Sonic Supers!
Chapter 4(S1)
By: Cutegirlmayra( Trying to figure out how to make them bond slower through this whole thing… since, they need to travel through 'zones' and bond through conversation and battles, but that means scrapping almost everything I've already written… so I'm gonna take my time and try and do my best : ) please be patient!)
Amy pondered how to make this whole thing less awkward, seeing as the dudes were really just trying to do the nice thing…
She dropped her hammer to her side, holding the tilt of it, and put her other hand to her hip, looking down.
"Okay, I know you're all tried from keeping me warm last night…" She finally spoke out, "So… After breakfast, we'll carry on our way in search for Tails… and then, hopefully, we won't need another night…" She looked away, rocking on her heels as she tried to make up that plan.
The second Amy said breakfast, the boys had complete attention on her, swiftly turning their heads immediately towards her.
She looked at the three, finally noticing their stares, and giggled. "Alright, alright! I'll get on it!" she laughed, thinking it funny, before pointing a strict finger at them. "But don't leave me behind or something! I'll be right back."
As she took off for the woods, the boys all got up, taking their time, and dusting themselves off from the leafs below them.
Some leafs got stuck in quills, and they were ruffling their heads to try and get the loose pieces out.
"Maybe we should have thought that more through." Silver admitted, as Shadow 'hmph'd at that statement.
"And what? Woken her only to hear her protest us further?" Shadow was getting some leafs off his arm and that had gotten in his gloves, but gave a sarcastic look to Silver on his side.
"She's right. The sooner we get our missions done, the better."
Sonic remained silent.
Something in him wondered why the three all felt this way. Amy may be a bit of a problem when it comes to worry about your own skin, but that doesn't mean she's a burden on all accounts.
He looked back at the two.
Something told him that they were finding her charming, and that made them fearful of keeping her around any further.
He smiled, remembering his first impressions of Amy, before stretching out his legs and not letting the thoughts occupy his mind any further.
"Emm.. Well! As I see it, we might as well go looking for a clue on where Eggman is! If we find Eggman, we're sure to find Tails. I'll scout!" With new enthusiasm, and probably to take his mind off of Amy, since it was focused more on her than it ever should be.
Seeing Sonic take off, Shadow folded his arms, before pulling out a walkie-talkie and stepping to the side.
Before completely exiting, however, he took one more second to side-comment to Silver, looking back at the direction Sonic had taken. "You wonder if he's purposefully trying to avoid having us talk about her so much."
"…In all honest, Shadow…" Silver looked down, before stepping towards Shadow, as he looked back at him. "We are, in a sense, strangers. What he has with Amy… is a bond formed from what seems to be years of trust. I'm sure it's just odd for him to see us speaking so much about her."
"You think he's uncomfortable with us growing used to her?"
"More like… closer to her." Silver nodded his head, looking away and folding his own arms. "I can't be certain." He shook his head.
"But I do know he's been acting pretty protective of her lately… he hasn't really teased or said an ill thing about her since we have. Perhaps he doesn't want us growing any closer to her than we already have." He motioned a hand out, as Shadow watched it, before looking back at him.
He laughed.
Swishing an arm up to his face, he leaned his head back, and continued to walk away.
"Than he's a fool! A threatened, jealous fool!"
Silver frowned, not seeing it that way at all.
He looked to Sonic's direction…
He knew he was only trying to protect a friend.
A friend… who probably meant more to him than he was letting on.
But still.
Silver also shook his head, before dashing off and jumping into air, flying up and over the forest, going for a flight.
…He had to learn he couldn't stop her from making her own acquaintanceships… let alone dictate how they should interact with her.
Her name's Amy! Stick to it!
"…."
Silver lowered his head, closing his eyes.
"And what…"
He thought of Amy, telling her stories over the campfire. Her cheeriness. Her instant trust and friendship from the very start, even with them trying to convince her to go home.
"..If I don't want to comply,-"
He rose his head, his eyes narrowed.
"Sonic?"
Sonic sped around the savannas and foresty areas, taking only a few short stops to take in the scenery and smell the flowers, before darting off again, a blue zig-zag or arching line across the rolling hills.
Before long, he started to notice some robots popping up, and began to take them out, enjoying himself, before pausing abruptly on a hill, and zipping back down. "Woah!"
Peeking out from the hill's rounded top, he saw a massive army of marching robots, some motionless or just looking around, seeming to protect a large airship in the center of the field.
He smirked, narrowing his eyes in a cocky way.
"Got'cha~" he chimed.
Slowly sneaking away, he crawled down the hill, and made his way back to the others.
Shadow, on the other hand, was also getting coordinates from G.U.N of a huge metallic signal gathering just north and a little east of him.
"Are you sure?"
"Affirmative. It's gotta be him. The Egg's not doing so well at camouflage anymore, huh?"
"Unless he's baiting us in." Shadow grimaced.
"Oh? You think it's a trap?"
