nope, they're still illusions, not the real deal, but my strengths make it so they have all of their peak powers and that they have all the memories of their originals. But like I said, this is just our ride to Eggmanland and we now need to choose who will go there," I said, us then deliberating for a good 10 minutes until deciding on the group that would go.
We decided that we'd choose Tirsiak for calling on spiritual animals to attack Dark Gaia, primarily flying ones. Elsa would be useful for taking out flaming hot barriers and for helping in case we fell down accidentally, she could make an ice slide to catch us. Then it'd be me, Cosmo, Chip, and Amy to be the ones to go into the place as the big heavy hitters, which Sonic would have the important job of defeating any reinforcements alongside Metal Sonic.
"Okay, the teams are set. Everyone else should go to Shamar to protect my sister and Professor Pickle. Are we in agreement?" I asked, the group all nodding their heads at me.
"If we manage to survive this... I wanted to ask if I could thank you in a proper manner, for helping me reunite with Anna," Elsa asked, me smiling at that. "Maybe we can go have dinner somewhere, watch a movie, and then I can sleep with you at your place."
"I could do that," I smirked.
"So you don't want to have sex with-" Sticks was about to say before I shushed her.
"Shut up, Sticks. I'm not going to do that unless she gives the go-ahead," I frowned, Elsa being surprised at me.
"You're into females?... That's surprising," Elsa admitted.
"Not when we have most of us girls being pregnant with each other from my magic," Shahra smiled smugly.
"She's right, we can have kids, but only due to Shahra being a genie. And most of us are expecting kids in the near future," I smirked, Elsa smiling at me.
"Okay, but I want to get to know you better first. I'm not one for trusting romantic interests on the first day... after all, we both know how it happened with Anna," she sighed.
"Yeah, he tried to kill me so he'd become the king via lies and trickery," Anna frowned.
"By the way, quick question. Were you, Anna, afflicted with some kind of ice curse? Or was that not a thing?"
"No, I wasn't. I was given poison nightshade and was about to die, but then Elsa used her magic to get the poison out of me, by freezing the disease solid as it was in my system... it made me an ice statue temporarily, but once the disease was dead, she returned me to normal," Anna smiled.
"Seems like a better end than the movie depicted," I said, her looking confused, but not speaking anymore afterwards. We then proceeded to get to flying, with Tails needing to use a different kind of gem to activate the Tornado 3, which Rouge provided a diamond.
"Okay, I won't be able to assist in this one, since I need to conserve energy for the Tornado 3. You better stop Eggman and Dark Gaia, Agent C," Tails said to me via our GUN communicators, me frowning at that. He was still going on about the Mistress C incident.
"Same to you, Miles Per Hour. Don't let my cousin get hurt," I said.
"Got it," he spoke before I then flew through the air with my group on a giant Kanna dragon, her not speaking a word because I didn't give her those traits.
"So, which universe does this dragon come from? She's very fluffy, and very bright, like in those cartoons," Sonic asked.
"This is Kanna, a dragon from an anime universe where dragons try to blend in with human society, with Kanna here being about 400 years old, but due to dragons aging much slower than humans, she's got the mind of a wise toddler," I smirked.
"That sounds funny, yet sad at the same time," Tirsiak admitted.
"She's the cutest character in the show, especially when, in her human disguise, she has a habit of eating anything she views as edible, including dragonflies and crabs found on the beach," I giggled.
"Can you make her talk? Or is that a no?" Elsa asked.
"Can't really have Eggman know all of my powers, lest he want them for himself," I sighed. "Better he doesn't know that unless he really does something to warrant it," I frowned, her nodding at me.
"This Eggman person sounds very dangerous. Question, why is he so dangerous?"
"He's able to create hundreds of thousands of robots in only a month or two and he desires to conquer the world. And right now, he's created Eggmanland, his personal empire, all from the force of an entity called Dark Gaia," I said, which made Tirsiak gasp.
"Dark Gaia?... I recall that I saw a battle in my world between Dark and Light Gaia, as I'm as old as the planet itself from my domain. And the fight went on for an entire week until Light Gaia prevailed, and the planet returned to normal, but it also sent some dangerous monsters out from the center of the earth when it happened. Not unlike... rgh... never mind," she complained.
"I know who you're talking about, and believe it or not, she was also a victim," I said, her looking at me angrily. "The only reason she became a ghost is because of her father. And he's the one who created the hellgate, not Spooky," I said, Tirsiak being surprised at that.
