Oookay, this might be a bit confusing, but the three or four chapters will light up a lot of things and this entire will start clearing up. I know it's been tough to follow, but I thank everybody who did. Now, let's stop talking and get to the story. I do not own Sonic the hedgehog nor any of it's characters, although I really wish I did.

Enjoy!

Let the games begin

"What happened?" Blaze asked as she entered the cockpit. Everyone else was already there, looking at the big screen in front of them.

A spaceship that was not the Blue Typhoon was visible, closing up on them with rapid speed.

"Looks like Eggman's finally making a move" Sonic cried out with glee. "I can't wait to whip his butt!"

Blaze wasn't stupid. She could count one and one together and she knew that, if Eggman's spaceship was here, then Lupa wasn't far off. Violett, Amy and Cream had told her everything in the few days in which they were in space; that Lupa had probably found an ally in Eggman, that they had been attacked by robots and weird black shadowy creatures once and that Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy were being trained by Violett. Blaze believed that to be a good idea. Violett was a master in material arts and she knew nobody except for Pythia who knew more about magic than she did. If Amy and Sonic really had magical powers, then she would draw them out. Maybe she even already started, seeing how Amy almost seemed to glow bright pink lately.

"So … what do we do now?" Rouge asked into the round.

"I say we go in there and tear the ship apart!" Knuckles cried, clashing his fists.

"That's suicide!" Blaze said.

"No", Violett countered "We should do exactly that!"

"Yeah, looks like you're finally allowing yourself some fun, Vi!" Sonic cheered.

"Have you lost your mind?" Blaze yelped. "You know what awaits us in there. Or rather, you know that we can't even imagine all the things that await us there! If we're gonna go in there, we'll be killed in the blink of an eye!"

Everyone looked at the two purples, wondering who will win this little argument. After all, their next move would be based on it.

"Well," Violett started "the way I see it, we have to possibilities. Either we wait here until they come and get us, or we go in there and take them out before they take us out."

"Only in here, they can only send a few forces while we'll be confronted with an entire army in there."

"True, but as long as we stay here, we're trapped. She could blow this ship up without any of us being able to anything against it and my barriers are far not strong enough to hold against her attacks. If we go in there, then we have a chance to fight. They can't just blow up their own ship, that would be their downfall as much as ours."

"I'm for invading Eggman's ship!"Sonic said, raising his hand.

"So am I", Knuckles added.

"Me too" Amy giggled.

"I'd rather not go down at all, but it looks like we have no choice", Rouge sighed.

"Invading sounds nice to me" Espio mumbled.

"Same here!" Vector said.

"Yay, we'll be an invading force. It'll be just like in those pirate movies that we always watch at home!"

Vector grabbed the little bee's head and pulled him out of the way. All the others looked at each other, unsure of what to think of this. Blaze looked around in disbelieve, but gave in after all.

"I see I'm outvoted." She sighed and turned away.

"Then it's decided", Violett said. "Tails, you're the master mind here. Do you think you could organize this mission as good as possible?"

Tails looked up and nodded. Violett turned back to the screen. She knew that alone with her presence, Lupa had started her newest game; a game they could only win if Violett found out the rules soon enough.

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"You guys know the plan?" Tails asked when everything was set.

"I'll go in first to find out whatever I can about the ship and send all the information back to you." Espio started.

"Charmy and I'll follow right on his Tails and cause a distraction …" Vector went on.

"… so that all of us can sneak in and take the thing apart!" Sonic ended.

'All of us' were Sonic, Knuckles, Amy, Rouge, Blaze and Violett, but they all knew that. It wasn't the best plan in Violett's and Blaze's opinion, but not even Tails could come up with anything better in the short time and the small amount of information he had.

"I'll stay here and guide all of you. Cream and Vanilla will stay here as well so that they'll be fit to take care of you if you happen to get injured or something. Oh, perhaps you should take these."

