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Around midnight Rouge the Bat was looking at the museum through her eye scanner with a smirk on her face. 'This world has so many types of gems. Too bad none of them are chaos emeralds.' She thought as she moved the scanner away from her eye. She jumped off from hanging upside down on the tree and flew straight towards the museum after putting the scanner back in her pocket. She flew to the top of the museum and landed on the roof next to the glass window. She looked through the roof and chuckled, "This is too easy."
Another person hopped from tree to tree in the forest not too far away from Rouge. 'Ok, I'm stuck on a planet that I know nothing of, and I am not alone.' The person thought while keeping up with Rouge. 'The only problem is that Rouge thinks she can get the jewel in that museum before me.' The person stopped on a tree branch then chuckled, "Of course all I need to do is wait for her then surprise her." The person jumped away from the spot and disappeared in the forest.
Rouge jogged up to the display case after breaking into the Museum and jumped over the bars surrounding the display case. She looked at the diamond with fascination then sliced the glass apart with her feet while the alarm was blaring around her. The glass that was sliced slid onto the ground. Rouge smirked and grabbed the diamond that was surrounded by the glass. "Hello gorgeous." She said to the diamond. She put her card down on the holder and chuckled, "Time to go." She flew up and through the opening of the glass she made for her escape.
The person saw Rouge come out of the top with a big diamond and her hand and smirked, "Well, that sure didn't take long." The person jumped in another direction and get ready for Rouge to come flying by.
Rouge flew over the city with a glitter of love on her face while looking at the diamond in her hand. "You may not be a chaos emerald, but you'll do for now." She flew over the city then stopped on top of a building while looking around the city. "Now where would Sonic and his friends be?" She wondered.
"That's a good question." Rouge turned her head to the person behind her. "You have a lot of nerve for stealing the diamond before me."
Rouge chuckled, "You have a lot of nerve accusing me of that Fiona. I always beat you to the scene because I'm just better that way."
Fiona came out of the shadow and smirked, "You might be faster, but if you didn't have your wings you would be putting yourself into some tight spots."
"Tell me Fiona. I thought you gave up being a thief." Rouge turned herself around completely with a smirk on her face. "You disappeared off the planet a couple years ago. Now here you are on this planet. I'm curious on how that happened."
Fiona growled, "I was in the middle of escaping prison in Eggman's lair in another base where Eggman held some of us prisoner over the years. We tried to escape, but…" She sighed and closed her eyes. "It seems I was the only one to escape before the place blew up along with my partner in crime. There were some people that were my friends." She glared at Rouge who tossed the diamond in her hand. "Is that all?"
"When did you get to our location at Eggman's base?" Rouge asked with seriousness in her voice.
"I got back two days before the giant flash of light." Fiona said while lowering her head. "I will find a way back though." She whispered before making her facial expression become a serious one again.
"So you don't know what to do and just plan on stealing until you actually have something to do." Rouge finished for Fiona.
"You got it."
Rouge sighed, "You truly are stupid."
Fiona raised an eyebrow, "How am I stupid? You're doing the same thing."
Rouge chuckled and flew up into the air. "You have a lot to learn about me Fiona, and I still have a lot to learn about you as well." She said before disappearing into the sky.
Fiona growled then looked around. 'Darn it, I wasn't able to get any information about those chaos emeralds.' She thought angrily. 'She tricked me, but I should have seen it coming.' She chuckled, "You might be better than me at that Rouge, but I can find another way to get back at Eggman." She jumped off the roof and disappeared into the alley.
"Ok, I might as well ask. What are we doing again?" Sonic asked his friend Tails while tossing the baseball between his hands.
Sally got in the second seat to the back with Bunnie following her into the back seat. "We need to start searching for the other chaos emeralds. After the incident with Dr. Eggman at the baseball game I decided that we start looking for the other chaos emeralds and stop fooling around waiting for the other five to appear." Sally told him while buckling herself into the seat.
"I wish that I could come along though." Chris said sadly with his head lowered.
Sonic sighed, "We're sorry Chris, but Bunnie's robotic parts need a little fixing, and Uncle Chuck is still trying to figure out why her functions aren't working so well."
Charles watched the video of Bunnie's rockets going out and her cannon being unable to fire. 'It's a good thing that I decided to have her robot parts checked out a couple days after the game. Things would have been nasty if it was during a battle.'
