Episode Thirteen

Covert Affairs

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Previously on Neo Sonic Underground! Sonic and Nico were ordered to run the empire while Queen Aleena was on a top secret mission. In the mist of their rule, Shadow demand that he be allowed to fight the Adair siblings in three on one fight. Shadow was able to win the battle, and decided not to exile them after their lost with thanks from a brave and wise pair of siblings. After the fight, everyone returned home for some rest and recovery. The doctor's reported that the four of them had pushed their bodies to the max and will take time for everyone to recover.

In the meantime, Millie returned to the office to find a mysterious package addressed to the brave heroes. Sonic opened the package and found a letter with coin. The writer claims that it will help in solving the mystery behind the Lost Roses. That night, the two brothers had another dream about the unknown pink hedgehog. The dream was so powerful that they started crying out into the night. Once they land back on their balcony, Manic tells them, 'Sonic, don't know if this is the right time to tell you this, but while I was in Mobodoon; Mayor Winnie gave me some letters from dad when he was on Earth and…' This gave the two a lead to fellow, Sonic was getting ready to head out when Queen Aleena returns from her mission. She ordered everyone to bed saying they could follow their lead in the morning. The question on everyone's mind is what happened on Aleena's mission, and what was Xavier's plan?

Find out today on Neo Sonic Underground!

The sun shines down as a new morning breaks over the capital of the Moboain Empire. The skies are clear and blue with the fresh morning wind blowing over the land. Aleena stands on top of the highest flag pole in the government quarters with her arms folded and overlooking city as the people start their day. Aleena wears a pair black dress pants, a white dress shirt with a purple tie, black high heel dress shoes, and a sleeveless black trench coat. As the wind blows, Aleena's long trench flaps in the wind behind her. Her eyes become fixed on the horizon as she says, "Xavier what are you planning?"

In the kitchen of royal living area, Sonia walks in were a long purple night robe with a purple poke-a-dot sleepers. When she walks in she see Sonic, Silver, and Manic in their pajamas sitting at the table eating breakfast. The violet purple hedgehog looks at the brown, white, and black marble top kitchen island to see scramble eggs, bacon, biscuits, sausage, cut fruits, toast, grits, and a stack of waffles. Sonia goes to the silver two door fridge and pulls out the orange juice. While pouring a glass she calls out to the others, "Morning everyone." They each response to Sonia's greeting; then she puts the juice back and fixes her plate. "Who made breakfast?" Sonic rises his hand while reading a data pad. Sonia jokes, "Is it safe to eat?"

Sonic looks up from his pad with a smirk on his face watching as Sonia makes her way to table, "Ha ha sis, you got jokes this morning. You never complained about our cooking in past, and as you can see Manic and Silver aren't critiquing our cooking."

Silver finishes swallowing and replies, "Who has time to complain, besides, I'm never one complain when someone makes food for me." Sonic snickers and goes back to reading his pad. "Sonic what are you reading anyway? You've had your nose stuck in that thing since Manic and I came in the kitchen."

Sonic lowers the pad again with a big smile on face. "Well bro, we just going over the results of the betting pool from Shadow's match."

Sonia replies while pouring syrup on her waffles, "Oh yeah, I heard about on the news. What were the results?"

"The final odd percentages were 23% for Shadow to win, 70% for Kenna's team, and 7% for a double KO or tie. In total, over 2.5 trillion dollars was in the betting pool," Sonic explains

"Damn!" Manic exclaims. "That's one piece of nice change."

"You that right. Just from the totals of all the retail and ticket sells over 2 billion dollars was raised for Sanctuary. If we factor in the winnings that I donated from my winning, they are going to receive 22 billion dollars," Sonic states.

Nico appears next to Sonic with a giant smile on his face, "But that doesn't include the 270 billion I got off my bet! Ha ha ha ha!"

Sonic rolls his eyes hearing Nico's crazy laugher. Sonia calls out, "Sonic what's the matter?"

"Oh its nothing, Nico is just gloating about the amount of money he won," Sonic states then takes a slip of water.

"How much did he win?" Silver questions as he gets up to put his dish in the sink.

Sonic exhales, "Roughly 385 billion dollars." Everyone stops and gasp in shock hearing the amount. Sonic then quickly continues with, "However from that, he had to donate 100 billion to Sanctuary and 15 billion to Shadow."

Another voice calls, "What did you give Shadow that money for?"

Without paying attention to whom the voice belong to, Sonic replies, "So that he wouldn't exile Kenna and her brothers. Nico and I had a bad feeling that if Shadow won, he would do something fucked up, so we brought a little insurance."

"I can't believe you," the voice comments.

Sonic in the direction of voice while saying, "Come on Silver you of all people know…"

Sonic pauses in the mid-sentence to see Midna standing in her brown-white pajamas with her green rob. Tears are in her eyes as walks closer to her cobalt brother; when she is in arms reach of her brother. Midna wraps her shocked brother in a warming embrace with tears streaming down her face, "Thank you, thank you so much Sonic! You and Nico are the best brothers I could ever ask for."

Sonic gently pulls away from Midna with a smile on his face and replies with, "It was not problem sis. We know that you have deep feelings for Kell. By the way, how long has you to been a thing?"

Midna walks back in to the kitchen while saying, "Well if you really think about it, I would say a little over three and half months."

"Figures," Sonic comments. He turns to look at Manic eating his waffles and asks, "Hey Manic, by any chance did you take the letter and coin we got last night?"

Manic chews takes a bite of the waffle while saying, "What makes you think I have it?"

"We were trying to find it after we got up, but we had no luck. We thought you might have taken it with you last night look it over after mom told us to go to bed. After all, you're the one who has dad's letters," Sonic replies.

Manic shakes his no then says, "No way bro, first off I'm not crazy enough to disobey mom. Second, when I got this morning, I went looking for the letter myself, but they were gone." Sonic gives a puzzled look as Manic continues with, "That's the same face I had this morning. When I think back, the only person in my room before I went to sleep was mom, so…"

"Mom must have the letters," Sonic concludes. "But what would she want with them?"

Midna answers with, "Well, its no mystery, just go ask mom why she took the letters."

Sonic nods in agreement then watches as his sister picks up to two full plates of food. As the brown hedgehog heads out of the room, Sonic comments, "Damn sis, you are really going to eat all that food?"

Midna glances back at her younger brother and says, "I'm taking food for two."

"WHAT!" Sonic, Nico, Silver, Manic, and Sonia all say in unison with shock painted all over their faces.

Midna stops in her tracks looking at the others, "What's wrong?"

Silver slow walks over to his sister and says with a shakily voice, "Midna does mom know that you're…."

A blood vessel appears on her forehead and flames appear in her eyes as she yells out, "ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MINDS!? WHAT FUCK ARE YOU GUYS THINKING?! IF YOU REMEMBER, KELL IS STAYING IN MY ROOM DUMB ASSES OR HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN THAT LITTLE DETAIL!" The five of them give a nervous laugh in response to Midna's correction. The brown hedgehog huffs out a puff of air calming herself down then says, "Geez do you guys really think that I am that stupid to get pregnant right now. Besides what makes you think that he is any condition to have sex?"

Before anyone can reply, Midna walks out of the kitchen with her two plates. Sonic busts of laughing drawing everyone's attention. "Well that enough drama and information for us this morning. I'm going to go see mom. Silver is it your turn to do the dishes today. Later!" Sonic exclaims grabbing his pad and running out the kitchen.

"Hey wait Sonic!" Silver calls out, but his effort is not good. He looks that the sink and see a huge pile of dishes and plates. "Manic, Sonia, do you mind giving me a hand with this?" Silver turns around to find himself alone. "YOU JERKS!"

Mille makes her way up the stairs and quickly glances at her watch. "9:30," she says to herself. At the top of the stairs she opens the door to the roof. She looks up at the flag pole and sees the purple hedgehog queen still standing there. "Your highness! Are you planning on coming down anytime soon? You have people waiting in your office!"

Aleena bends her knees then springs herself up in the air. She twists around in the air then curls up in the ball and land perfectly in front of Millie with a smile on her face. "Sorry Millie, I didn't mean to let time get away with me like that." The women make their way down the stairs into the main upper floor hallway. The hallway is full of people talking about government operations and quickly moving all over the place. Once they see Aleena and Mille heading down the hall, everyone quickly clears a path for the women. Aleena smiles and waves at everyone as she walks pass.

It takes about five more minutes before they reach Aleena's office. Millie grabs a pad off her desk and hands it to Aleena. As they enter her office, Millie hands the pad to Aleena while saying, "Your highness this is the final report from doctors who examined Shadow and the Adair siblings."

Mizu, Oracle, and Lisa stand up when Aleena walks into the room; they all bow and greet Aleena. "Good morning everyone," Aleena replies back. She sits at her desk looking over the report, "Hum… this isn't as bad as I thought it would be."

Oracle asks while everyone takes their seats, "How much damage was done?"

Lisa quickly chimes in with, "Oracle you saw that fight. It was like the battle for Mobius all over again, but I would have never imagined that Kenna and her brothers would have such great power. Then there is Shadow," the grand elder looks at Aleena and continues to a look of shock in her eyes, "Your highness, were you aware that your son had such power?"

Aleena sets the pad on her desk leans back in her chair with her arms folded and says with an unconcerned look, "I had an idea at what his power level was at, but he going to have to pay a price for using his power like that." Everyone gives a questioning look, and Aleena explains, "Believe it or not, my children all possess great power, but they don't how to control it. Since Shadow removed his limiter, his body is going have to work overtime to repair the excess stress and strain. In short, all that power he showed at the fight is gone."

"So does the doctor report say your highness?" Oracle questions again.

Aleena leans forward and picks up the report and says, "Well for the worst to the best. Kell is the one who took the worst hit. Since Shadow kicked him the back with the force of five semi-trucks, they are most concerned about spinal damage. Luckily, he showing no signs of paralysis, but they want to him moving were for the time being."

Mizu chimes in with, "So he going to be stuck in Midna's room until they say otherwise."

Lisa springs from her seat with voice full of shock, "Your Majesty, you are letting that young man stay in Princess Midna's bedroom with her unsupervised! Think about the scandal and gossip that will spread it this gets out!"

"Relax Lisa; you don't have worry about him trying anything. Besides, I have known those two have been seeing each other for some time now. I can trust in Midna's judgement to do what she feels it right," Aleena replies with smirk on her face.

Lisa sits back down in her chair and says, "That all well and good, but what will you tell the other elders?"

Aleena gives a big smiles and says, "I leave that all in your capable hands Lisa. I know you will keep the elders in line. If you can't handle them, I can always send Sonic and Nico to pound them into shape."

Lisa shakes her head while softly giggling, "You know that might not be a bad idea. It would save me a lot of pain and headache. What does the rest of the report say?"

Aleena looks back at the report, "Kana is next on the list. He received three broken and five fractured ribs, his right is broken it two spots, and the muscles in his leg calf are torn."

"Damn, that dragon took a beating," Mizu comments.

"Yup, and Kenna's report reads about the same, but instead of a broken arm and torn muscles, her jaw bone is broken. The doctors are going to have wire it. Plus, she has several serve burn spots over her body," Aleena reports. She smiles as she says, "Last but not least my dear son Shadow. He looking at a five broken and eight fractured ribs, a minor concussion, his left leg and right hand are broken, a puncture wound through and through, and to top it all off a serve exhaustion." Everyone's mouth are open hearing the damage to Shadow and joyful tone of his mother. Aleena blinks her eyes with a confused look on her face, "What? Is something wrong?"

Mizu recomposes himself while clear his throat, "Your highness, you said that report was from worst to best. No disrespect ma`am, but how can Shadow be the best case out of all of that?"

Aleena giggles then says, "Because Shadow is going to be force to learn an important lesson."

Lisa quickly follows up with, "And that would be what Queen Aleena?"

"He knows that he can't just depend on his sole power to fight against an enemy. Plus, this will teach him that fighting when out-number, especially when you under estimate your opponent, is a foolish thing to do," Aleena replies.

Oracle smiles hearing Aleena's answer, and he says with an upbeat tone, "Your mother would so proud about how wise you have become during your time as Queen." Aleena starts to blush hearing the pleasing remark from her close friend and advisor. "How long before their wounds are healed?"

Aleena leans back in her chair again and tilts her head to the ceiling for a second then she looks back at everyone, "Well, according to the doctors, Kenna and her brothers have a two to three month recovery period. Shadow, on the other hand, should back up within two weeks."

Mizu moves hand to under his chin and lowers his head while thinking out loud, "Two to three months, hum… I guess, I am going to have to cover for Kenna's duties, and delegate Kell and Kana's duties to others in my command. I'll have Tigress… "

"That won't be necessary Mizu," Aleena quickly interjects. He looks back at Aleena as she says in the serious tone, "I will not stand to have the Captain and her two top officers out commission for that long."

Lisa quickly says, "Your highness you can't expect them to be ready for duty by tomorrow. Even with my limited medical knowledge, I could tell you that they are going to need some time to heal."

"And they will Lisa, two weeks is all the time they are going to need to back in fighting shape," Aleena boosts with a smirk on her face.

Mizu shakes his head trying to figure out Aleena's logic, but his efforts produce nothing, so his is forced to ask, "Queen Aleena with all due respect, but I don't see how you plan to make sure that they will be up and ready by then." He sees the confident look in Aleena's eyes and goes back to thinking of a possible way for his niece and nephews to be fully healed within such a short time. He glances to his right at Lisa; seeing that she is also trying to figure out Aleena's plan. He then looks to his left to see a smile on Oracle's face. Suddenly, the idea pops in his head. "The training resort," he blabs out pointing his finger at the purple queen. "That's who you plan to do it. Since time in the training resort passes faster than time outside, they will get the full amount…"

"Wrong!" Aleena jams in with a smile in her face. "Training resort wouldn't be ideal place to them to heal and recover."

Mizu goes slumped into this chair then says, "Then how do you plan on healing them?"

