Storm front by Herofox (Storm is staring out the window.) Why would she risk her own life to save mine? (Flashback.) Bubble (Tears in her eyes.): Please Tails...You don't have to destroy him! (End of flashback.) Storm: She could have been hurt...or maybe worse... Sally's voice: STORM!!! PROCEED TO THE BREIFING ROOM!!! Storm: (Sarcastically): Yes master! (He goes to the main chamber.) Sally: The mainframe indicates that a Chaos emerald has been located in the Marble zone. You know what to do! Storm: On it! (Meanwhile on earth. At Ronnie's house.) Patch: Watcha staring at the city for? Miles: Storm was able to come here twice. That worries me. Ronnie: Hey guys! Knux just found another emerald! Miles: Finally! A little action! (Cassie & Sandy come running up.) Cassie: Huff...puff...we got...message! Miles: Good. Lets do it! (He transforms.) Tails: C'mon! Watcha waiting for? Ronnie: You really need to learn patience. (The other four transform. Four way split screen. All five go through the ring gate.) Tails: Morning Remington! Remington: Hi guys! Bubble: Where's the emerald? Remington: The marble zone. Julie-su's got the plane fired up. Hound: Not that old wreck again! Julie-su: I herd that! (Meanwhile. On the bad guys flight.) Storms thoughts: I think I can remember now. My first ever fight. It was against a wolf with a scythe. (He clutches his stomach in pain.) Rotor: Hey Storm are you ok? Storm: It's just something I ate. Excuse me. (He goes to the bathroom.) Storm: What was his name? I remember I beat him. Lupin...was that his name? (Storm remembers the fight. He was using two swords to fight the wolf. Lupin is using his scythe like a staff to block Storms attacks. He tries to use his scythes blade but Storm blocks with one sword and stabs Lupin with the other.) Storm: Who was Lupin? Friend? Foe? Or something more? (Meanwhile.) Tails: Julie-su, are you sure you can fly this thing? Julie-su: Sure. (She lowers the plane just avoiding a tree.) Bubble: Where did you learn to drive? Julie-su: Dulcy showed me. All: OH NO! Julie-su: Relax, I've done this a thousand times, now hang on we are going to turbo speed. (She activates the twin rocket jets at the bottom of the plane.) Tails: I hope this thing can take it. (Storm and friends have reached the marble zone.) Rotor: Sir, there's a craft approaching. Storm: ETA? Rotor: 5...4...3...2...1...passing us now sir. (Suddenly a plane rushes by.) Tails & Co: Hi storm.............Bye Storm. Storm: how the heck did they get here so fast? Antoine: Take it Easy Mon ami, I shall find out... Storm: No offence Ant, but you couldn't catch a tuna fish, even if it's in its can. Antoine: Is this cause I am zee French non? Storm: No Ant, just that you a raving nut bar. Antoine: What is zis nut bar you speak of? Storm: Take this you numbskull. (Thumps Ant on the head.) Antoine: Owww. That hurt. Storm: Well duh, it was supposed to. Hey Rotor, where did they land? Rotor: On top of the palace. Storm: Well we shall go in from the ground floor. Rotor: But boss, the emerald is on the top floor, what are we supposed to do? Climb the stairs at high speed? Storm: Excellent idea Rotor, and since you came up with it, so you go first to see if there are any traps for me...I mean us. Rotor: I fail to see the point of that equation? Storm: You are not in high school now SO FORGET THE EQUATIONS! Rotor: I'm going; so don't get your knickers in a twist. Storm: I DON'T WEAR KNICKERS! (Rotor starts to walk towards the temple. And Storm starts to wonder.) Storms thoughts: right. If I'm going to remember my past I'm going to have to bear the pain. I hate this control bug. (He starts to remember some strange and weird things.) My earliest memory is waking up inside a tube...what is it? What's going on now? Wait... I recognize that woman...is... it...Sally...but why is she... dressed up in a lab coat? Could it be that I was experimented on...or was I the experiment itself? I remember, Bunnie taught me the martial arts, Rotor told me everything he knew about the latest tech stuff...which didn't take long, Antoine told me the finer points of weaponry especially axe's and swords. And then I remember being sent to all kinds of terrains to train. Then I met this Lupin guy, he told me that he was a freedom fighter and told me that they were fighting to get Mobius from the hands or paws of evil like Sally. But I didn't believe him, all I knew was what Sally told me. We fought until I saw him let his guard down, then I made the final blow, and as I watched him fade away, he said to me, that somehow I was him... What could this mean? What did he mean I was part of him? And why can't I remember anything past the tube? (He decides to let the others go for the emerald, and goes back to the ship to do some snooping.) Storm: (Talking to the