CHAPTER TWO : A CRAZY ENDING TERM
“Muahahaha! Everything is going as plan!”Eggman laughed evilly and historically at the thought of his plan, “Oh hoho! My inventions are just fantastic!”
A female voice groaned from behind. In the dark, only a pair of emerald yellow eyes could be seen. Then, in a calm tone, the voice said, “Enough laughing,Eggman. Now, what do you want me to do?”
“Oh right,”Eggman finally stopped laughing, and began to get serious. “Your job is easy... You just...” He explained her part in the plan carefully to her.
She smirked at her job, and said, “Is that all? This is just too easy!”
“Every part has to be done perfectly.”Eggman said, “Or I will not succeed.”
Moments later, Eggman's voice became deep and dangerous. He got up from his chair, stood right in front of the girl, and said, “If I do not succeed because of you, you'll get the consequences.”He pronounced the last word with a hiss.
“You need not worry me.”The girl swang her light indigo colored hair. The air surrounding immediately had a dreamy atmosphere, as if thousands of crystals had fell from the sky and was now flowing around her.
Her emerald-yellow eyes brighten as she said, “I will not fail.”
*****
“Thanks, Sonic!”Knuckles looked at the mirror, feeling very satisfied.
“Sure, no problem.”replied Sonic, putting down the tenth comb of Knuckles's.
“Oh, just in time.”Knuckles checked his watch and opened his laptop. When the connection is established, a familiar face appear on the screen : Tikal!
“Hello everyone!”Tikal waved at them. She blushed a little because she didn't think that their 'web cam date' would be found out by the others.
“Hey, Tikal!”The others waved back, except for Knuckles.
“Hi-H-H—Hel--Hello-- Tikal!”Knuckles spoke nervously. Sonic and Tails had to cover their mouths to prevent themselves to laugh out loud.
Tikal brought her attention back to Knuckles. She laughed a little at Knuckles' kinda stupidity. Then, she replied back, “Hello, Knuckles!”
A few moments later, Tikal smiled even happier, she said, “I have some good news for all of you.”
“Really? What it is?”They all asked.
“I'm going...”Tikal talked slowly, and then fast, “to your college next term!”
“Oh my, is that true?!”Amy and Cream pushed the guys aside and stood in front of the web cam.
“Yes!”Tikal nodded. However, within her cobalt colored eyes, there was something that is unknown to others, except for Knuckles, who has now successfully squish himself in the middle of the two girls and in front of the laptop screen.
Something is wrong. Kunckles's first instinct told him. Tikal had other problems too.
When he was just about to ask, Tikal quickly ended the conversation.
“Err... I have other things to attend to...” She looked to her right and to her left few times. She saw something, and was terrified by it. This facial expression was noticed by all of them.
“What's wrong, Ti--”Amy tried to ask, but she was interrupted by Tikal, “Sorry, I have to go now.”
Conversation end.
Two words appeared on the screen. Tikal ended the call.
“What happened?”Each of them looked confused to the other, hoping to get an answer.
Suddenly, Tails shouted, “Oh no, we are going to be late for the next class!”
“What?! Can't you see Tikal is in TROUBLE? You're still worrying about class?!”Amy screamed back.
The next second, Knuckles spoke in a calm tone, “It's fine.”
“W-H-A-T?!”Everyone became even confused.
“Tikal's life is not in danger, I can feel it.”Knuckles explained, “But she is some kind of trouble.”
“Then, what should we do now?”asked Sonic.
“We have to go to our classes first, we don't know what Tikal is facing, but we can't help her now. The college and her village is so far away.”said Knuckles.
“But we can't be doing anything!”said Cream and Amy in a very high pitch.
“Look, let me analyze the whole thing very quickly.”Knuckles took a deep breath, “Tikal can't be calling us if she is in grave danger,right?”
“You're right...”The two girls replied softly with their heads down.
