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| Doomsday | Nov 9 2007, 07:56 PM Post #1 |
Marble Garden Act 1
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My first attempt at serious Sonic fanfiction and my second fic overall. Still not completed after about a year  Dark Sunshine Prologue It was late at night. Three teenagers wandered the streets until they came to the gate of an abandoned mansion. One of them whistled. “Look at that, the place is a wreck! Why don’t they just knock it down? It’s an eyesore, I’m telling you.” Another shivered. “I’ve heard stories…horrible stories about that place.” The third laughed. “Stereotypical haunted mansion story? That’s all a load of trash.” The second shook his head. “Not so stereotypical. Apparently a possessed puppet haunts the house…anyone who goes in never comes back out.” The third teenager rolled his eyes. “Sure, sure. Whatever.” The first one had taken great interest in this argument and issued a challenge. “Oh yeah? Well then, prove it!” The third one laughed at how clichéd the situation was. “Okay, fine! I’ll do it!” He opened the gate with a deafening screech, the sound of one not opened for a long time. He entered the house… There was silence. The house was dilapidated; the wallpaper was peeling off the walls, and there were bugs everywhere… The boy slowly walked through the house. The setting was rather creepy, and a gut feeling told him he should turn back…the house was huge, he could easily get lost… Suddenly, a faint sound entered his ears…it seemed to be some sort of…music? He walked towards the noise. The music was obviously supposed to be a happy song, but it had been warped and distorted to a state where it was almost impossible to listen to. The lyrics were unforgettable, the ones that get stuck in your head and repeat over…and over…Can you feel the sunshine… The music led to a room just down the hall with a closed door…he opened the door… Bizarre arcane patterns and symbols were daubed on the walls in what appeared to be blood. The room was fairly small and empty, except for an old tape deck in the corner playing that horrible tune…and something else… It appeared to be a floating doll. A doll modelled in the shape of a cartoonish fox with two tails. The stitching was obvious, there was a zipper on the back and the features were overly exaggerated, but it all gave it a rather creepy look. The illusion was made complete by a huge red gem attached to its head. The doll turned around to face the boy, and stared at him with cold, soulless eyes. A voice entered his head…it was a cold, dry voice, the voice of something that should not be alive… SCHLURPY… A scream filled the air; the teens knew it as the voice of their friend. Rushing into the house, they came upon the room…their friend lay dead on the floor, blood oozing from his eyes, which had rolled back into his head. A look of horror was frozen on his face, but the cause of death was uncertain. But, lying on the floor, right in the middle of the room, was a large, lifeless doll. The crystal on its head glowed oddly…and in the corner of the room, a tape deck played an incredibly distorted tune…but the lyrics were ever so clear… Can you feel the sunshine? Does it brighten up your day? Don't you feel that sometimes, you just need to run away? Chapter 1: Betrayal The scientist known as Doctor Ivo ‘Eggman’ Robotnik sat at a table on his Egg Carrier, plotting another stupid yet amazingly almost-successful plan to take over the world. Either that, or he was drawing cartoons of his arch nemesis, Sonic the Hedgehog, dying in pathetic ways. Suddenly his avid scribbling was interrupted by noise coming from the backroom, where he kept all his old robots. There was clunking and rattling, as if something was moving… He turned towards the noise, and an azure-plated robot emerged from the door, leaving a trail of capsule fluid. Eggman was a little shocked, but soon caught his breath. “Oh, Metal, it’s only you. I thought one of Sonic’s little friends had gotten in here again.” Metal Sonic ignored his master and just kept walking. “Hey! Metal! I’m talking to you! Get back here, that’s an order!” Metal turned its head and stared at Ivo with the two three-quarter circles of red LEDs that served as his eyes. His emotionless, robotic ‘voice’ echoed around the small, dark room. “You dare…to order…me?” The doctor growled. “Of course, you robotic numbskull! I created you! I am your master! Don’t tell me you’re going rogue again! And don’t even think