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~Alternate Dimension

Maya the hedgehog always had a lot of patience. She could maintain her patience through a lot of trials.

Right now, though, Maya was losing her patience. Fast. Why? Because a gigantic robot just smashed her house to pieces. She couldn't believe it. Disbelief turned into anger.

Maya, fuming, started pacing. How dare someone wreck her house! Let alone with a robot, who builds giant robots and lets them smash houses?

Maya, still fuming, paused her pacing, well, stomping, and started to think. Who hates her enough that they would crush her house? She didn't have to think twice. Lady Eggsworth.

That woman always built the craziest machines, ranting something about taking over the world, and collecting the Rubies of Order. What a nutjob! This, though, was the final straw. The purple blur ran as quick as her legs could take her, which- compared to humans- was phenomenal, in the direction of the robot.

~Regular Dimension

Sonic the hedgehog is having a hard day.

First, the military takes him on a helicopter ride, a boring helicopter ride might he add, so he had to jump down to the city and run through it. That part wasn't so bad, despite the fact a humungous truck tried to ram him down after travelling through the city. Then, the military had the nerve to send a machine to fight him down and try to capture him. Luckily, Sonic was much stronger and trashed the thing, which gave him a moment to escape-

Then the unexpected happened; an ebony hedgehog with red streaks on his quills and a striking resemblance to Sonic steps up, holding a chaos emerald. That's why the military was after him! This faker was giving him a bad name!

Oh, was Sonic angry. He was about to pounce the hedgehog while it was looking down on him, but the police showed up, and surrounded them. The fake hedgehog made a hasty retreat using Chaos Control, and left the innocent blue blur to be arrested.

Now here he was. In a prison cell. On Prison Island. Oh joy. Sonic impatiently started pacing back and forth across his cell. He knew his best buddy Tails would pull through for him, he trusted Tails more than anyone else. I just hope he didn't bring Amy with him, he thought.

~Alternate Dimension

"Shit!" Maya cursed as a swoop from the robot's arm nearly hit her. The fight had been going on like this for about five minutes, and she was staring to get mad.

"You're getting slow, Maya," Lady Eggsworth taunted, putting a gloved hand to her wrinkled face, "maybe building this robot was too much for you to handle?"

"You wish, Eggsworth," Maya retorted, anger strewn on her face, "mark my words; this will be the last robot you will ever build!"

Maya zoomed behind the robot and started running up its back. Lady Eggsworth swiveled the head of the machine so she could see Maya from the glass cockpit, but to no avail. The purple blur shot up and landed a powerful punch beneath the cockpit and blasted the head off the robot's body. With a loud groan, the body fell to the ground, and the head crashed close by with a sickening crunch. I guess I was a little bit too mad…

The purple hedgehog dashed to the area where the head landed, and walked up to the cockpit. Her sapphire eyes scanned through the heavily damaged area, between every bit and piece of broken equipment. Finally, her peripheral vision caught red. Eggsworth. However, the old woman was completely still. Maya carefully climbed over the wreckage so she could reach Eggsworth. Her heartbeat quickened, and her eyes watched for any sudden movement. Thank god no humans were around here, Maya thought, I don't need people snooping around in this sort of danger.

She reached the heap of red that was Lady Eggsworth, and took hold of the woman's gloved hand. With a slight heave, Maya lugged the scientist out of the ruins of her own creation, and took a good look at the lady.

She always wore a red dress and white gloves, Maya noticed, and looked on her wrinkled face. Shocking red hair framed the woman's head, and there was so much make-up plastered on her face, the hedgehog- and everyone else- thought she resembled that of a clown.

However, that wasn't what Maya was paying attention to. She was looking into her eyes, which were usually covered by round sunglasses. Instead, she saw sky-blue eyes that were almost glossy…

Maya walked up to Eggsworth and placed two of her gloved fingers to her neck, but felt no pulse-

"So the old coot finally fell," said a deep voice that startled the purple hedgehog. Maya was so focused on the fallen scientist she forgot to keep an eye to her surroundings. She turned around quickly and took a fighting stance, but regained herself after she saw who it was.

The president of the United Federation.

He chuckled at her shocked expression. "We were aware Lady Eggsworth was attacking around here, but were not worried because you live in this area. You did dispatch of her quite fast, maybe she was getting a bit old for fighting," he mumbled. The President trusted Maya fully. She was the only hedgehog who talked and had these kinds of abilities around here. Plus, she was purple. Who wouldn't trust a purple hedgehog? He looked over to Lady Eggsworth and motioned his guards to take the woman.

"What are you guys gonna do with her now?" Maya asked tilting her head with a curious look on her face. She was just glad the crazy lady was out of the picture.

"We are going to take her back to Area 50, our researchers think they can bring her back to life without recreating her evil conscious," the President explained. "In the meantime, we are putting the Rubies of Order under your care. We know she had them with her, all five of them powering her machine." With that, he and his men left with the deceased scientist, leaving Maya to the wreckage.

She sighed and with a short leap, landed on top of the pile of carnage. "Might as well start digging," she muttered to herself.

It didn't take long to find the gems, for they were concealed in a glass cylinder. She lifted the case full of gems and with a flick of her wrist, the cap flew off the container. She sat down and strew the multicolored rubies in front of her.

"I just wish I could go back to where I belong," she said quietly. Maya knew she wasn't from this world. It had been bothering her for a while. There were no other purple hedgehogs here, not even a single talking animal. She took a deep sigh, knowing her adventure here was over. "Maybe there's more adventure there…"

She said no more, because the Rubies in front of her started glowing. It was breathtaking the way they glowed, each glow the color of its owner. Maya shielded her eyes as the jewels started getting brighter and brighter-

Everything went blank. The jewels were gone from the scene, and so was Maya the Hedgehog.