After Rotor gets into the seat behind the pilot's seat where Tails was Sonic jumped onto the X Tornado and says, "Ok Tails, you can start anytime you're ready."
Tails nodded his head and yelled, "Ok guys, let's start searching for the chaos emeralds." He started the engines and closed the hatches. Sonic smirked and leaned against the window on the back hatch which made Sally roll her eyes and groan slightly. "Let's do it guys." Tails drove the X Tornado down the driveway while Chuck made the trees move down for Tails to have room on the runway.
"I always get excited when it comes with having an adventure." Chuck said happily.
Chris looked at his grandpa and said, "But grandpa, I've hardly ever seen you go on the adventures in the first place."
Chuck chuckled, "Does it matter? I enjoy seeing our friends take off to a new adventure even though I hardly get to go with them." He looked down at his grandson and asked, "Don't you have to get ready for school?"
"Ah!" Chris yelled before running off towards the mansion.
Chuck watched him then sighed, "Sometimes you can't get what you always wanted, but at least Chris isn't growing up like his father." He smirked before walking up the stairs to help Charles with the research on Bunnie's short circuited robotic parts.
While the X Tornado had taken off towards the sky Fiona stayed in the forest near the workshop. She watched the five leave then sighed, 'Getting their chaos emerald would be easy, but they wouldn't be able to lead me to the location of the other chaos emeralds that leaves me to get Eggman's chaos emerald.' She watched Chris leave for school which made her smirk, "The kid on the other hand might be able to lead me to the next chaos emerald." She made sure to stay in hiding while keeping her eyes on Chris unaware of Rouge following Chris in the shadows as well.
Meanwhile at the Whitehouse the President and his associates were having a private meeting about the situation dealing with Eggman. "Something must be done gentlemen. We must take action. Eggman is a threat to our national security." The President told his men seriously. "We've got no choice but to launch an attack."
"Mr. President, I want to stop this Eggman as much as you do, but it's not so simple." The chairman told the President.
"I'm afraid he's right sir." The man said while looking over the reports given to him from the men who looked over Eggman's robot. "After examining one of the remnants of Eggman's robots, we've determined that his technical capabilities and military hardware far surpass our current weapon system."
"That might be true," the third man put in, "but it doesn't change the fact that something could be done."
"Would you consider asking Sonic to assist with this mission?" The man standing up asked which made the third man turn his head to him.
"Sonic?" The President asked.
"Eggman's an unusual enemy sir and that calls for an unusual ally." The glasses man explained. "With this in mind sir I think Sonic's got what it takes to get the best of him." The President got up from his seat and walked toward the window while the man continued explaining, "He just might be the only hope we have Mr. President."
"That's true, but how are we even know that we can communicate with a hedgehog?" The President asked.
"Our operatives have observed him speaking to the young boy he's staying with. He seems to understand the language."
The President turned his head to his employee and sighed mentally. "Fine, then we'll do it."
The glasses man smiled, "Sir, I'm sure you made the right decision."
Later that day Mr. Stewart was told the plan on how the government was going to trick Sonic and his friends to have them work together to take down Eggman. Mr. Stewart turned his communicator off and nodded, "Ok, now it's time for me to set the trap."
Outside the building Rouge kept herself hanging upside down near the window with a frown on her face. 'I know Sonic and the others have a chaos emerald, and it would be great to get my hands on it, but anything can come up last minute.'
"Hey, I bet that's the chaos emerald that you and Sonic have been trying to find, right Chris?" Frances asked which caught Rouge's attention.
"Kinda." Chris answered honestly.
"Wow, it looks like that?" Danny asked while staring at the picture Chris drew in awe.
"Let's keep the chatting to the minimum and focus on the painting." Mr. Stewart interrupted them which got them to go back to their painting.
"Uh right." The boys said in agreement.
Mr. Stewart looked at Chris's painting and asked, "What's that you're painting Chris?"
"Uh, an emerald." Chris answered honestly with his eyes showing a little fear about being caught on the spot.
"But I thought all emeralds are supposed to be green?"
Fiona rolled her eyes at the question she heard through her ear piece. 'I am so glad that I set this microphone up in the room last night after my little failure of a robbery.' She thought while hearing Chris and Mr. Stewart talking about a chaos emerald being found at Silky Heights. She smirked, "Bingo."