"It's too easy… and far to open an area for any counter motives… It's a bad trap, but one that's obvious, nonetheless." Shadow held up the seeking device, seeing the red dots all piled into the center, while others were spread out.
His eyes widened when he noticed some of the outlining red dots were disappearing.
"You seeing that?"
"Heh." He smirked. "Seems some blue hedgehog has found all the fun without me."
"Don't be too friendly. You know how much he hates you." Rouge hummed a chuckle to her sly remark.
"I know. But I think we'll have to tolerate each other a little longer…" Shadow gestured off to the side of him, seeing Amy cooking over the re-started firepit they had.
"I have a friendly supporter who's not willing to let him dog me as much."
"Hmm? There's someone else there with you?"
Amy looked up, blinking her eyes innocently at not being able to hear his conversation.
But seeing him stare at her, she grew wide-eyed and smiled a beautiful open grin, waving happily over to him, and acknowledging his stare.
He smiled.
"You could say there are a few others along for the ride, but I digress." He turned away from her, making her stop her waving and lower her hand slightly, wondering if she did something wrong.
She shrugged it off and continued to get the food ready.
"I'll report the details of the due raid after the act is already accomplished. Until then, don't expect word from me." He turned his eyes back behind him.
"Shadow…"
He then looked to the phone, seeming confused by the change in tone.
"Be careful."
"Hmph. As you wish." He closed his eyes and smiled, not that he liked the sweet touch at the end, but mostly because he found it humorous how ironic that was.
He was the ultimate life form.
People should be careful around him.
He hung up the phone and advanced towards Amy, looking around cautiously a moment, before smiling and then dropping it, folding his arms next to her.
"What are you making?" Shadow inquired, looking over contents of the bowl, made roughly out of wood.
"It's soup!" Amy smiled, not moving her head from her cooking breakfast.
"I found some natural ingredients around the bank of the lake and around the area." She explained.
"…Hmm." He blinked, not really that interested, but curious at the aroma.
He pulled out his chaos emerald, and seemed to play with it by tossing it up and catching it in one hand.
Amy finally did look up to eye the emerald, seeing it's green glow radiated more from the fire, and shining wonderfully in his hands.
Shadow stopped tossing it, as her head motioned back in her surprise, before looking to notice he had his eyes on her.
She was shaken up and quickly went back to stirring her bowl of soup.
"….Are you curious of something?" he held the emerald out to her. "I would assume with Sonic as your friend… you've seen one before."
"O-oh! I have!" Amy shook her free hand out, showing him it was a misunderstanding. "I just… I'm curious…" she looked away, which intrigued him further, tilting his head her way.
"Go on." He encouraged, and walked back over to her closer.
"U-um." She was a little startled at his direct and almost casual approach, because before this, she had thought he had issues with her being there. "I just… I always wanted to know." She looked into the bowl.
He raised an eyebrow, still holding the chaos emerald out in front of him. "About?" he further questioned her to speak on.
"…What it's like." Her facial expression changed to one of slight fantasy, as if she was imaging something.
"…Amy, don't just end your sentences with a lack of unfinished meanings." He didn't look annoyed, in fact, his tone and slight amused smile made her think he was just teasing her.
She looked up at him, amazed at his sudden change in behavior towards her, before smiling normally and happily getting the bounce back in her step, so to speak.
"I just always wanted to know what it feels like to use Chaos Energy. To turn Super. To do amazing fleets that normally, we couldn't on our own. That almost magical force that you can harness to help protect and make the world a better place! Doesn't it just sound… I don't know… something else?" She looked back up at him, her sweet fantasy look made him almost let out a laugh, but he just kept his mouth shut and chuckled a few quick puffs out.
"You're amusing." He stated, closing his eyes and turning his head away from her. This made her question her words.
"H-how come?" Her ears slightly bent back, a little worried by his statement.
"Heh, heh. You think a limitless power that could tear this world apart is somehow 'good' for humanity." His shoulders bounced, which only offended her further at his mockery of her knowledge on Chaos.
"It's a destructive force meant to obliterate you and all living things on this earth. And you think it sounds like… something else? Was it?"
"Hmph! Forget I asked!" Amy turned away, puffing up a cheek and now violently stirring the bowl, having some of the contents spill out in result.
"O-oh no!" Amy held out a hand, but knew she couldn't touch the bowl or the fire so… it was sadly, a waste.
She looked like she was very disappointed, sighing in her woes.
"Chaos is an energy that flows through you. If you're not careful, it can even control you instead of the other way around…" His voice was eerie warning made Amy's back stand straight, as she slowly rolled her eyes back to him.
"R-really?"
He folded his arms, lowering his head. "It's a miracle anytime someone is able to harness it's full power and not be consumed by it. It takes a strong will, an unyielding heart, and some even say… the purest intents." Shadow held the Chaos Emerald and walked over to her, placing it just ever so slightly away from her face, and then holding his right up next to it, as if staring each other down, somehow…
Amy stared into the luminous emerald but couldn't see anything powerful about it,… but something did stir her within.
She looked up, and realized how uncomfortably close Shadow's face was to hers.
