Skye: and now we get into double didgets!

Nova: You edit too slow! I've already written up to chapter 25!

Skye: You write to fast!

Jolie: And all the time that Nova is writing, she owns none of Sega's characters...

Cassandra: Will you STOP doing that!

Jolie: No. :)

Cassandra: :iconheadexplodeplz:

Janna: Ummm... Icons don't work on FF, Cassandra

Cassandra: rats.


Everyone was relaxing in the main room of Team Free's base so Sonic and the others could rest and regroup while Team Free explained to them about the present situation, but Amy and Cream couldn't sit still like the rest, and kept looking around, "What's that? Can I touch it?" they kept asking.

Cassandra finally decided to give them a tour because they wouldn't shut up and she was getting annoyed.

"Come on, you two," she called, "I'll show you around."

"Yay!" Cream exclaimed, and hugged the tiger. "Thank you Miss Cassandra!"

"Uh, okay..." Cassandra spoke, not used to being hugged. "This is my room," she smiled with pride, gesturing to a room at the corner of the hallway that went to the bedrooms in the back of the base. It was painted bright red, and had CASSANDRA painted on it in jagged black letters. "It's way better then Nova's."

"I heard that!" Nova spoke back, her eyes shot over to the tiger, and away from her laptop screen, "How is it better?"

The tiger smiled, "Because your room is so dark and emo."

"I'm not emo!"

Cassandra laughed, and led the duo down the hallway until they were out of sight from the rest of the group.

"This is Janna's room," Cassandra pointed at the first door they came to in the next hallway. "Skye's is the next one down, and then Nova's."

Cream spoke up, "Why is Miss Nova's room so far away from yours?" she asked innocently.

"Uhh... we have complications when we're too close to each other." Cream still looked confused, but didn't push the matter any further.

"Any other rooms we should know about?" Amy asked. "The base seems pretty small if it's just the living room and these bedrooms."

"Well, there is Skye's lab. I could ask Skye if we could go in there. She could explain it better than I could." Cassandra then led Amy and Cream back to the main room.

"What's Skye good at, anyway?" Amy questioned curiously, "She has a lab... Does she do chemistry?"

"She's good with computers and stuff... and she has a welding rod and other little 'toys.' I don't really know because I don't really pay attention to it," the tiger shrugged, "Well... That's about all I can show yah, let's go back to the main room and you can ask Skye if you can go in her lab." The Rabbit and Hedgehog followed the tiger back to the main room. Janna, who was lying down on the couch with her bad leg propped up and watching Jo play one of her games, greeted them.

"Hey, you two, did Cassandra show you around?"

"Yes! We're going to ask Skye if we can look at her lab." Amy explained.

"How are you feeling Miss Janna?" Cream politely asked with a smile on her face.

Janna turned to Cream with a smile, "I feel better!"

"Before I forget... Take these," Jo paused her game and handed the jaguar some gummy bears. Janna ate them happily.

"You need to remember to take them because I'm tired of reminding you." the galabat scolded teasingly.

Amy looked confused, "Gummy bears?"

Jo smiled, "It's Janna's medicine, I made gummy bears with her ADHD medicine in them. It calms her down so she doesn't get too excited, and keeps her calmer when we fight." The galabat looked over at Nova; the tenrec had headphones in her ears, and she was typing on her laptop. "What are you doing, Nova?" Jo asked.

The tenrec took her headphone off, "What?"

"What are you doing?"

"Conference."

"Over the computer?"

"Yes, everyone's there and I'm just listening in and typing back my replies. Why?" Nova typed 'Be right back' into her computer and pressed 'Enter.'

Jolie looked at Nova with confusion, "We could've done that from day one and you never told us? Come on!"

"What? I was told I could do this today through messaging! It's not like I ever knew." Nova shrugged and put her headphones back on.

"Liar," Cassandra glared at Nova.

Cream spoke up, "Miss Jolie, do you know where Miss Skye is? I want to see if she'll show us her lab!"

"Actually, she's in there right now with Tails. They're making some more beds for you guys. Both of them have been in there since we got back."

The rabbit jumped with joy, "Yay! Come on, let's go!" Suddenly, she stopped, and looked sheepishly back at Jolie. "Um, would you mind showing Miss Amy and I where the lab is? We don't know..."

