Summary: After Jamie gets injured during a battle against Ivanna, Emily replaces her best friend for a new recruit for the team.
Characters: Emily the Hedgehog, Abby the Fox, Jena the Echidna, Vanessa the Chameleon, Jamie the Rabbit, Ivanna (the spoiled gynoid daughter of Dr. Eggman), Solaria and Chaos (Ivanna's robot marionette assistants), and Bumblebee (Ivanna's evil creation)
In a canyon-filled area on a hot sunny day, Emily was fighting against one of Ivanna's energy bolt coming from her arm cannons. The blue hedgehog was chasing her arch-enemy through the hot canyons while she was riding on roller blades made of crystals she created earlier as Ivanna was riding on her Egg Gear that she invented. The two girls raced rapidly through the deeper canyons in their never-ending chase.
"You can't win against me, Eggbrat!" Emily called mockingly, echoing through the dusty canyons.
"My name is Ivanna! My daddy's name is Dr. Eggman!" Ivanna cried, glaring back at the blue hedgehog. "You tease me on purpose!"
"Am I, Eggbrat?" Emily smiled, cocking her head and looked at the girl innocently as she blinked smartly.
Ivanna rounded another turn in the canyon with the blue hedgehog following only a second behind as she still continues to chase after her enemy. Suddenly, Emily's emerald green eyes widened and quickly pulled the breaks, forcing her crystalline roller blades to stop moving. Emily came to a lucky stop on the edge of a massive crater in front of him. She stood on the safe, solid ground and found herself in a corkscrew-shaped mineshaft. Emily immediately looked up as Ivanna floated easily above the crater above her.
"This ends now, you blue rat." Ivanna said sneeringly. "Prepare to meet your doom by Bumblebee!"
Ivanna snapped her fingers to summon her robot. Emily's gaze turned to a large robot appeared on the edge of the cliff gleaming menacingly as it balanced on two wheels. The robot was a feminine looking one with has two yellow metal spikes protruding at the back of her head while the rest of its body is colored yellow. Emily raised an eyebrow, having a plan to confuse Ivanna on the specific inconsistency of Bumblebee's name as it does not actually look like a bee with stringer.
"Bumblebee? Is that thing gonna string me with stringers or something?" Emily smiled, placing her arms on her hips sassily.
"Stringers? Um, no...I..." Ivanna stammered as triumphant smile vanished into a frown of confusion.
"No? Razor wings? Laser beams?" Emily mocked, quite enjoying the discomfort that Ivanna seemed to be feeling right now.
"Um, hello. It's her blades." Ivanna snarled, quickly trying to recover the situation. "Very painful blades."
To demonstrate, Bumblebee raised her arms and brought the two blades on each hand clashing together viciously.
"Well, as an evil genius, you should come up with robot that has a better name." Emily continued with a smile. "No wonder your precious father is better genius than you."
Ivanna's face slowly grew redder by the second and finally exploded, cutting the blue hedgehog's sentence off.
"I'm in charge of my robots, you spineless hedgehog! Bumblebee, attack!" Ivanna screeched, pointing irritably at the smiling hedgehog.
Bumblebee immediately obeyed and jumped down to land heavily on her wheels, racing towards the blue hedgehog. Emily smirked and sprinting away in the same direction the robot was going on her crystal roller blades. As they chased each other into the spiraling crater and down the paths of the mineshaft with exchanged glances, an orange rabbit suddenly flew above them with her flight rabbit ears and used her orange earplug communicator to contact Emily.
"Crystal Blue, this is Orange Jet, I have eyes on Bumblebee." Jamie reported. "She's on the move. Over."
"Thanks, Jamie." Emily said, using her blue earplug communicator to contact Jamie. "Initiate the 'swift swing surprise' attack."
As Emily and Bumblebee are about to clash in the shaft by launching off their jumps and headed straight for each other, Jamie suddenly dove down into a steep curve straight down into the crater to help Emily counterattack Bumblebee. Emily grabbed the orange energy rope from Jamie that quickly powered up from her bracelet and swung herself into the robot, knocking it into a wall of the shaft. Emily dropped to the ground as she skidded to a stop with her crystal roller blades.
"Come on, Bumblebee! Get up!" Ivanna howled at her robot.
