Chapter 2

It was an absolutely beautiful morning in the Emerald Forest. Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and their new friend Mikysara woke up to the cheerful chirping of birds. They cleaned up the campsite and started out of the clearing.

"I'm very grateful for your offer to let me stay with you guys until my memory recovers, but, I don't how long that will take. I wouldn't want to be a burden." said Mikysara as they walked along.

"Hmm… We could rotate. First you can stay at my house for a bit, then Sonic's, then Knuckles. That way we can teach you different stuff about the area. That should make your stay a little easier." suggested Tails.

"That sounds great! I can't wait to learn anything and everything!" said Mikysara with a huge grin.

As they were walking, a breeze began to wind through the trees. "So guys-" Mikysara was interrupted by a rumble of thunder that quickly escalated into an explosion. The wind kicked up and began to howl as dark clouds swirled in the sky. Lightining tore at the sky like a vicious animal as another roar of thunder rang out.

"Where the hell did this storm come from?!" shouted Knuckles over the wind.

"I don't know! But we need to find shelter! We can go to my house! It's the closest!" yelled Tails.

"Uh guys? We may have a bit of a situation!" exclaimed Sonic. Sonic was franticly dodging a hailstorm of lightning bolts that seemed set on frying him.


The bolts were striking everywhere as Tails and Knuckles dove for cover. Mikysara was about to follow suit when suddenly she noticed that her locket was glowing bright yellow. Looking up, Mikysara gasped as she spotted a lightning bolt shoot towards Sonic as he was dodging a different bolt. He doesn't see it! Someone has to warn him! Mikysara shouted, "Sonic! Look out!" with her arm outstretched and pointing. Sonic turned around to see the lightning bolt inches from his face. Knowing he wouldn't be able to dodge, Sonic braced himself for the blow.

However, it never came. The bolt had come to a standstill a mere hairbreadth from Sonic's nose. A yellowish aura surrounded the bolt and weaved through the air from Mikysara's hand. The locket around Mikysara's neck pulsated with the same yellow aura. Mikysara was dumbfounded that she had somehow stopped a lightning bolt with a simple gesture. Suddenly she felt lightheaded as if all of her strength was being used up and things were beginning to fade to black. Mikysara collapsed and the lightning bolt flew and struck a tree. Everyone immediately gathered around. "Mikysara! Are you alright?" said Sonic as he knelt beside her.


Mikysara began to come to, "Ugh. What happened?"

Tails replied, "Something quite interesting. But we can talk about that later! Right now we need to get to my house!" Out of a nowhere, a large creak sounded as a gust of wind slammed the tree that had been hit with the lightning bolt with amazing force. The tree gave, as a thunderous crack sounded and splinters were sprayed in every direction. The tree cast a shadow that doomed everything beneath it as it toppled towards the four friends.

"Run!" yelled Sonic as they scrambled out of the way. Mikysara struggled to her feet but drained of their energy, her leg muscles refused to function and she fell. She let out a frightened cry as the tree beared down on her. Realizing what had transpired Sonic and Knuckles dashed back to the tree. Knuckles snagged the tree and lifted it just high enough for Sonic to slide under and grab Mikysara. Once the two were clear, he let the tree slam the ground.

"I think I pulled a muscle from grabbing the tree like that. You two alrite?" asked Knuckles as he rolled his shoulders.

"I'm fine." responded Sonic. He looked at Mikysara, "Are you ok?"

"Yeah. Im sorry, I don't know what happened."

"Its ok. But until we get some where safe, I think its best if I carry you." said Sonic with a kind smile.

"Ok guys lets get out of here." said Tails as the clouds began to pour rain.


They ran through the forest as the rain came down in sheets, reaching Tails' house without anymore problems. They all crowded onto the porch and out of the rain while Tails undid his various locks.

Sonic put Mikysara down, "Think you can walk now?"

"Yeah. Thanks a ton for -whoa!" Mikysara slipped on a wet part of the porch and began to fall backwards towards the muddy ground.

"Whoops!" said Sonic as he caught Mikysara by the arm, "That would have been a nasty fall." He pulled Mikysara back onto the porch and out of the rain.

She smiled, "Thanks. I guess one of the things I forgot about myself is that I'm really clumsy!" Sonic laughed as Tails unlocked the door.

"Jeez Tails, don't you think you have one too many locks on your door? We could have been inside like twenty minutes ago." complained Knuckles as they stepped inside.

"Why do you have so many locks Tails?" asked Mikysara as she rung out her dripping tail.

"Its to protect my inventions." replied Tails as he gave his tails a quick spin.

As he flipped quills toward the ground and quickly whipped them back up to shake off the water, Sonic said teasingly, "And because hes really paranoid.".


Once everyone was dried off, they sat down in Tails' large living room. A few bean bag chairs sat around the room and in the middle was a couch. On the far wall was an entertainment center with a TV, DVD player, and a couple of video game consles. "Ok. We know for a fact that something funny is going on here. Storms like the one outside don't just materalize out of nowhere." began Tails as he sat down on one of his bean bag chairs.

