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Sonic's POV
Sonic ran aimlessly inside the ship. It was cold and somewhat clammy but Sonic could careless. He was more interested in finding out who Jaylin was and why she was so important. After a few minutes he figured she probably imprisoned since Eggman loved to lock people up. He felt he had power over his victims when they we where he could see them. When he got to the prison cells he saw Metal Knux walking out of the cells room. He secretly watched him while listening to Jaylin mumble about how normal people don't go through things like that. When Metal Knux was out of sight Sonic let himself inside.
"Hey, I'm looking for a girl named Haylin Roberts!" Sonic joked emphasizing the H in Haylin.
Jaylin frowned unable to see who was talking.
"Haylin? Is this some kind of joke?" Jaylin asked angrily.
Sonic chuckled just out of sight.
"I'm kidding; anyway I'm here to rescue you." Sonic said waving.
Jaylin stared at him unable to speak. Sonic's smile widened, he thought she was extremely happy to see him but he was horribly wrong.
"You, you murderer…" Jaylin stated.
Sonic's smiled faded he was confused now.
"What?! Who me? I think the lighting in this room has you confused, I'm Sonic not M…"
"You caused the death of my parents; they filmed you racing on the highway. A car swerved into my parent's car because they were afraid to hit you." Jaylin said.
Sonic was speechless.
"But…but I've never."
"You did, you always race on the highway and for what?"
"Yes, I know but I've never caused an accident."
"The day you came back from earth."
"I don't remember causing an accident."
"I do, everyone else let it go because it was an accident and it was your first day back."
"No I think… you have me confused with…"
"If it wasn't you then who was it then?" Jaylin shouted.
Sonic almost believed what she said, the harshness in her voice almost scared him as he thought back to the day he got back from earth.
"Metal Sonic, you've heard of him right? That's who caused the accident we followed him to earth and then he disappeared with Eggman." Sonic said.
"My father told me how you got rid of Metal Sonic. A long time ago you saved this planet by destroying him. So you're telling me that he caused the accident? Are you kidding me?" Jaylin asked.
Sonic walked up to her.
"If you just trust me for a minute, I'll show you where he is. Eggman puts all his robots in one place." Sonic said becoming more and more serious.
Now they both stared at each other holding on to the prison bars.
"Fine, you've got one chance." Jaylin said.
Sonic smiled gratefully and unlocked the cell. Then he held out his hand. Jaylin hesitated before taking it she still didn't trust him but it was easier then waiting for Eggman to find her.
"I'm going to run now so please reframe from talking while my feet are in motion." Sonic said.
Jaylin stared at him and her face didn't change she wanted him to know that she still didn't trust him.
Sonic ran out of the room and into a large guarded area. He stopped suddenly to make sure the robots didn't see them.
"All right stay here, I'll get rid of the scrap metal." Sonic said.
He jumped and used to hornet attack to destroy both of the robots. Jaylin nodded and followed him into the room. Sonic looked behind her at the last second to see another robot ready to attack her.
"Watch out!" Sonic said getting ready to use the hornet attack again.
Instead Jaylin turned around, raised her hands, and let out a powerful spike of energy. She stood in place shocked she had hit the target. Then she turned back toward Sonic.
"I know how to defend myself." she said.
Sonic raised his eyebrows.
"That's…unique I guess, I just thought we were the only ones who had powers on this planet." Sonic said staring at her slightly confused.
They walked into the room to see robots all around the room. Some where lined up back to back and side to side. Others hung on the wall like a closet and Metal Sonic floated in a blue tube of liquid looking over them all on top of a balcony like platform that attached to a bridge in the center of the room. It took Jaylin's breath away; she looked around at the strange robots when her eyes fell upon Metal Sonic. She stared at him for a long time, after a while tears to fell from her face. She had been angry with the wrong person and she was afraid to look at him very much longer. She took a sharp breath in and held it for a moment.
"I'm, I'm sorry Sonic." she said.
Sonic finally looked to she why she sounded so scared.
"Why? It's not your fault. Y…"
"He's going to kill me too isn't he." she asked.
Sonic stared at her and sighed.
"Don't worry about it. As long as we get you to your family Metal Sonic won't be able to find you. I'll make sure of it." Sonic said.
Jaylin chuckled a little bit.
"My family, I don't even know my real family. Do I even have a family?" Jaylin said thinking out loud.
"Yes," Sonic answered. "And they're waiting for you."
She turned and smiled at him.
"Are you sure? Do they really want to see me? Even after everything I've put them through?" Jaylin asked trying harder not to cry.
Sonic nodded and smiled.
"Yes, they want to see you. They've been worried about you from what I've heard." Sonic said.
