Chapter 17: SA2 Part 2

"Seriously… are these outfits necessary?" Tangle asked as the boat came to a stop.

"Of course! You always have to wear an outfit like this when infiltrating enemy territory!" Tanaka explained.

"Are you sure about that… or did you just see that in a movie?" Tangle asked.

"Either way, if we take the boat any closer we'll surely be caught." Tanaka went off topic.

'Yup… movie…'

"Ok, so how do we get on the island?" Tangle asked.

"Leave that to me." Tanaka said. "We will counter high tech… with no tech…"

Moments later, they were in a swan boat.

"I feel so dumb right now…" Tangle groaned out.

"You could help… get this done quicker…" Chris complained.

"No she cannot!" Tanaka scolded. "She is pushing herself by coming here, I refuse to allow her to exert herself any more than she has to."

"You heard the guy…" Tangle said. "Trust me, I am not happy about this either."

Chris didn't respond, and simply peddled faster.

By some miracle, they made it to the island without being spotted.

By the time they got to the top of the cliff though…

"Is that Tails?" Tangle asked.

"Hm… things are looking dangerous…" Tanaka said. "You two wait here, I shall be right back."

"Alright…" Chris said as Tanaka finished climbing the cliff.

Not much later though, alarms begin to sound.

"Sonic…"

"… Are we seriously gonna just stay here?" Tangle asked. "Come on, we have work to do!"

"But…"

"You can stay here if you want, I'm going!" Tangle said.

And with that, she began climbing.

"Hey! Wait for me!" Chris said as he began to follow.

When they reached the top, they began to run.

"Hey, are you going to be alright?" Chris asked.

"I'll be fine, yeah my foot hurts, but that's not gonna stop me!" Tangle said.

"Still…"

"Don't worry!" Tangle said with a grin.

"… Alright…"

After a while, they heard something.

"Sounds like someone's in a fight…" Tangle said. "Might be Sonic…"

"Let's go look!" Chris said.

"Right!"

The two continued to run, until they spotted a hedgehog in the distance.

"Sonic!" Chris shouted as they approached.

But as they got closer…

"Wait… that's that Shadow guy!" Tangle said.

"What? What's he doing here?" Chris asked.

"No clue… but I am gonna find out!" Tangle said as she charged at him.

"Wait!"

"What?"

"He's talking to someone!" Chris pointed out.

"Huh?"

Sure enough, Shadow was talking to someone through some sort of communicator on his wrist.

Worse though, Tangle could barely make out a timer for something on said communicator.

"Three minutes? Three minutes til what?" Tangle asked.

Then, Shadow held up a Chaos Emerald and activated Chaos Control.

Seeing this, Tangle and Chris ran towards him and grabbed on before he teleported away.

When they arrived at… wherever they were, Shadow attempted to kick them away, though Tangle was able to block the blow.

"Alright creep, just what is going on here!" Tangle demanded.

"Tangle?!"

"Rouge?!"

"You know her?" Shadow asked.

"An old friend, don't worry." Rouge said.

"You need better friends." Shadow said.

"Oh please, like you're so great…" Tangle said. "Anyways, you have two minutes to explain what is happening here before I beat it out of you!"

"You only have two minutes to live…" Shadow said.

"Excuse me?!" Tangle asked.

"Two minutes til the bombs go off… huh?" Rouge asked.

"BOMBS?!" Tangle asked.

'That's what the timer was for!'

"Correct, I'm leaving…" Shadow said.

"Not if I can help it!" Tangle said as she ran over to punch him.

Shadow simply dodged her, and swept her feet.

"AGH!" Tangle groaned out as Shadow's kick hit her left foot.

"Hmph, pathetic." Shadow said before kicking her to the other side of the room.

"Why are you doing this?!" Tangle asked. "Why in the world would you attack us, blow up an island, steal the Chaos Emeralds?!"

"Revenge…" Shadow said. "For what happened on the Ark fifty years ago."

"Ark…?"

"That's enough talking, farewell." Shadow said as he began to charge up some energy to blast her with.

"Please… leave her alone." Chris said, causing Shadow to, surprisingly, stop. "My friend… everyone thinks that you're him and he's in a lot of trouble because of it."

"No concern to me…"

"Please… please just let me help Sonic!" Chris pleaded.

Shadow… actually contemplated this for a second… at least that is what it looked like to Tangle.

"Huh?"

"Chaos Control!" Shadow suddenly shouted.

"Wait! TA-" Chris began to shout before he disappeared.

"What…? What just happened?" Tangle asked.

But then, she realized how bad this situation was.

"… Oh no…"

And as the island exploded, Sonic and the others looked on in horror, unsure if their friends got out of there in time.

End of Chapter 17


Welp, Tangle's dead… thanks for reading this story everyone, it ended a lot earlier than you probably thought but that's just how it is!

… Ok no, we ain't done yet. See you next time!