As Bumblebee obeyed and got up from the ground, it stretches its claws out in the air and pierced the rabbit's hair brands. Jamie's triumph look turned into horror for a second and immediately losing control of one of her rabbit ears.
"C'mon, Jamie, don't fall!" Emily yelled frantically into her ear communicator as she raced forward to watch her best friend spiraling rapidly out of control.
Jamie quickly pulled the lever of her own parachute, but it failed to help her out as the whole thing came of her belt. Noticing this, Emily went over to save her friend. But that robot Bumblebee landed in front of her and lunged another blade at the blue hedgehog. Emily dodged the attack and shot out a swift crystalline kick to knock a boulder that fell on top of Bumblebee. Emily quickly got out of the shaft just in time to see Jamie crash as she hit the ground.
"Jamie! No!" Emily screeched.
The blue hedgehog froze with her emerald green eyes widened massive with fear, but she came back to his sense and sped over to the crash site to check her best friend.
"We'll be back, hedgehog!" Ivanna howled loudly as she used her Egg Gear to carry her broken robot away and retreat back to her father's lair.
When Emily reached to the crash site, she found Jamie lying on the ground knocked out and in bad shape. She bent down and put one ear on the rabbit's chest and sighed in relief when she found a heartbeat, knowing that Jamie's still alive.
"Rest, Jamie. I'll take you home." Emily said softly as she picked up her best friend from the ground and carried her back home. "I promise that I will never let you get hurt anymore."
Inside Jamie's house, Emily noticed that the exterior and interior of her best friend's home is plain but accurate. The outside of the plain house has orange brick walls with an eternally smoking chimney on top while the inside of the plain house is a wooden floor with a raised star-shaped platform in the middle, a kitchen, a scientific lab, and a fireplace. On the walls, Emily sighed happily as she remembers the pictures of herself and Jamie having a sisterly time with each other. Quickly, Emily spun around to see her friend opening her eyes blurily sat up with a groan.
"Emily?" Jamie said.
"Jamie, how are you feeling?" Emily asked with a smile as she immediately ran to her friend and glad to see her best friend is up and well.
"Feeling good." Jamie replied, getting up from the couch. "Ready to get back to work."
"Um, yeah. Here's the thing..." Emily smiled awkwardly. She took a deep breath and ready to speak. "I'm replacing you."
"You're replacing me?" Jamie repeated.
"Yeah, you're taking a break from being part of the team and get your relaxation through yourself. Hope you're not mad." Emily said quickly.
"I'm not." Jamie said coolly.
"Look I'm doing this for you..." Emily said until she heard what her friend just said. "Wait, what?"
Emily wants to tell Jamie that she can't no longer be in the team on their adventures. Surprisingly, Jamie took it casually enough.
"I'm not mad. I'll relax." Jamie said casually as she laid on her couch. "You go have fun while I'll sit here and relax. Maybe I do need relaxation."
"Um, okay, bye." Emily said awkwardly as she took off.
Meanwhile, Emily explained to her other friends about not letting Jamie continuing to join them in their adventures, but of course, they gave them a look. Even though she still felt guilty about her decision, Emily sadly looked down at the ground.
"Don't look at me like that. I did what I had to do." Emily said, glaring at Abby, Vanessa, and Jena. "And now gotta make sure she's safe from danger forever."
"Wow, I can't believe she brought it." Abby said. "That's so not her at all."
"But what are we gonna do now?" Jena asked. "Who can take Jamie's spot?"
"Not that mention, I've found a person who can fill in the spot." Vanessa said.
Unfortunately, in the living room at Dr. Eggman's lair, Ivanna catches wind of her four enemies and learn about Jamie's new replacement, even though she has no great interest in being part of Emily's team.
"Can't you believe this nonsense?" Ivanna snapped at the two robots in front of her before looking back at her IPad-like device. "Emily is replacing Jamie for someone to take her spot on the team. Such a shame."
"Pretty pointless indeed, mistress." Chaos answered gloomily.
"Especially when your robot wasn't nearly powerful enough to destroy that rabbit when you had it." Solaria added unhelpfully.
"Zip it, Solaria!" Ivanna snapped. Then, she raised one eyebrow as she believes that could be the perfect plan to lure Emily into a trap for her evil scheme. "Unless...Oh, this is gonna be fun!"