"Really?" she asked, me nodding as we then looked at the map and I saw that, according to Tails's satellite, that Eggmanland was right overtop of Easter Island, which meant we were going in the right direction, us going across a ton of ocean water until we finally found the area, which the clouds became much darker red from the neon red lights of the place, us then needing to get evasive and take out tons of drones and missiles just to get to the entry to Eggmanland, where I then had our group land down onto the ground and for me to see that it was nighttime in 30 minutes, so that meant we were going to be turning feral soon.
"Okay, now comes the hard part. We're in danger territory now and we need to get through a whole lot of mechanical mess if we want to find that temple. Sonic, you're in charge of halting any reinforcements from Eggman. I'll get the rest of us down to the temple and, hopefully, we can stop Dark Gaia from resurrecting," I smirked.
"Just don't leave me out of the final fight if it gets too intense, that's all I ask," Sonic smirked, me nodding as I then had us go into the danger zone, our group needing to traverse across the entire carnival and the innards of it, but with the assistance from Elsa's ice powers, Tirsiak's shadow creatures, and Cosmo's infinite flight, we were able to get through every bit of the level in about 20 minutes total, us finally arriving at the temple construct, which was right next to a very important-looking machine. After we got the final emerald back to its normal hue, we then rushed out and, the moment we did, I then attacked the machine with a powerful beam of electrical ice, which made it explode in massive fashion and for it to cause the alarms to blare all over.
"Warning! Warning! Dark Gaia conversion in critical state! System shut down in 3, 2, 1..." the machine said before the power for the machines then finally stopped, but then we were in darkness, which I then simply used the powers of the yellow ring so we could have some light.
"Okay, now what?" Amy asked before the ceiling came crumbling down to reveal that Eggman was in a new mech, me looking at it and being surprised at how it wasn't the Egg Dragoon. It was actually a different robot that looked incredibly unique! It looked like an upgraded egg walker, but it was coated in completely shadowy energy and it had a green center, where Eggman was at!
"OHOHOHO! So, you thought I'd just let you waltz in here unannounced, huh? Well, it looks like your time is up!" Eggman smirked at us. But Amy spoke at him after.
"Says you, Egghead! We just stopped the Dark Gaia machine AND we restored the last temple, so we can handle anything you can dish out!" Amy shouted as she grabbed her hammer and Eggman chortled in response.
"What's he laughing about?" Elsa asked in concern.
"Oh, didn't you know, little ladies? I already finished adding the last of Dark Gaia's energies to this new and improved mech! With it, I can sap your strengths in only 8 minutes! Once the moon comes out, not only will I absorb your essences of Dark Gaia inside of you, but also your entire beings! And with you bitches out of the way, I can finally rule unopposed! Not even Sonic can stop me!" he shouted before chortling angrily, me then frowning as I then proceeded to use the powers of the red yellow ring to illuminate the entire room in a bright flash, Eggman wincing as the machine was temporarily weakened, allowing our group to attack it and destroy the entirety of the right arm, which also made the floor give way underneath us and for us to use Elsa's powers to parkour and slide back to the center platform, me looking at Eggman with anger after.
"How about now, Eggboy?!" I growled.
"RGH! It's Egg MAN!" he shouted angrily as he sent a flurry of super strong dark missiles out of his mech, me dodging most of them before grabbing the final one and then using my ever-growing strength to send it back at Eggman, which completely demolished the other arm of the mech, which meant he had no more means of attack! Amy then rushed forward and slammed her hammer right into the central green core, which cracked it to the point that it shattered, revealing Eggman in the cockpit!
"N-No! DON'T!" he shouted before Tirsiak floated up to him and he looked at her in confusion. "What the hell are you?!" he asked the forest deity, but she simply made the air colder for him as she spoke.
"Such strange prey you are," she said creepily before then sending forth a shadowy wolf to grab Eggman by the collar and, after he screamed in fear, the wolf yanked him out of the cockpit and forced him to land on our platform next to us. And just in time, as the new and improved mech then short-circuited and exploded, right as soon as we reached the core of the planet!
"ARGH! You insolent little fools! I WAS SO CLOSE! I am going to make you pay for this!" Eggman shouted before I then felt... wrong. I felt tons of darkness gathering into the lava of the planet's core. And then I saw that it was emanating from the remains of the Egg Dragon MK 2.