Aleena shows him, her open palm facing hands, "Magic my friend, magic." Lisa and Mizu give her a confused expression as she continues while lowering her hands, "I know a spell that be can be used to repair and heal anything that it is casted on. Once I heal Kenna, Kana, and Kell, they will be up and fully running within my stated time frame."

Lisa and Mizu still have confused expression on their faces when Oracle chines in with, "The spell her majesty is referring to is called Cure."

"Cure?" Lisa and Mizu say in unison.

"Yes it's a high level spell that will allow me to heal the major of Kenna and her brothers' wounds," Aleena states with one eye closed a big grin on her face.

"What about Prince Shadow your highness?" Millie questions as she puts a pot of coffee and the breakfast snacks on the desk.

Aleena folds her arms looking to right with a serious expression while she says, "He can heal himself." Lisa, Mizu, and Millie gasp out loud in shock hearing Aleena's response. She can only hold the look for couple of seconds until Oracle and her bust out laughing. Everyone looks at them with confused look until Aleena turns to them and explains, "Don't worry, my child and I are fast healers. If the damage isn't too extensive, we can recover within a day or so with undisturbed rest. In Shadow's case, I would figure that he will be back to normal by the end of next week." Everyone breathes a sigh of relief hearing Aleena's explanation. The purple queen pours a cup of coffee and the grabs a Cheese Danish; while she dunks the end of the pastry into her double cream with four sugars coffee, she says, "Alright with all that out of the way what's next on the bill for today Millie?"

Millie finishes drinking some coffee and says, "Well, your highness after this current meeting and your daily briefing; you will be done for today."

*Cough* Aleena goes into her coffee. She suggests to regain her voice as she asks in a raspy tone, "say what Millie?"

"You will be done for today after these meeting," Millie repeats.

Aleena sets the coffee down and quickly scrambles to the IN and OUT file spot to find three pads. She holds up the pads and says, "This can't be it! I when I left there was about three months of backlog work and an additional two months of work left here." Lisa, Mizu, and Oracle give the panicking Queen a low eyed glare. Aleena feels the glare of the three throws her right hand behind as she stands straight giving a nervous laugh. She coughs into fist quickly recomposing herself and walks back over to her desk with three pads in hand. She sets the pads down and says, "Millie, what happened to all that paperwork?"

"Sonic and Nico happened to it. After all, you did leave them in charge while you were gone," Millie replies.

Aleena flops into her chair with a confused look on her face, "Millie are your tell me that my two most hyperactive and single minded sons completed all my work. Did you check to make sure that they just didn't rubber stamp everything?"

Millie seats in her chair with biggest grin on her face, "Yes ma`am. I double check everything. They even made a couple of suggestions to make some bills better before signing them. Over all, they approved three thousand projects, passed two hundred and eighty laws, declined three hundred and sixty-two bills, and signed off on the budget for the next eight years."

Everyone's face is full of shock hearing the results of the pair's two week reign. Aleena's face shows the greatest shock with her slack jaw mouth. It takes a minute for her process everything until she quickly shakes her head and asks, "Is there anything else I should be awake of?"

Millie takes her chin with her finger while her tail happy sways back and forth, "Oh yes, Sonic and Nico also completed the addition months of paperwork that come from the Congress and Council."

"Addition work?" Lisa questions.

"Yes Grand Elder, the boys were able to gather all the work that Congress waiting to send and cleared it out," Millie replies.

Mizu finally asks, "What does that mean for Queen Aleena and the government?"

"Well because of their work, all the other departments are behind by nine months, and Queen Aleena is free from all non-emergency work for until after the congressional elections," Millie states.

Aleena rubbers her temples while asking, "And how long will that be?"

"Mid part for next year, so that would be nine or ten months, and that's if Congress doesn't get blogged down in politics," Millie responses.

"Amazing, simple amazing. To think that the Prince Sonic and Nico would be capable of completing some much in a short time," Oracle comments then then takes a slip of his coffee.

"Thanks Oracle for making fill like I have any importance," Aleena states as she slams forehand on the desk. *Knock* *Knock* With her face still on the desk she says, "Come in."

The door doesn't open, so Millie gets up and answers the door. "Oh good morning Sonic," Millie greet letting the blue hedgehog in.

"Good morning," Sonic greets as he walks in. Sonic stops in his tracks seeing Aleena's hand on her desk. "Um mom, why are you seating that?"

"Because, this is only thing I can do for the next nine months," Aleena retorts.

Nico appears next to Sonic on the verge of busting out laughing. Sonic and Millie walk back towards the desk. "Um we're lose here," Sonic states in a confused tone of voice.

Millie smiles and says, "I was just catching the queen up on all the work that Nico and you completed." The cat secretary giggles while she continues, "they are all amazed at the amount of work you have done with such little time."

"You're not helping Millie," Aleena states with her head still down.

"Don't feel bad," Sonic says while patting on her back. "It's not like you left all that work for us because you wanted to scare us."

Aleena turns her head to face Sonic, "Ha that's what you think." She finally sits up and says, "Anyway, what can I do you for Sonic?"

"Mom did you take the letter and coin we got last night and the letters from dad? Because Manic nor we can them anywhere," Sonic explains walking back in front of her desk.

"Yes," Aleena states.

"May we have them back?" Sonic requests.

"No."

"What?"

"I said no Sonic. You may not have them at this moment," Aleena states.

"But mom, that is our first real hard clue to finding out, who the girl is in our dream. Plus it might give us a lead to where dad is. Why won't let us have them," Sonic complains as he slams his hand on her desk.

Aleena's face turns hard while rising one eyebrow, "Sonic this might have been your office yesterday, but today its mine and if you hit my desk again like that. I will be the one hitting your tail do you understand me." Sonic and Nico back away from Aleena's desk with the look of fear in their eyes. They lower their heads about to cry feeling defeat course through them as they think about how close they are to solving this mystery. Aleena stands up and says, "Boys don't look that way, I promise to give you back everything after dinner tonight."

Sonic and Nico rise their heads and ask, "Why after dinner mom?"

Aleena walks to the window looking outside at the bright sunny day, "I going to tell everyone about the mission I was on, and how it might relate to your next journey. Once that is done, I give you everything and more access to the classified material." She turns around with a smile on her face, "Is that fair?" Sonic and Nico look at each other then back at their mother. They both nod yes and Aleena says, "Good, now go and play you have deserve it, and as reward for your hard work Sonic you can have chilidog again."

Sonic's eyes light and sparkle with joy while Nico's head drops hearing Aleena's last sentence. "Really? Thank you so much mommy! Thank you!"

"Just don't overdo it ok," but Aleena's words fail to meet her son's ears as they zip out of her office. "Millie, what have I done?"

"Unleashed a chilidog monster. They better hide their buns and their chili because they come after them," Millie jokes.

Aleena shakes her head then says, "Mizu, I want Kenna and her brothers there along with all of you ok." They all nod yes and Aleena finishes with, "Good, now since I don't have nothing else pressing to do, I am going shopping." Everyone gives her another odd look, "What? Where do you think Sonia got her taste of fashion and shopping from? It sure wasn't Sora."

The clock reads eight thirty, and everyone is gathered in the large dining room at the royal living area. The huge round dining room table is decorated with a white sheet cover with matching bone china dishes. Placed within arm's reach, is the edge of rotating food table. The table is stocked with all types of different foods ranging from pasta and fish to salads and steaks. Anytime someone wanted a certain food item, they could easily spin table until the item lay in front of them. The fourteen dining partners eat, talk, and listen to each other as the main course is picked out by each different person. Everyone is dressed in casual outfit expect for Sonia who decided a ballroom dress. Kenna and her brothers sport minor medical recovery gear after Aleena used her Cure spell on them. On the other hand, Shadow is the most underdress wearing a green hospital grown with two big white medical cast on his arm and leg, and white bandages wrapped around his head and other hand.

The black hedgehog sits next to his mother complaining as she helps feed him. "This isn't fair mom. Why could use your healing spell on me as well."

Aleena smiles as she feeds him some soup, "Well, I never really got the chance to feed you as baby, so I'm making up for lost time. But all kidding aside, I chose not to heal you in order to teach you a valuable lesson."

Shadow shallows the soup and asks, "What lesson would that be mom?"

Sonic chimes in before Aleena saying, "Not to use someone else's technique without checking with them to make that you are doing it right."

"And what the hell is that supposed to mean smartass?" Shadow fires back.

Aleena gives a displease glare at her son for his word choice, but her glace quickly shifts to Sonic and Nico as she hears, "Well dumbass, Nico saw that you were using wacked up version of his Werehog Shield." Shadow's eyes narrow in reaction to their comment, and Sonic follows up with, "Yeah you think you got away with it, but Nico saw it the moment you first used it during the fight. That's why you weren't as the much damage as you should have during the fight, but your Shadow Shield was messed up."

"Oh is that right," Shadow taunts. The other conversions at table taper down as three brothers hatch it out with each other. Shadow slightly rises his voice while saying, "Ok chilidog for brains, since you it seems that you know everything, why don't you go ahead a spoil what you saw wrong with my Shadow Shield."

"Boys," Aleena calls out.

Her call goes unheeded as Sonic pulls down his pasta and replies at the same rise voice, "We don't know where to start. How about this first, the amount of energy was way too much for the shield. Every time you took a hit; the over spilling energy rebounded and hit you and that's just the tip of freaking iceberg."

"Now Sonic…"

"That a lot coming from the hedgehog who ended up eating dirt thinking that he was fastest thing alive. By the way, I never really asked how did that sand taste?" Shadow fires back.

"Shadow…"

Nico switches out with Sonic and fires back, "Well at else Sonic was able to master that skill unlike you." Shadow's face grows sour hearing Nico say, "Look Shadow, there's no shame in asking for help to prefect your new technique."

"Nico…"

"Thanks, but no thanks! If I wanted help I would ask someone has a brain in their skull," Shadow fires back.

"Why you egocentric piece of…."

Aleena barks out, "THAT'S ENOUGH FROM BOTH OF YOU!" Nico, Shadow, and everyone else looks at the queen. "For crying out loud, you three are like day and night. One minute you're the best of friend working on my nerves or someone else's; then, in the blink of an eye, you're at each other's throats. What's with you three?"

Nico and Shadow look at each other and smile; then they look at their mother and say in unison, "Sibling rivalry mom."

Aleena and everyone else burst out laughing. The purple hedgehog stands up addressing everyone, "I hope you all enjoyed dinner and the got enough to eat."

Everyone nods yes, and Manic responses with, "You bet mom! You sure know how to throw down some cooking. I bet you could Sonic and Nico a run for their money."

"We'll take that bet bro. Mom whenever you're ready to throw down, we will be waiting," Nico states giving a thumbs up.

Aleena laughs along with everyone else, but in her heart she knows that she must ready herself to tell everyone what happened less than twenty-four hours ago.

Everyone finishes eating twenty minutes later, and they all go into the large sitting room as they wait for Aleena to join them. The purple queen stands in the kitchen squeezing her fists tight doing what she can to steady her nerves. A minute passes, and is still trying to calm her nerves. Just right when she is about to speak to herself Mizu comes into the kitchen and says, "Your Majesty?" Aleena turns around to face her general with a few tears running down her face. Mizu walks over to her and puts his hand on her shoulder while saying, "Your highness if you're up for this I can…"

Aleena shakes her head no then says, "I'll be fine Mizu. I just needed a moment to steady myself. Besides, it is my responsible to tell them the truth about happened. I will not pass this burden on to anyone else." She walks over the kitchen inland slicing up pieces of cake, pie, cookies then tells Mizu, "Grab the tea, coffee, and water take to everyone. I'll be in a couple of seconds." Mizu nods in approval and grabs the beverages. Once he is out of the room Aleena says softly to herself, "Alright girl, you have to hold yourself together. You can't afford to lose in front of everyone. Remember you can do this." As she finishes her little pep talk, she puts the last of the deserts on the serving tray.

Aleena walks into the sitting room just a Nico coming walking with Cyrus. "Welcome Cyrus. Were you able to fix her?"

"Yes ma`am she's as good as new, but she might be a little cranky," Cyrus jokes reaching into his white lab coat and pulls out a silver looking watch.

Aleena gives a wide smile setting the tray down then getting the device from the technology engineer. Nico looks closely that watch then says while pointing, "Hey mom that looks the same mobile platform Cortana has. Wait, did you get an AI as well?"

Aleena puts on the watch; then look at her son, "Don't worry Nico, I'm about explain everything, so please go to the fridge a warm up the plate for Cyrus." The young werehog does as requested and heads into the kitchen. "Cyrus, I can't thank you enough for saving her."

The young loin smiles and says, "It was no problem, in fact the damage wasn't as bad as you thought. All I ask is to go easy on her for a complete of days. Her program is still recompiling, and you might feel a little pinch on your wrist." Aleena gives him a questioning look, and he continues with, "she going to need an organic sample at the end recompiling, so her AI protocols fully take whole. Plus she might want take on a new look."

Aleena smiles hearing the engineer's state. They talk for another minute; then Nico comes back with Cyrus's heated food. "I took the liberty of asking your wife for your favorite dish, and prepared it for you. Please come and join the others in the sitting room." Everyone sits on either in chairs or couches, yet Shadow gets a couch for himself propping up his broken leg. Aleena moves a single wide arm chair into the front of the semicircle area looking out at everyone. They fall silent as she starts off with, "First off, let me say that every one of you did a great job running things while I was gone, and I know I would be remorse if I didn't say that Sonic and Nico did an outstanding job ruling the empire." Nico gives a big smile along with Sonic hovering next to his brother. Aleena takes her seat allowing her free flowing quills to shade her eye. "Now, as promise I will tell what happened on my latest mission and why it was so important that you kids not attend. I have to warn you, what I'm about to tell you is gruesome, violent, and somewhat disturbing. You will have to know that you hear about side of me that you will never expect. Does everyone understand?"

Everyone nods yes in response. Aleena takes a deep breath then looks up at everyone. "Ok here's what happened..."

Aleena, her children, Millie, and Mizu are gathered in her office listening as Nico finishes reading the orders given by Aleena.