"C…Could I…" she wanted to try and ask something she's never tried before.
"Try it?" Shadow cocked another eyebrow up. "Only if you wanted to lose yourself in the process."
He pulled the emerald away and stepped back, which gave her some air to breathe again, as he put it away and saw Silver and Sonic coming quickly from afar.
"You wouldn't last 10 minutes in the form of Super."
His last comment stung her to her core, as she twitched back, and clung her hand to her chest near her heart.
"Amy!" Sonic waved.
"What's up!" He skidded a halt, and lifted a hand up.
Sensing something amiss, he looked to Amy and then to Shadow, and leaned forward in suspicion slightly.
"Hey… has Shadow been rude to you?"
"..Em… N-no. He was just…." She looked away, thinking a moment.
"T-teaching me about chaos control!" She gave him a nervous smile, but tried to keep it as real as she could.
"Oh..?" Sonic leaned back up, and rose his head back to look over his shoulder at the hedgehog.
"How uncharacteristically social of him." He raised a sneaky eyebrow and smirked, making Shadow twitch an ear and turn his head to him.
The sparks between the two were almost kinetic.
"W-what's that smell?" Silver flew over and landed just a little away, his nose flicking in the air as he smelled the soup.
"Breakfast!" Amy took two sticks and carefully pulled the bowl away from the fire, as Sonic took another stick to try and help her out in balancing it.
Everyone got their own mini-bowls and they dined!
When Amy noticed them all getting along and stuffing their bellies of the portion of soup she was able to make for them, she got up and took a stance of pride, smiling and stating, "See? I am useful!"
The boys looked up from their conversations a moment, before rolling their eyes and laughing at their equal and in unison response.
"Ohhh… Come on! This whole time I haven't been a bother!" Amy threw her hands down, showing her understandable disappointment in their reactions.
"We wouldn't have lost sleep over the course of the night if-" Shadow began, but Sonic nudged him hard in the side. "Urgh!..."
"Zip it! We've already made fools of ourselves as it is!" he whispered aggressively in Shadow's direction.
The sparks showed off their fury again, as Silver then spoke up, looking up.
"I don't know what we were thinking…" he sighed, "But at least none of us froze to death."
"Either way…" Sonic glared towards Silver, as if he didn't want to bring that up every again. "Thanks, Amy!" He held up the half eaten bowl to her, before finishing its contents with one final press of the mouth to the upraised object.
"Eh-hmm." Amy smiled, letting it go and sitting down to have some too. "It was nothing…"
"Thank you." Silver also stated, blowing on his food and eating it too.
"It's good!"
"Amy's always been an excellent cook. No matter what the situation, she can cook something. Anywhere, and anytime." Sonic praised, but wasn't really trying to make it anything more than that.
"Thanks, Sonic." Amy blushed and looked away, squeeing slightly inside that he had praised her so.
Shadow pulled out his chaos emerald from behind him and put it down, making Amy eye it curiously once more.
"..Sonic?" Amy looked over to him, as he was sighing out his satisfaction at the meal, and patting his belly, something he usually did as a child when it was much more rounder and chubbier.
Shadow looked over from his bowl.
"Hmm?" Sonic turned to her, a little surprised she was addressing him again.
"….What's it like for you… to use Chaos Control and turn Super Sonic?" She wanted to hear it from him, and this annoyed Shadow as he completely ignored their conversation… or at least, tried too.
Silver perked up, wondering what that was.
"You have to be careful." Sonic put his bowl down, and wiped his mouth, looking to Amy. "It's called, "Chaos Control" for a reason. You have to control the chaos flowing within you. Only a pure heart with good intentions can really wield chaos. Unless their biologically engineered to do so, that is…"
Shadow glared at him.
Sonic gave a quick glance at him, and smiled cheekily, before continuing again.
"Anyway!" he motioned his hands up, and pressed onward on the topic at hand.
"There are two sides to chaos… negative and positive. You can turn Super with either, but negative chaos will control you over time, and change you. Positive will obey you and aid you in your purpose, which has to be a righteous one, or it'll change to negative chaos energy."
"Wow, it seems kinda complicated…" Amy thought, looking down and a bit saddened.
"Not really." Sonic stated, which made her quickly turn her attention back to him, sensing hope in his words.
"You just have to believe in yourself and your purpose. Going back to Peter Pan…" He smiled, and held a finger up to her. "Think of a wonderful thought."
Amy looked a bit confused at first, but then smiled. "Any wonderful thought?" she teased, picking her arms up and holding them in a questioning shrug.
"As long as you keep it in your thoughts… you shouldn't have a problem. It's when you allow Chaos to manipulate those thoughts, turning them to its own purposes. Then you have something to worry about."
Shadow got up, "We've been idling for far too long. Sonic. You mentioned before of a defense around that base you found in the fields outside the forests and passed the savanna, right? I say… let's go." The other three hedgehogs looked up and nodded in agreement.
-Out on the Plains-
"H-hey! W-wait up!" Amy tried to keep up with the boys but was falling behind way to fast.
