Cory in the House: Trials of the Earth (Season 2)

Six Emeralds in Hand

They walked day and night, going toward the city. They needed to get to Vegas. The pyramid of Vegas held the key to the sixth chaos emerald. So far, they had 4 emeralds, one being taken by the bus driver.

The sixth emerald was fabled to have power over gravity.

"ah, Vegas. This is the where everything happens." silver said. Blaze rolled her eyes.

"I've been here before." Michael said timidly.

"shut up guys I'm trying to find the emerald." Cory shouted.

"we shouldve gotten transportation before going on this quest or whatever." espio complained.

"we do need transportation when we can teleport?" Cory asked.

"well, why arent we teleporting then?" espio said, crossing his arms.

"I love it when you get all angry," blaze said.

"shut up, cat."

Blaze shut up. Cory didn't have an answer to espio. He didn't want to use the emerald.

They walked toward the pyramid as they entered Vegas. The world around them shone with neon lights. Casinos appeared everywhere they walked. The walked right into the pyramid, Cory went to the desk.

"where is the chaos emerald?" Cory asked the clerk.

The clerk was looking down,he started chuckling, "wouldn't you like to know."

With that he threw off his clothes and revealed his red armor underneath. It was zero!

"you again? Why are you behind the desk?" espio asked.

"heh, waiting for the right moment to strike and grab the emerald. Pharoah Aikman ra doesn't let anyone near it."

"pharoah?" Cory asked.

"yeah, it's Egypt themed down to the nose. They even have slaves."

Cory glanced over and saw people in shackles carrying people's luggage.

"team up with us, zero." Cory said.

"sorry, I don't team up with maverick sympathizers."

"we are not working for Hitler!" espio said.

"can't ever be sure who someone really is, can you, shadow?"

Espio glared at him, "let's go grab the emerald."

"i wouldn't try that. He's got the power of the gods." zero stated.

Espio rolled his eyes and walked toward the temple area. Inside sat Aikman ra on his throne. Behind him sat the chaos emerald.

Espio snuck along the wall and went toward the emerald undetected. As he neared it, Cory shouted, "what do you want us to do?"

Espio rolled his eyes as the Pharoah turned around and forced him to the ground. He made the rest of them float in mid air.

"kekekekeke, what do we have here? Trying to 'nap my emer'ld eh? I should throw you in the scrarab pit." he said.

"nice going, Cory." espio said.

"give me one reason why you lot should get ma emer'ld."

"we need it to stop Hitler." Cory said.

"kekekekeke, stopping Hitler is a waste of time. He has infin'te strength."

"b-but."

"you shouldve thought of that before you tried to steal my emer'ld. Kekekekeke..." with that he jumped out of his chair and pulled out a sword. The gravity turned upside down, causing everyone to fall to the ceiling. The world around Cory faded as he hit his head on the hard cieling.

Espio threw his shurikens at the king, but they fell straight to the ground, effected by gravity. Projectiles would not work here.

Silver tried to fly off the ground, but the force of the gravity was too much, and he fell down. Michael jumped into action, hitting the king with his magic dance moves. The Pharoah grunted and forced Michael away, toward the lobby.

It was looking like an uphill battle, not even blazes fire could do anything. The Pharoah shouted in Egyptian and flew toward espio, sword out. Suddenly, he was slashed away by a green blur. Zero had hit him!

Zero dashed into the room, jumping off the wall and slashing the Pharoah. He grunted and turned to zero.

"puny human, you have no place in this world. Go back."

"i am not a human. Reeeeee!" zero screamed as he slashed the pharoah twenty six times, ending with a slash cutting him in half. The Pharoah exploded, leaving the emerald in its wake.

Espio grabbed the emerald quickly and used it to make zero float.

"ugh... why?"

"we need this stupid emerald to defeat Hitler, so stop." espio replied.

"fine, but remember, I'll be behind every corner. Regards." with that, he teleported away.

"how do you know him, espio?" Cory asked, regaining consciousness.

"shut up,"espio said as he walked away. They now had 5 emeralds. The last two would likely be the hardest to find of all. Or maybe a protagonist that rarely shows up holds it, who knows, but Hitler still has one of the emeralds, so that's going to be a challenge.