about running after that stupid failure of a doll, either!” “You dare…to insult…my master?” Eggman flinched. “Tails Doll is not your master! He’s a worthless piece of trash, an example of a science too old to be used for anything! I should have snuffed him out when I had the chance!” A strange noise that could be described as some sort of snarl emanated from Metal Sonic. A block of metal shaped like a katana blade flipped out from his arm. “Hey! Since when did you have that!” Eggman cried, pulling out an automatic pistol from somewhere on his body suit and aiming it at the automaton. “Don’t you dare attack me, or I’ll do to you what I almost did to Amy Rose!” If Metal had a mouth, it would have smiled. “You wouldn’t dare put a scratch on your perfect creation…” Eggman winced at his attitude. It was then that he noticed an arcane symbol etched into Metal’s hand. It glowed with a mystical light… “A transmutation circle…” Ivo whispered. It’d been a long time since he’d seen one of those…not since his failed attempts at bringing life to inanimate objects through alchemy…and his one successful attempt so terrible that he vowed never to transmute again… Metal stepped towards the doctor and leant in his face. “Goodbye, Doctor.” He plunged the blade right through the scientist’s heart, and flew off. Eggman coughed as he tied some spare cloth around the wound. He didn’t bother to get up off the floor. He would probably survive…but only barely… “Metal…why…have you…betrayed…me…” Chapter 2: It Doesn't Make Any Sense It was just another normal day in Station Square, and Sonic the Hedgehog was rushing about as usual, on a leisurely run through the city, the landscape flying past in a blur. A congregation of humans caught his eye…he stopped for a moment before turning back to see what was up. A lot of humans were crowded around the window of a television store, where the news was showing on about sixteen small screens. “’Scuse me…comin’ through…’scuse me…” Sonic pushed his way up the front. What he saw made him sick to his stomach… “…Another mass murder was reported today, for the third consecutive time this week. Building evidence points to a gang of psychotic teenagers belonging to some kind of cult. Police say their motives are to ‘claim souls in the name of the master’, but so far government officials flocking to the scene have revealed no more information. These photos however were leaked out to the public…” The hedgehog sighed and turned away from the screen. Crime, especially murder, had been escalating in the city recently, and this weird cult calling themselves the Puppets had been behind it all… But it was none of his concern. He’d played the hero too many times, and was officially on holiday now. After all, the police and GUN would take care of it. He stretched a bit before dashing off in the blue blur for which he’d earned his nickname. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Police sirens continued to wail at the crime scene as Rouge stepped over the yellow tape, to meet Shadow. The black-and-red hedgehog grinned upon seeing her. “So…how is it? Anything new?” Rouge shrugged. “Just a repeat of their other murders. But these weird circles of blood keep popping up…” she muttered, showing Shadow the pictures of arcane symbols drawn in blood on the walls. Shadow rolled his eyes. “You think they’re doing it for attention? It could be a publicity stunt…” Rouge shook her head. “No…research shows these are transmutation circles, used by alchemists to transmute objects. Each circle is different though…it looks like these were used to summon something…” Shadow sighed, and a soldier approached. “Shadow, I’m sorry, but you’ll have to leave. This is a restricted area, and we cannot allow you here unless you have permission from the Commander.” Shadow nodded, and waved to Rouge before walking off. The bat sighed. “It just doesn’t make any sense…” she muttered. Chapter 3: Randomness? Sonic rushed into the forest hut and came to a screeching halt. “Yo, Tails! I’m home!” A furry orange head peeked out from a nearby door. “Oh, heya Sonic.” The fox replied as he emerged from his lab, sipping what appeared to be cola. He waved a stopwatch in Sonic’s face. “You took five extra seconds today. Something happen?” Sonic ran his fingers through his ‘hair’ sheepishly. “Oh, nothing much. Just stopped to check something out.” “‘K.” Tails replied, before walking back into his lab. Sonic sighed. The kid had been spending more time in there than usual…probably just working on