And They Shall Lose Him

A Sonic the Hedgehog Mobius Fanfiction

Disclaimer: I do not own Sonic the Hedgehog, SEGA does, and Sally and the non-SEGA Freedom Fighters are prperty of Archie Comics.

Chapter 1 - Omens

Sally had the mission all planned out to Robotropolis. Sonic would rush in, causing a distruction for the SWATBots to be diverted about 300 meters away from the real operation. Meanwhile, Sally, Tails, and Bunnie would move in with 15 dynamite packs to place in the structural weaknesses of one of Robotnik's major factories. When they get out, Sally would hit the detonator, they wait for a little bit for the smoke to clear, then they swoop in and steal resources, and Sonic would meet them back in Knothole.

It was an excellent plan, even Sonic thought so, despite the fact that he usually was the one who was the main part of the plan. The mission would be first thing tommorrow, they needed their energy to pull this off. She sent them all to bed early, and was preparing to sleep herself.

The girl entered Robotropolis, desperate to get away fom *that* which was following her. She ran her hardest until she got a few blocks in, then dove into an abandoned storage facility. She held her breath, looking out the window.

Mecha Sonic was built mostly for one thing: To seek and destroy Sonic, but if need be, he could do other missions as well. He actually took this mission without notifying Robotnik of it. As far as Robotnik knows, he was still inactive in the palace. But then Mecha detected an intruder coming from somewhere other in the direction of the Great Forest. Nobody had a Freedom Fighter base that they knew of in that direction, so Mecha checked it out. He sprang out and surprised a Mobian Fox, a female. And she tried to lose him, but he kept on her, until she entered the city.

So here she was, scared of what was out there, and scared she won't find what she was looking for. She had to find Knothole, she had to find...him. When Mecha went by, she froze, and her heart started to beat faster. But Mecha didn't stop, he kept going on, toward the palace.

After a while, the girl stepped out, and headed Southwest.

That morning, Sally woke up, refreshed, and finally prepared for anything. She opened up her hut, and stepped out and headed for the slide. Sonic, Tails and Bunnie were there, waiting for her, and when she arrived, she briefed them again on the mission.

"If we succeed, this will open us up for many other opportunities, as this is a major factory we are targeting. Robotnik will lose one of his best resources, and we would have weapons and equipment, supposing they survive the blast." She said.

They all nodded gravely, they knew how risky this mission would be. Even with Sonic keeping SWATBots busy, there was enough patrols in the factory to consider. They would have to covertly handle this mission, get in unnoticed, get out unnoticed.

They departed for Robotropolis then, and with Sonic carrying Sally, Tails would fly with Bunnie. This way they could arrive at roughly the same time.

An hour later, they arrived near the factory, Uncle Chuck had provided them with the location of an empty building that looked like it was there since the Kingdom's days. They entered, and then it was Sonic's thurn, he rushe toward two SWATBots walking down the street, run a couple dozen laps around then, then screamed off. The SWATBots, being the dutiful things they were, immediately run after him, and alerted them that the "Priority One: Hedgehog" was on the move.

After about five minutes, the rest of the group went to the factory, but instead of running into the from door, Tails airlifted Sally and the Bunnie onto the roof. They lowered a rope, and Sally and Bunnie slipped in. Tails dropped in after gathering the rope and leaving it on the roof.

Things started to go downhill from there.

Sally and Bunnie managed to hide away, but when Tails dropped in, he landed righht in front of none other than Mecha Sonic. Tails went pale, all that planning, only for him to blow it. Mecha's blow came from the left, and it knocked Tails down to the floor below, with which Mecha jumped down, and landed on poor Tails, an unhealthy crunching noise was heard. Sally and Bunnie knew that the only person they could save was themselves, and started to run.

As Sally ran, she looked down, and saw Mecha finish Tails off, and toss off his carcass.

Sally sat bolt upright. It was dark, night. The mission hadn't even started yet and Sally already felt like she failed it. When she finally realized it was just a nightmare, she lay back down, and shivered, thinking of what she saw. Tails' death. But she knew she couldn't just keep him from going on the mission, it needed him.

A/N: What do you think? Not bad for a start! I might work on the next chapter soon if school doesn't kill me first, anyways, R/R please.