"In fact if I'm not mistaken, they found that emerald in a dilapidated factory not too long ago." Mr. Stewart told Chris not know about other animals hearing the news.
"Now we're talking." Fiona said before walking down the alley to her destination.
Rouge smirked while hanging upside down inside a tree near the school, "Hm, who knows what interesting little tidbits you can pick up if you can hang around for a little while?" She left the school grounds towards her destination while Fiona was planning on what to do with the chaos emerald.
When school was let out Chris and Danny left towards Chris's house with Mr. Stewart watching them with amusement. 'The plan is all set. Now they just have to spring it.' He thought before taking a sip of his coffee.
Back at Chris's house Sonic and the others had finished their search before lunch and had stayed in the top floor of the workshop eating together. After they were done eating, Charles, Chuck, and Rotor went into the basement with Bunnie to fix her robotic parts, and Tails, Amy, and Cream watched TV. Sonic and Sally had left for a run. Well, Sonic's actually running with Sally being held in his arms.
Chris and Danny arrived at the workshop and ran up the stairs onto the second floor and looked directly at Tails, Amy, and Cream and Cheese. "Hey guys, you'll never guess what we've just heard." Chris said happily.
"Huh?" The four looked at Chris and Danny and noticed their excited faces.
"Another chaos emerald has been found at the dilapidated factory which isn't too far from here." Chris told them.
"Really?" Tails asked getting excited about the news. Chris nodded which made Tails smile. "That's great Chris. I'm gonna give NICOLE the message so she can tell Sally about this." He ran down the steps and grabbed his communicator off the counter. He adjusted the communicator on his ear and smiled, "I am so glad NICOLE was able to give us the right frequency to build these."
"I'm gonna tell Miss Bunnie about this." Cream said happily and ran down the stairs.
Amy reached her hand out and yelled, "Hey Cream, wait for me!" She ran after Cream leaving the two boys alone in the room.
They look at each other, drop their bags, and yell, "Wait for us!"
Cream entered the elevator and pressed the button to close the doors. Amy ran up to the elevator and reached her hands out just in time for the doors to close on her. She got her hands on the door and yelled, "Oh man, Cream, you didn't wait for me!"
Tails looked at Amy and sweat dropped, "Some things are too easy to know about, but this is just ridiculous." He sighed and finished his message to NICOLE.
Charles finished adjusting the elbow in Bunnie's arm and sighed in relief. "There we go. Everything seems to be good to go now."
Bunnie moved her legs around and smirked, "Yah didn't happen to add anything new to them, did yah?"
Charles chuckled, "I might have upgraded a couple things, but you need to find out for yourself. I wouldn't want to ruin the surprise." He walked towards the tool chest and started to put the tools away while Rotor was looking at a new design that he made.
Chuck looked at Rotor and asked, "What do you have there, Rotor?"
Rotor looked up at Chuck and said, "This blueprint is a new vehicle design that I made. I specified it to be just like one of those cars you guys drive around here."
"I hope there is more to it than that."
Rotor nods and spreads the paper over the desk. "I designed the blueprints to add special things that we might need in the future."
"I thought that's why you and Tails built the X Tornado for?" Charles asked.
"It is." Bunnie answered which made the guys look at her. "Rotor wanted to get himself a set of wheels for himself while he's here."
Charles and Chuck chuckled while Rotor laughed nervously while rubbing the back of his neck. "Ok, I wanted us to have a car that can go at least half of Sonic's speed." He told them honestly.
The elevator door dings and opens up which made the four turn their head to see Cream running out excited. "You'll never believe it. Another chaos emerald has been found." She told them while running up to Bunnie. She stopped and looked up at Bunnie with excitement in her eyes. "Isn't it great?"
"It sure is sweetheart." Bunnie said while rubbing Cream's head who giggled at the affection from her friend.
Charles rubbed his chin and asked, "Cream, how do you know that there's been a sight of a chaos emerald?"
"Hm?" Cream looked at Charles wondering who said that then smiled, "Chris told us that his teacher had heard of an emerald sighting in an abandoned warehouse not too far from here."