something, he thought. He yawned and grabbed a soda before plonking down on the couch to read the paper. Tails stretched before sitting down in front of his modded laptop. PING. “You have incoming voicemail.” The face of Vector popped up on the screen. “Ha-lo Taaaaaails.” He said in his mangled voice. “Vector! Get off me!” A purple figure popped out from under Vector and pushed him off the computer chair with some difficulty. “Espio!” Tails cried. An abnormally hyperactive bee flew past. “Hey Tails!” it cried before a crash was heard. “Charmy! Those were our best plates!” Vector cried before storming off to the source of the noise. Espio sighed. “Hullo Tails…those guys really get on my nerves…” Tails grinned. “Heh, yeah, Charmy can be a bit of a handful sometimes.” “Not just Charmy…” the chameleon shuddered. “Sooo, what’s up?” Tails inquired cheerfully. “Yeah. Um…you’re good at sourcing online databases, right?” “’Course. But aren’t you?” “Well yeah, but I just don’t have enough free time on my hands…” Vector’s voice could be heard. “Hey, Espio! I need some help over here!” Espio growled. “WILL YOU SHUT UP! I’M WORKIN’ HERE!” Tails flinched. “Uh…yeah. Sorry about that. Anyway, I need you to do something for me.” “Uh, ok.” “Right. Y’know that weird…cult…thing that’s been on the news lately?” “Mm-hm.” “Well, people put all sorts of stuff on the internet. I want to know if you can find their database.” “Oh, come on Espio.” Tails rolled his eyes. “You and I both know the probability of that.” “Yeah, I know…but we need as many leads as we can get.” Vector yelled. “Yo, Espio! I’m stuck!” This was really pushing Espio now. “You guys make me wish I had my cigarettes!” Charmy floated into view. “Oh, but smoking’s baaaaaaad for you, Espio! That’s why I hid ‘em in a safe place! Don’t want you getting sick, now do we?” By now the chameleon’s eye was twitching. “Guh…seeya Tails. I’ll…be back.” PING. “Team Chaotix may not reply because he or she appears to be offline.” Chapter 4: Resurrection Metal came to a landing in front of a scrap heap. It would be hard finding his target in here…everything was made out of metal, making it almost impossible to source a single object. Like finding a needle in a haystack… A metallic noise that could be interpreted as a growl emitted from the automaton. He approached the scrap heap, and began to dig… Krrr… Day was breaking. Metal had been at it for a long time. Suddenly the first ray of light reflected off something red… Metal reached in and grabbed the object, pulling it out onto the barren ground. It was a red monotreme-like robot, long deactivated. It sat on the dirt lifelessly like a child’s doll. He had found what he was looking for. Metal Knuckles. Metal Sonic was fiddling around with some sparkplugs on the back of Metal Knuckles before the green three-quarter-circle of green LEDs flickered to life and the reactivated robot turned its head towards his blue comrade with the squeak of a rusty hinge. “…Metaru?” it hummed as it slowly moved around its clawed appendages. “Hullo Knukrus. It’s been a long time, hasn’t it?” “Where is this…hellhole?” “It seems the Doctor threw you out after the Grand Prix debacle. I decided I would bring you back, after all, it was a terrible waste of your skills.” The azure automaton replied. The red robot hummed with delight. “Of course it was. I suppose this means there’ll be fighting to do?” “There’s always fighting to be done, my friend.” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eggman stormed into the control room on the Egg Fleet. A small control crew of EggPawns snapped to attention as he entered. “Doctor? You show signs of injury.” One beeped. Eggman growled. “Forget about that! Metal’s gone rogue again! I don’t care what it takes – find that robot!” Chapter 5: Prosthetics Tails sat in a computer chair in his lab, the iridescent glow of the computer screen illuminating his face. He seemed very tired, or fed up, as if he’d been searching fruitlessly for something for a long time. It was getting dark. Sonic had gone out again a while ago. Obviously not for a run, as otherwise he’d have been back by now, but maybe he’d gone out to visit a friend or something. Suddenly the fox’s eyes widen and a huge grin emerged on his face. “Yes! Found it!” he cried, as he reached for a pen and pad and began scribbling notes furiously. