Chapter Three

Doctor Eggman looked through his tracking system, looking for anything to destroy that seemed worthy of destroying… Like the blue hedgehog, Sonic.

"Sir," A short, skinny girl with brown hair and a suit like Eggman's walked up next to him. "The Cloning Machine is done."

"Ah, very good Eggwonna, very good." He turned around to give her a pat on the back, then his radar went crazy going of in a shrill, Beep! Beeep! Beeeep!

"Agh! We have intruders!" Eggman turned around to look in the tracking system. Eggwonna tried to peer into it as well, but Eggman pushed her aside.

"Well, well, if it isn't our fuzzy friends, fox boy and his buddies, Shadow…some hedgehog…and some other hedgehog and a…fox… WHO ARE THESE?!" He asked

trying to identify Lizzy, Coal, Icefire, and Silver.

"Sir," Eggwonna said finally being able to look through the tracker, "Those are my arch rivals."

"Oh, are they now?" Eggman started to laugh.

"Sir?"

"Tell me Eggwonna, my girl, which one of these fuzzy creatures is the most powerful?"

Eggwonna thought for a moment before answering, "Well, sir, Lizzy, the fox, doesn't have any powers but she is really good with machines—"

"Ah, like fox boy down there!" Eggman interrupted.

"—Yes, but she can fight like crazy… Coal, the dark hedgehog, I don't really know what power she has but, she also can fight like crazy, and—"

"Ah-ha!" Eggman interrupted again, "Just like Shadow…"

"—Yes, sir, and Icefire she can control, um, ice and fire…also she can levitate things including herself."

"Hm, and the last hedgehog? The silver one?"

"Uh, sir, I don't know that one…"

"Ah, well you still didn't answer my question."

Eggwonna froze. She gulped and waited for Eggman to explode.

"WHICH ONE IS THE MOST POWERFUL?" He exploded. He was still fuming so she decided to wait till he calmed down. Finally he calmed down and she said,

"Icefire is probably the most powerful…"

"Good, prepare to capture her!" He said grinning very widely, "It's time to test out our little cloning machine…"

"Uh, with what shall I capture her, sir?" Eggwonna asked.

"With what? Well, with The Demolisher!" Eggman replied.

"Yes sir!"

The six were getting closer and closer to Mystic Ruins when Lizzy had the most wonderful idea, she turned to the others and announced. "We would get there

faster if we took the T.T.!"

"The what?" Shadow asked.

"The T.T. or the Turbo Twister." She said again.

"What's the Turbo Twister?" Silver asked.

"My plane."

"Oh, cool! Is it kind of like the X-Tornado?" Tails asked. He remembered, early that day, he was fixing it. Then he also remembered that day Sonic had died…

trying to protect him like he always did.

"I guess," Lizzy said not knowing what Tails was talking about, "Come on, luckily, we are not to far away from her!" She ran off towards her plane, the others

following. Shortly they arrived in a medium sized meadow with a plane right in the middle. It was narrow-built and sleek.

"She's made to go fast, isn't she a beauty?" She asked.

Tails gawked at the plane and walked around it in amazement. "You built this?" He asked.

"Sure did!" Lizzy replied.

"This is amazing! It's built so fine and everything about it is perfect!" Tails said as he looked under the plane then all over it. Lizzy laughed and said, "Glad you

think so!"

Shadow and Coal rolled their eyes. Finally after a long pause Shadow asked, "Shouldn't we be going?"

Tails, who was looking at the engine of the plane, suddenly realized Shadow's point.

"Oh my gosh! You are so right Shadow! Ok, let's go! Um, Lizzy you do the honors."

Lizzy smiled at the fox and nodded, "All right, everybody in!"

Meanwhile, when Tails was checking out the T.T. Icefire started to wander away. She sat down on a rock and watched a butterfly go by, when something

caught her eye. It was a small, white, bunny and it was hopping closer and closer to her. She smiled at it, and then reached out to pet the animal.

