Team Chaos - Chapter 6

Team Chaos - Chapter 6:Casino Showdown
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Shadow stopped at the sight of a giant neon-like city. Everyone else stopped behind him and stared at the city in amazement. "Wait....guys......ya'll forgot......the.....scouters." Fox said as ran after them, trying to catch his breath. Everyone grabbed a scouter and put it on.

"What is this place? It's like a giant casino." Ratchet asked as he adjusted his scouter.

"It's called Casino Park." Shadow replied as he read the sign above the entrance. "Well, we better split up into groups if we want to find that chaos emerald. Ratchet, Jak and Clank will check the north sector, Fox and Daxter will check the east sector, Sly and I will check the west sector. If anybody finds it, contact the rest of us and tell us your location."

Everyone nodded and ran off with their groups.

"So... you can sense the chaos emeralds, huh?" Sly asked as he and Shadow ran down the colorful path.

"Yes. I'm able to sense one when it is near." Shadow said as he ran faster.

Sly and Shadow reached a platform that had tubes coming out of the ground. The chaos emerald was laying on the ground, several feet in front of them. Shadow walked over to it. He was about to pick it up, when something hit his body. The next thing he knew, his face was smashed up against a wall. Someone was holding his arms behind his back.

"I don't think so hedgehog, that chaos emerald belongs to us."

Shadow slowly moved his head to where he could kind of see behind him. There was a crocodile behind him, holding him against the wall. Behind the crocodile was a chameleon and a bee. The chameleon was about to pick up the emerald.

"Sly! Call for the others and get that emerald!" Shadow yelled, trying to escape from the crocodile.

"Sure!" Sly pushed a button on his scouter. "This is team1 to team2 and team3, we need back up at sector W, position 32 longitude 78 latitude. Requesting immediate assistance ASAP." Sly pushed the button again and lunged at the chameleon.

The chameleon dodged him by doing a back flip. "I laugh at your pathetic attempt to take down me, Espio, the world's fastest ninja......huh...........Vector! Behind you!"

Sly dashed at Vector and wacked him with his cane. Vector was sent flying off to the side.

Shadow fell to the ground.

He pushed himself up and looked at Espio.

"How dare you sneak attack me!" Shadow yelled as he pulled out his staff.

Espio smirked and started to laugh. "Are you actually going to fight me."

"Yes I am. Last team standing gets the chaos emerald."

"Hmph! You think you can defeat me in battle?"

"I wouldn't get too cocky if I were you. I could probally take you down."

"Heh. We'll just see about that."

"Shut up and fight!"

Shadow lunged at Espio, who disappeared.

Sly had knocked Charmy and Vector out cold. He ran over to Shadow and positioned himself, ready for battle.

"Hey guys! We're here to help!" A voice shouted from behind.

Shadow and Sly turned around. Ratchet, Clank, Jak, Daxter and Fox were running towards them.

"So...what's the problem?" Fox asked.

Shadow looked around the platform. "There's this chameleon named Espio. He have to defeat him before he defeats us. Sly already took care of his team mates.......but that chameleon is going to be a challenge."

"What makes you say that." Daxter questioned.

"He can go invisible."

A ninja star came flying out of nowhere. They all dived out of the way.

Espio reappeared in front of them.

Sly tried to wack him, but Espio dashed to the side. Ratchet threw his wrench at Espio, but he just jumped over it. Fox and Jak shot at him, but it did no good, Espio dodged every last bullet.

Shadow tightened his grip on the staff. He ran at Espio and made a hard blow to his side. Espio was sent flying through the air, hit the wall and fell to the ground in pain. Shadow walked over to the emerald and picked it up. "I do believe this is ours. Come on guys, we had better leave before they wake up."

"Okay...let me just give them  a thank you card." Sly said as he pulled out one of those card things that he leaves behind after stealing something. He placed it by Espio. "There." Sly said with a grin on his face.

They all ran back to the entrance of Casino Park and headed back to their hideout.