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sonic sped into the house, the door slamming from the wind generated by his sudden entrance. “Yo, Tails! I’m home!” This time, though, no orange figure emerged from the lab to greet him. There was naught but silence… “…Tails?” Sonic peered through the lab door. The only light in the room was that of the computer screen, its slight hum breaking the silence. The fox was sat silent and still in his place on the computer chair. The hedgehog grinned, sauntering into the room. “Too wrapped up in your techno-junk to hear me, eh Tails?” No reply. “Hellooooooo?” Sonic walked up to Tails, waving his hand in the fox’s face. When nothing occurred, he poked him. “Tails, this isn’t funny…” Then he noticed – Tails’ pupils had disappeared, leaving the eye a plain, spooky white. What appeared to be blood spots littered the floor at the chair’s feet. “…Tails? This isn’t a joke…” Then came the final straw…on the computer screen was a strangely realistic-looking image of some sort of badly-made puppet. Sonic recognised it instantly as the Tails Doll. Bloody text streamed behind the figure spelling out words such as “TAILS DOLL TAILS DOLL TAILS DOLL” and “I FOUND YOU.” There was a notepad on the desk. The text on it had been written hurriedly. Sonic scan-read it. Conspiracy…new world order…Tails Doll is the master…we are his Puppets…kill the infidels…no match for the Grand Arcanum… Sonic tore his eyes away from the page. It seemed Tails had found what he was looking for. And the Tails Doll had found him. Chapter 6: Unsafe Haven Sonic was sitting beside the hospital bed when the Chaotix rushed in. “We came here as soon as we could!” Vector screeched, a little too cheerfully for the situation. Espio winced at Tails lying still on the bed. “It’s all my fault…I shouldn’t have asked him to do that…it wasn’t my place…” Charmy flew over and smacked the chameleon upside the head. “Quit being emo, Espio! That’s Shadow’s job!” “I am NOT an emo, dammit!” came a voice as Shadow entered the room with a scowl on his face, accompanied by Rouge. Suddenly the room started to shake, and a red figure popped up from a newly-created hole in the floor. “Sorry I’m late, guys,” said Knuckles, adjusting his akubra hat. “Uh, Knuckles…” Sonic pointed out, “…the door is just there.” “…Oh…” the red echidna said embarrassingly, blushing as Rouge giggled. Presently two girls, a rabbit and a pink hedgehog, entered the room. “OH!” Cream cried, rushing over to the bedside. “TAILS!” Her Chao, Cheese, followed, with his cry of “Chao! Chao!” “…Is he…alive?” Amy asked. Sonic nodded. “Yeah. He’s in a coma of some sort… Cream looked up, tears in her eyes. “…What’s a coma?” Charmy did a loop-the-loop as he excitedly cried, “It’s a sort of deep sleep you never wake up from!” Cream cried again. “Oh, now look what you’ve done!” Amy cried, hitting Charmy and sending him halfway across the room. “ARRGH! WILL YOU ALL SHUT UP!” Espio cried, hands over his ears. Amy was instantly at Cream’s side. “It’s all right, Cream. Everything will be all right.” Charmy floated back up again: “Ow! That hurt!” as Vector ran around looking for the computer room. “I can’t take this anymore!” Espio yelled, whipping out a katana from seemingly nowhere. Shadow and Rouge were on him in seconds, waving badges (and in Shadow’s case, a handgun) in his face. “Put the weapon down and put your hands where I can see them!” Vector grabbed Espio and walked towards the door. “Weeeeeeeeell, looks like it’s about time we got going, don’t you think guys?” Espio’s muffled voice could be heard somewhere nearly Vector’s armpit. “Let go of me you big brute…” Charmy did a couple of aerial tricks before hovering just near the crocodile’s head. “Okay! Seeya guys later! Get well soon Tails!” The Chaotix exited the room and went into the right hall. “…And I will follow. Someone needs to keep an eye on that lot.” Shadow said before following with Rouge. No sooner had this happened than a tall adult rabbit in a posh dress entered the room from the left hall. “It’s time to go, Cream dear.” Cream stood up as Cheese flew over to the newcomer. “Okay, mom.” She walked over and held her mother’s hand, waving with the other. “Goodbye guys! I hope Tails wakes up soon!” Amy followed the two rabbits out the door and left into the hall. Now only Sonic, Tails and Knuckles remained in the room. “Sonic Heroes together again, eh?” Sonic muttered. “Yeah…” Knuckles replied, glancing towards the unconscious fox. There was awkward silence for some time. A doctor walked in with some sort of electricity pack on his back. In each hand he held a defibulator. “Visiting time’s over, boys,” he cackled