“Let's just all calm down.”Sonic spoke. He turned to Tails, and asked, “Tails, is your Tornado III still working?”
“Yeah, I think. But I haven't checked it this month, I'll just go check it later.”
“You go do that, we'll be needing it later. And erm... you go to your class first, Technology Gadgets and Inventions class starts in the next two minutes.”Sonic patted Tails's shoulder.
“Okay, you handle it from here?”Tails asked him, as a reassurance.
“Yup.”Sonic nodded.
“Bye everyone, see ya after two hours.”Tails waved his hand to the gang, and ran towards the direction of his class.
As soon Tails' figure disappear along the corridors, Knuckles turned to look at Sonic, giving him a what-are-you-thinking look.
Sonic understood his facial expression. He said, “We'll go get Tikal in the evening, just as class ends.”
Knuckles nodded in agreement with his idea.
But, Amy asked, “How are we suppose to know where she is? We only know she is near her village!”
“We won't have problems with that.”Sonic answered with confidence,“Knuckles feel with Tikal can lead us.” He laughed a little after saying the word 'feel' with great 'emotion'.
“Fine, laugh all you want Sonic.”Knuckles rolled his eyes, “But thanks, for the idea, of, erm, getting Tikal.”He spoke sheepishly.
“No prob.”Sonic blinked.
*****
After grabbing a couple of chilli dogs and some fatty burgers for Knuckles and Tails, Sonic rushed to the meeting area, where the Tornado III was parked.
Tails was examining his plane while Knuckles was standing at the side of the platform, doing nothing. The winds blew his hair, but to Knuckles, it seemed to bring the sweet scent of Tikal here. A few deep breaths later, he walked back and towards Tails.
Sonic arrived in seconds. He tossed two burgers to each of them.
“Mmm... A fatty burger to keep cool. And fat was suppose to keep warm!
Ha!”said Tails as he smacked his lips. He quickly teared open the
paper wrap to have a big bite.
Knuckles was still holding his burgers, he didn't eat it nor sniff it. He only stared blankly at the open sky.
“Aren't you hungry?”Sonic asked, eating one his chilli dogs.
Knuckles remained silent. As he was about to ask if he should save one for Tikal,Tails spoke, “C'mon, eat some! The girls will be preparing some... I don't know... I think girl-stuff for Tikal and us, they didn't say. Girls cooking for another girl, nothing can go wrong. But we are boys... Ugh, never mind.”Oil was accidentally spitted out from Tails's mouth as he was speaking.
“All right.”Knuckles said. Finally, the burgers got his attention. Just in a minute or two, or maybe three, the two burgers was gobbled up by Knuckles.
Sonic and Tails stopped chewing their food during the three minutes. “Boy, that guy sure can eat,”they both thought.
About fifteen minutes later, the three guys had their dinner and was ready to go!
“All clear... Engines START!”
VROOOOMMMM!!!! BRRROOOOOOOMMMM!!!!
“Heading towards...!!!”Tails shouted, but he stopped because he suddenly realized he didn't even know where they are heading. “Uh, where are we heading?”He asked.
“Hm...”Knuckles
closed his eyes and focused. Tikal, where are you...
He was concentrating so hard that he felt his head hurt. But then, he saw images of Tikal, and heard her voice!
“I'm sorry, that is the only fruit I have left...”
“Everything is going to be okay... No.. Don't cry...”
Where is that place? Knuckles thought. The place was full of Chao, but it is not Chao Island... It was like...
“Angel Island!”screamed Knuckles. opening his painful shut eyes.
“Why is she there?”Sonic asked him.
“I don't know. But I do know there are a lot of Chao there, with Tikal.”
“Well then, we'll know all of this, erm, stuff, when we get
there.”suggested Tails. “So, HEADING TOWARDS Angel Island!”
Tails increased the plane's speed. A wisp of greyish smoke was what people
could only see after the speedy plane flew across the evening sky.
