Between an Egg and a Black Place

"I really hate these espionage missions." Sonic commented at the team had taken up the Sky Patrol. "Do we really have to be sneaking around?"

"I would like to smash things up." Knuckles added.

"The information from GUN was crucial evidence." Tails replied. "But there are still some information that needs to be known."

"So, the plan is we're gonna sneak in, get info, and get out?" Bunny asked.

"Precisely, but it is best not to draw attention." Tails warned. "We are going to be approaching a Black Arms fleet. We need to make the Sky Patrol look captured."

"Is that where you're translator do-hickey comes in?"

"Yeah." Then, after the Sky Patrol left the clouds. They saw the floating airships that the Black Arms were piloting.

"That's a big fleet." Amy commented.

"Those look more like ancient temples than airships." Knuckles commented on the design of the ships. A transmission from one of the ships came onto the vessel's communications.

"Unknown ship, identify yourself." The transmission stated.

"This is a ship that has been captured by the Black Arms." Tails entered a false transmission. "We request a place on the fleet to land."

"Head to the hanger on the ship that appears on the screen." The replying transmission commented. It sent information on where to land and in what space to land it. "We will send a few of us in to congratulate you on your success."

"Well, the easy part is done." Tails noted.

"What do we do about the Black Arms that will come in?" Amy asked.

"Do we punch their lights out?" Knuckles asked.

"Yes… punch their lights out." Sonic replied.

"Take their armor while you're at it." Tails commented. Bunny sighed.

"Boys." She answered.

"You got that right." Amy added.

The young fox guided the Sky Patrol into the hanger and the aliens didn't bother looking at the ship because of the known arrival of the thieves. Five aliens in armor had arrived on the scene as the ship landed. As the ships doors opened, the aliens entered the ship. There was a sound of punching, kicking, and other bashing sounds.

After a while, Sonic came out wearing the alien armor as well as the other members of the team as well who beat up the Black Arms.

"This armor clashes with the color of my clothes." Knuckles commented.

"Since when do you boys ever wear clothes?" Bunny asked.

"Oh yeah, you have a point there."

"But I do think that the armor is a little big on Tails." Amy said.

"At least, it'll be a little harder for them to notice us." He stated.

"This isn't going to work." Sonic added.

"Looks like I'm going to need to use that psychic illusion trick again." The pink hedgehog said. The five went back into the Sky Patrol. After she completed her enchantment, the five went on their way. But shortly after leaving the hanger, an alarm went off.

"Uh oh," Sonic said. "We're in trouble."

"Attention! Enemy Fleet Approaching!" the announcement stated. "Prepare for battle!" The five noticed some of the Black Arms scrambling to their places.

"Another fleet!?" Amy asked. "I though GUN was informed on what we were doing."

"Sally-girl told them about what was goin' on." Bunny stated. "Why are they attackin'?" An image of the enemy fleet came up on the monitors in the walls.

"Oh for crying out loud." Tails stated. "The Egg Fleet?"

"Well, things just got interesting." Sonic commented. "Let's get going."

Dr. Eggman looked out the main command room from the central battleship at the alien fleet that he was approaching. He had greatly trimmed down on the fat and became more chiseled in appearance. Beside him on his left and right, there was two robots.

"So, these aliens think that they can take over this planet, do they?" Eggman stated. "Well, there is only room for one world conqueror."

"And who would that be?" B-ko asked.

"That would be me, Dr. Ivo Robotnik." The doctor said.

"I thought you were Doctor Eggman." The robot answered.

"Never mind, that." The scientist replied. "It is time to show these posers the power of my awesome fleet." Then, he turned to the other robot. "A-ko, pull the lever. So as to get this battle started."

"As you wish." A-ko stated going over and pulling a lever. The floor opened up and a hand came out splatting a pie in the doctor's face.

"Wrong lever."

"Sorry." Then, the robot pulled the other lever.

"At least, it was banana cream pie." Then, A-ko pulled the other lever activating the combat systems on the Egg Fleet. The ships from both sides began to open fire on each other sending out missiles and turret fire towards each other.

Meanwhile as the Black Arms aliens were distracted, Sonic and his team were able to not draw any attention from the common aliens. They were able to get to the main computer room.

"Now, that we're here. We can get the information." The young fox stated pulling out a flash drive and putting it in the slot. He did some stuff to copy all the information from the Black Arms database into the empty device.

"It's wrong for you to steal things like you did." A voice stated to them. "Your disguises might have fooled the Black Arms." Then, the five of them felt a stunning sensation; before being thrown to the wall on the side. "But they don't fool me," Sonic turned and found Silver standing before them. "I can see past your psychic disguise."

"Silver." Sonic stated as the others turned to face the white warrior.

"I don't know how you managed to sneak into this fleet without me knowing about it." Silver explained. "I'm genuinely impressed that you were able to pull that off." He had a short pause. "And even more so, timing it right when we are about to go into battle against an enemy fleet." Team Sonic just looked at him.

"Uh… thanks for the compliment?" Tails stated.

"But your progress ends here." Silver replied. "Our rematch begins now." The white adversary floated backwards to allow Sonic's team time to stand again. Sonic spindashed towards him.

"This again?" Silver asked as he stopped him telekinetically. He pushed him backwards, just what the blue blur wanted him to do. Amy swung her hammer sending Sonic back at him. "What?" Sonic slammed right into Silver knocking him over.