with a sadistic grin. “What the-” Knuckles cried. “I’ve heard something about this before!” Sonic replied. “He must be one of the Puppets! Look!” he said, pointing to an arcane symbol carved into the doctor’s hand. “…Ew.” Knuckles replied simply, before leaping towards the doctor with a flying punch. He went flying but got up without much effort, as if the blow hadn’t even scratched him. Suddenly there was a scream from the hallway. “Grr…I’ll deal with you later.” Knuckles growled before dashing off in the direction of the noise. The doctor chuckled evilly at this. “Well well, looks like it’s just you and me now, Sonic the Hedgehog.” “What are you doing here? This is a hospital! How could you just come in here and attack people!” Sonic protested. “I’m just here to finish what our master started.” The doctor replied with an evil grin. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Knuckles ran down the left hall. “So, what seems to be the problem-” He stopped upon seeing Vanilla and Cream standing frightened by the doorway, blocked by a crazy-eyed man holding syringes. Amy was frantically trying to fight off the attacker with her hammer but wasn’t doing much. He was just avoiding her blows, as if toying with her. “Oh no, not another one…” Finally Amy managed to land a blow on his head. The man didn’t seem to be hurt but only got angry, throwing a punch to send the hedgehog halfway don the hall where Knuckles caught her. “Amy!” cried Cream in despair. “Chao chao!” came Cheese. Knuckles got Amy back up on her feet. “I’ll deal with him. You guys run! There’s another exit down the right hall.” He said hurriedly. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “And just where do you think YOU’RE going?” The Chaotix, Shadow and Rouge turned at the voice to see a hospital worker holding various surgical tools, with more on a belt. He looked poised to attack. “Hey! That’s not very nice!” Charmy cried. Shadow pulled out his handgun. “Put down the weapons or I WILL shoot.” The worker laughed. “You think your plain old firearm will match up to me? Bring it on, fake hedgehog!” Shadow winced at the name-calling. “Why you little…” Bang! Bang! Bang! Each shot connected, but the assailant was still standing. “Whoa!” Vector cried at the mutilated man. “You’re one ugly motherf-” “Try me!” Espio interrupted before Vector could quote a famous line from Predator, leaping at the worker with katana in hand. The same thing occurred, though, that even though he drew blood the man still went on as if unharmed. “Ha! Bet you can’t do that, eh? You can’t kill someone who isn’t really alive!” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The doctor leapt at Sonic, who dodged out of the way just in time. The defibulators hit Tails on the bed, electricity blasting through the fox’s body. “No!” Sonic cried. Suddenly there was a noise as if someone had thrown a tiny punch. “Why you little-” the doctor cried, as Tails flew over his head. “Tails! But how…what happened back-” “No time for that now, Sonic!” The fox cried. “His body is invulnerable to attacks. Go for the transmutation circle, that’s where the Tails Doll took his soul from.” “Trans-what now?” Sonic was puzzled. “The symbol on his hand.” “Okay!” Sonic replied, spinning around the doctor and sandwiching his carved hand in the defibulators. Tails jumped onto the battery pack and turned up the setting. An enormous electrical current surged through the doctor, short-circuiting the battery pack. Tails was thrown across the room. Sonic ran over to him as the doctor fell dead to the floor. “Tails! Are you all right?” The fox nodded. “Yeah, I’m fine. Now let’s get out of here!” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Espio growled. “Why won’t you DIE!” Suddenly Rouge had a brainwave. “Give me that!” she cried, snatching Shadow’s gun and shooting the attacker in the transmutation circle on his hand. He reacted as anyone who had just been shot would, as well as receiving all the damage that had been shrugged off before. Needless to say, he died. Horribly. “Can I look now?” Charmy asked, hands over his face. At that precise moment Amy, Cream and Vanilla ran into view, screaming at the corpse on the floor. “It’s okay,” Shadow consoled. “He’s dead.” Knuckles followed shortly, running frantically. “I couldn’t hold him off! Nothing I did worked!” The syringe maniac was following, cackling maniacally. Espio leapt at the Puppet, slicing in various places before finishing off with a stab to the hand. He convulsed and