"Sure!" Jolie smiled. "Let's go."

Jolie started walking to a door away from the bedrooms on the opposite side of the room. Amy and Cream followed her. The galabat stopped when she reached it and knocked on the door loudly. A loud banging noise could be heard from inside.

"Skye? Ya in there?" Jo called out.

"One sec!" Skye's voice replied. Jolie could hear her and Tails talking for a moment, then the noises stopped momentarily, and Skye opened the door. She had a welding mask pushed back on her forehead, and a welding torch in her hand.

"Whatcha need, Jo? Tails and I are kind of in the middle of something."

"Um," Jolie answered, glancing back at Cream and Amy, "These two want to take a look at your lab."

"Well..." Skye pondered the idea for a moment, "I guess so. Just be careful not to touch anything unless I say it's okay."

"Yes, Miss Skye!" Cream exclaimed happily.

"Wanna come, Jo?" the brown cat asked.

"Nah, You go ahead. It's your lab."

Skye nodded, and took the rabbit's hand, and led her in with Amy following.

"Wow..." Amy gasped when she saw the interior. On one end, there were about 20 different screens, all showing live video from what seemed to be outside, and at the entrances.

"Those are the security cameras," Skye explained, leading the hedgehog and rabbit over to the screens. "They monitor the outside entrances and all the rooms in the base. Except for this one, of course."

Tails looked up from where he was welding two pipes together to form a new bed frame. Smiling, he took off his mask and welding gloves, and meandered over to Skye.

"Mind if I listen in? I didn't get a chance to explore this place myself when I first came in."

Skye jumped in surprise, and blushed. "Um... sure, I guess. Okay!" She turned back to the screens. There was a large speaker implanted in the wall next to the group of screens. "That speaker over there sounds an alarm if there's an intruder, basically anyone who tries to break down one of the doors without typing in the password, or breaks one of the cameras or keypads. Or anyone who decides to go swimming in the lake. It also works as an intercom between rooms."

"Why would anyone want to go swimming in this area?" Amy asked, "It's really cold out!"

Skye grinned. "It gets warmer. Also, this lake is warm because of all the heat exhaust expelled from the base here. Hey, that reminds me! It's April fools day today!" The cat paused for a moment. "Strange... I haven't had anything explode in my face yet, today..."

Tails laughed. "Somehow I'm getting the impression that with your friends, pranking is an annual tradition."

"That's about right!" the cat replied back.

"Miss Skye?" Skye felt a tug on her hand, and she looked down. Cream was pointing to an object almost hidden in the back corner of the room. It was fairly large, and covered by sheets. "What's that thing over there?"

"Oh, that..." the cat spoke uncomfortably, "That's nothing... just a little something I've been working on... Nothing special..."

The door opened, and interrupted Skye's statement, much to her relief. It was Boo.

"Hey, guys!" the bear called out, "Nova wants us all back in the living room."

"Okay!" Cream smiled happily. The four headed over to the door and back to the living room, abandoning their work and tour.

"Nova, what is it?" Skye asked, when everyone was grouped back in the living room. The tenrec had set her laptop down.

"Apparently these folks didn't know that they were on a different planet."

"What?" Tails exclaimed, "We're not on Mobius?"

"What's a Mobius?" Janna asked curiously.

"It's the planet we live on... or used to apparently," Knuckles' eyebrows were furrowed into a grimace. "I don't know how we're going to get back. Apparently we're on a planet called Cypris."

"Skye and I already fixed the X- Tornado," Tails commented changing topics, "She's a great engineer!"

Skye blushed again. Why do I keep doing that? the cat scolded herself.

"I guess you guys are just going to have to stay here until we can find a way to get you back home." Jolie stated.

Everyone agreed.

The sound of running feet crashing against leaves that had fallen the winter before. Whoever was running was making a racket, but he didn't care; this was an emergency. A male bat clad in jeans and a jacket came into view.

I'm going too slow, he thought, so he let out his wings and flapped them; he was airborne. Increasing their speed, the trees whizzed by at an alarming rate. After a few minutes, he stopped by a tree standing in front of a lake; he paused for a moment to catch his breath, but quickly jumped up and pressed a button that made a keypad appear. The bat punched in the code and spoke into the microphone that appeared. When nothing happened, the figure punched in another code that would open the door if no one was there to receive his entrance call. The door slowly started to open from inside the tree.

