Chapter Three

The next day Knuckles got up early and went to Sandopolis. The same time two figures came up to the edge of the Great Forest. "We know that she is gone. Why are we here again?" A young light blue echidna asks to the older dark green hedgehog. "We have to make sure that Tails is all right, Zip."

"But Timothy that dragon scares me. She looks like a raptor." Zip said looking up at him.

"I know she scares me too, Zip but we have to." Timothy was carrying a shoulder bag that has a lab top, the blue chaos emerald, and some other stuff in it.

"Do you remember were to go to find Knothole, Tim." Zip said.

Timothy made a side look at Zip. "Yes, come on." Timothy starts walking into the forest but stop. He looked back at Zip. "Why can't we teleport there." Zip said looking at his right hand. Half of his arm was a cyborg.

"We been over this, we can't just appear near Knothole. They will think we're Time Rippers." Timothy said, "They don't know us, but we know them."

"I know, Timmy." Zip laughs a little.

"Very funny, now come on Zippy." Timothy said and starts walking.

"Don't call me Zippy." Zip start running to Timothy, "She going to kill us for being late, Timothy."

"If you didn't get in trouble in Sapphire City we will be here before Kayko." Timothy said, 'Now what was it, follow the stream for half a mile, then go east until you crossed a thin trail, follow that to the end, and we should be in Knothole.'

Zip look at the hedgehog. "Two to one we will be lost." Timothy gave Zip a side looks again.

At Knothole, Tails woke up early too. He looks around to see that he was in his hut. "They found me." He said to himself. He doesn't remember Nicholas finding him. "Who was she?" He said as he remembers what happen to him earlier. He heard a sound and looked to what made it. "That was a good night sleep." Tails looked at the toy on his desk, it was moving.

"Who, what are you?" He asks. He was a little afraid of the toy.

"What are you doing up so early?" She said, "Scratch that, what do you remember before you fall asleep?" She flew to Tails to see him batter.

"Who are you?" Tails asks again.

"You do like that question do you. Kay, I'm Peg. I'm the guardian beast of the Star Cards. Profencila what you died, but can't when she is in Kayko's body and you are the guardian of one card and I don't know why. Now we got that answer now answer my question." Peg took in a deep breath. Tails looked at her and she looks back. "Those two are late." She said decide to drop her question for now. Peg look at the card on the desk. She went to it and picks it up. "Here keep it with you no mater what." Peg went to him and put it in his hand.

"What is this?" Tails ask her.

"This is the card that held Profencila's power. You are the guardian of it. She has to kill you to get her power back." Tails look at her with wide eyes. "Sorry but you need to know. Buy the way, can you help me find Zipplis and Timothy. They were supposed to be here before Kayko. They are always late."

"Um…Peg who are they?" Tails said looking at the card.

"I'll tell you if you help me find them." She landed on his shoulder.

"Okay, but I'll write Sonic and the others a note that I'm gone." Tails found a piece of paper and a pen. He wrote that he'll be back and left it on his bed. Tails grab his book bag and left.

"Do you know where they are?" Tails ask once they were in the woods.

"They should be following a stream for about half a mile, then go east until they crossed a thin trail, and then follow that." Peg said.

"Oh…okay well we are following the trail. So can you tell me who is Zipplis and Timothy?" Tails said.

"Okay. Zip is an echidna about the age of ten. Timothy is a hedgehog about the age of fifteen. They are friends of Kayko."

"What?" Tails stop, "No, I'm going back." Tails start to go back to Knothole.

"Wait, Kayko won't kill anybody and Knuckles knows that." Peg said. She flew to Tails face.

"Knuckles knows her?" Tails asks.

"Yes, she told me that she was found by Knuckles and his father when she little." Peg told him, "She live with Knuckles before you and Sonic came to Angel Island for the first time. Timothy and Zip are nice kids too, but don't tell Timothy that I call him a kid."

"Okay." Tails start down the trail again. He turns west and walk to the stream. "Who is Profencila?" Tails asks Peg.

"I can't tell you much, but I can tell you what my mistress what you to hear. Profencila was a human. She tries to use the chaos and the super emeralds plus the master emerald to gain more power then she had. My mistress stops her and tokes Profencila's power and put the power in a card form. My mistress told me to guard all the cards when the time Profencila comes to take the emeralds power again."

Tails and Peg came up to the stream. They heard voices down the stream. "Zip gets back here."

"No, I'm going to Riverbase to keep her from getting the white chaos emerald." A light blue echidna with a green vast on came out. Peg flew up to him. Tails could hear him saying uh oh. "Where have you and Timothy been?" Peg said in Zip's face. A dark green hedgehog with a shoulder bag came into view. Little bit of his hair was in his face. Peg went to him. "And you…"

"Hey, it Zip's fault."

"It's not my fault that they gave me a speed ticket on Speedway." Tails heard the fight. He found out that Zip can run like Sonic, but then Peg and Timothy start fighting, Zip walked up to him.

"Hi I'm Zipplis but you can call me Zip. Don't worry they always fight." Zip said.

"I heard you said that a chaos emerald is at Riverbase." Zip node his head.

"Yep, the white chaos emerald is at a museum there." He said to Tails,

"Will you two stop fighting so we can go."

"Fine." Timothy said with his arms cross.

"Okay, Zip get us there."

"All rightly then." Zip removes his right glove. Tails saw that Zip right hand and half his arm was metal.

"Did Robotnik do that to your arm?" Tails asks.

"What?" Zip look at his hand. "Oh this no. My arm is a cyborg." Zip had his palm up and fingers moving. "Riverbase… our next stop." He turns his hand out, "Keep your arms and legs inside at all time." A green thread ran vertically, then the thread widened into a three foot green crack. It was a teleporter. Timothy walks up to Tails.

"Tails go back to Knothole were you're be safe." Then he step throws the porter.

"Well it was nice to see you." Zip walk up to the porter with Peg on his shoulder, "Tell Knuckles to keep his eyes on the master emerald. Bye." He step throws the porter. Tails ran to the porter. "Wait I'm coming too." He jumped in before the porter close.

To be continued…