"Um, guys? We're going to need to get ready to fight!" I said, which automatically earned us an audience with Sonic, who freefell and then jumped down right next to us with seriousness.
"What'd I miss?" Sonic asked.
"We beat Eggman, but his pet is loose, again!" I said angrily as the darkness then slowly formed into the giant beast of Dark Gaia.
"YES! Dark Gaia! Send these bitches to an early grave!" Eggman shouted, me then gasping as a giant tentacle of darkness emerged and was about to slam him into dust! I barely had enough time to get in between it and him and I proceeded to make a barrier with the powers of the yellow emerald's electricity and the powers of the rainbow super emerald! And Eggman was shocked when he looked up and saw that the tentacled terror kept trying to attack!
"W-What?..." he gasped, me then throwing him something integral to his survival.
"Put those goggles on and warp away from here, Eggman! NOW!" I shouted, him then immediately doing so and warping away, not knowing where he'd go to, but I did. He'd be getting warped to Tails's location, and I knew he could handle him with my allies nearby.
"It's Dark Gaia! We need to use those powers right about now, guys!" Chip said, me nodding as I then proceeded to use the different stages of evolution.
"SUPER!" I shouted, my body turning into my super form as I shared it with everyone else, Chip included, earning a roar from Dark Gaia as he then sent our darkness out of us, but he looked confused at how he couldn't steal our souls, as Eggman said he could. "HYPER!" I shrieked, getting our group to become our Hyper forms, with all of us now glowing multiple colors before I then went to the next part, me not knowing how it'd be like. "ULLLLLTTTTRRRRRAAAAAAA! ! !" I shouted in my best Killer Instinct voice, the group then shouting in response as our bodies were now coursing with power and blue electric lights emitted from each of us! Our hair and fur also became just as long and crazy as Super Saiyan 3 would look, along with our forms being transformed to look more like we were mixed with the mythical phoenix with all of us, even Elsa, Tirsiak, and even Chip were ready to kick ass!
"BATTLE CRY! AYAYAYA!" Amy shouted out loud as we then rushed forward and we then proceeded to get into a big struggle with the strengths of Dark Gaia and his numerous tentacles against our smaller, yet stronger forms! After every amount of power we poured into our strengths, Dark Gaia's power was not only weakened, but completely eradicated! After five more clashes from all over the monstrous creature, it tried to turn into its Perfect form, but we'd sapped too much power from him before I then flew from left to right and aimed for the perfect bullet through the brain!
"NO MORE DARKNESS! FLYING PEGASUS RAILROAD STAMPEEEEDDDEEE! ! !" I shouted as I summoned the powers of the super cool Yugioh monster to assist via illusion magic from the Phantom Ruby, me then shooting faster than light itself and completely eradicating every single eye and even the monster's brain in on single zip of speed! And after doing this, Dark Gaia then roared a final, yet much smaller roar of pain before we then watched in awe as all of the darkness proceeded to start to evaporate, Sonic deciding to assist in the defeat by attacking even more all across the body as I smirked at this.
"He just couldn't help himself," I smiled.
"Dark Gaia will never bother us again. Let's get out of here before our Ultra forms end," Amy said, me then rushing to Sonic and pulling him with our group out of the core of the planet and back to dry land, me then rushing our group through the air all the way to Shamar, and once we did so, we finally petered out as our transformed states then ended and we simply fell to the ground, panting in and out, all tuckered out.
"Did you hear that?! It came from outside!" said none other than Tikal as she rushed out of the university and looked at us, me smiling as I panted in and out in exhaustion, yet still looking right at the Shamar university with a smile. "Oh my gosh! Are you okay?! Please, speak or something!" Tikal shouted in fear, me smirking as I then moved my arm up and gave a 'so-so' gesture with a half-hearted chuckle.
"Sleep... now... please..." Chip groaned happily, my eyes then feeling quite heavy as I then fell asleep... but not before I made sure the rings were back where they should've been, all over my body.
"Get them inside, now!" I heard Chaos say shortly after before my consciousness faded.
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I moved my head off of what felt to be a very comfy pillow and looked around to see that I was in a room I didn't recognize, but it looked an awful lot like a dorm room.