The bunny made no move to run away so Icefire picked it up. It felt heavy and metallic; she realized it wasn't a normal bunny but a metal bunny. Before she

could throw the thing, it shot out a metal net from its mouth and it fell on top of Icefire, trapping her. She threw the creature and tried to get out of the metal

mesh.

The more she struggled the more the mesh got tighter and tighter around her, until she couldn't move at all. She tried to call out to anyone but the mesh had

encircled her muzzle, so she couldn't speak. She heard laughter and someone say the name the Demolisher, looking up she saw a tall, overweight man and a

short, skinny girl.

Eggwonna!

"Hey, wait Lizzy, where's Icefire?" Silver asked as he looked around for the small hedgehog. Lizzy, who was already in the plane with Tails, looked down at the

spot where Icefire was, but she was gone. Franticly now she looked all around the meadow as far as the eye could see, but she couldn't see Icefire anywhere.

"Look!" Tails said pointing up at the giant Eggman ship that was going up over their heads. They could make out the Eggcarrier that was going up to the

massive ship. They also could make out the distinct outline of Eggman and a smaller person. Next to them was Icefire.

"Oh, no! Eggman has Icefire!" Lizzy cried out, "Quick everybody get in! We have to save her!"

Shadow, Coal, and Silver climbed into the T.T. and Lizzy started the engine. She turned the plane around and took off.

Eggman turned around to see the plane, that he thought was X-Tornado, take off towards him.

"That stupid fox is coming after me isn't he?" He said to Eggwonna.

"It certainly looks like it, sir." She replied.

"Arg!" Eggman yelled. He put full speed on the Eggcarrier and they shot faster towards the main ship.

The T.T. went faster and faster towards Eggman's ship.

"Tails," Lizzy shouted, "You know his ship the best. Where is the entrance?"

"Uh, just follow him as closely as you can." He replied.

"There!" Silver shouted, "There! Right there, is an opening that looks like an entrance!"

Silver was pointing at the far right; it was not where Eggman was going.

"Where?" Just then Lizzy saw it and started closing in.

"There! There!" Silver repeated.

"I see it! I see it!" Lizzy shouted at him, "This is gonna be a rough landing!"

Just as she was done saying it they crashed right into the gap, sliding and banging against the sides.

"The T.T. is too big!" Coal cried out.

"I'm sorry, girl!" Lizzy said as she tried to control the plane. Finally they came to a sliding, crunching, stop. The T.T. was ruined.

"Oh, great, there goes our transportation to Mystic Ruins…" Coal muttered.

"Oh, shut up." Lizzy said glaring at Coal, "At least we're fine. Okay, let's split up… Coal and Shadow you guys will be going together, And Silver, Tails, and I will

go together. Let's go find Icefire!"

Tails, Lizzy and Silver started down the long hallway that the T.T. had crashed down on. Shadow and Coal started down the same way when they saw a door.

"Let's go check in here." Shadow said as he opened the door. They stepped in. They were in another long hallway, like the one they were just in, but narrower.

Surrounding them was a bunch of dead robots, or so they thought. Shadow's eyes jumped from one robot to the next.

Coal was peering down the hallway, trying to see what was at the very far back. She looked behind her feeling that something was watching them.

"What is this place?" She wondered aloud.

"It looks like a room that Eggman throws away his broken toys." Shadow replied.

"Yeah, it does kind of look like it doesn't it…but I have this feeling that these robots aren't…dead." As soon as she said that, all the robots eyes lit up.

"Great!" Coal whispered, "You woke them up!"

She made a face at one of the robots. The robots got up from where they were sitting or standing at and advanced at them.

"You're going to die and I am going to watch you die." A familiar voice from the back of the room said.

"Eggwonna!" Coal growled.

"Yes! It is the awesome Eggwonna!" She smiled, "Robots! Kill them!"

The robots surrounded them moving closer and closer.