"Guys!" She tried to bolt forward, but quickly lost breath and slowed down.
"Great… I've got her…" Sonic rolled his eyes, slowing his pace and reaching his hand back for Amy. "Amy!"
She noticed his hand, looking up and grinning brightly.
"Right!" She looked determined, as she lunged forward and took it.
Racing up, they we're able to get back with the gang again. Going through the same loop-de-loop and dodging robot carcasses to do so.
Sonic flung his arm forward, and caught Amy with his other, adjusting her in his arms so he could hold her bridal style, like he always did.
"What was that about not holding us back?" Sonic teased, as Amy frowned and tried to whack him with her hammer.
"H-he-hey! It was a joke! A joke! W-woah!" Sonic moved left and right, trying to get her arm to swing away from him, and the motion seem to work.
"I can be useful! Just watch! I'm strong!" Amy unsummoned her hammer and folded her arms, upset at all the teasing she was receiving over the course of just a two days.
"Hmph."
"She's not still upset about being born with a hammer besides Super speed… is she?" Silver joined in the mocking, looking underneath him to see them behind, as Sonic laughed, and her anger just grew.
"Now, Silver… Sonic… we mustn't mock her determination to at least try." Shadow looked behind him, grinning.
The three were in glee at having something to poke fun at, before Amy summoned her hammer once more, making Sonic lift his legs up in fright and worry, waddling more than running as he looked worried he'd get the beating for all three of them! Being the closest one in range, before she jumped out of his arms.
"Ah! Amy, wait-!" Sonic skidded, turning around to find her again before hearing a large slam on the ground, and seeing Amy summersault over him, over Silver, who froze in the air, and then land near Shadow, shocking him out of his mind to where he stumbled back.
"W-what!?"
"Out of my way!" she threw her arm back at him, as if pushing him to the side, but he was already stepping back and stopping his momentum.
She thrust her hammer back down and flew a huge jump with a spin through the air, dodging multiple obstacles as the men all stood at different lengths from each other, watching her.
"…Has she… always been able to do that?" Silver asked, a little starry-eyed.
"…Sure." Sonic stated, withdrawing his lips back as if not wanting to admit she was more capable than they were making her out to be.
"She's just full of surprises… isn't she?" Shadow commented, before the three heard a cry in a distance, and burst off after her.
Sonic's voice could be heard echoing from in front of the three, "Amyyy!"
She had gotten her head stuck in a swallowing flower, trying to chug her down but she had her hammer blocking its acid throat from sliding her down and eating her remains. "Heeellppp!"
Shadow threw a Chaos Spear towards the stem, hitting it precise.
Silver caught the falling bud of the closed flower, Amy's legs kicking out of it.
Lastly, Sonic spin dashed the bud from it's cut side, as it chucked Amy out the other end.
Amy shook her head, it wet with the flower's salva, and lifted a gooey hand in disgust.
"Ick!" she flung the stuff off from her.
The three came over to her, as Silver tossed the flower down, and all held a sense of 'told you so' about themselves, smiling down at her.
"…Not one word… out of ANY of you!" she shook her hammer around, getting the gooey substance on the three hedgehogs as they blocked themselves.
They laughed, making her even more upset.
"OOOoooohhh… can't you just… k-keep it to yourselves!" She almost felt like crying, but knew they weren't trying to bully her.
It just felt that way, was all.
After a the zone was clear, the gang was now laying on their stomachs, looking over a small hill at a large defensive army, circling what looked to be Eggman's landed airship.
"He's pulling all the stops on this one." Sonic commented, smiling.
He was getting excited, having his adrenaline already pumping from hearing Amy's cry before hand, he was just itching to go to battle!
"He really doesn't like how overpowering our odds are now." Silver narrowed his eyes, looking at the size. "It's almost like he's showing his paranoia through his strength."
Amy hung in the back, not sure how to contribute to the battle plans as she only fought along side them most of the time, keeping their backs protected.
"…Rose." Shadow had moved back to her side, making her flinch from being addressed so suddenly.
"U-uh.. yes?" she seemed a bit surprised. 'What could Shadow want with me? Hasn't he been a bit annoyed by me lately? At least… that's what it looks like…' she thought, ducking her head down lower and bending her ears slightly back, showing her submission.
"Are you really that curious about Super forms?" He asked, making her look up at him in sudden hope.
For some reason, this made him pleased.
"I…I just wanted to know…" she looked away.
"If we're going to enlighten Silver, might as well let you follow along." he smiled as he teased, which was rare, cause he never seemed to smile unless he was out witting Sonic.
Actually… it's odd how much he has been enjoying this trip, recently…
"…maybe… just a little." She began to get excited, and then smiled to him. "Could you tell me how?"
He shook his head. "It's not that simple." He stated, and looked ahead, seeing Sonic still arguing with Silver over battle tactics. "However…" he looked down to her, and gave her his chaos emerald.
"Try practicing." He stated, "Just focus on your goal, and remember to make sure you're controlling chaos, not the other way around." He warned.
