Chapter 12: Return of the Thing (don't judge me I'm sleepy)

Disclaimer: You should know this by now so yeah...

Mikey's POV

I heard the robots coming a moment before they appeared. While Rouge and the other teens were distracted, yelling at that red idiot, I walked over next to the hole he had made. The robots raced right past me, not focusing on the dark figure in the shadows. When the flood of metal stopped I took a look around, saw the pink girl staring at me intently, and snuck in the base. Once I was inside I was totally lost. The base's circular layout made me feel like I was in a giant maze. Hoping that Rouge's friends could hold off the robots for long enough, I tried listening to see if I could hear where Rosy was at all. All that I heard was the various sounds of different machinery. Well this is just great! How am I supposed to find her now? This place must be huge!

"Ohohohoho! Sonic, come to save your little friend?" A fat man with a ridiculous mustache appeared on a nearby screen as it swiveled towards me. He looked down at me and stopped laughing. "Eh? You're not Sonic. Where is that blue pest?" The screen goes black for a second, leaving me confused as heck. Before I had any time to think about what just happened the odd man reappeared, his face now much closer than before. "Wait a minute, you aren't working with that hedgehog are you? I've never seen you before though, same as that other girl..." The egg-shaped human trailed off, deep in thought, no doubt trying to put the pieces together. Before I gave him that chance I slipped around the corner of the hallway, darting between the screens' fields of vision, continuing my search through the endless twisting hallways. Man, what an idiot! It's hard to believe he's the evil genius

Oh great! I thought you were taking a break

I was, but then I got bored. Your mind is a very dull place. Plus I thought you might need help! You aren't exactly known for your brilliant plans

Neither are you! Your ingenious idea got us into this mess to start with!

I thought that we already agreed that I had no part in you kissing her

Whatever

"Ahem" The sound of somebody clearing their throat startled me from my 'conversation.' I looked up to see a very annoyed purple hedgehog standing in front of me, glaring. "Are you done, or were you planning to spend the whole day standing in a crazy man's hallway, in his not so secret base, muttering to yourself?" For one of the first times in my life, I was puzzled at how to respond to her. The mass of emotions and thoughts swimming around in my head were confusing enough, but I wasn't expecting her to suddenly appear, and my ever so helpful conscience was trying not to spin in circles from all the confusion to her snippy remark. I just had no clue, so I reverted to my fail safe way of dealing with people.

"Hmph." I saw her roll those cerulean eyes.

"Good to see you haven't changed. Well, in that case let's just get out of here and try to enjoy a vacation before you do anything else stupid." She paused and glared at me, a glimmer in her eyes betraying her false anger. I was still shocked, so she just rolled her eyes and walked past me starting to head back the way I came when a screen suddenly flicked on in front of us.

"Ah there's that bat again! Clever of you to give me the slip like that, I've been looking all over for you and that hedgehog." The egg-man was back, and was now lounging in his seat, pleased with himself. I felt Rosy step out from behind me and faced him.

"Do you mean me?" She stopped by my side and leaned on one leg, putting her hands on her hips. The human glanced at her, up and down, before turning away nonchalantly.

"No not you, the blue one," He looked at her again, "but you do seem oddly familiar..." He trailed off scratching his head. Rosy and I looked at each other, amused, waiting for him to realize that she escaped. After about a minute the man gasped and flickered off screen. Rosy turned to me and said

"We better start moving, It'll only be a few more seconds before he realizes-" The screen turning on again cut her off.