"Hold on! You're forgetting someone or should I say some ones. What 'bout you and Sonic, what duties did you get?" Shadow questions.

Aleena quickly jumps in saying, "Oh I didn't forgot about them, while the General and I are away. They will be running the empire."

"WHAT?!" everyone shouts hearing her statement.

Aleena gets up and walks from behind her desk. She stands next to the confused looking werehog. "You all heard me correctly; Nico and Sonic will be in charge of running the empire while I'm gone." Aleena sees Sonic and Nico eyes fill with fear and uncertainly. She puts her hand on his shoulder and says, "Don't worry boys, Oracle and Elder Prower will stay here to council while you're command."

Nico prepares to comment, but Mizu jumps in saying, "Your highness we must get going if we want to meet our set rendezvous point deadline."

"Right on Mizu," Aleena replies walking towards the door.

"Mom wait!" Sonic and Nico call out in unison.

She replies while still walking, "You'll do fine, and don't worry. I am only one chaos control away." The worried brothers try to stop their fleeing mother, but she puts her hand on Mizu on shoulder and calls out, "I love you kids! CHAOS CONTROL!" Aleena and Mizu teleport in a bright purple light.

Aleena and Mizu travel at the military airfield about thirty miles away from the city. The base is very active with planes taking off and landing at difference of parts of the airstrip. The air is filled with the sounds of engines roaring as the engines power up and power down. There is also sounds of military chants from soldiers PTing in the area. The Queen and General arrive in purple flash of light outside the main hanger area of Aleena's ship. When the pair appear a soldier walking way spots them and shouts at the top of his lungs, "ATTENTION ON DECK!" Everyone within hearing distant look at the soldier calling out the order to see Aleena and Mizu. They snap to attention and within seconds the whole hanger is frozen with everyone standing at attention.

Mizu calmly says, "Carry on." They all give a quick salute then go back to work. Mizu calls out to private who announced their presents to everyone, "Private hold on a minute." The twenty year old brown bear turns back around to look at the pair; then Mizu asks, "Do you know where Colonel Panda is?"

"Yes sir, he's onboard the ship. He doing the final systems and cargo check," the private replies.

"Thank you, carry on," Mizu replies. "Your highness this way."

Aleena follows behind Mizu, but the young soldier calls over drawing their attention, "Your highness, its an honor to service with you on this mission. I have served with Prince Silver on three missions, and I'm excited that I get the chance to go on a mission with you."

"Alright that enough private, we…"

Aleena cuts off Mizu by walking over the private and extending her hand. The soldier is shocked to see such a kind and gentle smile from the female sovereign. He shakes her hand and says, "You have it wrong private, it is an honor to serve with you because every day you and your other brothers and sisters in arms stand ready to help defend our empire. I hope I can live up the expectations that you have for me." Once they finish shaking hands Aleena follows Mizu to the ship.

The white colored streamline shuttle shaped ship stands ready for ferry its passengers and cargo to their destination. The two walk to the end of the ship to the lowered ramp. Aleena and Mizu walk up the ramp and are greeted by mid-age man with a black face and white hands. He is dressed in a green jumpsuit with style patches over each breast pocket and one on each shoulder. His collars sport a silver oak leaf on each side. When they are in talking distance of each other, the colonel statues the pair. Mizu and Aleena return the statue, and Mizu says, "Queen Aleena allow me to introduce Colonel Ken Panda. He will be our lead operator during the mission."

Aleena reaches out to shake his hand while saying, "It a pleasure to meet you Colonel. By any chance are you related to Tigress Panda?"

"Yes ma`am, she my sister-in-law. You might know my brother as well Congressman Po Panda," the colonel replies back.

Aleena nods at his answer; then Mizu asks, "What's our status colonel?"

As Ken lets go of Aleena's hand, he states, "We are ready to go the moment you give the order."

"Was my children's van loaded?" Aleena questions

"Yes ma`am," he points to a giant wooden box, "and per your orders ma`am; we made sure no unauthorized persons saw it. One moment ma`am." He hears a voice come over his wireless earpiece. "Right send him in," Ken replies to the voice on the other end of the line. He turns to Aleena and says, "Your highness, Cyrus is here to see you. He says that he has something for you."

Aleena smiles hearing the news and says while turning around getting ready walk out, "Excellent! Ken, I want us pulling on to the runway the moment I finish talking with Cyrus." The colonel statues as Aleena walks away; then he runs to towards the bridge. Aleena jumps off the high end of the loading ramp as two truck drive up with boxes in the bed. The purple hedgehog runs up entrance of the hanger just sound of the three deck ship's engines start up and echo within the confined area. The ships start to move being towed by the tug cart. As Aleena reaches Cyrus, the ship's nose passes through doors into the sunlight drench area. Cyrus gives a quick bow to the queen, and Aleena replies with, "Its good to see you Cyrus. So it finished?"

He gives a big toothed grin, "I have to say that she turn better than I even image. I bet money she could give Cortana a run for her money." He reaches into his pocket and pulls out silver looking watch with black screen in center. Aleena takes the device and puts it on her arm, and Cyrus continues while putting is hands into his pockets, "She has been brought up to speed on everything including the data Cortana was able to extract from Duchess Pepper's flag ship. All that is left if you to let her know what mission you are heading out on."

Aleena finishes putting on the watch, but feels a quick pinch on her wrist. "Ouch!" she quickly yelps out. She looks at her waist and adjusts the mobile platform back and forth to ease the tiny soreness; then asks Cyrus, "What was that?"

"She needed a little organic sample to complete the last AI formatting steps. Don't worry, Sonic had to go through the same thing, but I took a whole syringe of his blood. Ha Ha! Man was he ever mad when I took him I just needed a drop," Cyrus laughs.

Aleena is able to work out the soreness in her wrist then looks at Cyrus to ask, "What's her name?"

"In truth I don't know," Cyrus replies. "Just like Cortana, she won't choice her name until she, in a word, born."

The ship's tail fin start to pass the hanger down. Mizu is stands on the cargo ramp calling out, "Your highness we must leave at once. Word about your disappearance is spreading faster than we excepted. We need to the get into the air before the media get here."

Aleena turns around to look at the general and shouts back, "Alright! Get us cleared for takeoff!" She looks back at Cyrus and tells him, "Cyrus, I know you heading out to meet with Sonia and Silver. Please keep the knowledge that you meet me a secret."

Cyrus gives a puzzled look expression while asking, "Why your highness? Wouldn't Sonia and the others feel better knowing that you're safe?"

She shakes her head no then looks in the direction her ship is being towed. Her ship is moved into the center of a large red circle near the center of some of hangers. The air around the ship spins up faster and faster while the engines power up. "Cyrus, I can't run the risk that they will try and come after me. The mission I'm going on is extremely dangerous, and I won't risk the chance that they will not be able to do what is required of them to complete the mission." Aleena turns back to Cyrus with a hard and serious look on her face; then she says in a serious tone of voice, "Cyrus, I telling you this not as a request but an order. You are not to tell any of my children about what I'm up to. Besides Sonic and Nico are going to have enough to worry about running the empire." Cyrus face is full of shock and Aleena quickly follows up with, "You need to do the same thing when Sonia or Silver tells you. Alright I need to get going, but I have just last thing to ask," she holds up the device on her wrist, "what's her name?"

Cyrus is able to recompose him then says with a smile, "Oh it slipped my mind, her name is Motoko. Well your majesty, I wish you good luck on your mission and safe return. Please don't consider as show of lack of trust in your judgement, but…" Aleena gives curious expression, and Cyrus says, "Knowing that Sonic and Nico are running the government, makes me a little uneasy. Knowing Sonic, he might declare that every food shop must sale Chilidogs."

They both burst out laughing so hard that tears starts forming in their eyes. After a couple of seconds, they come down and Aleena says, "You don't have worry; I know they will keep things under control. Remember, they worked their asses of save our world; I don't think would send it spiraling into chaos with me being away for a little bit. On the other hand, if they did, they won't be able to sit for months." With those last words, Aleena runs towards her ship. Cyrus watches as the ship's engines roar to full power and rise up into the air.

On board the ship, Aleena feels the ship stops it vertical rise then moves forward. In the cargo hold, she opens the box with Sonic's van. The two floor vehicle has the onboard computer is on the idle screen with Sonic's double head guitar. Aleena touches the 'Enter' key and a password box appears up on the screen. "Oh have to be kidding me. They put a password on the computer," Aleena states then folds her arms while thinking. After a minute, she says to herself, "Let's see the last one using this system was Sonic, so…" She looks up at the screen and sees the flashing word curser. She smirks to herself and types while saying, "Chilidogs." When she hits enter the computer powers up allowing with all the other systems and instruments in the van. Aleena gives her head slight shake, "Sonic if you are password protect things you need to come up a better password. Hum… that does bring up the interesting question, why would he put a password on the computer?" Aleena does a quick check through Sonic's files. She is nearly finished look through when a finds a file marked 'Shadow'. She opens the file to see a number of small icons. She clicks on of the icons, and Aleena face turns beat red as a video clip runs. The sounds of woman moaning as she plays with herself. Aleena freaks out wailing her arms around as she quickly trying to shut off the voice.

A couple of seconds pass and she able to cut off the video. She breathes a heavy sigh of relief, and she hears from behind her, "Your highness, what were you watching?"

Aleena's pats here hands to her face trying to get face back to normal. "I wasn't watching anything Mizu. I was wondering why Sonic put a password on the computer, so I started looking around and find porn in one of files."

Mizu folds his arms, "So what are going to do with it?"

Aleena takes a deep breath then exhales while closing the file, "They are growing boys, so I think the only option is talk with them about it." Aleena folds her arms looking at screen then says, "After I had Shadow, Silver, and Midna, I always resided myself to the fact that Sora would teach the boys about women, and I would Midna about men. I have to face reality; it up to me to teach them." Aleena shakes her head then looks at the device on her wrist. "Well, let you out of there."

Mizu looks at watch then says, "That looks like the same watch Sonic and Nico have. Is that what you got from Cyrus back at the base?"

"Yup," she replies pushing the button on the face of screen.

A shower of stars of purple springs up from the screen. From the center screen, the figure of blue woman forms with the flow circuit energy running up and down her body. The new formed AI is in the stance of a ballerina with arms folded together in a point up her head tilted back. Her short purple hair flows behind her head as if wet from the shower of stars. She tilts her head back up while her arms. After a second, she opens her eyes to reveal a pair of light lavender colored irises. She turns to face Aleena; then kneels before head bowed, "Your highness Queen Aleena, it is an honor to finally to meet you."

"It good to meet you too Motoko. Please stand up," Aleena replies with a smile.

Motoko does as ordered then, "Your highness…"

Aleena holds up her hand with a smile on face; then moves her hand over her chest while saying, "Please call me Aleena. Only when we are in field on mission do have to call me that. Right now I'm a new person who wants to become your friend Motoko."

The purple AI smirks after hearing the statement turns around to walk as if is she stepping off the screen. The moment her foot passes the perimeter of the screen platform, and she takes her first step. Motoko's body transforms into a horizontal flowing shower of stars. The stars expand out into a full size 5'8'' outline; Motoko's body quickly reforms into life size version of herself. Aleena lowers her arms as her and Mizu watch the AI creates a white one piece swimsuit with the top part stopping just past her size C cup cleavage. She forms loose fitting black jeans with a black belt and black combat boots. Lastly, she creates as long sleeve short mini jacket. Motoko turns to face Aleena with a smile on her face holding out her hand, "Thank you for being a friend Aleena." The purple queen happily shakes her hand. After another minute or two introductions, Motoko says, "Aleena, Cyrus and ART loaded up everything they had on Mr. X along with the data from big sister Cortana. Other than that, what's plan for taking this guy out?"

Aleena turns to Mizu, and he quickly states, "We have set up mobile strategic room on the top deck ma`am."

Aleena nods in approval, and turns to look at Motoko, "Can you set an interface with this computer and the strategic room upstairs. When we come up a plan I want all the data and map synced ready to go." They both nod yes then Aleena makes her way out of the van. Before exiting the van, Aleena turns around with a smile on her face, "Oh before I forget, Motoko please make sure to secure that the file marked 'Shadow'."

Aleena walks out the van leaving the two behind. Motoko looks at Mizu then asks, "Why does she want that file secured? Does it contain secret documents?"

Mizu shakes his head no then says with a smirk on his face, "No its nothing important to her majesty, but it is important for Queen Aleena's sons." Motoko shrugs her shoulders then holds out her hand remotely controlling the computer's functions. It only takes a couple of seconds for Motoko to complete the task. Once done, the two make their way out of the van walking through the tightly packed cargo bay. Motoko notes all the equipment from mini hover tanks to portable large size energy seize weapons. They reach the stairway and climb to second floor. The second floor is set up like a regular passenger plane with seven chairs in a row on each side with ten rows going back and five rows going forward. All the seats are filled with soldiers either chatting with each other, watching TV on mini screens, or doing other activities to stay entertain during the flight.

Motoko and Mizu greet a couple of soldiers before heading to the top floor. The top floor is divided into eight different sized offices with glass walls and wooden doors. Each door is labeled different label with furniture that match the label. The last room at the rear of hallway with the only fully wooded wall with the labeled 'Private'. The full size hallway is busy with officers walking around talking each other or reading reports about area they are heading to. The pair the other officers then spot Ken in the Situation Room; they walk into see him and three other officers staring at 3D holomap of a giant snowcapped mountain. Ken takes a deep breath then looks up at Mizu and Motoko with a stone hard face. As if reading their minds Ken explains, "Her majesty gave us the location for the operation to take place, and I have to say, Mr. X picked a pretty location for his stronghold. However, we have a couple of problems to deal with, so we can keep the fatality count down." Ken points to map directing Mizu and Motoko's attention to a nearby city. "Here's problem number one. The people are perfect targets for the enemy to use against us. Problem number two, the data we got from the prisoner's ship was corrupted, so we don't have any solid good intel to work off on nor let alone plan an attack strategy. In short, we are flying blind sir."