"R-right." She gripped the green chaos emerald, and wondered if she could ever feel its power…
The four stepped back from the hill, preparing for battle meant updating Silver on Chaos energy, as he seemed already able to control one type of energy within himself as it was.
Amy held onto her own Chaos emerald, as Sonic handed Silver a red one.
"Use chaos control. Try to either control time, or teleport." With that, Shadow moved up and gestured for Sonic to give him another emerald, ready to instruct further.
"I say let's just go." Sonic stated, looking eager to attack and get Tails back, before handing Shadow the chaos emerald, and then looking to see Amy had one.
"What's she doing with-?"
"Everyone needs to at least be aware. And what if she can change, Sonic? Wouldn't that be an advantage in this situation?"
"Amy? Turning Super?" Sonic looked confused, as Shadow just shook his head.
"Hmph. Do you ever change?" Shadow seemed annoyed again, and continued on to address Silver and secretly, Amy.
"I'll push some of the sides back if you want to first take out the middle…" Silver tried to strategize, before….
"Chaos! Control!"
"….."
The boys looked forward, seeing a flash of light spring behind them and feel the chaos energy had just exploded.
Then, they sighted Amy on the battle field, gripping a chaos emerald, and squinting her eyes shut after having used Chaos Control.
Shadow face palmed, Sonic looked to him with anger in his glaring eyes, as if saying 'I told you it was a bad idea!' and Silver having a sweat drop on his face.
Amy blinked one eye open, and looked behind her in fright.
"ENEMY DETECTED. ALL UNITS ATTACK."
"Eh-heh… opps?"
Sonic looked to Shadow, and whacked him upside the head.
The three then ran down, full speed, and began taking out enemies one by one.
"Protect Amy! Then make a clearing!" Sonic instructed, circling and spin dashing in a wild spin as he landed in front of Amy.
Holding a hand up protectively to the side of him over her, he looked behind his shoulder towards Amy. "What were you thinking?!"
"I..I just-"
Before Amy could answer, a robot had come up behind her.
"Look out!" Sonic gasped, and jumped up, spinning into the robot, before getting enough edge on his sharp spines to tear right through it.
The robot exploded and made Amy flinch back, still grasping the chaos emerald.
"Fight, Amy!" Sonic turned back around, warning her to get up and get going.
Amy nodded, summoning her hammer and starting to fight, turning around and crawling herself up to her legs and whacking a domino effect of robots to all falling down near the same times.
Silver smashed two robots together, and flung them into a horde of others.
"Quick! Shadow! Make them a path!" Silver instructed
Shadow kicked a robot away and down, before hearing Silver's words.
"Hmph. As you wish…" he clicked off his imitators, and then burst forward, clearing a huge highway forward, and blasting robots in his sphere of pulsing power away like a ramming cannonball, but much, much larger.
Shadow used his chaos spears to spike some robots and make them explode; there was now a clear path for Sonic to run through to get to the entrance.
"Alright!" Sonic cheered, and dashed toward it. "We'll be back, Amy! Until then, stay safe!" He called back, as Silver and Shadow joined his sides, and raced off with him.
"W-wait..I can help!" Amy took only a few steps forward, before the airship crashed from within, showing only the poorly constructed metal build of the shell of the airship, but nothing holding it up from within.
The three hedgehogs stopped in their tracks.
"W-what!?" Sonic blocked the debris of the airship with his arms, along with Shadow and Silver.
Silver then took a step forward, flinging his arms up, he caught all the debris flying towards them, and spiked them off into the robots near them and off to the sides.
"It…it was a dummy!" Silver noticed the wood instead of metal, and the poorly painted sides.
"No… It's worse than a trap!" Shadow exclaimed, as three metallic claws flew down from above.
"WHA-OH!" The three we're gripped by them, as the real airship came out from over a cloud, as Eggman laughed from an opening in the back of the ship.
Its surface mirrored the sky, before glitching off and turning into the Eggman logo and showing a true scale, battle airship!
The claws were withdrawn and thrust upwards, The boys trapped inside it's clutches, as they were flung upwards and towards the airship's opening in the back.
Huge robots gripped them after they were let loose like the claw machine, with their massive circular claws that resembled thick hooks, they restrained the three hedgehogs, as they tried to wiggle out of their arms.
Their own arms were trapped, and all they could really do was struggle and try and move their legs wildly.
"WHOHOHOHOOO!" Eggman approached Sonic from the back of the airships lowered platform, looking a whole lot like an open mouth, and laughing.
"Now, YOU'RE THE ONES at the disadvantage! WHAHAHAHA!"
Amy gasped, running toward the airship as the remaining robots flew up toward it, not even caring about her remaining presence.
"Sonic! Shadow! Silver!"
She called, racing after the airship.
"Oh no… oh no! What do I do? What do I do!? This is all my fault!"
Sonic glared at Eggman and then looked down to see a pink speck following them below, running along after the moving airship.
Amy….
