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12:16 A.M. Northern Isle, The Chemical Plant.

Sonic ran towards the massive complex ahead of him, as he ran he said into his earpiece "I'm almost at the Chemical Plant. How's Rookie doing with the distraction?"

Knuckles chuckled as he said "So far so good. We might have to stop using the code name, Rookie, if the kid keeps this up."

The voice of Tails then said "Next, we've got to get to the computers at the Chemical Plant and shut down the Death Egg's weapons system."

Sonic grinned "Perfect, I've been waiting for my turn to bust some heads!"

He then stepped onto the yellow metal pathway that led into the Chemical Plant and continued to run farther into the complex. As he began to run into an area of the plant that sat over the frigid Northern Sea when suddenly Knuckles said "Rookie did a great job as a decoy. Time for you to do your thing. We have to capture the Chemical Plant. If anyone tries to stop you, take them out!"

Sonic then began to run towards a metal bridge ahead of him as he said "Say no more! They won't know what hit them!"

He then boosted forwards and crashed into three Egg Pawns who were walking across the bridge, unaware of Sonic speeding towards them. He then quickly jumped up into the air and grabbed onto a cargo hook above him that was attached to a track that lead towards the Chemical Plant's secondary database. As Sonic used the hook to travel forwards anti-air turrets that sat alone on their own platforms out in the Northern Sea turned on and aimed at the track Sonic was on, one of them fired at a piece of track ahead of Sonic which caused him and the hook to fall as soon as they both reached the spot of the missing track. But Sonic was able to quickly let go of the hook and spin around in the air so he would land feet first onto a set of train tracks that lead towards a different area of the Chemical Plant than the one he was heading towards before.

He grinded across the rails until he saw a pathway underneath him, and the rails, so he quickly jumped off of the rail he was on and down to the pathway bellow. He then sped forwards when suddenly another one of those anti-air turrets fired at the pathway which forced Sonic to jump up into the air, off of the debris, and up to another cargo hook. Said hook then began to move forwards and over the Northern Sea, meanwhile, those anti-air turrets aimed at Sonic and the closest one of them charged up a shot as Sonic said "Come on! Can't a Hedgehog infiltrate his arch nemesis's second Chemical Plant in a frigid wasteland in peace?"

The turret then fired off and Sonic sighed "Guess not."

He quickly let go of the hook and landed on the speeding anti-air ballistic round, he then charged up a Spin Dash before rocketing off of the round and towards the turret that had fired it. Sonic landed on the domed roof of the turret and he then quickly jumped up into the air and shot back down towards the top of the turret, curled up in a Spin Ball, before cutting right through it. As soon as he came out of the bottom of the turret he grabbed onto a small support beam that sat horizontally in between two other, massive, support beams that looked more like the legs of a chair. Above him he heard the sound of the turret exploding thanks to the damage he had caused to it, when suddenly he heard the sound of a different turret fire at him over to his right.

Sonic quickly spun around on the beam like an acrobat before letting go and flying through the air. A massive ballistic shot whizzed by him, its metal shell just barely grazing the tips of his head spines, before Sonic then landed on the wall of a large silo that stood alone in the ocean. The anti-air turret that had almost hit him aimed at him yet again, but before it could fire, Sonic quickly jumped off of the silo wall and Air Boosted towards the turret. He then quickly spun around in the air right as the turret fired again, luckily that spinning allowed Sonic to whiz over the top of the round and land on the top of the cannon that the shot had been fired from. Sonic turned around as a chrome Egg Pawn that was standing on a small lift came out of the top of the turret, it aimed its twin cannon arms at Sonic before they both fired at him.

Sonic quickly jumped up into the air as the chrome Pawn's rapidly firing bullets flew past him. Sonic then pulled himself into a Spin Ball before timing a Homing Attack just right so that he'd hit the Pawn without any fear of getting grazed, or hit, by its bullets. He tore through the head of the chrome Pawn which caused it to explode, but Sonic wasn't done yet, he then quickly burrowed through the turret and came out the other side unscathed yet again. Sonic quickly grabbed onto another horizontal support beam and yet again used it to fling himself up into the air and up towards another cargo hook. He grabbed onto it and used it to propel himself forwards and towards an opening in the facility. The hook reached the end of its track and its sudden stop caused Sonic to be flung up into the air, but the Hedgehog didn't mind that, in fact he had a big grin on his face as he began to fall down towards that opening. All the while he said "I'm heading into the Chemical Plant now!"

