Seriously, Again?

Disclaimer: I own nothing of Sega of America, Team Sonic, MGM nor anything else associated with any franchise mentioned within. The only thing that I own is the name Kerra. It is mine and if anyone steals it I will not hesitate to get creative on the torture. Also I do not own the original idea for the Mjolnir armor, which belongs to Microsoft and Bungie. That's how Kerra got the idea for her own version of it.

The Experiment

Kerra's workshop in the Mystic Ruins

Sonic and the others were riding in the elevator that went down to Kerra's subterranean lab.

"So what is it that Kerra wants to show us?" Knuckles asked as the floors moved down on the display.

"I have no idea Red. She's been really tight lipped on this one." Sonic replied leaning against the back of the car, arms crossed.

"I just wonder what she needed the Chaos Emeralds for." Rouge said.

"No idea on that either. It surprised me when she said that she needed to get her hands on all seven of them." Sonic said as the elevator doors opened to the basement lab.

The group walked in and carefully edged by the many half finished inventions that littered the vixen's lab.

"Not much changes, huh?" Cream commented as she ducked under the arm of a partially completed robot.

"From the looks of things, not really." Amy answered as she carefully stepped over a small puddle of oil.

The group walked towards a brightly lit area of the lab. As they approached they heard two female voices conversing.

"Coil 288 is three nanometers out of alignment." Came a calm, almost bored voice.

"Got it." Replied a second, slightly tired and yet hyper voice. "How's that?" The voice said a few seconds later.

"Perfect. Everything is in perfect alignment and ready to go." The first voice replied.

The group entered the area and found it littered with paper cup, empty aluminum cans and various bits of trash. In the middle of the veritable minefield of trash were the Artificial Intelligence Aura, a strange machine with seven long pipes that ran from the machine and a frazzled looking Kerra.

"Hey guys! You're just in time. I was about to call you to come down here. I'm ready to turn this thing on." Kerra said as she walked over to a full sized refrigerator.

"You called us about an hour ago. It just took a while for everyone to get here." Cream replied.

"Did I? Man, I really need to get some sleep then if my memory and grasp of time are slipping that badly." The vixen replied as she pulled an energy drink out of the refrigerator which was still half full of full cans.

"Then why are you drinking another energy drink?" Amy asked her friend, with a worried look on her face.

"I need to stay awake and make sure that this thing works the way it should. Once it's running the way it should, then I'll go to bed." She said, taking a swig of the drink as she moved towards a computer console.

"So what is this thing?" Rouge asked the vixen, who was practically vibrating from the amount of caffeine running through her system.

"It's a power generator. It took a little research and thousands of simulations, but I figured out a way to channel the power of the chaos emeralds into a safe form of clean energy." Kerra replied as she entered commands into the computer.

"Are you insane? You do remember what happens when the energies of all seven emeralds come together!" Knuckles shouted as the others gained stunned looks.

They stared at the vixen turned super soldier, all of them had the same thought going through their heads as she entered more commands into the computer.

Has this girl finally flipped her lid?

"Actually I included dozens of protections and fail safes into the system to prevent any accidental Chaos Control events. The emeralds are in separate containment vessels that block the radiation they emit. Also you see those pipes running to the ceiling? Those are ejection ports that will scatter the emeralds in a catastrophic failure situation." Kerra explained as she entered the final commands into the system.

"Is she doing the mad scientist thing again?" A male voice came from behind the group.

"Cam! You guys made it!" Kerra said excitedly as she turned around.

SG-1 entered the area behind the group.

"Yeah she is. Good to see you guys again. You really should stop by more often." Sonic said as he shook hands with the team.

"Well, you know how it is when you're saving the world." Daniel replied

Sonic chuckled a bit. "Yeah, you're right it's pretty much a full time job."

"So what's going on here?" Sam asked.

"I figured out a way to use the energy of the Chaos Emeralds as a clean power source. I'm about to start up the generator." Kerra said before taking a long drink from her energy drink, draining it, crushing the can on her forehead, and tossing it onto the floor behind her.

SG-1 then took notice of the debris covering the floor.

"Colonel Prower you should get some sleep. This much caffeine is not good for you." Teal'c said quirking an eyebrow at the mess.

"Ya can sleep when you're dead. Now is the time for SCIENCE!" Kerra replied yelling the last word as she hit enter for the final time.

The generator began to hum slightly as it gained power. Then the pitch of the hum changed.

"That doesn't sound good" Vala said as the group edged back towards anything that would provide sturdy cover.

"Aura! What's going on?" Kerra shouted over the hum as she typed furiously.

"There seems to be an imbalance in the turbine. I estimate failure in less than two minutes." Aura replied as a timer appeared on the screens and began to count down rapidly from two minutes.

"What happened to the fail safes? They should have shut the machine down as soon as there was a problem!" Kerra shouted as she tried to shut down the machine.

"The fail safes appear to have failed." Aura replied simply.

"Irony!" Cam called out from behind a large crate.

"Shut it Mitchell! Aura, try and eject the emeralds." Kerra replied.

"I have several times already. The mechanism has failed." The AI replied.

"Alright I'm yanking you! We need to get out of here!" Kerra yelled as she pulled out the memory crystal that contained Aura's memory matrix and grabbed a large black duffle bag before turning to the others and yelling "RUN!"

She didn't have to tell them twice. Sonic took off and hit the button to call the freight elevator down from the surface. The others caught up to him and then the race between the elevator's motors and the countdown till they were all killed began.

As seconds ticked by so did the floors.

1:30.30

Thirty floors to go.

1:00.06

Twenty floors to go.

30.05

Ten floors to go.

01.06

The elevator dinged, but the doors jammed after they opened about a foot.

Kerra pushed her way to the front of the group and began to pull the door open.

00.00

Too late. A bright white light filled the room and everyone's screams went silent.


A/N: Alright yet another new story from Kerra's adventures. What happened when the group was enveloped by the white light? Find out in the next chapter. As always, please read and review.