Mizu folds his arms looking down at the map, "I understand Ken. We were lucky get the location of their base before the computer core self-destructed. Now…"

Mizu is interrupted by Aleena joining the meeting. She sports an all-black outfit with a long, white, short sleeve over shirt, and sitting on her chest is a circle crystal medallion with the colors of each of her children. The combined colors create the outline if piano keyboard. She completes Mizu sentence, "Now, we do what do best. Stop the bad guy, protect the people, and save the day."

Ken walks over to wall mounted computer and downloads some files related to the area. "Your highness, that sounds all well, but we won't be able to do that unless we a proper battle plan."

"Ken was Ms. Pepper brought onboard?" Aleena questions. Ken nods yes then Aleena continues with, "Good I'll go and ask her what she knows about Mr. X's base. How long before we reach Yuchi Heights?"

Motoko quickly replies with, "Approximately twenty-eight hours, thirty-two minutes, fifty-eight seconds."

"Good that will give more than enough time to have a one on one meeting with the former duchess. In the meantime, see if you can get some eyes in that area," Aleena states heading out the door.

Ken quickly calls out, "Um Queen Aleena about the prisoner…"She turns around to look at Ken with a questioning glance. "She… she was… umm how do I put this? She was…"

"Ken spit it out! She was what?"

Ken stands at attention then says, "Myself nor anyone under my command are responsible for what happened to the prisoner, and we have done everything we can help her."

Aleena's eyes narrow as she asks, "What happened to her?"

Ken gives a nervous swallow then says, "When you see her it will become self-evident."

Aleena shakes her head, and says in commanding voice, "No, when we find Colonel. You and Mizu are coming with me right now!" Turns to walk out the door while saying, "Colonel! General! That was an order not a request get your asses in gear!" Three of them quickly make their way back down to the second floor, and without pause the soldiers on the deck snap to attention. Aleena's purple aura slightly starts to flare up as they make their way to the rear. They make it pass the final row of seats, and Aleena powers through the door. Inside are four separate rooms with doorways but light bars around the door frame. The two guards sitting at the desk in center of the room snap to attention and statue the queen. "Where is the prisoner?" One guard points only cell with the force field up. Aleena walks to the door, and see Sylvia Pepper laying down on the bed with her back to door. "Lower the field," Aleena orders. The field quickly comes down, and the purple hedgehog walks into the room. She walks up the woman wearing an orange prison outfit, yet as she gets closer, Aleena hears what can only be sobbing and crying. "Sylvia?" Aleena calls out. Once she is in closes enough to see her face, Aleena's eyes fully widen and in a heartbeat she twists around dashes to the door. Before anyone can stop her, Aleena grabs Ken by his collar and easily lifts him off the ground. The shock panda drops everything in his hands and grabs Aleena's arms begging her to put him down with pure anger in her voice she says, "HOW THE FUCK DID THAT HAPPENED TO HER! GREAT FATHER AND GREAT MOTHER HELP IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH WHAT HAPPENED TO HER!"

"YOUR HIGHNESS!" Mizu shouts. Aleena looks at him with rage in her eyes. "Put him down! I can ensure you that he had nothing to do with what happened to the prisoner."

Aleena takes a deep breath while closing her eyes. She lowers the shocked colonel to his feet and lets go of his collar; Ken falls down to the ground then Aleena says in calm controlled voice, "I'm sorry Ken. I didn't mean to lose my cool like that, but when I…" Aleena covers mouth and turns around to look in the cell. "What was the purpose of that? Mizu please tell me the truth, did that happened when she was interrogation?"

"No," Mizu replies. He gives a huff then says, "according to the investigation, this was planned and ordered by Mr. X himself. Add to that, myself and others believe that she was not supposed to survive."

Aleena looks back at the eagle general, "Tell me everything." Mizu tells the whole story behind Sylvia's attack. Aleena, Ken, Motoko, and the two guards in the area are shocked and amazed by the brutality of Mr. X's plan to deal with Sylvia. Once Mizu is done telling the backstory and everyone has a minute to absorb all the details, Aleena looks back into the cell see Sylvia still lying motionless on bed; then she says in a softly calm voice, "Alright, I need to talk with her. I want everyone out of here." Ken gets ready to object along with two guards, but Aleena continues with, "Motoko, shut down all the monitoring devices in the area and seal the room."

"Your Highness," Ken comments with a worried look on his face. "We just can't leave you alone in here by yourself with the prisoner. She could…"

Aleena points to Sylvia's motionless body, "That is no prisoner, she is victim just like anyone else who is a target of Mr. X's insane plans. Besides, you'll seen firsthand what I can do, and given the state that she is in I don't have anything to worry about."

"Queen Aleena I have to protest. It would be too dangerous, and if you order the room sealed, we will not be able to aid you if something was to happen," Ken counters.

"I understand your worry for my safely. If anything was to happen, I can use chaos control to escape. Moreover, I think after she learns the truth; she will be more than happy to tell us anything we need to know," Aleena says with a tone of confidence. "Mizu do you have picture of the guards?" he nods yes and hands her a data pad with pictures already pulled up on the screen. "Good, not I'll handle everything from here on, so I'm going to say this as kindly as possible. GET OUT!"

Mizu and Motoko ushers the three men out of the room. Once they are on the other side of the door, the sound of a magnetic click goes near the door lock. Ken look back at the brown eagle, "General, we have to go back in there. We just can't…"

Mizu rises his hand up stopping the colonel in midsentence, "Ken, you won't get any argument from me about this, but you have to remember, the queen has been through just as much hell and shit went through while Robotnik was in power. I can honestly tell you that she handle hold her own when push comes to shove so just relax and have faith." Mizu locks his hands together giving slight twist back and forth with a big grin on his face, "Since we got some free time, lets test out that new cook. I heard she can make a mean pot of gumbo. Why don't we go have a taste?" Mizu grabs hold of Ken's hand and heads to the mess hall at the front of the ship.

Aleena scans over the data closely looking at the mugshots of the couple that set Sylvia up for her underhanded execution. The beautiful long hair brunette lynx, with her soft black and softy touched dirty white patches short hair face, and her ember colored eyes is replaced with an unrecognizable mangled woman. Sylvia's face is swollen in multiple spots; her left is covered with the over swollen skin from her eyebrow. The other eye is flooded with blood in the white area. Her nose is broken and misaligned with the left nasal has a little dried blood under the breathing port. The other nasal area is torn open upward about 0.2 inches. Down her face the left and right side are badly swollen from, but the right side swollen even more because of her shattered jaw and destroyed teeth. On the same side, Sylvia mouth is drooped down with a little saliva coming out. Aleena goes to sit down to start their talk, and she see spots on Sylvia's head with blood spots from ripped out hair. Sylvia's left leg is supported with multiple metal rings and rods.

The Moboain queen sits down and says, "Sylvia we need to talk." She remains quiet with her back turned to the Aleena. Aleena says once again, "Sylvia, we need to talk about your involvement in the Mr. X's organization." The battered woman keep quiet not moving an inch as if ignoring the queen's words. Aleena exhales crossing her legs and folding her arms while holding the pad in the left hand. "Sylvia, we don't have much time before we reach Yuki Heights, and we are going to need your help."

Sylvia gives a muffled and slurred response, "Why should I help you? After you doing this to me."

"Sylvia, I had nothing to do with you being attacked," Aleena replies.

"Ha," Sylvia mocks.

"Sylvia, I'm telling you the truth. The person behind the attack was Mr. X," Aleena states in calm voice.

Sylvia quickly turns over yelling at her, "YOU LYING BITCH!"

Aleena remains calm and says, "Sylvia think about, what would I have to gain from ordering guards to take you out of the secure housing unit, and throwing you into an area with wild and dangerous inmates?"

"Isn't it obvious, you're scared and jealous of me. You think if the right people learn that you and your brats are nothing more than tyrants, the people will…"

Aleena cuts Sylvia off by showing her the pictures on the data and saying, "Do you recognize these men?"

"Of course I do, they are your would-be murders," Sylvia fires back.

Aleena shakes her head no then says, "These men are not under my service or any service of the government. They are agents and spies for Mr. X." The purple queen can see the distrusting look in her eyes. Aleena scrolls to another picture and says, "Sylvia that a close look at this picture and tell me if you see anyone familiar."

Sylvia glances at the picture then says, "Of course that is nobleman Faryree, a great man who attacked a couple months ago."

"I don't mean him; look at his two men guarding him," Aleena states zooming in closer.

Sylvia turns over then grabs the pad from Aleena with tears and shock painted all over her deformed face. She starts to mumble out, "That can't be…. this… this has to be a fake."

"I can ensure you that this is no fake nor did we edit this photo," Aleena counters.

Sylvia has quick flashbacks to the salvage beating and rape of her body as waves of shock and fear course through her vines. "No you have to be lying. Please tell me that you lying!"

"I'm afraid not." Aleena continues to some soft compassion in her voice as she tells her, "The photo you are looking at was taken during that raid on Faryree's mansion. Our forces has just broken through his defenses and made their way to the center of the estate. We were about gain footage of his escape from the security perimeter cameras. You should know there rest of the details of his escape."

As if in psychic trance, Sylvia fills in the rest of the narrative, "Faryree had warned us that you were planning attack on his estate. I question him on where he got this information from, and he told us that he had spies on the inside that feed his the information. Just in case, Faryree never told anyone who his spies were or what they look like."

"Faryree was captured in latest raid, and the two men became servants of Mr. X," Aleena concludes. "Now think Sylvia, why would Mr. X allow you launch an attack against my children and I without overwhelming force?"

Sylvia near drops the pad when the memory of her and Mr. X talking about how she wanted vengeance again the royal family for killing Bartleby. Mr. X continuously told her no until one day. She was secretly amassing forces for an attack when Mr. X told her that he would support an attack, and that she should carry it out during the world celebration. He told her that Aleena and her children would be too tired and weak after all the endless parties to defend themselves. "He… he… he knew."

"Is it beginning to sink in? Mr. X allowed you to go on that attack no hoping that you would succeed, but that you would be destroyed in the battle and killed by my children," Aleena enlightens. Sylvia drops the pad as the pain of her defeat turns out to be the original objective by her leader. Aleena deliveries another pain blow when she tell her, "However, Mr. X's plan didn't go as he intended. You survived the battle and now were in our custody, so he decided that you need to be handled be you were integrated and given the true motives behind Mr. X's plan."

Sylvia's hands shake, blood begins to leaks from her torn nose, and tears drain from her eyes as she says, "So… so…"

"Yes Sylvia, Mr. X ordered that these men dispose of you."

"The prisoners?" Sylvia cried.

"A far as we know, Mr. X's men convince them that they would get some form of payment for attacking you," Aleena replies. Tears mixed with blood drain down Sylvia's hearing the news. Aleena stands up and turns towards the cell's doorway. She takes a couple of steps; then stops her hands are balled up into fist as her aura gives slight flare ups while thinking about the horrible things Sylvia was pull through just so that she would not able to testify to any of Mr. X's actions. Three minutes pass, and Sylvia is still crying out in pain and sorrow. Aleena turns around with a serious frown on her face, "Sylvia you now know the truth, but you suffering more than ever." Aleena rises her left hand with flames in her eyes. The HC symbols begins to glow on her hand, and she says, "Sylvia, I'm sorry that all this happened to you. I know you are in great pain, but I will end your suffering this very second. I promise you, there will be on pain and it will be quick, so hold still and close your eyes." Sylvia holds her arm open while closing her good eye awaiting for whatever is going to happen. "Alright here it goes."

Aleena walks out with a smile on her face. She gives a quick bow then says, "Hello everyone, my name is Aleena Hedgehog. Well actually I think you know that already. Anyway, I hope you are enjoying the show, but I wanted to come out here to let you, our viewers, know the remaining part of show will contain gruesome and bloody scenes. All you will see a different side of me, so if you want to skip it just scroll down to…"

"WHOA! WHOA! WHOA! Mom, you can't tell them to skip to a certain part of the show, or they will get lost on how you ended up that point," Sonic states. "Besides, I know out viewers can handle anything gruesome that Ean and you can throw at them. Look what happened with the fight between Nico and Dingo. As far as, I know no one complained or commented about it. Plus, I got word that Ean trying something new; I just can't wait. Come on lets get back to the show, Nico and I are dying to know what you do to that crazy duchess."

Aleena exhales and walks over to pull her and hand Sonic's shoulder; she says with a smile, "Alright lets get going." Aleena swiftly moves her hand up to pinch Sonic's ear. Sonic cries and pleas for his mother to let go. "I don't think so; I saw that Episode Notice that posted. You think Ean and I wouldn't notice. Well you're wrong; now Nico, you, and I are going to have conversion about your actions young man."

"Mommy please let go, OUCH! Mommy, we just wanted to let everyone know what Ean was up to. Please let go! We're sorry!" Sonic whines and pleas.

"Please excuse me, I need to discipline my sons. Please enjoy the rest of the show," Aleena gives a quick bow then walks off tugging Sonic by the ear.

"Mom please! Help someone please! Call the ambulance! Helppppppp!" Sonic voice echoes.

The magical emblem on Aleena hand glows brighter with a small amount of wind whirl around her. Each word Aleena says echo as she chants the spell:

I call upon the powers of

Air, Water, Earth, and Light

To heal this woman's plight

Reverse the pain

Let what's was once broken

Be mended and whole again

Sparkles of glowing white, blue, green, and shining white form around Sylvia's body. The sparking lights swirl and twits around her. They go faster and faster until the lynx is wrapped in a cocoon of orbiting lights. A couple of seconds later, the shadowy outline of her body glows brighter and the cocoon bursts revealing the fully healed lynx. Sylvia looks at her hands then touches her face; her eyes are filled with amazement feeling how everything was healed and back to normal. Aleena starts to walk out of the room saying, "Once this mission is completed, I will make sure that you are taken to secure location until your trail."

"Every fifteen minutes the guards will be do a patrol around the mountain base."

Aleena stops walking and looks back at the prisoner, "I see will you be willing to answer a few more questions? If so I will make sure the prosecutor for you case knows about your cooperation."