Bunny headed towards him with a powerful kick and he dodged out of the way. He dodged out of the way of Knuckles punches too. He picked up some things with his mind and threw the objects towards his opponents. He got hit in the arm from a shot from Tails' blaster. He used telekinesis to move Bunny and Knuckles out of the way, and he bolted out of the room.

"After him." Sonic said. They had followed Silver until they got onto the outside of the airship. They almost got hit from missiles that were from Eggman's vessels. "Whoa, that was close."

"Sonic, Amy, follow him." Tails said. "We'll get the Sky Patrol to you."

"Roger that, Tails." Sonic said.

"Got it." Amy added.

"What about me, Tails?" Knuckles asked.

"Up for smashing Black Arms?" Bunny asked him. Then, the five went to their respective directions.

"Mph, it seems like The Black Arms are evenly matched in missile power." Eggman said, looking out on how the battle is going.

"Might I suggest a different course of action?" A-ko asked.

"I'm the leader here. I decide when we have a change in the strategy." The doctor rebuked him. "We're going to have a change of strategy. Ram them."

"Are our warships in capable of doing that?" B-ko asked.

"I wouldn't have commanded that if they didn't." Eggman answered.

"Right away." The little robot stated.

At that moment, some of the mako-class vessels rammed into the Black Arms airship allowing Egg pawns to attack the aliens directly.

As Silver was jumping from airship to airship, Sonic and Amy chased after him. When Black Arm aliens noticed the two hedgehogs, they redirected their fire from Eggman towards the two hedgies. Silver turned around and continued to throw debris back at them with his mind as he floated in the air. Sonic dodged the debris while Amy smacked it away. Silver zipped off into the distance.

"C'mon Ames," Sonic said. "We can't afford to loose him."

"I'm trying Sonic." Amy stated back to him. They followed him back into another ship where they encountered him once again. He pulled out his saber to face them.

"Looks like you decided to stop running and fight." Sonic said to him. Silver didn't give back a reply. "Oh, so you're not talking anymore."

"Something doesn't seem right here." Amy thought. Then, Silver rushed towards Amy with his blade and she blocked it with her hammer. They were in a deadlock when Sonic knocked him away from his girlfriend.

"What's the matter, Silver? How come you aren't using your psionics?" Sonic asked.

"Come to think of it, the wound from Tails' blaster shot is gone too." Amy noted.

"I got 'em." Knuckles said, coming down onto the enemy's shoulders. Silver tried to get a grip on the echidna but failed. As the red echidna used his fists and snapped the opponent's neck. "I did it. I won." The adversary dropped the weapon he held; his body exploded in a puff of smoke. And Knuckles fell to the ground. "What the…"

"Huh?" Sonic asked dumbfounded. "What just happened?" Amy looked and saw a lonely white quill on the ground where Silver was.

"AH!" Amy said. "He used the afterimage technique."

"Afterimage?" Sonic asked.

"An imperfect duplicate of its creator." Amy said. "It takes a very skilled psychic or magician to make one."

"I guess this Silver guy is much craftier than I expected." Sonic answered.

"Too bad he's not on our side, then defeating Black Doom would be a lot easier." Knuckles naively stated.

"I guess you can say that." Sonic said.

"Does Tails have the flashdrive?" Amy asked.

"He grabbed it before we started chasing Silver." The echidna replied.

"Good." Sonic stated. "Let's get out of here." The five heroes jumped into the Sky Patrol and flew away from the battle area in the sky.
"Speaking of which, where is this battle taking place anyway?" Amy asked.

"According to the landscape down below and the climate of the area," Tails explained. "We should be over the Big Cat Country."

Meanwhile, Silver was rushing through the hallways of the airship. He had bandaged up his injury from the blaster shot.

"Now, that I've lost those five nuisances; I need to get back to my post to command the army against this scientist." Silver stated, dashing down the hallways of the ship. But the ship he was in got hit by a powerful blast, shaking the ship. The white character didn't see where he was going, he tripped over some debris and fell out of a hole. He fell out of the airship he was in. He started to plummet down to the surface of Mobius below.

"YAAAAWHOWHOWHOWHOOIEE!" he screamed. "How could this happen to me?" Silver couldn't get any debris to try to get himself back upwards to the ship above him, thus he used his telekinesis to slow down his descent and break his fall.

After some time, Eggman laughed as he saw that the Black Arms fleet was in retreat. He grinned at the results.

"The Black Arms are no match for my invincible Egg Fleet." He said. "That will so them who'll be the boss of this planet. For I will declare this day, Victory for Robotnik Day."

"We have a problem." A-ko stated.

"What is it?" The doctor asked turning around. "Huh?" There were Egg Pawns carrying in the heads of A-ko and B-ko.

"You see, Doctor." A-ko said. "Our bodies got blown up in the battle."

"But it's a good thing we have a backup CPU in our heads." B-ko replied. "We can still function."

"But it'll be rather difficult to move around as just heads." The first robot answered. Then, Eggman thought about it.

"I can fix that, B-ko." The doctor answered.

"But I'm A-ko, sir." The first robot said.

"That'll be another problem to be fixed; as heads the two of you look almost identical." The doctor announced. "But the CPU in your heads may be useful." As the doctor was celebrating his victory, he was unaware that the blue blur was even there, let alone that Sonic unintentionally helped him gain his victory. Team Sonic was unaware of their efforts to aid in Eggman's victory as well.