Josh was brushing his teeth when he saw the glass of the mirror ripple like water. He put his hand to the glass and fell right through, his right shoe the only piece of evidence he had gone missing.

"Hey, Josh. Are you still in there," Manik asked from outside. He waited for an answer but got none.

"Josh? Josh? You in there? Josh?" Manik then decided to find out whether or not Josh was still in here his way. He made himself transparent, walked right through the door, and saw Josh's right shoe on the floor.

"That's weird. Josh always wears both shoes. Unless...," Manik started before he heard Josh calling out to him.

"Manik, get me outta here, dude. You gotta get me outta here. Please. Help," Josh said.

"OK. I'll see if I could get Rocket to help."

"You do that. I'll be hanging here, I guess." Manik ran over to Castle Acorn to see if Rocket could help rescue Josh. He searched the whole castle and stopped when he heard Rocket and Sally talking.

"That makes twelve disappearances in the last three days," Rocket said.

"I don't know what's going on. People are just disappearing. It's like they're just going into another world," Sally said.

"And I'm sure Manik has something to add. You can come out now if you have something to say." Manik came out of hiding after he had been found out.

"How'd you know I was here," Manik asked.

"You have to get up pretty early to pull one over on me," Rocket said.

"Well, you better add one more to the list of disappearances." Manik then put Josh's shoe on the table for Rocket and Sally to see.

"Josh is gone like everyone else that's disappeared. I know you won't believe me, but I think there's a world beyond ours. A mirror world. That's where they're all going. They've sent themselves into that same world. I know that now because of Jo's shoe," Manik said. Rocket then took a second look at the reports of the disappearances.

"Actually, it says here that were mirrors at all the sites of the disappearances. You may be right, Manik, but the only way to know is to go there ourselves. Sally, you get Antoine and Sonic. We're going on an adventure."

"I'm on it. We'll find those missing people." Sally then walked out of the room so she could find Sonic and Antoine, leaving Manik and Rocket to themselves.

"I guess I'm not going with you."

"No, I'm afraid not. You may have found evidence of Josh disappearing, but you need to stay here. I'm sorry, Manik," Rocket said before leaving the room.


Josh was just coming to after being knocked out cold. He was captured and brought to an unknown building. He looked around and saw twelve other Mobians in the room with him. He asked one of them if they knew where he was.

"I'm not sure myself. All I know is I've been here for two days. Nothing's come up since then," he answered. Seconds later, three SWAT Bots came into the room and grabbed three of the Mobians. Seconds later, Josh and the other Mobians were all in glass tubes. A second later, a man looking exactly like Eggman came into the room. The only difference was that his outfit was inversed. Instead of it being red on white like Eggman, it was white on red. The man's name was Doctor Namgge, the mirror double of Doctor Eggman.

"So, my robots were successful in getting some test subjects. Marvelous," he said.

"Who are you and what do you want with us," Josh asked.

"Well, that's easy. All I need is your energy for my operations. Then I can take over Wen Siloportobom. My conquest is ensured."

"Something's up. Wen Siloportobom? Sounds a lot like New Mobotropolis. Either I've gone completely insane or I'm in a mirror world that's almost like my own world."

"Now to power up my machine," Namgee said before the air vents closed and a KO Grenade was thrown into the room. He was knocked out on the spot as the gas hissed out of the grenade. Luckily, Josh and the other Mobians were behind glass and didn't feel the effects of the grenade. Seconds later, a hedgehog wearing a gas mask came into the room.

"Everyone alright? Nobody hurt," he asked.

"No. We're cool. No one was hurt," Josh said.

"Great." The hedgehog then pulled out a walkie-talkie and turned it on.

"Cinos, they're all okay. Tell Sliat to re-open the vents so the gas can flow out of the room," he spoke into the walkie-talkie.

"I'm on it," the voice on the other end said. Moments later, the air vents opened and the gas slowly seeped out of the room. The hedgehog took his gas mask and Josh was stunned at who was under the mask.

"What?"

Who is the stranger that just saved the lives of Josh and the other Mobians? Will Josh be able to escape the mirror world? Find out in the next chapter of Mirror, Mirror.