'Chris heard it from his teacher huh? I would probably believe it was real if my personal scanner had picked up a signal.' Charles thought before crossing his arms. "Hm, I see. Tell Tails that I'm coming along. I want to see this chaos emerald myself."
Cream nodded, "Ok Uncle Chuck." She ran back into the elevator and pressed the button to go back to the main floor.
Meanwhile Fiona Fox and Rouge stopped in their hiding spots at the crossroad where they saw the sign. They both jump out and glare at each other immediately. "So it seems that you were following that boy too." Fiona stated irritably.
Rouge chuckled, "Of course I did, and I must say that hearing about the information from that teacher was completely worth it."
Fiona glared at Rouge before looking at the sign. "Oh boy," she sighed before face palming, "they make it seem too easy."
"Who cares, let's just switch the arrow around and see if Sonic and the others fall for it." Rouge told her. "After that it'll be just us racing for the chaos emerald."
Fiona flipped the arrow around and asked, "Why do I get the feeling you're just gonna run off while I'm watching the sign?" She narrowed her eyebrows at Rouge who shrugged.
"Well, it seems that we might know how each other works, but it doesn't matter." Rouge's right ear started to twitch along with Fiona's left ear. "It seems that Sonic is on his way with that Sally girl."
Fiona growled, "Don't ever mention her name around me." The two jump into the bushes behind the sign and wait to see if Sonic and the others will fall for the trap.
Sonic ran down the road with Sally on his back which made him groan a bit. "Why couldn't I carry you in my arms instead? I know you like it there better."
Sally chuckled, "That might be true Sonic, but the information Tails has given us is quite interesting." She looked at the data files of the chaos emeralds on NICOLE and continued, "If the red emerald is in that warehouse I might be able to get NICOLE to start having a tracer to locate the other emeralds when we are close by."
"Um, I do have one thing to ask though." Sally looked at Sonic with a raised eyebrow. "The whole time we've been here I haven't seen NICOLE come out in her Mobian body."
Sally looked down at NICOLE just when a lynx came out in the holographic form. "I have my reasons Sonic. We can't let the Thorndykes know about my knowledge to be wondering around like the rest of you." She told him. "They won't be ready."
"It doesn't matter if they are ready or not NICOLE. I'm not gonna force you to show yourself to anyone unless you want to do it." He told her. NICOLE looked down with sadness in her eyes. "NICOLE, you're one of the best machines I know, and I wouldn't want to have you be replaced by any other machine in the world."
NICOLE smiled sadly and whispered, "Thanks Sonic." Her holographic form disappeared while Sally just watched the two talk. "I'm glad Sally has you around."
Sally looked up at saw the sign ahead and raised an eyebrow when she saw what it said. Sonic skidded to a stop in front of the sign and rubbed his chin. "Is it just me, or does this seem like a trap?" Sally asked as she got off Sonic's back to get a closer look at the sign.
"Who care? I think these people know who we are. Besides, we will be getting a chaos emerald out of this anyway." He told her. Sally narrowed her eyebrows at the sign in suspicion. Sonic put his hand on her shoulder which made her look at him. "Even if it is a trap, we can't stay hiding much longer, Sal. Plus, we can finally go on a date."
Sally giggled, "You're right. I guess that I'm putting too much thought into this."
They look up when they heard the engines of the X-Tornado and point down the road where the arrow was pointing. Sonic picked Sally up and took off down the road. Bunnie, who was flying next to the X-Tornado, said, "Sugar-hog and Sally-girl are going down that way."
"I'm on it." Tails flew the X-Tornado around and went after the couple.
"Thanks for letting me come along Sir Charles." Danny said while looking at the scenery below them.
Charles chuckled, "No problem Danny. I am curious why you had wanted to come along in the first place, but your reason should be the same as Chris's reason." He closed his eyes and crossed his arms, 'I'm also wondering why only Chris heard about it. It doesn't seem to make complete sense.'
When the X-Tornado flew over the sign after Sonic and Sally, the arrow fell off of the post which made Fiona and Rouge pop their heads out of the bushes with smirks on their faces. "They fell for it." Fiona said.
"Yes, they did." Rouge said before taking off towards the factory.
Fiona looked at Rouge and growled in frustration. 'Oh no, she's not.' She thought before jumping through the trees after Rouge.
