As hedgehog and dragon rushed forth at each other, vision seemed to become a blur that kept loving until it froze, and as the dust cleared both fighters had made the same move, rushing forward to land a hit to the stomach. Both had been punched so hard that at this moment, they could feel the shock of the attack from the perspective of birds flying away from nearby trees.
Sonic was the first to react. He grabbed Lilac's arm and Boosted for the kill. Before his opponent knew what was happening, she'd been plowed clean through a large natural rock formation and popped out along with Sonic on the top. But Lilac was by no means done yet, and she freed herself by kicking Sonic square in the jaw, knocking him over the edge and back down to the crater.
The landing of Sonic's body was hard enough to cause large and visible cracks in the surrounding area. The cracks reached Tails, Carol and Milla at roughly the same time, causing each of them to instinctively leap away at the same moment…and as all three made direct eye contact, the look in their eyes was more than enough to start a fight of their own.
The first to strike was Carol, leaping off the wall to claw at Tails. While he narrowly dodged, he then saw that Milla's guard was down and flew over to strike while he had the chance. Unfortunately his flight was just too slow, giving Milla the time she needed to knock him out of the air with a Phantom Cube, putting him directly in Carol's way…with no way out.
Sonic was woken up shortly thereafter by the sound of Tails being punched repeatedly…and by the pain of Lilac kneeing him in the stomach. "Wait, stop, Eggman's the bad guy here" Sonic yelled as a last resort. "If that were true, you wouldn't have attacked me so willingly" retorted Lilac, as she prepared her knee to get into position and break his back.
Not quite down for the count yet however, Sonic decided the time had come to truly go all-out, and broke into a Spindash, the rapid velocity burning Lilac's hands enough to make her let go. As she winced in pain, she observed Sonic move up…and fall back down to spin into her face and knock her out.
"Hang in there, Tails" Sonic called. Tails, deciding enough was enough, got serious as well, grabbing Carol by the head to slam her jaw into his knee. While he aimed for Milla next, all fighters present remembered something: the Chaos Emerald! But it was too little, too late, as Eggman had obtained it and flew off laughing maniacally.
Waking up, Lilac called to the apparently-successful alien she just helped "We were just happy to lend a hand". "Really" Eggman called back "because soon enough you'll likely be regretting it". As he flew off and disappeared inside his ship, it began lifting off into the sky. "Before I head off into space" he yelled over a loudspeaker "I think its best I dispose of the evidence". As all five looked up, the ship fired down a huge blast of energy.
Thinking quickly, Milla created a shield to protect them from the blast. While Sonic, Tails and Team Lilac were unaffected, the surroundings weren't so lucky. In an instant, they exploded in a fiery flash of light, creating a huge dust cloud that blanketed both parties as the ship flew off beyond the planet's orbit.
"Good job, Milla you…saved us" Carol managed to get out between coughing fits. She turned to Sonic and Tails. "Sorry for attacking you, that creep tricked us into thinking he just wanted to keep peace by obtaining the Chaos Emeralds." "Any peace offering from that guy is just another one of his lame excuses to nab those Emeralds and rule the world" Sonic replied. "But I accept your apology. "
"Eggman messed it up big time for Sonic and I though" Tails pointed out. "The ship we used to get here was in the blast radius, and now that it's gone we're stranded and can't get back to Earth!" After thinking it over, Sonic came to a conclusion. "Hey, you three" he asked "mind if we stay with you until we can go home?"
Team Lilac all looked at each other. Sure, they just had a pretty brutal fight with these two. On the other hand, they were now united against a common enemy, one with the means to cause large quantities of havoc and destruction to Avalice. If the duo they just met might be their only means of stopping Eggman, it was a risk worth taking.
"Sure" Lilac agreed.
A while later, the two teams were assembled in Team Lilac's treehouse as night fell. Sonic was eating some pizza and channel surfing with Milla, who was more invested at the moment in observing the first hedgehog she'd ever seen. Tails was taking a nap, exhausted from all that had happened in the day, and Lilac and Carol were out getting supplies to accomodate for the increase in people in the treehouse. As Sonic finally settled on a game show channel, Milla stopped to watch. "Oh my god, I love that show" Lilac exclaimed as she entered the house and put some heavy bags on the table. "You are aware this is a rerun, right" Carol grumpliy followed.
Suddenly, the TV jumped to static, followed by a completely new broadcast. Dr. Eggman appeared on screen, delivering a message, as Tails woke up from the sudden change of sound. "We interrupt your regularly scheduled crappy soap-operas to deliver something much more entertaining: an ultimatum for this planet's leaders! My main armada of space battleships is making it's way through this solar system accompanying a giant claw that will drag this world out of it's orbit, all the way back to my Interstellar Amusement Park as it's latest addition! Your only option is to adhere to my new ransom: six Chaos Emeralds. You have 168 hours to comply, so hop to it! Thank you for your time, and you may now go back to wasting away on the sofa."
As our heroes took in what just happened, Carol remarked "Well, lookie what the hedgehog from space dragged in". "I have done literally nothing wrong" was Sonic's only response.