Suddenly grids of purple lasers appeared below him which only caused Sonic to say "Heh. I'd enjoy this even more if I wasn't on a mission!"

He quickly sky dived past the lasers before landing in a hallway that had glass walls that showed pipes filled with bright blue chemicals flowing in them. Sonic quickly sped forwards and said into his earpiece "Okay, I'm in!"

He sped to a halt in front of an elevator and its doors began to slid open as Knuckles said "The computer room is up ahead. You should be able to shut down the Death Egg's defensive system with that device Rotor gave us from there."

Sonic quickly pulled up the bottom of his glove and looked into it. Yep, that black device was still in there, and yes, it was very uncomfortable to care it like that. The elevator doors finally opened up completely and Sonic quickly ran into the metal lift before jumping up to an emergency exit hatch in the elevator's roof and cutting right through it. He then quickly ran across the top of the lift and jumped down the side of the shaft before landing on the bottom of said shaft. Sonic then quickly jumped up through a set of already open elevator doors and into what looked like a large room that was being used for chemical purification. He boosted forwards and through a line of three Egg Pawns that were just walking towards another elevator, said elevator forced Sonic to skid to a halt and to also pry the doors open so he could jump down the shaft again. Once at the bottom of the shaft Sonic jumped through another set of open doors, but this time he didn't land on the ground, instead he Homing Attacked into two Egg Pawns that were standing on a set of stairs.

Sonic boosted forwards and down a hallway when suddenly purple chemicals were dumped on top of his head. The weight of the liquid being dumped on him forced him to come to an immediate halt, sadly the only thing he could do was close his eyes, plug his nose, and close his mouth while also hoping that the chemicals weren't toxic. Once the chemical dump finally ended Sonic shook off any remaining liquids that clung to him, a smell of laundry detergent filling his nose, before looking up and seeing a series of holed hatches that might just be a pretty sweet short cut. Sonic quickly jumped up into the air and began to climb up through the series of hatches before reaching a room that was filled with various chemical purification devices, or at least that's what he thought they looked like. But the thing that caught his eye was an over flow drain in the center of the room, he quickly ran over to it and pulled its grate cover off before jumping down the pipe and rolling through it.

Sonic was then spat out the other end of the pipe and into a large circular room that's floor lead to a large hole in the center of it. Said hole also lead to a series of fans and other sharp objects that'd cut Sonic into more than just half. He quickly spun around in the air and Homing Attacked into an Egg Pawn that was standing on a catwalk that stretched from one of the room to the other. Suddenly he felt the area of the catwalk he was standing on shudder, which caused him to quickly jump off of that spot right before it opened up like a hatch and let chemicals that had been dumped out of a hole in the roof fall freely down towards the floor bellow. That hatch area of the catwalk closed again but Sonic could see that at certain spots in front of him and behind him there were other hatches just like the one he was standing on just a few moments before.

He waited for the right moment before quickly boosting forwards. He was able to just barely step off of the last hatch right as it opened up and let chemicals fall past it. As he ran he saw a large door standing in front of him, said door must've lead to the computer room he was looking for. Sadly there was a bridge in between him and that door, and as he ran across it sirens went off and the bridge began to lower itself. Sonic quickly jumped up into the air and was just barely able to grab onto the other end of the chain linked bridge which he would then climb up like it were a rock wall, at the same time Sonic thought about the fact he's never actually done a real rock wall before, sure he's climbed over rocks on Angel Island before but that wasn't a real rock wall. As he reached the top of the bridge he realized he'd spent far too long thinking about climbing rock walls than he should've, so as he pulled himself up and onto the floor above him he said into his earpiece "I found a way through to the computer room."

That large door slid open and let Sonic boost into a massive room filled with wires, pipes, and of course, a large wall covered in monitors that sat straight ahead of him. As he boosted forwards Knuckles said "All right! Now we can destroy the Death Egg."

Sonic nodded as he came to a stop in front of the large multi-monitor wall. He then walked over to the crescent shaped control panel that sat in front of him, and at the same time he pulled out that device Rotor had given to the Resistance a little bit ago. Sonic spent a moment searching around for a large enough port that the device would plug into, and once he did finally manage to plug the device into the control panel the center screen changed from an infinitely scrolling wall of text and code, to a black screen with a featureless white face that had pure yellow eyes, and cat like ears. Suddenly a voice came over that single screen's speakers "Hello. I am the Phage A.I."