"Come on... Come on!" he impatiently yelled at the door. The door wasn't completely open, but the bat ducked his head under it, and ran down the stairs and into the hallway.

A few seconds passed, when he reached the door that would open to the main room. Without thinking, he kicked the door with all of his might. A huge dent formed in it.

"Open, stupid door!" he yelled, and then he remembered that there was another keypad he had to unlock. "What is it with you and keypads, Skye?" the bat exclaimed, and typed in the password again. The door jammed, probably a side effect from his kick. "Door, why do you hate me so much!"

With all of his strength, the bat shoved at the door, and it opened, since it'd already been unlocked with the password, slammed against the wall, and the bat fell face first onto the floor. "Mmurph."

Screams from shock came from everyone; mostly sonic's group, since they had never seen him before.

"Drek? What are you doing here!" Jo exclaimed.

"S-sorry," Drek stood up and tried to refill his lungs, "B-but..."

Amy stared at Drek. "Who are you?"

"I-I'm... Jolie's younger brother."

"You have a brother?" Sonic asked, looking over to Jolie. "He looks nothing like you! Well, except for the wings, but–"

Nova spoke up. "She can explain that later. Drek, what happened?"

Skye yelled, "What was so important that you had to barge in here like that? That was my best door, too! That wall didn't just take five minutes to make, either!" The normally cheerful brown cat was now glaring at him.

Drek widened his eyes and backed up. Skye's bracelets were starting to glow. "Kyrptonia! It's being attacked by a huge monster! You guys gotta help us out!"

"You army people couldn't do it yourself?" Jo asked, "Normally they can bring down those things..."

"But this isn't a normal one!" Drek spread his wings out, "It's about 5 stories tall! Maybe taller!"

"Excuse me for butting in, but what are you?" Rouge asked Drek.

"I'm a bat."

"You're not a hybrid like your sister?"

Drek smiled, "No, she's the hybrid of the family. We have a galago brother, Owen. Mom's a galago. Dad's a bat."

Cassandra butted in. "Look, I hate to break into your conversation, but we can talk about this later! Drek, show us this monster." Flames appeared around Cassandra's fists.

"Okay." Drek replied meekly, "Follow me!"

The highest hill in the Majon forest was perfect for looking over the beautiful city of Kryptonia, as it was at the edge of the forest, but there was one problem with the view. It wasn't beautiful with a huge mutated creature destroying it.

The creature resembled some of the smaller ones that had attacked before. It had spiked armor covering it from head to toe, and a long spiked tail. It's jaws were filled with jagged teeth that didn't look too welcoming.

"So that's what was being planned..." Nova murmured, thinking back to the past month, when there had hardly been any attacks.

Boo looked over at Nova, who was staring at the creature with hate. Nova's bracelets were glowing, as if radiating out her anger.

"Nova? What should we do? Go save them, and risk our identities, or stay here, and let the city be torn down?"

Janna, who was on crutches, spoke up, "I'll go! I'm good at long distance attacks!"

Cassandra shook her head, "You know how Nova doesn't like us going out, she'll never let us go anywhere where we can be seen that easily... Especially in Kryptonia."

Nova wasn't listening to them at all, only watching the creature rampage through the city, leaving no mercy as it destroyed buildings, and probably crushing innocent Cypronians. She imagined all the families morning over the deaths of their loved ones, Cypronians stranded homeless and starving, all because that creature. She knew what it felt like to be without family and be filled with hopelessness; she knew how awful it was, and couldn't let that happen to anyone in the city.

The tenrec looked over at the group that was standing by her; they were all looking at the city in anxiety. No one else wanted this to happen either. She narrowed her eyes, glanced back at the city, then spoke slowly, "Guys... Get ready to get some fans."

Cassandra looked at the tenrec with confusion, "What? Fans? How?"

Nova glared at the tiger, "You heard me." The tenrec turned to Jolie, who was hovering over the ground. "Jo, I want you carry Cassandra and I to the city."

Jolie saluted her leader. "Will do, boss."

The tiger stomped her foot, "Why do you want me to go with you? You and I both know that I want to strangle you."

Nova rolled her eyes, "You want to but you won't. Jolie's going to fly us over that monster and drop us. We'll land on it's back and we can attack it from there."