Sylvia shakes her head no, "I don't care what you tell the prosecutor. I don't give a damn about any deals you make. I just want that motherfucking bastard to pay for doubling crossing me and trying to killing me. Most over, I want him to pay for the pain he made me endure." Aleena sits down picking up the pad on the floor getting ready to record Sylvia's debriefing. Sylvia quickly adds in, "Don't think that this changes anything, I will never forgive you or your children for killing the love of my life."

Aleena sits back in the chair and replies, "Bartleby isn't died."

"That's not possible, Mr. X told me that Midna killed him before burning down his mansion," Sylvia responses.

The purple queen shakes her head no while explaining, "Mr. X lied to you again. Midna sent Bartleby into exile after she found out his plans, his association with Dr. Robotnik, and betraying the freedom fighters. I don't know where his is, but I know he left alive."

"Damn you Mr. X! Ask your questions!" Sylvia orders. Aleena nods and see starts to ask a series of questions.

After three hours, Aleena walks back into the command room with Ken, Mizu, Motoko, and two other officers. They stand around the holomap with Aleena at the head of the table. Aleena explains, "According to the Sylvia's information, security around the base is tight. They perform patrols every fifteen minutes with an off cycle patrol, and if we go in, there is high chance that we will run into a patrol."

Ken questions, "Your highness, this has been the biggest sticking point the whole operation. What do we do about the city? No doubt when things get hot, they are going to throw everything they have the people there. If we start evacuating, agents placed in the city will make things very hard of us."

"I'm afraid the city is a loss cause from the start," Aleena replies looking down at the image the urban area. Everyone gasps hearing Aleena's response; then she goes on by saying, "Sylvia informed me that Mr. X's agents are placed all-round the city and suburban areas. In reality, he people there are under Mr. X's rule and don't even know it. He cleverly got his agents placed and elected to key positions. In short, his controls everything from the mayor's office to the stress sweeper. Add to that, the entire police force is made up of people how had sworn loyalty to him."

Mizu then asks with caution in his voice, "What about the military base near the city outskirts?"

Aleena exhales, "Mr. X's has the base under close observation along with spies that are able to move quietly around."

Ken slams his hand on the table making the image jump use for a second, "Damn it! What can we do now?! We can't land nor deploy troops without gaining the wrong attention. The second word got out, we be under fire in all directions."

Aleena holds her hand under her chin; then Mizu asks, "What did Sylvia say about the enemy stronghold?"

"It was once a Robotnik hidden launch base," Aleena replies.

"That is going things a lot more complex," Mizu follows up.

Aleena then adds, "You're right; we going to need a new attack plan." Everyone looks at Aleena as she toggles the map to where her ship is currently at moving towards its target. "Of best chance for success is coming up with modified version of the sheath approach plan."

"What do you mean by modified?" Motoko chimes in.

Aleena scrolls the map up till the indicter reads thirty miles. She points to the nearby lake, "Ken you will run operations up here. I, Mizu, Motoko, and two other operators will use the van to travel the blind side of the mountain base. From there, I will handle the rest of operation."

"Queen Aleena, we won't be able to land anywhere in that area to unload the van," Ken states. "Unless you planning…"

"Yup," Aleena states with a smirk, "We'll do an air drop the night that we arrive."

"We are still going have get pretty low," Ken counters.

"No, we are doing this at max attitude."

Mizu jumps in with, "A halo jump in a van, Queen Aleena are you sure about this?"

"Yup, we are going to have no choice if we want to keep the element of surprise," Aleena comments smirking with arms folded looking down at the map.

Ken tightens his fist thinking about the situation and area Aleena is going into, "Your majesty at least allow me to deploy some of minor back up forces. We can have some of our covert soldiers do a halo drop ten miles away from the suburban area."

Aleena nods then says, "Alright in the meantime, I need prep my equipment. Mizu, you and Motoko go over the information I got from Sylvia, and see if you can find anything else that will help is on our mission. Also Ken, once you're forty miles away off load everyone and all the equipment." Ken nods then walks out of the command room.

Aleena walks into her quarters with Motoko behind her. The AI sits on the bed watching Aleena open the wardrobe cabinet. Inside she sees rows of ninja tools, weapons, and other weapons. "Aleena wardrobes are meant for cloths, dresses, and shoe not for weapon caches," Motoko jokes with a smile on her face.

"Ha ha, you got a real sense of humor," Aleena laughs back. "Anyway, Motoko are ready for this?"

"Yup, I should be able hack into Mr. X's computer network, but I don't know what I will able to do once inside," Motoko replies watching Aleena strip down to her brown bra and lacy panties. She then pulls up her mobile holo computer station.

Aleena folds her arms under her C cup bra and says, "The most important thing we need to worry about is the security cameras and communication lines. If you can knocks those out, we won half the battle." Aleena opens a drawer and pulls out flexible black skin suit; she on the outfit then asks Motoko to zip up the back. Suddenly, the black suit glows a low purple color then turns purple. "Thanks Motoko," Aleena states.

"Do you think disrupting those two systems will give us the advance?" Motoko inquires back down on the bed.

"Lets hope so, if not," Aleena grabs one of her kunai blades and smirks, "This will come in very handle along with all my other little toys."

Twenty-six hours pass by and Aleena's ship flies at an altitude 28,100 feet in the icy full moon night sky. Below the airship, the clouds create a soft white blanket lite up by the bright moonlight over the ground. Mizu and the two selected operators enter two deck RV van flowed by Motoko. Aleena and Ken walk through the cargo bay area together. The purple queen wears a leaf green camouflage, v-cut, short sleeve vest, with matching pants, forearm covers, and black special made running shoes. Around her waist, tights, and left bicep are her kunai holders. Lastly, she has a round like brown bag on her lower left side back.

Once they reach the van, Aleena hand Ken a seal envelope then explains, "Ken, if this operation turns bad to the point that there is no hope, I'm ordering you to cut and run. Don't try to launch any type of rescue mission nor send in other troops. You are to return to Mobotropolis, and give my children that envelope. In there are my last will and testament; Sonic and Nico are to continue ruling with Grand Elder Prowler and Oracle as their top advisors. Do you understand?"

Ken holds the letter tightly in his hand then nods his head, but as Aleena walks into the van; Ken calls out, "Queen Aleena with all respect, I will not this letter." Aleena turns around with a stern look on her face. Ken continues with, "I won't need to the deliver it because, you're coming back and you can consider that an order from me to you."

Aleena's expression softens into a smile and she says, "Yes sir." She shakes his hand then gets into the van. She stands in the driver's seat and buckles up. Aleena checks with everyone that their belts are secure.

Ken calls over his headset into the van, "Your majesty, we are over the drop zone. Our cruising speed is 175 knots at 28,152 feet. Are you and team ready?" Aleena gives him a thumbs up with smile. "Bridge opening cargo bay door." Air comes rushing into cargo hold with such speed anything not tied down is sent flying forward. Ken tightly holds onto his mounting rope then says, "You are cleared for deployment!"

Aleena nods starting the engine. "Hold on to your butts!" Aleena tells everyone as she puts the van into reverse and slams on the gas pedal. Suddenly, the van goes rocketing backwards, but to everyone inside the van, it looks as if the van sitting still and the ship is moving forward without them. A second later, they see the entrance of the cargo hold pass then; then they feel the van free-falling into the air.

As they feel the pull gravity, Mizu says, "I have a real bad feeling about this!"

"This is going to be fun!" Aleena jokes. The van goes falling down through the air with the front end pointing up. Everyone can feel the powerful reverse pull of gravity; Aleena calls out, "Motoko what's our status?"

"We are traveling at 100 mph, and we just passed the 10000 feet mark. ETA to slash down one minute eight seconds at current velocity. We need to deploy the chute in one minute if we want to remain undetected," Motoko replies.

"One minute?!" Mizu screams. "That's near a thousand feet!"

"Twelve hundred to precise and make that forty-five seconds," Motoko counters.

"This is crazy! Queen Aleena…"

Aleena jumps in with, "Just shut up and be ready Mizu. If you fuck this up, we'll be died!"

Mizu nervously nods and holds at the ready to deploy the chutes. Motoko begins to countdown a few seconds later, "Deploy in five…four… three… two… one… NOW!" Mizu hits the button to release the parachutes, but nothing seems to happen. Motoko should shouts in a panic, "MALFUNCTION! THE PARACHULTES FAILED TO DEPLOY!"

"WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?" One of the operators cries out.

Motoko then states, "We must slow out descent or in eight seconds…"

Aleena jumps out of her chair and rushes up the short ladder to the second mini deck bedroom. From there, she opens the sky hatch making air rush into the van. She climbs out onto the roof of the van then manually releases the three chutes. The black painted chutes open rapidly slowing the van, but Aleena loses her footing and falls off. Everyone sees her fall pass the view port and cry out her name in unison. Aleena turns face first towards the ground and goes into a power dive. A smile appears on her face as she soars down to the ground; then she lines her arms next to her torso and brings her legs together. Only fifty feet from the lake surface, she spreads out her arms and what looks like be black wings appear allowing her glide to the shore with great ease. Once, she lands she hears a splash; she turns around to see the van bobbing on the water. Fifteen minutes pass and they are able to get the van on dry land.

Mizu voices once they secure the black parachutes, "Lets not do that again."

"Come on we need to get moving," Aleena orders heading inside the van.

"How do you it Queen Aleena? One second we are doing a HALO jump in a van; then you are repairing the chutes. Next thing you know, you're free falling to your doom, and you save yourself. Now you're ready to continue the mission if this was all routine," Mizu questions.

Aleena smirks, "Well when you have to stay ahead of seven fast moving children with different and unique powers, everything else is real easy." A sweat drop appears on everyone's head hearing Aleena remark. "Motoko what was our time of slash down?"

Motoko looks at her watch, "Approximately, 1958 hrs."

"Alright, everyone load up, and move out. We are burning moonlight," Aleena states.

Everyone gets into the van and start driving the road. The second operator drives the van down dark road with the headlights turned off. The driver is able to clearly see the road thanks to unique glass placed in the bubble shaped windshield. With a map on the table, Aleena and the others go over the plan for getting into base. "We to keep going for another ten miles before reach their security perimeter. From there, I will be able to use trees that run the mountain to get close into the base," Aleena explains.

Mizu follows up with, "According to Sylvia's intel, there is a security entrance that will allow you to get in."

The van does a hard turn to the right off the road and down a little embankment. Everyone looks at the driver and he says, "Lights are coming down the road ma`am! I didn't want us get spotted."

They to left side of the road to see an armed truck make its way down the dark road. "Good eye," Aleena praises the drive.

"So they patrol farther down the mountain," Mizu comment as they watch see the vehicle drive by. "What do you want to do Queen Aleena?"

Aleena pulls out a black hood; she put it over her head and pulls up the face guard. Her long braid quills sticks out the back-end of the hood. Aleena holds out her left wrist with Motoko probable station, "Let go Motoko; we'll have to go from here." Motoko nods and shrinks down in sea of stars. "Once we get into position, we will call you. Until then we are on radio silent, my orders are the same for you. If things start to go bad, you are to cut and run."

"And, I will say the same thing that Ken said," Mizu replies. "Both of you better come back alive and that is an order your majesty." Aleena smirks opening the door; then gives a thumbs up heading out the door.

Aleena walks on the road watching as patrol truck continues down the road. She turns around to look back up at dark the mountain; then jumps into the tree line. Aleena swiftly moves through trees jumping from limb to limb as she pass into the base's security perimeter. She travels another five miles deeper into the security perimeter; when Aleena spots a medium size guard house. "Motoko take a look at that," Aleena says holding up her wrist.

Motoko looks at the sideways triangle shaped wooden guard house on her digital screen within the cyberspace of the mobile server. She can see a steel door with a security camera hub over the entrance of the door. The door opens silhouetting a guard holding a long gun over his shoulder. Aleena ducks down on the tree limb watching as the guard walks out of the doorway; the door closes behind him and the sound of three bots lock. The guard pulls out a stick from his left pocket, and he switches on the flashlight heading out on patrol. Aleena softly asks, "Motoko have you gained access to their systems?"

Motoko bits her nail as she looks at another screen with thousands of lines of code racing over screen, "No, Aleena it seems that they have some kind of advance damping field signal that is preventing me from gaining access." Aleena watches as the guard walks to the south; Motoko looks back at the view screen, "I can't unlock the door."

Aleena stands up on the branch with a smirk, "Well looks like we have to go with plan B."

"Plan B?" Motoko questions with a confused look on her face. Aleena takes off in the direction of the guard. "Aleena where are we going?"

"We need to get access to the base right? So we need to a key to get in," Aleena states.

Motoko folds her arms with a smile, "Well I guess that our best move."

Aleena dashes through trees looking for the guard, and after seven minutes, she tracks down her prey seeing his flashlight. She looks down at the unsuspecting guard as he leans up against a tree smoking. Just as he starts to exhale smoke, Aleena swoops in behind him with her kunai knife drawn at his throat. The shocked guard eyes bugs out while dropping his cigarette. "Don't you know that smoking is bad for you?"

"What?! Who are you?!" the guard questions trying to reach for his gun leaning next to the tree. The second he feels the barrel of the gun; the guard feels a stabbing pain in his hand. He grits his teeth looking down at his hand to see another kunai stabbing his hand. He can feel blood oozing out and the tip of the blade digging into the muscle of his hand. "You… you… you bitch!"

Another wave of pain courses through his hand as the blade digs farther into his flash until the tip of the blade is touching the bone. Aleena softly says, "I barely tolerate my children's foul language; what makes you think I'll take it from you? Now! I need your help. I want you to help me get into your base." Aleena and the guard spots two flashlights in the distance heading towards them. Aleena brings her weapon closer to his throat rubbing sharp edge against his skin. "I wouldn't think about it if I were you, or things will get real messy. Now, shall we get going?"