died as did the previous one. Cream yelped. Espio bowed as he swatted his katana through the air, the blood being thrown onto the ground, and sheathing it. “I am sorry that you had to witness that, ma’am.” Charmy giggled. “What happened to Mr. Angsty? Or...was that Shadow?” Sonic and Tails now ran into view. “Espio!” cried the latter, turning heads. Cream was ecstatic. “Tails! You’re back!” She ran over and hugged the fox. “…Not right now, Cream.” Tails said, shrugging off the rabbit, and running over to Espio. “Oh, Tails, you’re all right. Thank goodness. Now…what were you going to say?” Tails came to a halt in front of the chameleon. “The Puppets are going to attack Westopolis!” “What!” everyone cried in unison. “That’s not the first of it! I have loads to report!” the fox cried… Chapter 7 - Raid! Eggman slumped in his chair in the control room of the Egg Carrier, before a giant screen spewing out some random schematics, none of which he was paying attention to. Presently an EggPawn popped up on the screen, with other Eggpawns running around in the background, seemingly on maintenance duty. “Sir, you have an incoming message from an unknown source. Shall I patch it through?” Eggman bolted up in his chair at the sudden noise, before slumping down again. “Oh, yes, yes. Do that.” There was a screech from other EggPawns in the room as the malicious face of Metal Sonic popped up on the screen. “Hello, Doctor.” Eggman was real cross. “Oh, so you’ve come crawling back to me now, have you?” The automaton hummed with what could be interpreted as a snicker. “Ah, no. We are declaring war on you, Doctor, and commandeering this fleet. You will surrender your craft to me or you will all perish.” Eggman laughed. “Do what you want, I’m not giving up without a fight! Especially not to you!” The same EggPawn as before popped up on a smaller portion of the screen. “Sir, one of our ships has just been destroyed. A team of mechas is homing in on our fleet. What are your orders?” Eggman snarled. “Fight back! I don’t care how many casualties it takes, the Metal series is NOT coming in here!” “Yes sir. I’ll patch the orders to the rest of the fleet.” “No, I’ll do it.” The scientist grumbled, pressing a button on his chair. “EVERYONE TO BATTLE STATIONS RIGHT NOW!” A slew of frightened ‘sir, yes sir’s could be heard as EggPawns rushed about everywhere. Meanwhile, on one of the whale-shaped aircraft, a blast door flew across the room as a shiny red automaton entered, packed to the brim with missiles. “This is Unit Mecha Knuckles! Surrender now or be annihilated! There will be no survivors among those who resist!” On another, an orange-and-silver robot dropped down from the ceiling, its razorblade tails creating a great hole in its wake. “I am Metal Tails of the Metallix Empire! Surrender to Lord Metal or be turned into scrap metal!” Back in Eggman’s control room, Metal had disappeared from the screen, and schematics were being shown again, with flashing red text and diagrams popping up randomly to show the extent of damage to the fleet. Not long after, though, the same EggPawn as the last two times appeared once more on the screen. “Doctor!” “What is it now!” Eggman screeched. He was obviously in a bad mood. “We have just received reports from the other craft. Some of our units are defecting to the Metallix side, and are assisting in attack of our forces. At this rate, they will outnumber us within the hour. Orders?” Eggman grumbled. “Keep on your current course of attack. If the deserters won’t come back to our side, take them out.” “Yes sir.” “I suppose I’ll have to take care of matters myself…” Eggman grumbled. Presently, on the outside deck of the main ship, the main blast door opened, and the EggPawns turned to the noise emerging from it. Eggman stepped out of the door, riding his bipedal mech. “Man the cannons, boys! We’re coming in on the offence!” “Sir, yes sir!” There was fire in the skies above the jungle as the battle raged: the Eggman Empire against the Metallix, now including several of the doctor’s once loyal EggPawns and a lot of revamped, old E-100 models and Badniks, modified by Metal himself. The revamped Valkyns hovered about the Egg Fleet, divebombing and dropping explosives. The EggPawn army manned the cannons, feverishly holding them off, but it was obvious the Metallix were winning. Eggman was leaping from ship to ship, picking off Metallix forces. He grumbled in frustration. “Doctor, look out!” came the voice of an EggPawn. Eggman turned around just in