computer.) Computer. Give me all records referring to the freedom fighter known as Lupin. Com: 2 article's found. One is the Lupin profile. One is Project Storm. Storm: Computer. What is Project Storm? Com: Project Storm was completed on the 14.6.2249. Storm: Hey, that's the last birthday party I had...it's the ONLY one I had. Computer open file Project Storm. Com: Processing...File retrieved please enter password. Storm: Password? Is it rumplstilskin? Com: Incorrect password, please try again. Storm: Is it, what was the name king acorn called Sally? Oh that was it. Password is...Bean. Com: Correct password...file is open. Storm: Right, it says here, that Project Storm was an adaptation from Dr Gerald Robotnik's project, which was, code named Shadow. A freedom fighter by the name of Lupin was scratched and with the blood left on Sally's sword, they were able to clone him using 2 cells from his blood. Wow! This stuff's really interesting. Any way the foetus grew in to a 15yr old in a tube in a matter of days, under Sally's supervision. The foetus was a duplicate of the original and Sally decided to name him...I don't believe it...Storm. I am project Storm...and that Lupin guy that I killed was in fact...my.... true self...I am just a copy. But if it weren't for this control bug I would have ended up like the original. Fighting for the sake of a free Mobius. (Storm decided to seek help from the only people he could now trust with his secret...the goodies.) (Meanwhile...) Rotor: **Huff**...hey... you...**puff**...stop in the name of Princess Sally, and give me that emerald. (Rotor and Antoine fall over in exhaustion.) Hey Ant, go and get the emerald. Antoine: I'm too tired; I think I'll have a little nap. Rotor: I think I'll join you (Both of them fall asleep and Tails could hardly stop himself laughing. Suddenly Rotor got up.) Rotor: WILL YOU BE QUIET! THERE ARE PEOPLE TRYING TO SLEEP HERE! (Tails shuts up. He grabs the emerald, and follows the others back to the plane.) Julie-su: Hey. Are you finished or are you going to stand there all day? Tails: We're coming. Julie-su: Well, we have something to tell you. Tails: What do you mean we? (From behind the tail of the plane comes Storm.) Tails: STORM??? What the heck are you doing here? Storm: I need your help. Tails: Wow. I didn't see that coming. Bubble: What kind of help? Storm: I am a clone. From a freedom fighter named Lupin. I need to carry on his legacy. But to do that I need to get this thing out of my chest. Bubble: What? Have you got wind or something? (Everybody falls over in stupidity.) Storm: No. It's this control bug. Every time I try to remember the past, it gives me an electric shock. I need it out so I can remember ALL of my past. At the minute I can only remember pieces but it's all jumbled. Saber: Maybe if you get your entire memory back the bug will overload? Storm: It's worth a shot! Hound: Try to remember. I once gave you a medical kit when you fell down a cliff. Remember? Storm (clutching his chest.): Yes. Sally tried to erase that memory because it made me feel different about you. Flash: What about when Sally first put that bug inside you? Storm: I remember. I tried to resist but Sally had me chained to the wall. Bubble: And when you saved me? Storm: Because I didn't want you to go through this pain. Tails: You can do it Storm! Storm (electricity all over his body.): I remember! I remember! (The control bug flies out of his ear.) No more Mr Bad guy! (He slices the bug with his axe. He changes colour. Dark grey to light grey. His eyes change from red to green.) Tails: Storm? Are you ok? Storm: Never felt better. Now lets show the Acorns who's in charge! (Rotor and Antoine are boarding the plane home.) Antoine: Wonder what happened to Storm? ?????: He's right here! (The duo turn around. They then drop their jaws in terror. It's Storm.) Storm: What's up? Ya look like you've just seen a ghost! (Storm leaps up into the air and comes down slicing the plane in half with his axe.) Rotor: I can't believe my eyes! ?????: Well you won't be able to open your eyes when I'm done with you! (They turn their heads. It's Tails.) Tails: Don't ya just love these two on two match ups? Storm: You take the wimp, I'll take the blimp! (Tails tackles Antoine. Storm tackles Rotor. They then fly away. Storm holding onto Tails (Kind of like Sonic in Sonic 3's marble garden zone boss.) (Later) Knux: So whom do I congratulate for getting the fifth emerald? Tails Hound & Saber: ME! (They turn to each other.) Saber: I'm the one who tracked it down! Tails: But I flew up that cliff to get it! Hound: And I caught it when you dropped it! (They fight. Everyone else has a sweat drop.) Will the boys ever settle this peacefully? What will Storm call himself on earth? Find out in the next episode!