"Hey? What are you looking at!? Pay attention!" Eggman pulled out a remote control device and twisted a lever, making the robots slam the three down to the ground.
Sonic growled, looking up at it, and then looked to the others.
In a silent exchange, he showed what he was planning to do.
Shadow shook his head.
Silver looked worried, turning below to glance at Amy, then back at the men.
But finally,…he nodded his consistent, seeing no other way.
Sonic nodded to Silver, and glared at Shadow.
With a last minute effort, and having only a little hope left, they shook their heads in agreement.
"…Hmm?" Eggman looked to and fro at their silent exchanges, not sure what it meant, nor being able to interpret it. "What are you three-?"
They quickly shook themselves free of the chaos emeralds they possessed, having it fall out the back of their quills, and let gravity take the falling chaos emeralds roll or bounce off the ship, flying downwards towards the ground.
"W-W-WHAT!? Noooo!" Eggman lunged for one, but was about to fall off the ship, as a robot grabbed him to keep him up.
"The Chaos Emeralds!"
Amy looked up, seeing something hurdling down to the ground, as she freaked out and did a cartoon running man in midair before dashing out of the way of the falling objects.
Each came down at frightening speeds, not enough to set them blazing towards her though, but just enough to dent the grounds they landed on and bounce around a bit before remaining motionless.
Amy ducked into a bush to avoid the falling emeralds, and peeked up to see the chaos emeralds now settling around the ground.
Remaining still…
"Huh..?" she looked up. "Sonic… what are you?"
"What do you think you're doing!?" Eggman twisted the button again, making the robots move the hedgehogs off the ground and toward Eggman again.
They were still horribly trapped in the robots arms, even without Shadow's imitators, the robots were fueled with something that drained all the hedgehog's power, making Shadow loose most of what made him stronger.
Realizing the robots were not only draining him, but the others, Shadow also looked over to realize that he could still kick and squirm, but the others were now thoroughly exhausted from the robot's energy draining systems.
"There's no one down there who can save you, you just threw you're only chance of saving yourselves away!" he angrily hollered out.
"Heh, we still have one hope left, Egghead." Sonic smirked, his head down as his eyes looked droopy, though he was trying to keep a confident look in them.
"Hmph. You're bluffing. Take them away!" Eggman shooed them off and looked out the opening again, holding onto a beam to support him, he growled out his annoyance and then shut the opening once he couldn't see anything.
"Retrieve them!"
A few robots started for the ground, as Sonic, Shadow, and Silver were lead away and further into the real airship.
-Within Eggma's Airship-
Being thrown into three long tubes, the hedgehogs tried to spin dash their way out of it.
However, with the effects of the draining, they slumped down to their knees, most of them, and just tried desperately to remain upright.
"Where are we?" Silver asked, huffing breathes to try and keep himself awake and fighting on.
"What does it look like?" Shadow glared to him, holding two hands on the tube, but arching his back.
He wasn't willing to show weakness as easily as the other two were.
"…What does it look like?" Sonic asked, genuinely to Shadow, as he was on his knees, his hands down at his sides, holding himself up.
"Erk…" Shadow clutched his teeth together, looking down, examining the strange containment capsule.
"I… don't know…" he finally admitted, closing his eyes. "But it's clear we've been tricked by Eggman."
"It's an energy drainer…" a voice spoke out, chains we're heard in the distance.
"Huh? Tails!?" Sonic put his hands up to the tube's clear and see-through glass like walls.
"S-Sonic?!" Tails ran out into the light, having not realized Sonic was among the strange voices.
His legs we're shackled, as the chains clanked behind him.
"Shadow? And.. w-who are you? Oh no… so this is what he was planning!" Tails exclaimed.
"No wonder he needed my help!"
"Tails, buddy, what's going on?" Sonic asked, getting enough strength to force himself back on his feet, struggling to do so.
He grunted at the effort, but kept his eyes fixed on Tails, as the others pulled themselves more upright, breathing hard as their energy waned.
"Eggman's made me help him create some sort of energy drainer! I think he's planning on draining your power from you!" Tails blurted out, speaking mostly to Sonic, when Eggman's shadow began to take form from a walkway above them in the large circular room.
"Not just any form!" He smirked, before the lights lit him up for a dramatic reveal, and he opened his arms upward.
"But their Super forms!" He boasted. "If that little one even can." He then shifted himself to Silver, thinking it was still possible, he continued on, facing forward.
"W-what?" Tails turned around, backing up.
"WHOHOHOHO! Don't you see? Stupid fox! I've created this canon with your useful help to blast the world into submission!" his glasses gleamed.
"You see… if I can't fight them… use them! WHAHAHA-HOOHOHOHOHO!" he took his arms down and gestured with them, before laughing and putting them around his stomach, lifting an exaggerated leg up as he did so.
"N-no…" Tails fell to his knees. "That canon… even without the chaos emeralds…"
"We won't let you get away with this, Eggman!" Sonic shouted back at him.