time to leap clear of a missile, which flew into the side of a nearby ship sending EggPawns flying. “I see your injury seems to have cleared…” Metal snarled, dropping down onto the deck. “Still intent on killing me, eh?” Eggman said half-jokingly. “Ah, you’re only a minor distraction. Once we control your fleet we will have no more use for you, and if you manage to survive this battle we will leave you be. That is, unless you want to join my forces.” Eggman sneered. “As if I would do that. I created you, and I’ll destroy you if I have to!” “Then…your fate is sealed.” Metal leapt into the air, missile launchers flipping out from its arms. It fired a barrage of missiles into the ship. “Doctor, we’re going down!” Eggman growled. “I can see that! Activate emergency procedures! I’m getting out of here.” The mech boosted into a spare hangar where one of his EggMobiles was sitting. Eggman jumped into the mech, and pressed a few buttons. “Curse you, Metal. I will have my revenge…” The EggMobile sped off into the distance. A Stinger witnessing the scene radioed to Metal. “Sir, the enemy leader is escaping. Shall we pursue him?” Metal hummed to itself in what could be considered a laugh. “Negative. His cowardice proves the battle is already won.” Chapter 8 - The Master Plan “So you see,” Tails remarked as the group left the hospital, sliding doors closing with a whirr, “Just before I was knocked out I wrote down all the information I could gather about the Puppets’ grand scheme. It could be possible that the whole thing was a trap, but I firmly believe in this information’s authenticity.” “Don’t use so many big words, Tails, you’re hurting my brain,” Sonic muttered, passing Tails the notebook that had been left on his desk. “Thanks Sonic.” The fox flipped through the pages, eyes flitting back and forth as they skimmed the words. “You see, they plan to launch a large assault on Station Square in about…a week’s time. I’d assume they’re planning to use the city as a base.” “Base? Base for what?” Shadow inquired, whipping out a notepad of his own and jotting down key words. “’The Grand Arcanum’.” Tails said. “A fancy name for alchemy. They’re going to summon something big…and they’ll need the whole city to do it. When the circle is activated, everyone in the city at that moment will die. Their life energy will be used for the summon, but exactly what they’re planning, I can’t tell at this point.” “Wait, so they’re summoning something…what is there that could be more magically powerful than the Tails Doll?” Espio pondered. “I don’t know, but the Puppets-” “How many are there, exactly?” Knuckles interjected. “I’m not sure, but their numbers have been steadily growing in recent weeks. They’d be a fair match for the military even on foot due to their regenerative capabilities. If they got some heavy firepower they’d be nigh-unstoppable.” “So…there are more bad men?!” Cream cowered behind Amy, and Cheese let out a worried “Chao, chao…” “Well then, we’d better get ready.” Shadow solemnly announced, putting away the notepad. “I’ll inform GUN.” “Actually, Shadow, there is something special I want you to do…” Tails said. “You know Eggman personally, right? You should call him up, I figure we’ll be needing his help if we’re going to win this thing.” “Wait…win?” Sonic froze. “We’re…going to war?” “Seems logical.” Rouge muttered. “No way…count me out!” the blue blur cried. “WHAT?” everyone yelled. “Hey, this is too much for me. First there was Chaos. Then Shadow. Then aliens! Now this?” “Come on Sonic!” Amy whined. “You’re everybody’s favourite hedgehog! If anyone can do it, you can!” Shadow closed his cellphone. “He’s not answering.” “Hm?” “Eggman. There’s no reply. Not even a ringing tone. Something must have happened…” “Where are you calling?” Tails asked. “His Egg Fleet…I suppose I should try his cell.” Ivo Robotnik sat in a cave filled with all sorts of dusty old contraptions. His old base, from way before the Egg Fleet...the Death Egg… He sighed. His own creation had completely annihilated that fleet, and had he not escaped, him too. Now he was left with naught but memories, and… He turned to see a series of intricate chalk drawings laid out all over the wall. Each one took the basic form of a circle with arcane patterns within and around it. More memories… Suddenly a strange tune came out of nowhere: I am the EGGMAN, that’s what I am! “Eh?” Eggman turned to his pocket and pulled out his cellphone, which, he remembered, he had set the ringtone to his own themesong. Beep. “Why, hello