"Yeah. I'm no meteorologist but that storm had the strength of something out of a si-fi movie." agreed Sonic as he leaned against the wall.

"Guys, it on the tips of our tounges so I'm going to just say it. 5 bucks says that Eggman is behind this." said Knuckles.

"Whos Eggman?"asked Mikysara.

"Eggman is our nemises. Hes really fat with a big mustashe and when things go wrong around here, hes usually behind it." explained Tails.

"That guy is bad news. Hes shady and is definitly not to be trusted." added Knuckles.

"Eggman has a pretty nasty collection of tricks, and robots, up his sleeve. Knux here has found that out the hard way, 3 times." put in Sonic.

Knuckles frowned at Sonic, "First of all, don't call me Knux and second of all, you're not gonna let me forget that are you?"

"Not a chance buddy." replied Sonic with a wink.

"Grrr…"

"Anyways, you think this Eggman guy could be behind the storm?" asked Mikysara.

"That would be the only explaination. Oh, and speaking of explainations, I think I've figured out what happened earlier in the forest." said Tails.


"I was just about to bring that up. So whats the scoop?" said Knuckles.

"Mikysara, I don't know if you knew it, but I do believe that what you did with the lightining bolt was a brillant demonstration of an uniquie ability know as telekinesis. Telekniesis is the act of moving and/or manipulating objects with your mind." said Tails.

"Whoa wait a minute. So if Mikysara has telekniesis, doesn't that mean shes psycic?" asked Knuckles.

"Huh. I guess it does."said Tails

"Wow, that's something else I must have forgotten about myself…" said Mikysara. She than thought, I wish I could remember a least one thing about this locket around my neck. I get the feeling its important.

"What do you think Mikysara?" asked Sonic.

"Huh?" said Mikysara as she looked up from her locket.

"We're trying to figure out what Eggman could gain from creating a monster storm and I asked you what you think."

"Oh. Ummm… I don't know what a bad guy would get out of making a storm."

"Instead of sitting around and trying to guess what Eggman is up to, why don't we take the X-Tornado into the storm and find out?" suggested Knuckles.

Tails shook his head and replied, "That would be the easy solution but, the storm makes it far too dangerous to fly."

"Is the X-Tornado a plane?" asked Mikysara.

"Yep my pride and joy. I bulit her from sctrach.", said Tails with a smile, "She can fly at over 100 mph and has a buit in ring-flinger. Shes packing heat seeking C-4 missiles, a fully automatic machine gun with armor piercing rounds, and a supersonic EMP laser blast that's guaranteed to down any aircraft. And that's just the tip of the ice berg of things my baby can do.", Tails gave a sigh; "I love that plane."


"It sounds like it would be useful in fighting Eggman." pointed out Mikysara.

"It is. The X-Tornado has helped us win against Eggman more times than we can count." said Sonic.

"Well what if Eggman has a plan but in order for it to work, he has to make sure the X-Tornado won't get in the way. So he made something that can make it too dangerous to fly. With one machine he eliminated your best weapon and transportation."

"That just might be it! It makes perfect sense!" said Tails

"Nice one Miky." said Sonic with a thumbs-up.

Mikysara said, "Miky?"

Sonic scratched his ear in embarrassment, "Sorry, I tend to nickname people."

Knuckles rolled his eyes, "Yeah, whether they want to be nicknamed or not."

"It's ok. Mikysara is a bit of a pain to say. Miky has a nice ring to it. I like it." replied Miky as she grinned.

Sonic gave a little laugh, "Well ok. Now we just need to figure out Eggman's main plan and we're golden."

After a moment of thought Tails said, "Hmmm well if Eggman has created a weather machine to aid him in his plot, then we should destroy that first. But the problem is that more likely than not, the weather machine is in the sky. How are we going to get high enough to even try looking for it?"

Knuckles jumped up, "We can go to Angel Island! We climb Red Mountain, cross the bridge, and look from Angel Island. Then, when we find the thing, we smash it!"

"What are we waiting for then? Let's go!" said Miky.


"Whoa, hold up. Miky, I think it would be best if you stayed here. It's too dangerous." said Sonic.

"Too dangerous? The guy's name is Eggman! How dangerous can it be?"

"Very dangerous! Unless you just remembered that you're a top-notch fighter, it's too risky to bring you along."

"Sonics right Miky. Our battles with Eggman get pretty rough." cut in Tails.

"Yeah no offense, but we need to be able to do our thing without having to worry about you getting hurt." agreed Knuckles.

"We'll be back before you know it. Come on guys, let's go scramble us some Eggman!" said Sonic as they left. Miky gave a dejected sigh and plopped down on one of the bean bag chairs. Then she had an idea…


Author's Note: Oh boy, what is she up to? I'll guess we'll have to wait and find out! Although the way I keep posting, that won't be very long lol. XD Also, I've been thinking about what the cover of this story should be. I'm torn between a group shot with the main characters of the story and a map of the "Homefront" where the adventures take place. Let me know what you think in a review or PM if you can spare the time. Please read, review, and most of all, enjoy.