Tails gave each of them a watch that strongly resembled the communicator that they have used before.

"Their range is a lot higher than that of the others and they're also a lot more stable. You can reach each other even in the thickest snowstorms. I've already made all the necessary modifications, so the only thing you have to do is to choose who you want to reach and press enter."

Sonic looked at his watch and tried it immediately, by pressing enter when the display showed 'Tails'. Tails watch started beeping three times, then, a small hologram of Sonic appeared on its display. At the same time, a small hologram of Tails appeared on Sonic's display.

"Way past cool!" Sonic exclaimed.

"You keep amazing me with these gadgets of yours", Violett smiled.

"Thanks, but you should get going. Eggman's ship is already in reach."

"Alright", Sonic said, "let's get this party started."

%)%)%)%)%

"Alright Tails, were in", Sonic said to the little Tails hologram that was standing on his watch.

"Great. Did you get Espio's information?" The hologram asked.

"Sure did."

"So you know the way to the cockpit, right?"

"Right!"

"Good. Make your way towards it and tear it apart!"

"Sounds like a plan to me. Alright folks, let's get going!"

Sonic started walking in to the dark, narrow hallway they were in, Knuckles, Blaze, Amy, Rouge and Violett on his heels. Amy ran up front to Sonic and grabbed his arm with a wide smile, which made Sonic roll his eyes in exasperation.

"Amy, stop that" Sonic sighed.

"But I'm scared!" Amy exclaimed and clinged to him even more.

Sonic rolled his eyes again, but said no more. Rouge and Knuckles sniggered in the background, but shut up immediately when the blue blur shot them a death glare and Blaze almost looked as if she pouted.

"What's with you?" Violett whispered to her.

"Nothing …" the princess whispered back.

Sonic, Amy, Rouge and Knuckles turned around when they heard the two purple furred scream behind them, only to see that they had disappeared. What they also saw was a part of the wall that just returned to its original place.

"That can't be good", Knuckles said.

"It's not", Rouge answered Knuckles unasked question. "It means that Vector and Charmy failed. Eggman knows that we're here."

"Tails, what should we … whoa!"

Sonic didn't manage to finish since a trapdoor opened right beneath him and he and Amy fell into the dark, right in front of Knuckles and Rouge and before they could even react, the door closed again.

"What happened?" Tails asked through the communicator.

"Well … Vi and Blaze just disappeared in the wall and Sonic and Amy just fell through the floor. Any ideas on what to do now?" Knuckles took over.

Tails sighed and held his head, thinking the situation over. They were no longer in a group, only in groups of two. Sonic, Amy, Blaze and Violett, probably had no clue where they were. Eggman probably knew that they were in his ship and would take them out one by one. Knuckles and Rouge would still be able to escape, but they couldn't just leave the others behind. So what should he do?

"Go look for the others and as soon as you find any, get out of there", he ordered. "Vector, can you hear me?"

"Loud an' clear, caip'n!" the croc answered.

"Sonic, Amy, Blaze and Violett are lost. Go look for them and then get out of there as fast as you can. Same to you Espio, you hear me?"

"Roger that!" Espio said.

Tails did what he could, now it was up to the others to get out of there. If things got really bad, he would just have to take the Tornado and blast a hole in the ship to get them out of there.

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"IAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Blaze's and Violett's screams echoed through the hallway as they fell sideway into something like an elevator that transported upstairs at neck breaking speed. The two girls clinged to each other as if they're lives depended on it and screamed their lungs out. Their screams stopped as suddenly as the elevator, but they still held tight to each other, panting heavily from the shock. Slowly but surely, Violett's grip loosened and she started feeling that pain from Blaze's sharp nails that had dug into her back.

Blaze seemed frozen in place, her eyes opened wide while Violett started recovering slowly, but she couldn't move because her friend kept her in place.

"Blaze …"

No reaction.

"Blaze, it's over!"