Shadow! What can I do for you? “Eh? An attack, you say…Come see me, then. I have a lot of explaining to do. “No, no, I’m not at my fleet, that’s…er…that’s a story for another time! I’m in my old cave base in the Mystic Ruins! I’ll give you directions, okay? Right, do you have a map handy?” “Okay, thanks Doctor. See you there.” Shadow hung up and closed the phone. “Okay, I got him. Let’s go pay a visit to the Doctor, shall we?” Chapter 9: Eggman's Hideout The anthropomorphic crew glanced around at the strange surroundings. Eggman was slumped in the corner, looking ashamed with himself. “Doctor...” Shadow acknowledged the scientist. “How the mighty have fallen. What happened?” Eggman got up off the floor. ”Metal. He has betrayed me, and attacked my Egg Fleet with an army of my own men.” He sighed, crestfallen. “Could someone just explain what the hell is going on here?!” Knuckles growled. “There’s more to this than meets the eye, isn’t there. You know something we don’t, Eggman. So spit it out!” ”Calm down, Knuckles!” Tails yelled. “Everybody, just settle down. We’re all in this together, so there’ll be no arguing. Did you forget I almost died? This is serious.” ”Now, Eggman…take your time. Tell us everything you know about Tails Doll.” “Well…” Eggman sighed. He clearly wasn’t in the mood. “Before I really got into machinery, I was always researching mythology and history. Several times during my research I came across information regarding alchemy. I figured with modern chemical knowledge I would be able to accomplish some of the goals the alchemists of old had sought.” ”My first experiments consisted of attempting to bring inanimate objects to life. These failed dismally, and out of frustration I decided to try to create a Philosophers’ Stone. As you may or may not know, whoever holds a Philosophers’ Stone has the ability to create any alchemic reaction without sacrifice-“ Rouge snorted from the corner. “Cut the blabber, Eggman. We don’t want to hear your life story.” “I’m getting there!” Eggman growled. ”The Philosophers’ Stone took a very long time and a lot of effort. I won’t go into the grisly details, but I finally created one and used it as a catalyst to bring to life one of the Tails Dolls I now keep in my training ground on the Egg Carrier.” ”So you really did create the Tails Doll.” Tails affirmed. “And you regretted it, right?” ”Of course! From the very beginning I knew that thing was trouble. I had it locked up and just worked on robots up until the Grand Prix. It had been watching me all that time, and asked me to release it for a while so it could prove itself. Needless to say…Metal hasn’t been quite the same after that. Tails Doll had a horrible influence on him. Following that debacle, Metal split off from me and decided to make a name for himself. You all remember how that ended.” He reminisced Metal Madness. ”Anyway, after Metal ran off, I didn’t want anything to do with Tails Doll. I would have killed it, but it overpowered me…the Philosophers’ Stone on its head gives it amazing powers.” ”So do you know how to kill it, Doctor?” Shadow solicited. ”I’m not quite sure, but if the Philosophers’ Stone were to be broken, it could lose a lot of its power, and if we’re lucky, it might even die.” There was a rustling sound behind everyone, and they turned around to see Sonic there. ”Sonic! You came.” Tails grinned. ”We got a problem, guys.” The blue hedgehog winced. “It’s the Puppets…they’re already attacking Station Square.” ”What? But it hasn’t even been a day!” ”You’re telling me.” Sonic looked over at Eggman in the corner. ”Well, what are we gonna do?” Knuckles asked. ”Amy and Cream are still in the city. We need to evacuate them first, and then deal with the Puppets.” ”Innocents could be killed.” Shadow stated. “Rouge and I will help out with other civilians. Who’s going to do the fighting?” ”I’ll call Chaotix.” Knuckles said. “I’ll be over on Angel Island. There’s something fishy about all this.” ”But we need you, Knuckles!” Tails cried. ”You can just call if you need me.” Knuckles ran off. ”Doctor, can you help us out?” ”I don’t want to get involved.” Eggman shook his head. “I’ve had enough with that doll.” ”Suit yourself.” Rouge exited. ”What’re we gonna do, Sonic?” Tails asked. “We’re doomed!” ”We’ll just have to hope we play the right cards…it looks like we have no choice. We will have to stand and fight, or die.” Shadow followed off after Rouge. “Good luck, Doctor.” |
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