After a few minutes Rouge saw the gate with the 'keep out' sign on it. "That's it. Now to see if I could find another emerald." Rouge said. She flew over the gate towards the warehouse just when Fiona came out of the forest on the ground. Fiona growled and ran towards the warehouse after jumping over the fence. Rouge landed outside the broken window of the warehouse and looked around. 'Hm, now where is that emerald?'
Fiona watched Rouge go into the warehouse out of her sight. 'Darn you Rouge.' She jumped onto a barrel then on the top crate before jumping through the window. She turned her head and saw Rouge picking something up off the ground.
Suddenly spot lights were turned on and pointed straight on Rouge. Fiona watched as the troops surrounded Rouge with their gun pointing at her. "My my, trying to trap me?" Rouge asked the army putting her hands on her hips.
'I am so glad that I'm not down there.' Fiona thought while looking at Rouge's situation.
"Don't make a move." A blond haired woman told Rouge.
Rouge put her hands up and closed her eyes. "Whatever you like?" The blond woman walks up to Rouge with her hand reaching back to grab the handcuffs. She grabbed the handcuffs then Rouge's arm when Rouge said, "You know you're pretty tough for an old lady."
The men start laughing at the comment while the woman blushes in embarrassment. "What are you clowns laughing at?" She asked angrily. "Commander!" She looks at the Commander who coughs to cover up the laugh.
"I'm not going anywhere." Rouge told them. "Matter of fact, I kind a like being in the spotlight."
"Of course you do." Fiona muttered while sitting herself on top of an empty barrel. 'You are just full of yourself Rouge, but so am I come to think of it.' She thought with a smirk.
"Forget the cuffs." The Commander said before walking up to the two. "What's your name?" He asked looking at Rouge.
"I'm Rouge that's Rouge the Bat." She said with her hands on her hips.
"Hey, I've seen you somewhere before." He looked at her for a couple seconds the remembered. "That's right. You're the one that snuck into the National Museum and stole that diamond, aren't ya?"
"Who me?"
"We set up a trap to catch Sonic, but who do we wind up but a jewel thief." He looks back at the blond woman and continued, "Funny how things worked out that way."
Rouge smirked and walked past the two. "So are we going or not?" She asked before all the men including the commander and the woman leave the warehouse with her while Fiona just watched from above.
"You're playing a dangerous part here Rouge, but you just love taking risks." Fiona muttered before turning her attention to the almost abandoned warehouse. 'They'll be leaving soon anyway, but I have nothing to go on, and I am hungry. I might as well wait a few minutes before leaving.'
Sonic ran down the street then stopped which made Sally raise an eyebrow. "Did you find it?" She asked while looking at him.
Sonic narrowed his eyebrows. "No, I think we were led on a wild goose chase." He told her.
"Maybe you should go the other way and see if it leads to the warehouse." NICOLE suggested while making her holographic-self come out of the screen.
"That might not be a bad idea." Sonic looked at the forest in front of him and sighed, "Yep, we're gonna have to turn around."
"I'll tell Tails." NICOLE told them before disappearing from the screen. She entered the main frame of the computer on the X-Tornado and appeared in front of Tails which made him gasp a bit in shock. "Sorry for the intrusion Tails, but it seems that we were given the wrong impression. Sonic's going to turn around and go the other way to see if the warehouse is that way."
Tails nodded, "Ok, we'll turn around and follow you guys then."
"Tell Sonic and Sally not to do anything stupid while on this mission. I don't want to become a great uncle yet." Charles added in which made Tails and NICOLE blush a bit.
"I'll be sure to tell them." She said before leaving the computer mainframe.
Tails scratched his head in thought then asked, "When did NICOLE have the ability to travel to other computers?"
"She doesn't really." Charles told the fox. "She travels to other machines but is still in the computer Sally holds. It could be that Sally or NICOLE installed a small mechanism into the mainframe so she would be able to communicate with you as herself too."
Tails sighed, "There are so many things that still confuse me." He turned the X-Tornado around while trying to ignore the complaints coming from the kids in the back about being hungry. 'I seem to be hungry as well. We should have packed some food.' He thought before flying off after Sonic who had started to run down the road again.