"The whole future's depending on me to protect it! I won't let those millions of lives down!" Silver spoke out too, shoving his hands up against the tube, twitching in his convinction...
"Oh, I think I already have!"
"W-what?" Tails looked over to the hidden canon, which was now revealed through the spot lights, another reveal, courtesy of Eggman effects...
"T-that can't be! That's G.U.N's prototype energy beam!" Shadow exclaimed.
"Huh? Wait, you knew about that?" Sonic looked over to him, as Shadow lowered his head, his eyes twitched, his whole body shook in a nervous startlement.
"It was robbed a few weeks ago… So that's what became of it…" he muttered.
"Huh? But I thought you said you designed it..?" Tails turned a questioning eye to Eggman.
"Oh, hehe, well… I might have taken the design from… a reliable source…heheh…" Eggman tried to play his lie off.
"I knew it! You only kidnapped me to make and build your- or should I say, G.U.N's- energy gun! That's why you needed me! Cause you couldn't understand the complexity of the blueprints! You little cheat!" Tails hollered out, outraged as he tried to moved forward, but the chains just swung up around him and threw him back. "AUGH!"
"Tails!" Sonic called out, worried.
"..Pah…hah…hah…And you call yourself a Doctor!"
"Shut up! I made most of it, remember!?" Eggman roared down, having half his torso off the rails of the walkway and arguing down at Tails.
He then straightened himself up, looking back to the hedgehogs, and ignoring poor Tails. "Anyway… you foolishly threw the chaos emeralds off… which now I have to find…" Eggman growled out to the side.
"But, before that, I think I should mention the secondary power source of this most magnificent contraption!"
He pushed a button, and the master emerald was placed delicately onto the top of the canon.
"Uh oh. I know a red faced echidna that's gonna be very, veryupset, Eggman." Sonic teased, but was trying to keep the moment light.
If Eggman really was planning to drain them of their chaos energy…
And use the master emerald!?
This didn't look good… not good at all…
'…..Amy…. you have to do it. You have to….control chaos!'
He gripped his hands into a fist, shaking them at his thoughts.
"Whahahahaha! With this extra little bonus, no one can stop me now! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Amy studied each chaos emerald, having gathered them all up, and defeating a few hordes of robots before seeing the others take off in their search elsewhere, not seeing her, she began to put them in a circle.
"Okay… I can do this." She tried to psych herself into it.
"Turning super and flying up to save Sonic and the gang. Heh heh, yeah, yeah, that'll do it… it'll be easy… like… like um…" She placed the last red one down, remembering the fear of using chaos energy, seeing as it put her in the trouble she was now in, but getting it in one go after all.
That must count for something… right?
Trying to take the worry out of her eyes, she shook her head and rubbed it, then looked determined as she stood back in the middle of the ring.
"I…can do this." She took a deep breath.
"CHAOS!"
The emeralds didn't move.
"CONTROL!"
Amy spread her arms out, but nothing happened.
She looked around, and closed her eyes again.
"O-kaybie… one more time…." She closed her eyes and tried to focus. "Chaos control!"
-Many tries later, and towards evening time-
"Why isn't it working!?" She fell down, having tried over and over again to do the darn thing but failing each and every time.
It kinda looked hopeless… when she failed so many times, she just summoned her hammer and flung it around, upset she couldn't do it again like she had when she teleported.
She wasn't even sure how she did that… to be honest…
"They didn't even glow!" she started to cry, but tried to hold it back.
"Sonic's counting on me… and… and I'm failing him…. No, I'm failing all of them!" she looked away.
"Silver and Shadow too… they need me…. Tails… even the world, maybe!" she looked towards the emeralds. "Please…" she put her hands together. "Please hear me…"
"With the master emerald in my hands, and soon, your super forms, I, Eggman, shall have conquered the known-"
As he monologued, the master emerald began to slightly shine.
"Uhh…H-hmm?" Eggman leaned forward, his glasses shining with green at the emerald's every blink of light. "What on earth is…?"
Sonic, Shadow, and Silver looked up, having resulted to falling to their knees at the slow draining, as Tails also turned to the monitors, stepping back as he noticed the Master Emerald beginning to get engaged somehow…
"I don't want to be useless anymore… I don't want to just fight on the sidelines, or be the cause of worry that I might need to be saved… I want to be powerful! Powerful enough to save my friends and do things to protect them just as much as they do to protect me! Maybe even more…." Amy let out her heartfelt desires, begging the chaos emeralds to hear her.
The servers are the seven Chaos. Chaos is power, power enriched by the heart. The heart is the controller. The controller serves to unify the chaos.
The Master Emerald grew brighter, as on Angel Island, Knuckles, in his fit of rage at having the master emerald taken from him, began to recite these words.
"Come on, Sonic! Take this power boost! And let that no good Eggman have it!" he unleashed the master emerald's hidden power, however…
The master emerald released a ball of light, streaming with a beam of green, out of the airship that hurled its way down toward the earth, reacting to Knuckles and Amy's prayer.