The guard smirks and replies with, "Ha, we all have been briefed about your tactics and moves. You are well known to never take life. You will now reach Master X with such weakness you're finished!" The guard faces in the direction of the lights and shouts out, "HEY! WE HAVE A TRESPRASSER…AHAHAHAHHHHH!" Blood sprays from his cut neck he uses his free hand to try and clamp the flowing blood.

Aleena jumps back just before more blood comes rocketing out his wound. The guard gives off a loud gargle sound just before collapsing to ground and blood pools around his body. Aleena sees the other guards running her direction, "Dammit, looks like we are going have to do this the hard way!" Aleena reaches into the round bag then slaps small rectangle 5" by 12" piece of paper with black ink on the back of the guard. She jumps back to limbs of the tree then falls back about twenty feet. Once Aleena stops, she says, "Motoko, get ready once those guards find that body, we are going to rush the base at full speed."

The two guards reach their fallen comrade, and one of guards bend downs to check out the body. He shakes the corpse while saying, "Hey…hey wake up!"

The other uses his radio to call out, "Scout patrol sector nine to command."

The radio speaks out, "Report nine, what do you see?"

"We have a man down from the looks of things he was attacked," the guard reports.

The guard holding the body sees the piece of paper on the corpse's back. "Hey what's this?" the guard questions while peeling it off. Seconds later, the black ink on the paper glows bright red-orange while giving off a hissing sound. "What the…" *BOOM!* The paper ignites then explodes; the surrounding trees are blown away by the force of the bomb, and the other surrounding trees are caught on fire.

Everyone in the area hear the explosion and rush over the center point. Over the radios, the same voice calls out, "ALL FORCES EMERGENCY! GENERAL QUARTERS!"

Aleena sees multiple lights heading her direction. "Right, time to go!" Aleena dashes off heading back to the security guardhouse.

"Aleena, what's the plan and what was that paper you attached to his back?" Motoko questions watching the forest trees flow by on her view screen.

"We are going to back to the guard post, and it was a paper bomb," Aleena explains just as they arrive at the post.

"Ok, but how you going to get in?"

Aleena gives an evil grin as she pulls out three kunai blades with paper bomb tied to the end. "We knock of course." Aleena throws the three kunai blades. Two blades hit on both sides of wooden door frame and the last one hits next to security camera. The hedgehog queen weaves the hands: dog, bird, and ram. "Knock… knock…" Aleena says then weaves the final sign dragon. The paper bombs ignite then explode destroying the door and camera. All the alarms go off as Aleena rushes pass the burnt down door and blacken hallway. Aleena stops at closed door; and she goes for the door knob. The door opens with three guard starting rush out, but they the masked ninja and stop in their tracks.

(A/N play background youtube song Trespasser Remix (Lost Colony))

One of the guard yells out while drawing her gun, "STOP INTRUDER!" Aleena sticks out her arms allow ten needles to come flying from her forearm covers. The needles easily find their target kill points, but one needle strikes the eye of the gun wielding woman. She falls backwards to the ground screaming in pain and shouting, "MY EYE! YOU FUCKING BITCH! YOU HIT MY EYE!" The guard woman continues to screams and curse at Aleena until grabs the woman's throat drawing another kunai and stabs in the guard into the woman heart.

In couple of seconds, the guard is dies from the blood loss and punctured heart. Aleena stands up to see a computer station; she walks to station and calls out to Motoko, "Motoko, will you be able to access their network through this terminal?"

Motoko exits the watch into her full size form. She runs her hand pass the monitor making the screen show lines of binary code. After a minute, Motoko nods her head, "Yeah, I should be able to gain full access plus I'll be able to aid you. First, they can say goodbye to their security cameras. Second, lets see how they like it when they can't talk with each other." Motoko holds out her hand sending out viruses to cripple the enemy's network. "Aleena, I'll enter cyberspace and keep in touch with through my terminal, but I think it would best for you to use the air ducts to get around."

"Right, but do everything you can to locate Mr. X and find out what their plans are," Aleena states then jumps up into the duct. Before she moves on, Aleena says, "Motoko, please stay safe. Don't do anything that will put your life in danger." Motoko gives a thumbs up; then her body transforms in stars and flies into the computer monitor. Aleena crawls through duct.

In the base command center, five tiers of operators hastily work at individual stations. In front of them, a giant screen with over a thousand twelve by twenty screens, but one after another of the screen goes black. A ten foot five muscular rhino wearing a green uniform with eight gold strips on his shoulders walks out onto the sixth tier balcony sees individual monitors go black. His eyes narrow as a growing frown shows on his face.

An operator dressed in a green uniform with a single gold strip. The man statues then says, "General Horn, we have a situation. We have confirming reports of an intruder in the base, and she has unleashed a virus program that is disrupting our com lines, camera feeds, and data housing."

"I can clearly see that you idiot! Where are the security forces?! Why haven't you deployed teams?!" Horn growls out.

"Well sir, our teams won't be able communicate with each other," the officer replies.

"You worthless fool issue the damn backup radios, and find the fucking intruder!" Horn orders. "I must inform our master about your failures." The rhino then turns around walks to a set of stairs leading to a tinted glass wall with a single door. The rhino general enters low lighted room and kneels before another set of stairs. "Sire please forgive the intrusion. I have word about the trespasser; she has cause serve damage to the base's computer network with some type of virus. We are currently deploying teams with backup radios in order the coordinate our movements."

At the top of the ten stairs, a red coated platform with a single throne chair is occupied by man wear a purple and gold suit with a red cape and a black and gold helmet with a purple 'X' painted on the front. Mr. X's voice is altered and enhances to create the voice of a fully deployed AI metal robot. "I'm already aware of the situation general. Thought, your handling of this must be a called into question. Lucky for you that the trespasser is still on the loose, or I would punish you right now." Mr. X gets out his chair and walks down the stairs pass the still kneeling rhino. "I want the trespasser caught in the next ten minutes, or this time your punishment won't be a lost eye but something more important to you like your horn or maybe your new son. Do I make myself clear general?"

General Horn swallows nervously while sweat rolls down the sides of his head. "Yes sire, I will not fail you."

"Good, now order that all system operations are be to rerouted to the back up control, and hurry if the intruder is who I think she is…," Mr. X pauses for minute rubbing the under part of his mask looking through his helmet visor and the tinted glass wall. "On second thought, I want all the nobles here to be loaded onto shuttles."

Aleena continues her track through air ducts when Motoko calls out, "Hey Aleena I have some good, bad, and strange news for you."

Aleena stops at a four way intersection in the vent path, "Hit me with it."

"Good news, I have been mining their network, and I found listings for all their finical backing, undercover agents, sleeper cells, and more. With this information, we will be able to cripple their organization beyond recovery." Motoko reports with an upbeat tone. However, her tone switches to a critical sound when she explains, "The bad news, they are switching all their operations to a backup network, and they are rebooting all their clashes system in the backup network. To make matters worse, I can't breach their new network. I recommend that you jump out the air vents and hoof it from there. Just be ready, Mr. X has deployed teams to hunt you down."

Aleena looks at an access vent down the third path. "Well, I wouldn't expect anything less," Aleena states as she makes her way to the vent. She glances through vent to see five guards standing watch in the hallway. "What's the strange news?"

"Well, for one thing, I looked at their power system, and Robotnik overdid himself. The base uses the magma chamber as the primary generator for it power, but there is no safety limiters on the system. The other thing is that, Mr. X has been experimenting with some robot tech that Robotnik left behind," Motoko explains over the com line.

Aleena readies her kunai knife four throwing stars as she gets into position to spring of the air duct. "What's he doing with those robots?"

"I'm still trying to crack the code on that, but its taking me a bit longer because of our friends are trying to retake the network," Motoko replies.

Aleena sees one of the guards walking up to the window size air vent. "Worry about that later Motoko," Aleena finishes just as the guard is three feet in front of the vent. The woman guard takes one more step, and Aleena busts through the vent sending it flying into the face of the guard. As both the guard and vent go clashing to the floor, Aleena uses her left hand with the kunai blade to punch through the metal vent and into the neck of the shocked guard. The blade sinks into the woman's neck cutting all the veins and tubes in the neck. Blood spits out onto the vent; the other guards are frozen by the scene of their colleague's instance death. Aleena flings out the throwing stars at the four remaining guards. Each star hits square in the center of their throat. By pure reaction, they rips of the star along with vital veins and muscle making blood pour out. They each grab their necks trying with all their might to stop the blood, but in reality, the blood floods their air tube making them drown in their own blood. Aleena stands up pulling out her blood covered kunai. Aleena looks to her left to see a sixth guard with a radio; she dashes toward him as he screams out into for help. The powerful queen slices through his neck making him fall with a pool of blood forming around his cut neck. "Can you find out where Mr. X is?"

"Yes ma`am, give me a couple seconds. Ok, I got him; I will lead you down the fastest route. Head left down the hallway and take the first right," Motoko states.

Back in the command center, Mr. X, General Horn and his subordinate listen over the radio to hear, "Trespasser is in sector L! Send AHHHHH….." Static replaces the voice of the guard.

The rhino general looks up at the large monitor map, "Sector L! Dammit! Lieutenant, order patrols six, four, and nineteen to converge on that sector H at once!"

Mr. X thinks to himself while watching everything unfold, ~Well Aleena, lets see who is smarter. Will General Horn win by using overwhelming forces, or will you be able to outwit him and reach me? Go on dear sister and show me want you can do. ~

Over the radio a voice calls out, "Patrol team fourteen to command, we need help the intruder tearing through sector I!"

"Perfect," General Horn smiles.

The lieutenant says, "Sir should we send reinforcements?"

"No you fool! The trespasser is heading straight for my trap! If they are not able to stop one person, then they desire to die," the general replies.

Aleena races down the hallway when Motoko calls over the comlink, "Aleena, you got more than thirty guards ahead you and with that much fire power. I don't know if you beat them."

Aleena continues running as she asks, "Do have you any suggestions?"

"Humm… from the looks of things they are setting you up, but we can turns the tides on them. Make a right here," Motoko states.

Two minutes pass and General Horn impatiently taps his finger on his left bicep waiting for news about the ambush. He gives a low growl and demands, "What the hell is taking so long? The intruder was on a direct path to sector H, but we haven't any word. Lieutenant I want a status report now!"

The subordinate calls up the ambush team, and he talks with patrol leaders then reports, "Sir, according to the patrol leaders, they reported that the intruder has not shown up. They sent two scouts to search for the trespasser, but they reported no sign or encounter." A second later an emergency call come over the radio line, the lieutenant reports, "Sir, patrol team two has been wiped out in sector Q!"

"WHAT!" Horn yells looking at the officer.

Mr. X says in a calm cold voice, "Oh my, from the looks of things our guest doubled back and went around your ambush. Horn much longer are you going to continue to fail at your duty? I'm going tired of your disappointments Horn. Do I need to find someone who can do this job?"

Horn starts to sweat hearing Mr. X comments; the worried general replies, "Please sire, I promise I will turn this around. Lieutenant, where are those damn cameras?!"

The officer talks with one of the operators; then he reports back pointing to the black monitors as they reactivate, "Security reboot in progress, and we have eyes on the trespasser. She heading back towards sector H!"

"Sire please watch as I destroy this scum," Horn gluts with an ensure smile. "She going past through sector S and that's where I'm going to end her. Have all patrols force her in the hex hub. Even with all her skills, she won't be able stop a six way attacked."

Mr. X folds his arms then says, "We shall see general."

Aleena continues to run down the hallway listening to Motoko's directions; she gets ready to the turn left and is greeted with a wave of laser fire. Aleena dodges the shots then turns back around to run down the same hallway hearing shots and guards running after her. "Alright Motoko everything is set, are the other players coming in?"

"Yup, this Horn really needs to learn how to think more tactfully. He sent all his forces to cut us off. The playground is less than fifteen seconds," Motoko explains.

Aleena smiles racing down the hallway dodging the shots; she sees the hexagon shaped room. Aleena enters the room by sliding in dodging attacks from the guards gathered inside. Once Aleena in the center of the room, guards file in from every door until they are have her within a ten foot radius circle. Aleena keeps her cool as she hears Horn say over the intercom, "You have nowhere else to run. Surrender or die!"

Aleena pulls down her blood strained face mask and lowers her hood to reveal her smiling face. "Sorry, but I have other places to be. However, I will be see you soon."

Everyone sees her pull out another kunai, and Horn screams out over the intercom, "KILL HER!" Before the guards are able to shot, Aleena throws to kunai at the left wall. Just as the blade hits the wall, Aleena jumps up into a vent overhead. When the blade strikes the wall, a rapid chain of explosions go off filling all the hallways leading the room with fire. The flames race through the confined area into the hexagon room where another powerful explosion goes off. Everyone in the command center watching everything unfold then the camera goes black. Horn's face is full of shock seeing what has unfolded; then he yells out, "GET THE CAMERA FEED UP!"

"Sorry sir, but the feed is died," the operator reports.

Another operator walks up to Mr. X and says, "Sire, you were right; we have it and door control like you ordered."

"Good, I handle it from it," he replies walking to the door.

Horn looks at Mr. X and says, "Sire please, I am in control of this situation. If you…"

"Be silence general, I heard enough of your whining, and from the looks things you are no way in control. Now, I handle this and… hum… in fact you might come in handy come along," Mr. X orders as they both leave the command center.

A couple minutes pass, and Aleena jumps down from the vent. She lands in the center of the charred room with the bodies of all the die men and women from the blast. "I think I might overdid with the paper bombs. Motoko," Aleena talks into her watch, but the AI fails to response. "Motoko can you hear me?" Five of the six doors slam shut cutting some of died in half with a sickening crunch. Aleena looks down the only opened path; she exhales folding her arms, "Everything in the world tells me that this is a trap, but Sonic would say, 'they went to all the trouble to set it up, so it's only fair that I go knock it down.' Ha listen to me, I'm beginning to sound like Sonic and Nico." Aleena races down the burnt pass all the die bodies.

Farther down the hallway, Aleena is cut off when another door slams shut, but another door to right opens up. Aleena dashes down another corridor as other doors close just before she reaches them. Aleena talks into Motoko mobile server, "Motoko, it would be nice to have some help here. Mr. X is leading me into a trap, and I'm going to need some back up." The hedgehog queen continues down her preset path until she runs into a dark room. The door slams shut behind her eclipsing in total darkness.