Fiona Fox walked through the cargo hold with a frown on her face. 'This military group is supposed to be good at what they do. I'm not impressed one bit.' She thought before grabbing a couple handguns off the wall. She smirked, "They are stupid enough to leave these behind though, but I probably wouldn't use them anyway.' She put the handguns back then grabbed a case of grenades. 'These will definitely come in handy though.' She looked out the window and noticed the island coming into view. She grabbed a parachute and chuckled as she saw five people jump out of the jet.
Fiona smirked, "Time for me to join the party." She ran through the jet and jumped out the door where the others jumped out of without being noticed. 'They really need to add on to their security.' She thought happily while falling towards the island.
Sonic, Sally, Tails, and Charles looked around the warehouse in suspicion while Chris and Danny had fallen asleep in the X-Tornado. Sally opened up NICOLE and watched as NICOLE came out in her Mobian body. The lynx gave Sally a nod and said, "I'll start looking for anything suspicious."
"While you do that, the rest of us will see if the chaos emerald is around here." Sally told NICOLE. The two went different ways and continued searching for anything they could find.
Charles looked up and narrowed his eyebrows, "It seems we might have been tricked."
Tails looked at Charles in shock while Sonic watched Sally and NICOLE go different directions. "What do you mean Uncle Chuck?" Tails asked with a surprised look on his face.
"It means that some people know of our existence outside of the people we met." Sonic told his buddy. "NICOLE figured that we might be setting off a trap, but it seems that there's no trap now."
NICOLE picked a microchip off the barrel and narrowed her eyebrows at it. 'What is one of our microchips doing here?' She thought. 'Only the Freedom Fighters have these things, but it could be possible if someone else got their hands on a few.' She jumped over the railing and landed behind Charles. "Yes, it seems the trap might have been sent off by one of our kind." The lynx showed the microchip to the guys while Sally walked up to NICOLE. "Whoever had set it off left us a message."
"Who would do that?" Tails asked with shock written all over his face.
Sonic crossed his arms and watched Sally place the microchip into NICOLE's hard drive. "I don't know, but whoever it is we need to be careful." He told them.
Sally pressed a couple buttons and nodded, "Ok, let's see who sent us this message."
An image of Fiona Fox came up in full size in front of them which made them all gasp in surprise. "Hello Sally, how've you been?" Fiona laughed a bit while Sally growled at the fox. "Oh, you're probably growling at me for leaving you guys, but I have my reasons." Fiona giggled a bit before crossing her arms. "I'll make this quick then. Rouge the Bat had set off the trap. Right now I'm going to see what she is up to with these people, but you don't expect me to tell you right?"
Sonic put his hand on Sally's shoulder which made her calm down a bit. "Don't let her get to you." He whispered to his girlfriend who nodded back.
"Anyway, I just thought you would like to know why nothing is going on while you're there." Fiona turned around and continued, "One more thing we might not like each other, but if you ever plan on fighting Eggman count me in." She smirked and disappeared as the message finished up.
Charles balled his hands up and said, "Tails, you better get the X-Tornado ready. The kids need to get something to eat and get to bed for tomorrow."
"Sure thing Uncle Chuck." Tails said with sadness showing all over his face. He walked away leaving the four alone.
Charles turned to his nephew and said, "We'll talk about this when we get back to the house."
The other three nod their heads while Charles leaves the warehouse. The three look at each other while Sally pulls the microchip out of NICOLE's computer. "Let's go home you guys." Sonic told them before anything could be said. "This conversation is probably going to take a while."
NICOLE nodded in agreement and went back into her computer while Sonic picked Sally up bridal style. "You really need to stop picking me up like this, or people will start to get the wrong impression not that I mind of course." Sally told her boyfriend.
Sonic shrugged, "It doesn't matter what people think about this. It matters what you think about this." Sally blushed while NICOLE giggled quietly in the machine. Sonic chuckled then ran off while Tails flew the X-Tornado back towards the house.
Fiona landed on the ground and followed the G.U.N. team towards Eggman's base. She watched as Rouge grabbed the rope off of the commander's belt and flew up towards the base. 'You sure know how to make yourself known.' Fiona thought sarcastically.
She jumped onto the branch and continued watching the team climb the rope Rouge threw down to them. Once the team was inside Fiona came out into the open and followed them into the building. Once she got inside she looked around and noticed them gone. 'Ok, I probably have maybe an hour before Eggman or Snively finds out that anyone has gotten into his base.' She thought before taking off down the hall.