Still no reaction. So the hedgehog gave the cat a head butt. It worked; the pain made Blaze recover from her shock and let go of Violett, who's wounds healed almost immediately. The hedgehog fell on her back and stayed there for a while, while Blaze's knees gave way.

"Wha …" The cat manage to choke out.

"Lupa", Violett only said and rolled on her side so that she could heave herself back up on her knees.

"Oh heavens", Blaze said and got back on her feet as well. "We should get out of this elevator, before it starts moving again."

"Good idea."

The two crawled and walked as good as possible out of the elevator, where they collapsed again.

"You do know that this is exactly what she wanted?" Blaze started.

"You know how Lupa is", Violett answered. "Everyone who knows anything about her can't escape from her games and she started this game from the very moment she send us that message with the wave."

"And what about this game?"

"It's a game of choices. Imagine that you have two doors in front of you and a person standing between the doors, saying something that can be a hint to those who know how to see it. You go through one of the doors and get to another room with two other doors and a person in between. Each one of these doors is a choice that we make and only if we make the right ones can we win this game."

"Then I guess it's a good thing Sonic and the others don't know about that."

"Only somebody who doesn't know anything about Lupa can escape her games."

"So what do we do next?" Blaze asked again. "What's the next choice."

"Right at the moment, we don't have any choices. The only thing we can do is to follow this hall."

Blaze looked up at the hallway in front of them, wondering what would await them up ahead. But Violett was right, at the moment, the only thing they could do was to follow it. She stretched out her arm and called Tails, who's hologram appeared three beeps later.

"Hello Tails. I just called to say that we got separated from the others, but we're okay. A bit shaken, but okay."

"That's good to hear. We were already starting to worry. You didn't just happen to see Amy and Sonic? They got separated as well." Tails replied.

"No, we haven't crossed them yet. But we'll be walking along the hallway we landed in now and see if we can find them and a way out, okay?"

"Please do. Tails over!"

The two friends stood up and started walking into the dark hallway in front of them.

Sonic and Amy started off no better. They were sliding down a slide at incredible speed, screaming out their lungs. The slide seemed to last forever for the two and they were more than glad when they finally tumbled into the hallway. Sonic landed rather harshly with his head first while Amy landed a bit more softly on top of him.

"Amy, get off me!" Sonic growled angrily and Amy obeyed by standing up.

Sonic followed her example, but had to resist yelling at her when she took his arm again. They looked into the hallway in front of them, not knowing if they really wanted to follow it, but it was not like they had much of a chance. Climbing back the steep slide was close to impossible, even for Sonic.

"What do we do now, Sonic?" Amy asked.

"How about we call Tails first?" Sonic said and let his words follow actions, calling Tails, who soon appeared on the watch.

"Sonic, you're okay!" The little kitsune said relieved. "And Amy, too."

"Yeah, we're just fine, bud! There's only that one hallway we can follow, so we'll do that. Do you have any news on Blaze and Vi?"

"They just called a few second ago, they're perfectly fine."

"That's good to know. We'll try to find a way out of here, Over!"

One more time Sonic and Amy looked at the dark hallway in front of them before they started walking and disappeared into the dark, just like Blaze and Violett did.

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"The others are okay. They're walking through the ship right now, trying to find a way out. Just keep on searching for them", Tails hologram said before it disappeared again.

"Well, I guess that's at least some good news." Rouge sighed. "And you know what else?"

"What?" Knuckles asked grumpily.

"You and I are in this big, dark ship … alone … does that give you any ideas?"

Knuckles blushed furiously as the bat took his arm and snuggled her entire body against him. With a lot of self control, he pushed the girl away and went on walking, or rather stomping.

"You'd think having big boobs would be a girl's best friend", Rouge huffed annoyed before she followed him.

Uffa, I'm done. I can't wait for the next few chapters. A lot of things will happen that I planned out long before I even started this story. I'm already so exited! I hope you are too. Things are gonna get really interesting ^^