At Emily's house, she and her friends are waiting the girl that Vanessa told them about. Vanessa mentions that the girl has the same exact intelligence and strategies as Jamie with many incredible martial art skills that are amazingly impossible to avoid. In a few seconds, the girls arrived in the house just in time for her spot. She is a dark orange rabbit with long dark orange ponytail that reaches down to her back, dark green eyes, and wore a black tube top, black shorts, and black combat boots.
"Hello, my name is Scarlett and I'm here to fill your friend's spot on the team." The rabbit introduced in a sassy Scottish tone.
"Yeah, so here's the question. What would you do, in a no-win situation?" Emily asked carefully.
"If I'm with you, there's no such thing as a no-win situation!" Scarlett answered promptly.
"Wow, I like your way of thinking, Scarlett." Emily grinned, feeling impressed. "Vanessa told us that you can manipulate electricity through that high-tech ring of yours."
"Yeah, show us what you got." Jena agreed.
Scarlett closed her eyes for a moment. When she opened them again, they are glowing yellow as she generates a small sphere of electricity from her hands through the power of her golden ring. After a few seconds, she let it disappear from her palms in front of the girls.
"Good news. Scarlett, you're hired." Emily grinned brightly.
"Yes!" Scarlett smiled.
"Hello." A familiar voice greeted.
Emily, Abby, Jena, Vanessa, and Scarlett got into battle-ready stances as the spoiled girl walked into the room.
"Ivanna!" Vanessa exclaimed.
"What are you doing here?" Jena snapped, glaring at her enemy.
"I'm here for the genius tryout, duh." Ivanna smiled sassily.
"What?! But you are our arch-nemesis!" Emily said confusingly.
"True, but I can the prefect asset on your team." Ivanna said smugly. "As you know, I am a genius thanks to my evil genius daddy."
"But you can't be the genius of the team." Emily said with a glare. "You know why? Because you're evil."
"Wait a minute. Let Ivanna and Scarlett have an one-on-one battle." Jena suggested. "We watch them fight for taking Jamie's spot."
"Is fighting always your option, Jen?" Abby questioned warily.
"I have to agree with Jena." Vanessa agreed to Emily. "We'll be judging on their skills and knowledge in the fight."
"Alright, fine." Emily grinned before turning to Ivanna and Scarlett. "We'll set you two in a battle for the spot in the team."
"We accept." Ivanna and Scarlett nodded their heads.
Ivanna and Scarlett glared at each other over the edge of the steep cliff as Emily, Vanessa, Jena, and Abby were sitting on the ground to watch the battle.
"Alright, being in Jamie's replacement is not an easy task." Emily said professionally. "This battle will test your strength, stamina, and knowledge through your strategy. And the winner standing will take the spot in our team."
"Now that's out of their way." Jena said. She released a rough scream. "FIGHT!"
As the battle started quickly, Ivanna and Scarlett clashed together. Emily, Abby, Jena, and Vanessa watched them fought with speed and skills as they surveyed the battle. Ivanna's arms transformed into laser cannons and send out an energy bolt one by one, coming towards the rabbit. Scarlett ducked and dodged the energy bolts before releasing many electric punches and kicks that hit Ivanna from the arms and torso. Ivanna's eyes narrowed and Scarlett let out a sly grin.
"What's going on here?" Emily asked curiously.
"Her moves are almost similar to Jamie." Vanessa whispered.
"I have to admit." Abby said, staring at Scarlett's shoes. "You gonna love the boots."
"Shut up about the boots already!" Jena hissed, slapping the back of Abby's head. "You've been talking about it for hours!"
"There's nothing I can handle." Scarlett declared vaguely to the girls.
Scarlett went back to battle against Ivanna. Emily's eyes narrowed and gazed closely at the skillful rabbit.
"Give it up, Ivanna!" Scarlett said determinedly. "That job is rightfully mine!"
"I'm not here to join the team, you loser!" Ivanna snapped. "I'm here to destroy you and the team once and for all!"
To Scarlett's shock and confusion, Ivanna snapped her fingers and an updated Bumblebee came back up out of nowhere. Emily, Jena, Vanessa, and Abby saw all of that and their eyes narrowed. They jumped off the grass and snarled at Ivanna. Scarlett's eyes widened and she jumped back as Bumblebee lashed out with a blade. The rabbit was doing fast spins and flips to avoid being attacked again. Bumblebee then send out a powerful kick at Scarlett's stomach, sending the rabbit flying from the cliff. Emily, Jena, Vanessa, and Abby widened their eyes with terror as Scarlett was slammed into the frozen icy lake. They quickly sped harder to save their friend.