At the Thorndykes' residence Chris and Danny were given some food and went to bed right after. Amy, Cream, and Cheese were already in bed fast asleep, but the rest of the gang and Grandpa Chuck were all in the lab watching the message Fiona had given them. Bunnie and Rotor watched the recording with hate in their eyes while Chuck watched it with curiosity.
After the video was over Chuck excused himself to bed since he couldn't find a way to keep himself awake anymore. The others watched him leave then looked at NICOLE who had just made her lynx form appear in the middle of the room. She looked at them and asked, "What did you want us to meet for Charles?"
Charles cleared his throat and made sure everyone was looking at him. "It seems that the people of this world are becoming more aware of us every day. Pretty soon everyone will know of our existence on this planet. I do not know if it will be a good thing or a bad thing." He told them honestly.
"Relax Uncle Chuck." Sonic told his uncle. "Who cares what they think, all that matters is that they know the truth about us and Eggman. As long as they know that, we'll be fine."
"What about people who don't care about that?" Rotor asked his friend.
Sonic sighed, "We just have to deal with it including what Sally is."
Sally nodded and crossed her arms. "I agree with sonic, but we're going to keep some information to ourselves. There are quite a few things they do not need to know about including what we don't know yet." She told them.
Bunnie looked at her arm and said, "Ah don't know Sally-girl. Some things seem easier to hide then others." Everyone looked at her arm then her legs and sighed in agreement. "Ah don't mind telling them wha had happened to meh, but Ah don't want yah to tell them."
"We'll tell them our stories, but we'll only mention what they need to know." Charles told them. "Now, what are we going to do about Eggman's base?"
Sonic and Tails looked at each other and grinned. "Oh, that's simple." Sonic told his uncle while pointing at Tails and himself. "Tails will just have to fly me close enough to the base so I can get inside to fight Eggman."
"We're going to need a distraction though." Sally told her boyfriend.
"How about we go and attack when the people from this planet start to attack the base?" NICOLE suggested.
Charles rubbed his chin in thought and chuckled, "That's a big move on our part, but it's the only move we have." He nodded in agreement and looked at Rotor. "Rotor, I'll need you to get your plans completed a little sooner than we planned. You need to make a carrier plane where we'll be able to hold more than just four people like the X-Tornado."
Rotor nodded, "I'm already on it." He held up the plans with a smirk on his face.
Charles nodded, "Good. Bunnie, you and Sally will help the people who get inside the base and try to do what you do best."
"Don't worry Sir Charles." Bunnie told him.
"Tails will take care with the air support with the X-Tornado after getting you three into Eggman's base." Charles finished. "I'll take command here with Chuck and the others. Amy might go with Rotor to be his co-pilot."
Sonic smirked, "Sounds like a plan Unc. Now we have that out of the way we should hit the hay and get ourselves some sleep."
NICOLE nodded then asked, "What about Fiona Fox? We can't just leave her out of the picture after what she told us in the message."
Charles sighed, "Agreed, but the most likely thing she'll do is join Bunnie and Sally to destroy the base from the inside."
"Wait!" Tails exclaimed which made everyone look at him. "What about Knuckles? It's pretty obvious that he should know about this."
Sonic scoffed, "Knuckles will find out by himself and will likely attack his own way. He probably would expect us to show up a little later after he arrives." He walked over to the elevator and smirked, "Besides, Knux can take care of himself. There's no need to worry about him."
Tails nodded, "Yeah, I guess you're right."
Sally walked over to Sonic while NICOLE virtualized back into her computer. "Goodnight you guys." She waved to her friends and entered the elevator with her boyfriend. The door closed behind them leaving the others to talk amongst themselves.
Rotor put the plans down on the table and grabbed a pencil. "I'm gonna finish the designs for the carrier then head to bed." He told them.
Tails yawned then nodded, "Ok, I'll help you build it in the morning." He walked away with Bunnie and Charles following him towards the elevator.
Rotor heard the elevator open and close but didn't pay any attention to it. "Time to finish up the ideas I got for this." He muttered before drawing the ideas that started to appear in his mind.