"I just want to help…I'm tried of trying to prove my worth! I want to be there to support them… please… please let me help them…"
With that, Amy got up, took another breath, and outstretched her arms.
"I know I'm pure in heart, right? I mean… I'm not doing this selfishly… am I?" she started to doubt herself, withdrawing her arms from the chaos emeralds around her.
"Maybe… maybe I'm not good enough…" she started loosing focus, her strong will and beautiful heart beginning to question their abilities, her very soul withdrawing into a sense of despair…
The powerful ball of pure chaos soared toward Amy's location.
"I… I don't know anymore!" She started to cry, gripping her head.
"I just want to be strong and brave… like… like they are!"
The blast collided with her, fusing into her being, and seeping into her natural energy, as she screamed out in shock and the sensation of the feeling of immense power being thrust into her for a moment.
Chaos soared through her being, as the seven chaos emeralds flickered on, glowing one by one.
Power.
A chaos emerald floated up, glowing brightly.
Aid.
Another did the same, shining brilliantly like the last.
Bravery.
Another arose, in its respected color, glowing brightly once more with the others.
Each thought Amy had begun to connect with the chaos emeralds, causing them to react to her, and the master emerald's power.
Love
Pride
Envy
Respect.
The chaos emeralds began to spin, all seven of them reacting, as chaos began to grow in strength beyond what Sonic, Shadow, or Silver have ever experienced as the master emerald enhanced the powerful union.
"CHHHAAOOOSSS!" she screamed out, the power circling all around her, drawing nearer, attempting the ultimate fusion…
"CONTROL!"
Amy glowed a brilliant gold, as she curled up slightly only to blast the empty chaos emeralds away from her.
Her eyes turned a bright orange as her quills flowed upward, with a slight curve at the end.
Sticking up at the back outward, her front quills moved directly upward, as her bangs also crooked at the middle but we're more or less upward as well.
Her bracelets around her wrist cracked, but didn't break.
She summoned her hammer and found that two appeared, letting them go, they circled her frame up and down, moving according to the will of her thought.
She smiled, looking up and then around at herself.
"So… this is the power of chaos?" She looked at her hands, and chuckled slightly.
Something was off about her demeanor.
With the forced and added support of the Master Emerald, Amy hadn't naturally merged with chaos.
She didn't control Chaos, no matter what her words may have seemed like…
In truth, it was the Master Emerald that controlled the Chaos Emeralds into using their power to change her, not her own.
And her personality slightly showed in this forced control.
"Alright." She gripped her hands into a tight fist, and looked up.
"Eggman! Give me back my friends!"
She charged herself up, before blasting off at light speeds towards the airship.
The chaos emeralds flew behind her, having regained only a slight amount of energy, and flew into her quills to rest there until further needed.
"…It… wasn't suppose to do that…" Eggman was hiding behind the rail of the upper walkway, a bit confounded.
"W-what happened?" Silver asked.
"I.. I don't know. The master emerald acted on its own." Tails ran over to the control panel, trying to see if the computer's had recorded the release of power from it.
His chains clattered against the steel floor as he scurried over as close as he could get to the panels, clicking some buttons and typing other things in.
"Nothing…" he concluded, and looked back.
"Well, no matter, I'll-" Eggman straightened himself up, extending his arm out before being startled by Orbot and Cubot's sudden appearance.
"Doctor! Doctor!" The two came fumbling in.
"Now what!?" the Doctor roared. "Can't you see I'm in the middle of something!? Hmm?" he gestured to the hedgehogs.
"Sire, there is a MASSIVE energy signal um… coming –gulp- this way..?" Orbot spoke out, terrified, as he informed his creator.
"There be one heck of a roundup of chaos emeralds too! Yeehaw!" Cubot spoke out.
"Cubot, your voice box has been fixed already. Let it go." Orbot annoyingly reminded him.
"I know…-sniff- but I miss it so much.." Cubot wiped a fake, invisible tear off his eye monitor.
"Oh…" Orbot put his hands together and then went over to comfort Cubot.
"There, there…. But good riddance." He, at first, comforted Cubot by holding him and gently stroking his head, before pushing him away with annoyed straight eyes on his eye-screens and going back to addressing Eggman.
"What do you advise we do, Dr. Eggman?" he asked.
Eggman was biting his nails, and then glared down at Sonic.
"Who, exactly, did you send for help!?" He cried out, completely puzzled on who could be coming to save them.
"…Do you think..?" Silver looked to Shadow and Sonic, his eyes showing a bit of disbelief.
Sonic looked worriedly to Silver, but tried to smile, not showing any fear, and nodded.
Shadow looked at the two as though they we're insane.
"This is absurd! I was willing to give her a chance, not a death wish!" he whispered a shouted response to the two.
"I know…" Sonic began, looking to him, then down.
"But we had no choice…"
(With the Master Emerald controlling the Super form in Amy… what consequences will this have on our beloved Amy Rose? Find out! In the next chapter! :D Yeah, I liked this revise much better than the original; I can explain a lot more clearer now than before. At least, I hope so : ) )