Cassandra nodded, "I guess that works."

"Drek, you take Boo," the tenrec continued, "Janna, can you carry yourself on a rock?"

The jaguar jumped with excitement, "Yes!" The jaguar used her power to lift up a fairly large rock, and she sat on it, and set her crutches to her side, "I'm ready!"

"What about me?" Skye asked. "I may not be able to fly, but I want to help!"

"You're going to take the others down by foot into the path of the monster. Evacuate the buildings. Drek, Boo, and Janna, I want you to help them."

Skye nodded and walked over to Sonic and the others, "You heard her! Follow me!" the cat ran down the hill. The others looked at each other for a second and quickly started to run after her.

Nova looked over at Jo and nodded. The galabat jumped into the air and flapped her wings. She flew over to Cassandra first and picked her up; both of them locked hands, then flew over to Nova who grabbed onto Cassandra's ankles. "Let's do this!"

"Still no sign of them," Steve pointed out for the millionth time, while standing next to Throvlad and looking at the computer screen, "Don't you think that letting out our biggest one was a good idea? I mean, it's a prototype..."

Thorvlad smiled, "In time, Steve. They'll come. Plus, it's good that we're able to test out the experiment... It's good for him."

Steve frowned, "If you think so..."

The king stood up, "Tabetha, are you ready for your first mission?"

The cat was lounging on a chair close to the king and his assistant. "The question is, do you think you're ready?"

"For what?"

"To see blood," an evil smile appeared on the cat's face, "It's gonna be fun slitting their throats."

Throvlad gave a nervous smile, "Well... plans have changed," the king pressed a button on his keyboard, and the Red Chaos Emerald came out of the ground on a pedestal. "I need you to find the the holder of the red bracelets."

Tabetha's eye twitched, "WHAT? You said I could kill them!" the cat picked up her chair and threw it at the wall, making the wooden chair shatter.

"But then I found this," the gray-furred wolf picked it up with a cloth so the emerald wouldn't shock him. "You see, this is called a Chaos Emerald. The Emeralds are what made the bracelets. Without those rocks, there wouldn't be these," he showed one of his bracelets with his other hand.

"So... What do you want me to do with that red rock?"

Throvlad smiled, "I want you to go to Kryptonia and find the one with the red bracelets."

The cat leaned on the wall, "But Steve said that they weren't there."

"They will be... In time. I promise."

Tabetha raised an eyebrow, "After I find the owner of the red bracelets, what do I do? Beat her with the Emerald? Cut her feet off?"

"I said that the Emerald is what created the bracelets in the first place, so what I want you to do is control the bracelets."

"How?"

"The Emerald is 'in charge' of the bracelets, so whoever is holding the Emerald at the time has the power to control the owners body and mind, and they'll do whatever you say," the king's smile got bigger, "Once we get all of the emeralds back, we'll be able to control them all."

The brown cat crossed her arms, "What's in it for me? I only joined your side so I could fight, and because you promised me a position of power once we take over Cypris."

"You can become the leader of all of them, and if you have a least favorite, you can kill one of them and transfer their blood to yours, so you can have your own pair," Throvlad stuck out his hand, "Deal?"

Tabetha stared at his hand for a few seconds I can be their leader. I can kill one. There will be blood. With an evil smile, she shook the king's hand.

"That's my girl."

Steve smiled at the screen, "Master, they're here... At least three of them."

Throvlad and Tabetha ran up to the screen. One was flying, and two others were holding on to it. "Wait... Zoom in on that bottom one," the king commanded Steve. The camera zoomed in and Throvlad widened his eyes, "Nova?"

"You know her, Master?" Steve asked with confusion in his eyes.

Throvlad narrowed his eyes, "She's changed over the years. Tabetha, use the one with the red bracelets to get the one with the purple hair. No harm put onto her."

"B-but you said that I could kill or hurt anyone I wanted!" the cat protested, "What if I don't like her?"

Throvlad glared at the angry cat, "It's been my life goal to kill the one holding the purple bracelets. Plus, she won't struggle after she finds out that I have something she wants..."


Tabetha: Long Chapter! :D

Nova: You are very violent, child...

Tabetha: Nova must die...

Skye: Down, tabby.

Tabetha: :)

Cassandra: Odd...

Janna: Review please! :D