"Shh, she's waking up," I heard Maria's voice say as I then finally felt the fuzzies leave me and I looked to see that I was joined by all of my female friends, Sonic, Tails, Professor Pickle, Chip, and even cousin Fiona.
"Hey, how's everything goin'?" I asked with a yawn, them looking at me with a smirk.
"You've been down and out for 2 days straight, we were worried you'd be in a coma, and that the baby might be in danger," Shahra said, me smiling as I could feel it, the baby's life force was still good. "The baby is safe, I'm just very tired and very hungry," I smirked.
"I bet, we were out for almost a day, but you were at the center of Dark Gaia himself AND you used those Ultra powers for longer than all of us. I never expected you to make it," Tirsiak said with a smile.
"Next time you decide to be a hero, at least make sure you don't overdo it? You are still able to die, so please don't," Priscilla said, me smirking at her as I felt like my muscles had all quit on me, but mainly from strain and tiredness.
"Where's the Eggman?" I asked.
"We arrested him, and he's currently being sent to Soleanna prison. Considering he was hoping to rule the world and almost killed you, we're holding him for a lifetime sentence," Elise said, me smirking at that.
"Okay, that's good... how about I get some food? I hate to admit it, but I can't move right now. I'm too tired..." I admitted.
"Of course, here you go," Cream smirked as she gave me a bit of ice cream, me seeing it was chocolate marshmallow milkshake.
"You know what I like, Cream," I smirked as I then proceeded to suck at the straw and I basically drank the entire beverage down in one single sitting.
"Uh, no brain freeze, like, at all? Is there something wrong with you?" Anna asked, me smirking at that.
"It's impossible to get a brain freeze... if you don't really have one," I joked, which made some of the group laugh and for others to shake their heads at that.
"Hey," Tails said as he then put his hand into a fist-bump stance and then, grabbed my right hand and gave me a fist-bump. "Consider the Mistress C incident water under the bridge. When Dark Gaia used its full power, he tried to coat the world in darkness and minions, but you stopped him before he could hurt anyone. We cool?" he asked, me nodding at him, even though it was the only thing I could do now.
"We're cool, cool as ice," I smirked before looking at the cold ladies and them looking at me with a smug smile.
"You're trying to get under our skin, but I don't really care. I'm just glad you're alright... um... so, if I may ask, can we stick with your clique? Just to have a place to call home?" Priscilla asked, me nodding at her.
"Of course, you can, Priscilla. Same with all of you. And best part, we live in Soleanna, and you'll be living next to a castle, with me being just one of the many princesses of the queen," I smirked.
"She's right, you know? I'm the queen, but they're all my princesses," Elise smirked.
"And your rules for being a queen?" Elsa asked.
"I'm not really one for thinking myself above others, I try to be among the citizens as much as possible and hear out anything they may have to say. And because of that, Soleanna is very peaceful," Elise smirked.
"I say we should give it a shot, Elsa. It'd be nice to be just regular people instead of being aristocrats," Anna smirked.
"Okay, Anna, I can't say no to you," the ice queen smirked.
"So, anything else you need, miss Martinez?" Professor Pickle asked me, which I smiled at.
"How about I watch some of those Battlebots stuff? I need to stay awake," I smirked.
"How about something even better?" Maria asked as she then turned on the television in the dorm and I gawked at how, on channel 4 after the news, in 15 minutes, it'd be the first round of Battlebots: Rewired! It was the new series that we'd worked together on, and she'd finished it in only a few days!
"It's all gonna be live on camera, just with a slight bit of editing while it happens. And there are a total of 50 different robots in this tournament! Some our own designs, some from the very far past, and even about 10 newbies that wanted to give their own designs a chance!" Maria smirked, which made me smile widely.
"I'm so happy... if only I wasn't so tired, I'd be jumping up and down in excitement," I smirked widely.
"Just relax and we'll watch it with you, if that's what you want," Sonic smirked.
"Sure thing... by the way, Sonic?" I smirked, him nodding at me. "It's okay if we can share the hero moniker, right?" I smirked.
"Heh, no worries. If you get wind of Eggman, I'd be glad to have you there to help out, just don't bite off more than you can chew," he smirked back.
"Can we get some more chairs in here, then? Join in and all?" Cream smirked.
"Yes, I can assist with that, and get some popcorn made," Professor Pickle smiled happily. I couldn't help but be so happy... but I knew that there had to be more in the future... but just what I'd see, I had no idea.