Act 7: Bean and Ray

When Bean was walking by the Emerald Forest he heard odd sounds behind burning trees. "Oh jeez, a fire," he thought, "I better check if anyone's hurt." and ran straight into the singed forest. As best as he could, he followed the mysterious sounds, and after only a short time he ran to see Dr. Eggman fighting Ray. Ray didn't seem like himself, he seemed much more courageous, and he had something in his hand. Without hesitation Bean sprang up to fight Eggman with Ray. "Aargh!" Dr. Eggman yelled, "Just what I need, another nuisance, well Bean the Dynamite Duck you can die right with Tails." Ray shouted back "Oh you remember his name but you don't remember mine" "Stop trying to distract me!" Eggman yelled, reactivated the flamethrowers and charged his walker towards Ray. While Ray ran from him, Bean flew over Dr. Eggman, took several M-80s out of his pocket and threw it at Eggman, it missed him but hit the left leg. The leg started to crackle and Eggman could not get it to move, it flashed white for several seconds, then it exploded. The walker was starting to tilt to the left. "Blast it," Dr. Eggman swore and jumped out of the walker before it fell. "I've underestimated you two." He tried to lift up the weapons that fell out of the walker but they were too heavy. "You win this round but I will get that emerald." "Yeah, yeah, blow it out yer ear" Bean laughed as he and Ray walked off. Watching them leave, Dr. Eggman decided to call Scratch and Grounder on his Walkie-Talkie to get information on the next emerald but there was no answer.

As Bean and Ray walked off Bean asked Ray why Eggman was fighting him and he explained how he wanted the emerald. "Wow, let me check that out" Bean said and reached for the Super Emerald. Ray grabbed Bean's fingers and twisted them upwards, "Hey! Calm down, I wasn't gonna drop it." "No," Ray snarled, "mine" "Jeez, sorree" Ray cradled the emerald creepily, "My precioussss". Bean was starting to become frightened. "Ha! I'm just kiddin'" Ray chuckled and gave the Super Emerald to Bean. Once he grabbed it he started to feel a tingling sensation in his hands, his pupils turned grey and he spaced out. Ray looked at him, "Bean? Hello? Are you OK?" He smacked Bean and he came to. "I think I know where some more of these emeralds are." he said and pointed in a direction, and ran to it. "Hey!" Ray said, "give me my emerald back, I need that to be brave." and followed Bean. They ran for hours, Ray thought they'd run forever when Bean made a dead end stop in the middle of the Red Desert Zone and pointed down. "It's under the ground" he said "hold this," and gave Ray the emerald and started clawing his way through the ground. Ray tried to ask him if he needed help but Bean just ignored him and continued digging. "BEAN!?" Ray shouted and grabbed him by the shoulders. "You're acting weird, and I don't think you're joking. Why would you want another emerald? So Dr. Eggman would try to kill us twice?" "Hey, part of it's sticking out." Bean said completely oblivious to Ray. He shook out of Ray's weak grasp and pulled the Super Emerald out of the ground.

As they walked off, Ray tried to convince Bean to drop the emeralds, it didn't work. When they reached Square City, they ran into Vector. "Hey, what's that you kids got" he said, "Nothing of your concern" Ray responded, "Well I'm-a gonna need to confiscate them, they might contain potentially harmful substances." said Vector, "Ha, you don't have the authority to do that" laughed Bean, Vector showed them a badge and said "I'm a volunteer police now. The pay is shit but at least I get to knock some skulls with this here bat. Now give me the emeralds or I'll have to arrest you two."

But this was only part 1...