Meanwhile at Eggman's base Fiona Fox ran down the hallway and stopped when she heard a noise coming down the hall. She grabbed ear plugs and was going to stick them in her ears when Snively appeared around the corner. He smirked at her then chuckled, "Well, it seems that my uncle's robot was set off by someone else, and it also looks like we have a familiar intruder."
Fiona growled at Snively. "This is not a time for you to get smart with me Snively." She told him before grabbing one of the grenades off her belt. "You seem to know a few things though. Where's the chaos emerald?"
Snively chuckled, "You should have guessed by now. The noise that robot is making is signaling us that someone is in the power chamber where the chaos emerald is, but you won't be getting anywhere near it." He snapped his fingers and smiled evilly as two robots appear behind him. The robots go past him and stop a few feet in front of Fiona. "I suggest you give up before these robots beat you up and capture you."
"I will never surrender to the likes of you Snively." Fiona pulled the needle out of the grenade then threw it at the robot. The grenade went off on contact while Fiona ran off down the hallway.
Snively growled at the distraction. "After her!" He yelled at the two robots while pointing the way she went. "Do not let her escape." He watched the robots run after her before turning his attention to the noise. "I really hate that noise, but it is very useful." He sighed before running down the hallway towards the noise that had just ceased completely. "That's not a good sign." He muttered.
Dr. Eggman arrives on the scene just in time to avoid getting flown into by Rouge and Topaz. He watches the two leave with a raised eyebrow. "Who's that?" He wondered before turning his head to the robot sparking. When the robot exploded Eggman yelled while the flames went over him and down the hall.
Rouge flew past Snively and out of the building which made Snively look at her then at the flames coming towards him. "Oh no!" Snively jumped out of the way while the explosion went off through the hole that Rouge left out of. 'That was a little too close.' He thought.
Fiona grabbed a jet pack off the wall and smashed the wall open with her foot. "Time to get out of here." She pulls one of the needles out of the grenades and threw it at the two robots chasing her. "Bye bye." She took off towards the sky and left the area without being seen by anyone.
Snively ran down the hall and stopped when he saw his uncle covered in suit. "Well, it seems you security was able to do something." He told his uncle.
Dr. Eggman coughed then growled, "Let's just hope that the chaos emerald wasn't stolen, or I'll be angry for your moral lack of support."
"On the contrary sir, I ran into someone on the way here. It seems our woman fox has finally made an appearance." He told his uncle.
"Did you take care of her?" Dr. Eggman asked while looking through the debris of the machine that held the chaos emerald.
"I made sure that some robots went after her. To be honest I wouldn't be surprised if she escaped. You did leave out a jetpack on one of the floors." Snively crossed his arms and entered the room. He looked around and saw the hole in the floor which made him narrow his eyebrows. He walked towards the hole and growled, "I don't think they were after the emerald."
"Here it is." Dr. Eggman grabbed the chaos emerald and asked, "Why do you say that Snively?"
Snively looked at the generators with anger planted on his face. "I think they were trying to find something that could get rid of this base."
Eggman walked over to Snively and looked down at the generators through the hole. "Hm, you might be right. We better increase our defenses when they'll attack." He turned around and walked away with his nephew following. "Snively, you can make sure that the robots clean the place up correctly. It seems I need to find a place to put the chaos emerald for now."
"Yes sir." Snively answered and left his uncle to do what he was told to do while Eggman went back to the main room. "I might not have recognized that bat, but I know that she was after the emerald. The woman with her on the other hand was after something else.' He thought before smirking. "We'll just have to make sure that doesn't happen again." He chuckled and continued walking down the hallway to start the clean-up robots for their job.
Fiona landed in the forest with an empty jet pack with a frustrated look on her face. 'I was caught by that little man again. After so many months of not seeing him or Eggman I get caught one time, and all of this happened because Rouge had activated a robot.' She growled then chuckled, 'You might have won this time Rouge, but it's not possible that you got your hands on the chaos emerald.' She walked away from her landing area with a smirk on her face. 'I will get that chaos emerald before Rouge and the Freedom Fighters. I'll make sure of it.'
Well, it's about time I updated right? Don't worry I didn't leave any of you guys hanging. I tried to make most of this without watching the episode. Of course, I got distracted with many things going on like college and Christmas, but I was able to finish this chapter finally. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed it. R&R