"Welcome Aleena, I'm glad that you decided to join us," Mr. X says; then the lights switch on one after another to illuminate the massive dome room.

Aleena starts to unshielded her eyes to see Mr. X standing on a wall mounted catwalk. Once her eyes adjusted, Aleena calls out, "Before we do this, take off your mask and show me your face."

"As you wish," Mr. X replies. He bring up his gloved hand and places his fingers on the helmet. The three folds in back rises up. He removes the mask revealing flowing red quills and emerald green eyes. He pulls down the face cover and smiles at the purple hedgehog. "Happy to see me."

"So it is you, Xavier!" Aleena shouts.

"Good to see you again little sister," Xavier replies with smirk on his face. "Now, lets get down to business. I'll make this easy for you Aleena; you have two choices: surrender control of empire to me and I'll be nice by letting you keep the title of queen, but I'll say what goes. Or, I will end you right here, right now. Do the right thing, make the smart decision." Aleena pulls out her kunai blade while getting into a fighting stance. Xavier exhales, "I really hate it when negotiations go south, but you just make things better for me." He snaps his fingers and the huge General Horn jumps out land in front of Aleena. "General this is your last chance to get back in my better graces. Kill Aleena Hedgehog!"

"As you command your majesty," Horn replies while removing and throwing away his uniform jacket. He cracks his knuckles looking down at the 5'6" queen. "As my king ordered, I, General Victor Horn, will break you then present your die body to his majesty as a token of my loyalty to King Xavier Hedgehog!"

"Like you can beat me, but if you won't walk away then I'll bring you down," Aleena states.

(A/N play FFX-2 YuRiPa Battle 3 in background to take the battle to next level.)

The large grey skin rhino throws a punch at Aleena; she easily dodges the attack by doing a back flip out of his range. Horn moves forward and follows up with another strong straight punch. Aleena does another backflip to stay out his range. They repeat this path five more times, and after another backflip dodge, Aleena lands then thrusts herself forward. She moves so quick that Horn is thrown off guard. "Time to the end this!" Aleena shouts using her kunai to slash across Horn's throat; she makes contact then lands behind his. *Cling* "What?!" Aleena gasp hearing the sound. She looks at her blade to see the top half broken. "No way!"

She turns around to look Horn still standing without. He turns around with a grin on his face; Aleena's eyes widen when she spots the other part of her blade stuck in his neck. Horn reaches up and takes out the broke blade. Aleena sees no blood from the spot; then Horn says, "Ha! You're going to have to do better if you plan on beating me!" He turns broke tip at Aleena; the broken part sails through the air at incredible speed. It reaches Aleena in a flash; she uses her broken kunai to deflect the speeding projectile with no issue. However the hedgehog queen is shocked to see Horn in front of her. He comes in with powerful uppercut at her chest. The attack connects launching Aleena rocketing onto the air. She screams in pain filling through the air. Not yet finish, Aleena peaks through her eyes to see Horn once again in front of her. "Take this!" Horn exclaims as he slams his large left elbow into her midsection.

Aleena is sent clashing down into the ground. Her body does a short bounce off the ground, but Horn comes clashing down on her with the same elbow pining her body to the ground. Aleena forcibly exhales blood and saliva from her mouth. While the sound of bones cracking echoes throughout her body. Horn snickers hearing the sound; he gets up leaving Aleena prone out on the floor. "That was easier than I expected," Horn states while getting up and walking away.

Once Horn is able twenty feet away from her, Aleena gives a quick cough then laugh. The general stops then turn around to look at Aleena easily getting back on her feet still laughing. "Ha… I have to give it you. You move pretty fast of a guy our size. Tell me, what's your secret?" Aleena states with a smile on her face while doing some quick bends and stretches. Horn is has a shocked look on face seeing Aleena moving as if he did nothing to her. Still stretching, Aleena says, "If you don't mind sharing your secret, I know my sons Nico and Manic will be very grateful." She sees the angry look on his face, "Judging by the look on your face, I'll take that as no. Oh well, I ready for round two!"

Aleena pulls out a new kunai blade and gets into a low crouching position in flash she speeds towards Horn. The massive general does the same and races towards Aleena. She is able to hit him on the side, but once again she her kunai is broken. The purple ninja sees her opponent racing towards her again, but she dodges an attack and counters by throwing five ninja stars. The stars bounce off his body, and he comments with, "You're wasting your time with those toys! My skin is like a rock; you'll never be able to break through my defenses!" He throws another punch but misses the attack.

~He's right that skin is way too hard, and combining that with his high speed and strength. I'm at a big disadvantage. If it wasn't for that rapid healing spell I casted earlier I would have been finished.~ Aleena backflips away from Horn when he makes a straight punch at her head; then she fires three needles from her wrist launcher straight for his eyes, but the needles are ineffective and bounce off. ~Damn it! Even his eyes are shielded. It doesn't make any sense! Come on Aleena think! I need to get around or through that skin of his but how?!~ Aleena scans her opponent every chance she gets and comes up with an idea. She puts some distance between them, and reaches into her pouch grabbing what she needs for her plan. "Let's see how his skin handles this," she states dashing towards him.

Once in range, Aleena throws ninja starts. They bounce off his body; then Aleena continues to close in while throwing more shurikens. When they are with five feet of the each other, Aleena pulls out final kunai. "Ha! You're never win if you keep using those little toys on me," Horn claims while throwing a downward punch at Aleena. She swifts to left and runs her kunai against his; then escapes between his legs. He turns around to see her weapon broken, and Horn boasts by laughing, "Looks like whatever you were planning failed the hit the mark."

Aleena turns around with a smile on her face, "What makes you thinks my plan didn't work." She points to his lower abdomen and finishes weaving the last hand signs. "You need pay more attention! GO!" The paper bombs all explode at once with a power blast. "Not even your skin can with stand three point blank explosions."

"Don't get so cocky," Horn rebuts. Aleena's eyes bug out as the smokes to see Horn still standing, but most of his cloths burnt away. "HA! WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO NOW LITTLE GIRL!" Aleena points to his what remains of his boxers, and he looks down. Horn panic seeing where little remaining fires are burning, and he freaks out patting down his privates and butt.

A minute passes, and Horn is still patting down the fires on his lower regions. Aleena finally says, "As much as it seem that you are enjoying patting yourself down, we need to move this along. From the look of things, my ninja style just doesn't seem to have what it take to beat you, so I'm going to have to switch things up." She puts her hand over medallion making it light up and energy swirl around her. She cries out, "LET'S GO! SYTLE CHANGE!" The swirling energy springs up around her as her garments glow and start fly away in pieces while two orbiting balls of light make their way up her body. As the lights move up, her ninja outfit is replaced with purple gloves, a blue body tight sleeveless shirt, black boxing pants, blue and white running shoes, and a belt with a golden buckle with the symbol of the Hedgehog crest. Once the transformation is complete, the energy blasts away in all directions. Aleena comes out swinging and doing a couple of kicks then shouts, "BRAWLER SYTLE!"

Horn and Xavier are shocked by the change and he calls out, "What the hell did you just do?!"

Aleena smirks while putting her hand on her hips, "Say hello to my brawler style dress. Since my ninja style wasn't working, I decide to change up the game."

Horn yells out while charging at her, "THIS CHANGES NOTHING! YOU CAN'T DEFEAT ME!" He throws a straight punch at Aleena, and she stands still.

He punches at her, but his fist is effortlessly caught by the newly changed queen. A little rushes behind Aleena, and she gives him big toothy smile and says, "You're going to have to better!" Horn pulls back throws another punch, and once again Aleena stops the attack cold. "Come on, put more strength into your punches." Horns continues punching, and Aleena keeps stopping his attacks. She explains while blocking his attacks, "In this form, I'm just as strong more even stronger than you. Along with this…" She disappears in the middle of an attack and reappears behind in the air near his head. The purple queen kicks sending him flying towards and through the wall.

Aleena lands after her kick to finishing with, "My speed is increase by ten times." Horn springs from the hole in the wall covered in stone dust. Blood drips from his mouth and a gash on the right side of his head. Aleena bounces on the tip of her left then right toes while doing a couple of practice punches. "I would stop while you're ahead, because the next shot, I'm not holding back!" Horn charges full speed with rage in his eyes; the hedgehog queen huffs out, "Don't say it didn't warn you."

They both charge at each other with incredible speed and exchange blows every time they come in contact. The attacks are so fierce shockwaves erupt after every exchange. After five more contact brawls, they break away from each. Horn is breathing heavily hunch over while Aleena seems perfectly fine with her arms crossed. Horn taunts, "Ha! If this is you at your best; then you're done for." Aleena's narrow closely watching the general as he takes in a huge deep breath making the air move faster and faster as he continues to suck it in. He straightens up still exhaling, and Aleena sees his wounds healing and what looks like getting bigger. The rhino's body and muscles grow bigger by the second, and air start to pick up gale like speed while he keeps inhaling. After a minute the wind stops, the rhino general has grown into a twenty foot giant. The head is darken by shadow only his white eyes glowing; Horn gives a monstrous laugh then says, "You're finished with my second wind form I'm invincible!" He throws at terrorizing punch at Aleena; his hand slams into the ground and he laughs out loud with every punch destroying the concrete floor.

"Size isn't everything! You may have grown and become more powerful, but you're slow as hell and…" Aleena shouts as she springs off the ground, "You left yourself wide open to attacks!" Her left fist hits the giant's stone like abs, but her fist goes through the skin with a powerful boom to follow up. Horn's eyes bug out in pain while the air, saliva, and blood eject from his mouth. Horn staggers back a stop and starts to skink down back to normal size. He wraps his arms around his midsection desperately gasping for air. Horn makes two more steps backwards and falls to his knees then crumbles over. "You were doing well when you're at this size, but I think you need more training."

Horn looks up at the queen with hate filled eyes; then he uses all his might to turn around to look at Xavier. "Sire… please… please… help mee!"

(A/N play FFX-2 Under Bevelle)

Xavier has a frown painted on his face; he reaches behind his back pulls out a gun. Without any hesitation, he fires the laser gun. The shot sails clean through the skull leaving a splatter of blood on the ground. Horn's head flops to the floor and the rest of his body goes limp. Aleena grips her teeth and yells up at her brother, "Xavier! Why did you do that?! He couldn't even defend himself!"

"Oh shut up Aleena!" Xavier fires back putting back his gun. "You, of all people, have no right to talk with all the blood that you have on your hands. Besides, he asked me to help and I did. If I let him lived, I would punish him for once again failing me, so I would say I put him out of his future misery." He sees the angry look in on her face; then he pulls out a remote control, "Aleena don't look so mad. I know bout I allow you to meet a friend ours." Xavier pushes a button on the control.

A small steel door opens and a female 5'6" SWAT Bot walks out. Aleena is shocked when she sees that the robot look like her. "What the hell is that thing?!"

"Oh you shouldn't be so harsh. After all, you are talking about yourself after," Xavier states. "As for what it is, Robotnik was working on a new type of SWAT Bot that would be powerful enough to take you on, but thanks to you and your kids he wasn't able to finish and deploy it. However I completed and perfected this prototype; I like to call her Metal Aleena. You are going to be my test subject against it. Attack Metal Aleena!" Aleena and robot take off at each other. Once they meet up, the two rapidly exchange punches, kicks, jabs, and blocks with each other. Aleena spots an opening strikes with a full power punch sending the robot screaming backwards into the walk. Aleena is shocked hearing the painful scare from the machine and looks up at Xavier. He is giving off an evil laugh then explains, "Oh did I forget to tell you." He hit another button on the control to make replica Aleena's face show a screen with Motoko's face."

"Motoko!" Aleena cries. She looks back up at her brother, "Xavier! What did you do to her?!"

"Well," he smirks, "she was sneaking around my computer network, so I decided to give her a front row seat in this fight. Every attack you land the robot the damage is transferred to your AI, so…"

"If I destroy the bot…"

"You destroy your AI," Xavier explains. "What are you going to do?"

"A..lee..na!" Motoko tries to gets out. "I…be…fine…de…story…bot…please!" Aleena stands still, but the robot springs forward at her. Aleena is kick in the abdomen and sent sliding backwards; she coughs up a little blood. "A…lee…na! Please… don't… worry…I…be…fine! FIGHT!"

Tears starts to roll down her face hearing Motoko's words. "Motoko, I know we haven't known each other long, but I still see you as a good friend and I'm so sorry. Please forgive me, I promise I will make this quick. Xavier, I will pay for this!" Aleena places hand over medallion with fire in her eyes, and she yells out, "STYLE CHANGE!" Energy spins around Aleena, but this time the power explodes in and twists so fast that tornado of wind, dust, stone fragments swirl around purple lighting strikes. Aleena quills burst out into a loin like mane style, her chest is covered tattled brown chest cover, a torn uneven brown mini skirt, a brown choker, and her hands and feet are wrapped in purple energy in the shape of large claws. The energy tornado explodes in all directions to reveal Aleena's new outfit, "WEREHOG FORM!"

Aleena's eyes green eyes burn bright as she looks that her opponent. In a Nico like tone of voice, Aleena says, "I'm going to end this quick Motoko be ready!" She gets down on the all four then launches at such speed and force that the ground under her feet cracks and breaks apart. She moves at such a high speed, her body nearly turn into a shooting purple beam of light shooting across the room. The beam hits the robot's left arm sending it flying off. Aleena hits the wall and sinks in for about a second, and she launches herself once more at the robot. This time the metal doppelganger evades the attack and is able to quickly counter with a downward kick. Aleena spots the attack, and uses her claws block the kick. To her surprise, the robot's kick blasts her into the ground while launching itself out of Aleena's reach. Aleena lands on all four to brace herself against the attack.