"HOW DID YOU ESCAPE?" The fat man exclaimed exasperated. He took a deep breath trying to regain his composure. "Doesn't matter, I've sent a little surprise guest your way..." A heavy footstep thudded in the corridor behind us. "Sounds like he's on his way! Ooh this should be good!" Another footstep, and then another before a giant robot turned the corner and faced us. "E-620, DESTROY THEM!" The odd man roared from the screen. The robot, at least eight feet tall and loaded with guns and missiles, began walking toward us again. Rosy and I looked at each other again, and nodded. We both began running at the robot, and leaped in the air kicking him from both sides. The robot stumbled back a step, but continued coming forward. We tried attacking it again, and then another time, but still no result. We were just getting for another strike when a scream of "ROSY!" Halted us in our tracks. We turned to see that pink hedgehog, and her friends racing towards us. I didn't see Rouge, or the red echidna, but I could hear them fighting more robots in a distant hallway. They reached us and pinky glomped Rosy, nearly tackling her to the ground. The blue hedgehog raced by me and launched into the air, curling up in a tight spinning ball aimed at the robot. They collided and blue boy bounced right off. The green cat joined him in the attack shooting fireballs at it, but still to no avail.

"Ohohohoho! Sonic I see you've come to join the fight! How do you like my latest creation?" The human taunted from the screen. "E-620 is my finest creation, none of your attacks can penetrate his tough armor!" Blue boy smirked.

"We'll see about that Eggman!" He jumped again at the robot, only to collide with a missile, and get flung to the side.

"SONIC!" Pinky cried and raced over to him. After seeing that he was okay she pulled a hammer out of thin air and began bashing the robot. After about the dozenth swing her hammer snapped, and she raced back to Sonic. I felt Rosy come up beside me.

"Amy!" She called. The pink hedgehog turned to look, her eyes alight with fire. "Get Sonic back over here, and stay over here. You too Vivi, I don't want you guys to get hurt." Puzzled the girls did as they were told and Rosy faced to robot.

"Ohohoho! What can you do little girl? Even Sonic failed! You don't stand a chance!" She turned and glared at the screen before smashing it with a well aimed punch. She turned to look back at us.

"I would recommend you look away." She said wistfully. Her eyes began to glow, and she faced the robot once more. Too fascinated by what was happening to look away, I watched as her whole body began to glow with a turquoise aura. The scent of oceans, and sky filled my nose, and I heard a faint humming. Her hair began to whip around in an unseen breeze, and then it all just disappeared. All that was left was her and a ball of blue light in front of her. She grabbed it with her hands and aimed at the robot. A beam of bright light left me temporarily blinded, but when I looked back up there was no more robot, and half of the hallway was replaced with dust. Rosy turned back around, her necklace now glowing brightly, before walking back towards us. We were all staring at her, including the blue hedgehog who had regained consciousness somewhere in the middle of her attack. "Let's leave." When nobody moved she snapped "NOW!" causing us all to flinch. One by one we followed her through the hallways and outside near the plane. When we got back outside we met up with Rouge and the idiot. Rouge was smiling, an almost evil grin when she saw Rosy.

"Well, well, I didn't think you had it in you to use your powers here. I guess I underestimated you, yet again." Rosy looked at the bat, her eyes full of remorse. She then turned around and looked at the rest of us. Pinky was the first to recover.

EEK I'M SO SORRY PEOPLES! I swear I didn't die! And I am so sorry for the 5 month wait! I've been busy with school, although who isn't, but also i managed to lose part of this chapter and I couldn't seem to recreate what I wrote. When I get bored in class I would practice cursive by writing this story, but somehow it vanished. I only just found it two days ago, under my bed (which I swear I looked there a dozen times). School got out for me yesterday, so I dedicated today to reading, watching the old pokemon, and this chapter. About halfway through I realized I had lost another part, but I figured I had kept you amazing people waiting long enough! So TA-DAH! If it sucks I apologize. Major writer's block for the longest period of time. I hope to have more frequent updates now that I'm on summer break, but no promises. Thank you to all of my wonderful readers for being so patient, and to all of my fantastic reviewers. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, the more reviews I get the more I feel like writing so pretty please with nutella on top review. Thank you all so much and I'm sorry for the wait!

"Rosy," She started hesitantly, fear coloring her tone. "Who are you?"