"Scarlett!" Emily called worriedly.
"Girls! I'm stuck!" Scarlett shouted.
Emily, Abby, Jena, and Vanessa lunged forward and raced over the slick ice, trying to free Scarlett. The rabbit came free from the frozen water and all of them tumbled forward onto the ice. The girls pushed themselves up on their arms and then turned their attention to the rabbit.
"You alright?" Emily asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Scarlett smiled with a nod. "But I'm also..." She used her ring to change herself into a very familiar rabbit in front of the girls' eyes. "Jamie."
"Jamie!" Emily exclaimed. "I thought you were cool with the whole being fired thing!"
"And you believe that?" Jamie questioned. "I disguised myself as Scarlett just to be back on the spot. The other girls knew the plan as well."
"You guys knew?" Emily inquired, turning to her three other friends.
"Yup." Abby nodded quickly.
"Uh-huh!" Jena said quickly.
"Pretty much." Vanessa replied quickly.
"Unless there's something you're not telling me." Jamie said with her eyes narrowed.
Emily took a deep breath and decides to come clean to her best friend.
"Look, Jamie, I didn't really want to fire you literally." Emily explained. "I was just trying to protect you because of that fight earlier with Ivanna."
"And how's that working for you?" Jamie asked, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Not too great." Emily admitted. "The plan had too many backfires."
Then, Jamie smiled and accepted her friend's reason for apology.
"Oh ladies!" Ivanna called out. "I have one last surprise for you all. I took Emily's advice! Bumblebee can use stringers!"
Two cannons pulled on the front of the robot's chest and shot out stringers towards the girls. Emily conjured up a crystalline mirror to protect herself and her friends from the attack. Abby shot out several pink energy bolts from her hands at the left side while Jena shot out purple energy blasts at the right. And Vanessa used her magic to freeze incoming stringers from above next to Abby while Jamie uses her telekinesis to release a strong psychic energy shockwave with a fast swing of her arm and then paralyze the robot from above next to Jena. With the robot down, Emily took the opportunity and dropped down her crystal shield in order for her to unleash multiple crystal shards at the robot. Bumblebee fell backwards and sank into the water when the ice started to break down below. The girls smiled each other in victory.
"Vanessa, get us out of here." Emily smiled to Vanessa.
"Thought you'd never ask." Vanessa smiled back.
At her words, a cloud of smoke began to swirl around the girls and the smoke teleported them away from the enemy, leaving Ivanna all alone.
"I'll be back! With a new robot! You can count on it!" Ivanna yelled.
Meanwhile, Emily and Jamie sat a good distance away from the beach and watched the sun over the water.
"Now, about the replacement, made your decision yet?" Jamie grinned.
"Well, I did." Emily grinned back. "So welcome back, Jamie."
Jamie smiled, but she look around to notice that Vanessa, Jena, and Abby aren't here with them.
"Oh, by the way, where's Jen and the others?" Jamie asked.
Meanwhile, to answer Jamie's question, Vanessa and the other two girls were back at Emily's house. Vanessa and Jena were relaxing on the sand until they spotted Abby in her new look as she wore the same ring that Jamie wore in her disguise. She wore a dark pink leotard with a pink vest and belt, and a pair of dark pink boots. Also, her hair was pulled up into a high ponytail.
"You have got to be kidding me." Jena groaned.
"Are you using Jamie's disguise ring?" Vanessa asked, turning her gaze to Abby.
"Yup, and it's totally worth my fashion sense and taste." Abby smiled.
"Like there's a huge difference between you were before and you are now." Jena snickered.
"Is that so?" Abby smirked, pulling out another ring of her belt pocket. "Good thing Jamie made more."
"Abby, I know that grin anywhere! Leave me alone!" Jena said nervously, noticing Abby's sly grin and raced away.
"C'mon, Jen!" Abby shouted, racing after Jena. "Embrace the ring!"
Vanessa watched her friends running around the beach and shrugged her shoulders. She snapped her fingers to summon her black skull headphones on her ears and laid back on the sand in relaxation.
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