Once the robot lands, Aleena stands up watching as the machine regenerates this lost arm. "So I just can't immobilize it, I going have to completely destroy you. Damn you Xavier!" Aleena balls her energy claws into fists and plainly says, "Time to end this!" Aleena dashes at the robot throwing a couple of punches that easily block, but she swiftly gets behind her opponent and does a powerful upper cut sending the robot into the air. In a second, Aleena turns around, and her right energy fist grows twice its size with purple energy swirling around it. "I pray this works," Aleena softy says to herself; she launches the attack while yelling out, "GO WEREHOG ROCKET!" Her right fist rockets through air stretching from her arm. The fist contacts with the robots body and cracking energy runs up the stretched arm. When energy reaches the fist, it races throughout the robot combined force from the punch the robot explodes and falls to ground in pieces. Aleena watches as the pieces fall down; then she looks at her watch to see the screen display, 'System Error'. She looks over to where Xavier is to find him gone. "Xavier! Xavier! Where are you?!"

Over the intercom Xavier's voice rings out, "Excellent job Aleena, I was able to gather some valuable data about your powers. I must say that's a good look for you."

"Thanks, its base off my mate and son's form," Aleena jokes. "Now that we got the fashion comments out the way. WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU!"

"Temper, temper Aleena. I saw that things were getting a little too hot for me, so I decided to leave and get ready to fly away in my shuttle. I know that you have access to map of the base, so I'll tell you that I'm in the eastern launch bay. But…" Xavier pauses as alarms start echo in all directions.

Aleena looks back and forth then yells out, "What's going on?!"

"I just activated the self-destructed system for this base," Xavier exclaims with joy in his voice. "In eight minutes, the magma powered core will overload and go into meltdown. Once that happens, the core will explode cause the lava pressure to go out of control. In short, the whole volcano erupt, and the lava will destroy everything and everyone left in the base along Yuki Heights. However there is no need to worry, if you go to core control, you can abort the self-destruct program." Aleena is able to pull up the map on Motoko's mobile server and starts move in direction of core control. "But wait Aleena, I have more, my ship won't be ready to launch for another four minutes. In that amount time, you could reach me and capture me. I'm completely defenseless and no match for your powers. Yet it makes you think, what to do? You can come after me, but that means sacrificing every innocent person in the city. On the flip side, you can rush to the core and stop the meltdown, yet I will easily get away. The choice is yours Aleena. Oh before I forget, don't even about using Chaos Control because if you do, I'll just blow the damn thing here and now. Making you lose both me, the city, and your own life."

Aleena grips her teeth while tightening her fists, "Why are you letting me chose?"

"Let's call it good sportsmanship. Now you have five minutes forty-two seconds left. If I were you, I would hurry."

Aleena looks to the left that leads to the core; then the right that leads to Xavier. Aleena curses under her breath and races off.

Xavier sits comfortable behind his desk on his spaceship watching as Aleena races against the clock to her target. A voice comes over the intercom system on his desk, "Sire, we ready to launch."

"Excellent, let's get going, I wasted enough time here. Sorry Aleena, you were to slow," Xavier states as he shut off the monitor and feels the ship blast off into the sky.

Aleena uses her powerful punch to break open the door just as a deafening sound fills the room."

"Hey this a bad time for a chilidog commercial?" Sonic questions.

"YES YOU IDIOT! GET OUT OF WAY!" Nico, Silver, Shadow, Midna, Sonia, Manic, and others say in unison.

Aleena breathes heavily watching worker running around in every direction; then rushes out the door she just knocked down. Aleena sees lava boiling up and over in different spots around the core. Aleena grabs one of the worker with her enlarged hand as asks. "How do I stop this thing form exploding?"

"You can't," man says with fear in his voice. "We tried using the abort control, but it's not working! In twenty seconds the core along with the volcano is going to explode."

Aleena drops the man and run away as fast as he can. She looks at the core smoking and cracking with energy. Aleena closes her eye and softly says, "You lied. Your plan was to everyone from the beginning. I won't allow this to happen. I just hope I have enough power to do this." Aleena quills start move up and down little as her garment changes back to her in her flowing white dress with her elbow high white gloves. Her quills move ever faster as she holds her hands out, and in a sudden burst of energy, Aleena quills turns bright purple white color. She opens her eyes to reveal a beautiful pair of purple glowing eyes. She hovers up into the air over the growing lava pool, and holds out her hand making the HC symbol appear while saying:

Ignis ut glaciem

(Fire to Ice)

Hot ut frigdum

(Hot to cold)

Glaciem tempus vernum super

(Ice rain over)

Et rursus haec lava in carbones

(And turn this lava into coal)

In a flash, large patches of ice start forming in different areas freezing everything around it in an instance. The lava tries to fight back by splashing and landing on the surface, but it is no use because the extreme cold slaps the heat out the liquid rock making it harden. Within minutes the stadium wide room is frozen solid. Aleena lands on the new icy surface just as her quills and eyes go back to normal. "I had just enough power to hold my super form to stop this thing, but he gets away for now." Aleena walks out of room double taps the watch then says, "Q1 to command. Mission complete base is secure have all forces secure the city and enemy."

Mizu replies with, "Roger Q1, don't you have target?"

"Negative, I'll explain later. Just get over here general," Aleena orders.

"Yes ma`am, we are on the way."

Two and half hours pass by and Aleena and Mizu walking command center looking at all of Aleena's person going through computer system. Ken comes walking carrying a data pad, "Your highness, I have the current status report." Aleena and Mizu nod awaiting his report. "As of now, we have complete control of Yuki Heights. All city officials, police, and other Mr. X agents are in custody. We have also disarmed twenty massive explosives around the area. Per your orders, I contacted Grand Elder Prowler and instructed to send out an elder to talk charge of the area along with reinforcement to replace the police. The base near the city has also been secure, and I read in the CO of the base to what happened."

Aleena nods then says, "Good job Ken, and you told Lisa keep this quiet right?" He nods, and she asks while making her way up to the seventh tier, "Good also of some of our men collect the broken of that robot I fought and is to Cyrus along with Motoko's mobile server."

"Right away your majesty," Ken states and relays the order to subordinate.

"How are things going with Sonic and Nico in charge?"

"Pretty good from what I have heard. Prince Sonic approved a challenge between Prince Shadow and Adair siblings," Ken reports.

"Good, I can't wait to hear the results," Aleena states as she opens the tinted glass door.

Mizu jokes by saying, "I'm placing my bets on Prince Shadow."

"That's cold General Adair," Ken states walking into room behind Mizu. Ken exclaims looking around the room, "It looks like the palace throne room."

Aleena exhales while running her hand over the arm of the copy throne, "I guess Xavier wanted to somewhere familiar to work." Suddenly a screen lowers down and one half of keyboard comes out from side of the chair. The two boards join together and the screen comes on showing the status of base along with other streaming notes. Without warning, Xavier face appears on the screen. He looks down at Ken and Mizu then back at Aleena; he gives a quick motion with his head and Aleena says, "Mizu, Ken please give me the room for a minute."

Ken is about object when Mizu puts his hand on the panda's shoulder saying, "we understand your majesty. We'll be outside when your need us. Come on Ken, we need to check up on somethings."

(A/N play FFX-2 Yuna's Ballad in the background. Trust us.)

Once the men leave the room, Aleena looks up at the screen and says, "Xavier."

"Aleena." They pause for a minute just looking at each other, and the red hedgehog finally says, "I see you stopped the eruption and saved the day. My, you have become quite the hero today, but this doesn't change anything. I will still…"

"ENOUGH XAVIER!" Aleena screams out with a show of mixed feelings in her eyes. "Why?" Xavier remains silent, and Aleena asks once more, "Tell me why Xavier?! Why are you doing this?! What have we done to you to make you do this?!" Xavier intensely looks Aleena with his eyes showing the same mixed feelings. "Please Xavier, tell me why?!"

The red hedgehog starts off softly by saying, "You want to know why. YOU KNOW WHY! ALL YOU KNOW WHY! YOU BETRAYED ME!"

Aleena is stunned by his shouting, and her eyes fill with shock and sadness as she asks, "What you talking about I never…"

"SHUT UP ALEENA! DON'T GIVE THAT BULLSHIT!" Xavier yells back. They both silent for a minute just looking at each other. Aleena goes to speak, but her brother jumps before her saying, "You, mom, and dad! All betrayed me and stole what was rightly mine. My empire, my happiness, my power, and my life were all stolen by you three."

Aleena fires back, "Xavier, how can you blame us for the actions that you took! You destroyed an entire village killing everyone there!"

"THEY WERE TERRORISTS!" Xavier shouts.

"THEY WERE INNOCENTS!" Aleena fires back. "You destroyed an entire village full of innocent women, men, and children. Just so, you could get two terrorist that were hiding there! Then you turn another telling people unite behind you. By telling them that they are enemy because they are of certain race that should be shunned because they their cultural values, religion, and from where they come. You tell people that they should be trusted because some misguided people deice to do terrible acts against others in the name of that culture. Still you don't stop there, you say they shouldn't be welcome into our society or allowed to live among us because of the actions of these selected few who want to bring everything around us down to satisfy their own morbid ideals. You told people in order for the empire to become great again; we must hate, kill, and destroy everyone of that culture."

"I was trying be a strong and great leader!" Xavier exclaims.

Aleena shouts back, "THAT NOT BEING A LEADER THAT IS BEING A TYRANT!"

"THAT IS STILL NO EXCUSE FOR WHAT MOM DID TO ME!" he shouts.

Aleena says in a softer voice with tear running down the sides of her face and angry in her eyes, "Mom had no choice. You killed thousands of innocent people; Oracle and the council at the time believed there was no other way to settle the people that were outrage by the actions of you and your associates. Sealing your powers and taking you out as next in for the throne."

"Why did you try and stop them?" Xavier questions.

Aleena holds head down allowing the shadow to cover her face, "I had no choice; I still remaining hearing you screaming and pleading with mom to stop. The screams were so loud; I read out of the palace into the garden. While there, I saw dad crying and saying to himself. How he failed as your father. The strong fearless man we looked up to was weeping as he saw the one of the greatest treasures in his life being taken away." Aleena wraps her arm around herself remembering day Sora left, then Shadow, Midna, and Silver were sent to Earth, lastly how she had to abandon Sonic, Nico, Sonia, and Manic. "I know than pain dad feel that day more than anything."

Xavier remains silent allowing Aleena to continue with, "Things went for bad to worse when you suddenly disappeared that night. You stole a ship fled into the darkness of space. Mom and dad told me what happened, but they were determined to bring you back home." Aleena takes a quick inhale of air, "But once more things went bad, when our parents' ship disappeared. Many believed that you were the cause of it, but after sometime I learned that the so-called loyal nobles backing your actions during the massacre were the ones really behind it. They blamed you in order gain favor with a young girl who just was forced to take the place of her mother."

Aleena look back up at her brother with dried eyes and said, "It was only after we defeated Robotnik that rumors of someone running around setting up a dark network to bring me down lead me to believe that you had returned home."

Xavier looks at Aleena then asks, "What would have me do?"

"Come home Xavier! Be the big brother I know and love. The one I played with in the backyard with. The brother who help with my homework. The big brother that scolded me when I did something wrong and that mom and dad trusted to lead me down the path of light. The big brother, I trust with my life. Will you please come home?"

Xavier feels his eyes start burn with salt from his forming tears while hearing his sister's pleas. "It's too late for me Aleena," he states grabbing his helmet and putting it over his face. Behind the tinted mask, tears run down Xavier's face remembering all the joy shared with his family along with pain followed. In a perfectly controlled voice Xavier says, "I will come home, and on that day, my loyal subjects will lay your body before as I sit in my rightful place as King of the Moboain Empire. I will make you watch as each of your brats are killed right in front of you. I will laugh as you watch them suffer along with all your friends. One by one, you will watch as they slowly died calling out for your help, but only learn that you are powerless to help. Once that is done, I will enjoy watching your destroyed spirit, mind, and body wither to nothing. On that day, I will truly come home and take what is mine."

Aleena looks at her brother and says, "I will never let that happen. My children, friends, and I will show you no mercy, give no quarter, or chance to survive. I know now without a doubt that my brother Xavier Hedgehog is died. He was murdered by Mr. X and the darkness in his heart. I promise you, you will not succeed in your goals Mr. X!"

"Very well, until we meet again Queen Aleena Hedgehog," Mr. X replies then screen goes back to normal. ~Farewell sister, I will always love you.~

Aleena falls to her knees crying and screaming with tear pouring down her face. Mizu and Ken bust into room and rush their crying queen. Mizu bends down holding on to her as she screams and cries for Sora to help her and her parents to come home.

(A/N have the music fade out)

Small tears run down her face along with the others as Aleena finishes explaining everything that happened on her mission. "Now you all know what happened on the mission. We stayed behind for a little more time to try and figure out where Mr. X is heading. From the evidence left behind, he heading possibly to Earth."

"I can't believe our uncle was responsible for this," Manic states.

"Weren't you listening, our uncle is dead. Mr. X is the one who did all this," Midna fires back.

Sonia then says, "That doesn't matter! What matters now is that we hunt down and kill this motherfucker!"

"I'm Sonia on that idea," Shadow comment with smile.

"That's all well and good, but how?" Silver questions while squeezing his fist that small beads of blood form.

Nico stands up and says, "Simple, we go to Earth and find out clues to how to stop Mr. X, and get on trial to whatever dad was chasing before he disappeared. After all," Nico punches his fist into hand, "We owe dad and that creep Mr. X some punches for making mom cry."

Sonic takes over with smile on face and says, "Nico's right. We have proved over and over, when we pull our powers together nothing stop us." The blue hedgehog turns to face his mother and says, "Mom, we promise to all our courage…"

"Power…" Shadow says.

"Wisdom…" Sonia follows up.

"Skills…" Silver jumps in.

"Knowledge…" Manic says with a smile.

"Light…" Midna says giving a thumbs up.

"And Love…" Nico says in place of Sonic's voice.

"To bring down this darkness, save the worlds, and bring our lost family members back home," Sonic smiles. He turns around to look at everyone to and says, "Our next stop is planet Earth!"

"YEAH!" they all say in unison.

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