Okay! Story No.3! Now, just a heads up: This was uploaded from my phone, so it might be...messed up. A lot. So if it is I greatly apologise.

Disclaimer: I only own Kate. The rest belongs to Sonic Team @SEGA

Enjoy :)

"Why can't you just accept that he's sulking?"

"Nine months! No one can sulk for nine months! It's not physically possible!"

Sonic rolled his eyes at Kate's complaints. Ever since the events in White Acropolis, Eggman had been strangely quiet. Not even news of Mephiles or the two new Freedom Fighters had brought him out. So, Sonic and Kate had been sent out to his base in Metropolis to find out what he was up to. Sonic had been all for it. Kate...not so much.

Sonic heard Kate chuckle down the headsets that they were both wearing.

"He lost one of his most prized machines," she told him "who wouldn't sulk?"

Sonic shrugged in consideration, peering around a corner and avoiding one of the cameras.

"Not to mention losing his pet projects," he smirked, knowing what Kate's reaction would be. Deeming the area to be clear, he darted round the corner to avoid the camera.

He heard Kate's growl from the other end, which was exactly the reaction he expected.

"That better not be me you're talking about, hedgehog," she replied bitterly.

Sonic opened his mouth to reply, but shut it as he noticed a door with a large "KEEP OUT" sign on it and a number pad next to it. However, he couldn't get too close, as the door had at least four cameras surrounding.

"Hey Kate?"

"Yes?"

Sonic ducked out of sight as one of the cameras shifted a little.

"Door saying keep out and surrounded by cameras," he muttered "worth a look?"

Kate snorted.

"Well, obviously. Why haven't you gone in?"

Sonic grumbled as he watched the cameras carefully.

"There's a code," he whispered "I don't know it,"

Kate sighed down the headset.

"Right. I'll be there in a sec,"

Sonic slumped back against the metal wall to wait. However, he didn't have to wait for long because, true to her word, the white and cyan wolf flashed next to him only a few seconds later. After a quick glance at the cameras, she frowned and held up her hand. The cameras became encased in a blue-green glow, and they stopped moving. She waved Sonic towards the number pad.

"The code is one-four-seven-nine, hurry up!" she hissed. Sonic darted forward and punched in the numbers. He raised her brow at her, impressed, as the door opened.

"How'd you know that?" he asked curiously as they both dashed inside, closing the door behind them. Kate removed her headset as she spoke.

"Eggman sets all his pin numbers to the same thing," she said indifferently, making Sonic scowl.

"What?" he snapped, making her stop "you knew that? Sally and I came here last week, but we got nowhere because we didn't know the codes!"

Kate's brow furrowed, and she suppressed a smirk and a laugh.

"Did I not tell you?" she sniggered "oops..."

There were only a few Egg Pawns standing guard in the room they were in, but these were took out quickly. The two Freedom Fighters did a quick check around the rest of the room before they began looking at all of the blueprints and computer screens in the room.

The blueprints all seemed to be for heavy machinery, engine parts and new badniks, but nothing of interest. A certain blueprint caught Sonic's eye, he laughed.

"What is it?" Kate said, looking over her shoulder. Sonic held up the blueprint with a mischevious grin on his muzzle.

"Remember when this badnik threw you into a pile of leaves in Windy Hill?"

Kate's nose scrunched up and her expression turned sour.

"It was just a pile of leaves..." she mumbled darkly. Sonic replaced the blueprint on the work bench and moved on.

"Yeah, but wasn't it filled with fire ants?" he replied, barely holding in his laughter. Kate's ears flattened against her head and she scowled at the memory.

"Why do you keep bringing that up? It was three weeks ago. It can't be that funny, surely?" she murmured.

"You were trying to chase your tail, Kate," the blue hedgehog sniggered.

At his words, Kate's shoulders raised as she held up her hands slightly in defence.

"They hurt!" she exclaimed, fiddling with her tail absent-mindedly "I wanted them gone..."

She trailed off with a slight shiver before dropping the subject.

Five minutes of shifting through blueprints went by, but they found nothing of great interest.

That is, however, until Sonic accidentally triggered a large computer screen to spark into life, startling the both of them. On the screen, there was an image of a giant metal egg and descriptions of something that was supposedly going to be inside of the egg.

They both approached the screen, carefully studying the contents. Kate frowned in confusion. Sonic, however, widened his eyes in disbelief.

"He can't be..." he said vaguely, making Kate stare at him.

"What?" she asked desperately "what is it, Sonic?"

Sonic didn't look away from the screen.

"He's rebuilding the Death Egg,"

Suddenly, a new voice rang out in the room they were in.

"Incorrect, rodent, I have built the Death Egg," it said proudly "well, Death Egg Mark 3, to be more precise,"

They whipped around to see none other than Dr.Eggman stood before them a group of Egg Pawns as his guard and his glasses glinting from the light of the computer. He strided past them, gesturing to the screen.

"What do you think of the weapon inside of it? It's an old favourite of mine," after a moment staring at the screen, his head snapped back towards Sonic "do you recognise it, Sonic?"

He finished with a superior look at Sonic, who looked back towards the screen. His eyes widened after a moment of staring, and he shook his head at Eggman in disbelief.

"You can't be serious..." he breathed.

Eggman cackled loudly, and waved over the pack of robots that accompanied him.

"Oh but I am," he leant down in a mocking way, grinning maliciously "and I assure you, rodent, this time, it will be the end of days,"

He straigtened up, andmiring the fear he had implemented within the two Freedom Fighters. Sonic was in total dismay, and Kate looked incredibly frightened, despite having little to no idea of what was going on. However, she managed to steel herself and grab hold of Sonic's forearm.

"We'll see about that," she snarled.

Then, before Eggman could stop them, they had disappeared in a flash of white light, back to Freedom HQ.

Well there you have it. Once again, sorry if it messed up. Annoyingly it's quicker to upload like this but it messes up everything in the process.

Anyway, hope you enjoyed :)

RR!

~W.O.T~