Jaylin nodded and smiled half heartedly.
"Well then let's go." she said.
Knuckle's POV
Knuckles walked around the ship still looking for Jaylin. He tried to concentrate on his mission but the images of Sonic finding her first were making him laugh.
"I'm here to rescue you!" Sonic said heroic like.
"I hate you get away from me you jerk!" Jaylin screamed.
Knuckles laughed and continued walking.
"Jaylin! Jaylin!" Knuckles whispered.
He concentrated harder.
"Jayl…" Knuckles stopped in the middle of his whisper and looked around. He sensed an emerald shard close by and turned completely around. He thought he was going crazy for a second.
"The master emerald can't be here, it's on my island. The chaos emeralds… could they be here? I don't remember Shadow finding one, Eggman either." Knuckles thought.
"Knuckles, funny seeing you here." said an overly flirtatious voice.
Knuckles felt a nervous wave of energy pass over him. He quickly turned around.
"R…Rouge? I though you…"
"Yes well, you shouldn't believe everything you see on the news, and you know how those reporters are." Rouge said wrapping one of his dreads around her fingers.
Knuckles tried to take a step back but he knew Rouge would take another step forward.
"Hey, you said you had a family emergency remember, what happened?" Knuckles asked.
Rouge smiled.
"You already know who I was talking about, Shadow sent her away so I went to look for her and ran into Eggman shortly after he went to jail. Now she suddenly wants to go home but she doesn't understand she isn't who she thinks she is." Rouge whispered into Knuckle's ear. He frowned trying to ignore how close she was.
"Who is she?" Knuckles asked.
"You know I can't tell you that, besides Tikal knows, it's her fault for screwing up in the first place." Rouge said giving Knuckles a small nudge.
Knuckles stared at her for a while thoughtfully wondering why she was always so secretive. He started to lean towards her and whispered into her ear.
"I'll ask her about it then." Knuckles said.
Rouge shrugged and gave him a suspicious smile, then she let go of his hair and took a step back.
"Go ahead emerald boy but be careful. You're playing with fire." Rouge said.
Knuckles smiled and grabbed her hand before she left.
"At least tell me where she is." Knuckles said quickly regretting grabbing her hand, and Rouge snatched her hand back.
"I'm going to get in trouble again because you can't figure it out. Ask Shadow, he's right behind you." Rouge said suddenly pretending to be innocent.
Knuckles frowned and quickly turned to see him staring angrily at him. Still Knuckles couldn't help but smile back at him seeing how angry he was.
"What's up Shadow, you have any fun hanging with Eggman?" Knuckles asked.
"I had fun with your mother. Leave this ship now." Shadow growled.
Knuckles challenged him.
"I'm not leaving without the girl. As soon as I find her we'll both leave and you can go back to whatever you were doing with Eggman. Unless you want me to beat the crap out of you." Knuckles said.
Shadow smiled and stepped up.
"Are you mad because your girlfriend is too busy staying at my apartment to come and visit you? Or do you think she's doing more than that?" Shadow asked.
Knuckles glared straight into his eyes.
"So you want me to beat the crap out of you?" Knuckles growled.
"Don't waste your breath Knuckles, oh and as far as Rouge goes, she's out of your league. It doesn't matter how you look at it." Shadow said.
Knuckles trembled trying to control his temper.
"You know what, I'm not going to fight you, I have better things to waste my energy on." Knuckles said turning to leave.
Shadow started to follow him but Knuckles punched a hole in a random pipe causing steam and mist fled into the room which prevented Shadow from seeing as well as he needed to.
"We'll finish this later." Shadow thought noticing Eggman was paging him.
"Hey Knuckles! I found her!" Sonic said catching up with Knuckles. Jaylin was closely behind him. She waved.
"Jaylin, you okay?" Knuckles asked.
Jaylin nodded but it was apparent that she was a nervous wreck and that she was trying to figure something out.
"Hey guys… I don't feel very good. I guess I've never been this high in the air before. Jaylin said rubbing her head.
"Are you sick? If so we need to hurry up." Knuckles said.
"She'll be okay, she's just a little air sick but Tails should have something to help her out." Sonic said using her head as an arm rest.
She glared at him.
"Back off Sonic, we're still not friends yet." Jaylin said. Sonic quickly reframed from leaning on her head.
"That's fair I guess." Sonic said.
Sonic and Knuckles both led Jaylin back to Tail's ship. It almost seemed too easy. Tails smiled when he saw them comming.
"Whoo! Awsome guys this mission is a success!" Tails said.
"Not yet Tails, we still have to land, as long as no one was spotted." Sonic said.
"Umm, does Shadow count?" Knuckles asked.