The voice of the A.I. was smooth, hushed, and oddly feminine. All of that together kind of freaked Sonic out "Uh.. Hi, Phage. I'm Sonic the Hedgehog."

"Hello. Sonic."

The Hedgehog looked around the room awkwardly before saying "So.. What exactly do you do?"

"My main purpose is."

Suddenly the voice of Rotor played instead of Phage's "To mess up Eggman's computers."

But then Phage's voice returned as it said "And I must ask.. Do you want me to mess up this computer?"

Sonic nodded "Yeah, although. I was kinda hoping that you could also disable the Death Egg's defensive systems?"

"Affirmative."

Suddenly all of the other screens turned black, and Phage's icon disappeared, before it reappeared on every screen as a giant icon. Sonic backed away from the database as the booming voice of Phage came over all of the monitors "Undergoing complete destruction of the database."

All of the lights in the room then suddenly turned off and the only light that was left in there was the light that was coming off of the monitors Phage's icon was on. He continued to slowly back away as he said "So... I can go now.. Right?"

"Affirmative. I will be transported to Rotor's personal handheld computer once this is completed."

Sonic nodded before quickly boosting out of the room, and through the facility. As he ran he said into his earpiece "Death Egg's defense systems should be shutting down soon."

The voice of Knuckles said "Good, now get back to Beta Base in one piece."

Sonic chuckled "Come on Knux, I'm the one leaving pieces of things behind. Not being turned into pieces."

Knuckles sighed "And yet. You've been cornered more than once in your life."

Sonic also sighed "Coming back to base now.. Chuckles."

"See you- Wait.. No, wait. Sonic! What did you just-"

The Hedgehog took his earpiece out before laughing to himself, as he did he ran out of the Chemical Plant and towards the shore of the island where he would then use his speed to run across its water and back to South Island.

12:20 A.M. South Island, Hill Top Zone, Beta Base.

Blue sat silently on a chair outside of Tails' new workshop, the Hedgehog's feet couldn't reach the ground so they just dangled there in place. Suddenly Tails' communicator, which Tails had handed Blue and told to keep an eye on it until he came out of his workshop, began to sound off. Blue held it up to his ear and said into it "Heeellllooo?"

Suddenly the voice of Rouge said "The Death Egg's weapon systems are down! Now is your chance! Move!"

Blue quickly hopped off of the chair and ran over to the workshop's closed door. He pounded his fist on it as he yelled out "Tails! We gotta go!"

Suddenly the door slid open and Tails said "What's up? What's wrong?"

Blue handed Tails his communicator as he said "Nothing's wrong, technically. But, what is going on is the Death Egg's defenseless! We gotta move!"

Tails' eyes widened in shock before he quickly grabbed onto Blue and pulled him into the workshop. The actual room itself didn't look to different from the hanger back in Green Hill, except for the fact it was cleaner in there, but what did stand out to him was the large object in the center of the room that was covered by a white tarp. Tails came to a stop in front of the tarp covered object before quickly letting go of Blue and running over to the side of the object, as he grabbed onto the tarp he said "Behold!"

He then yanked the tarp off and revealed a large red rocket that had a black top, and yellow pointed fins on the bottom of it. Blue stared at the rocket silently before saying "What is it?"

Tails put his hands on his hips as he said "This, is the Tornado X-3. Or just, the Tornado Rocket. Which ever you prefer."

Blue approached the Tornado X-3 and said "Wait, three.. That means there's an X-2?"

Tails nodded "Sure there is, but right now, you need to get into the X-3 so we can send you up to the Death Egg."

He then pressed a button and a hatch in front of Blue opened up which led to a small compartment that had a small leather seat in it. Blue looked over to Tails and said "You want me to climb into this thing, and sit on a leather seat?"

Tails shrugged "You've gone through worse ways to get to the Death Egg. Like grabbing onto the side of a rocket as it breaks atmosphere, or jumping into the Death Egg as it breaks atmosphere."

Blue rolled his eyes "Fine I get your point."

He then climbed into the compartment and sat down on the seat. He looked over his shoulder and saw that his back was pointed towards the ground due to how he had to sit in the seat. Tails walked over to Blue and pressed a button in the compartment that created straps that quickly locked Blue into place, at the same time Tails said "Once you're up there you gotta hurry. You gotta destroy the Death Egg and cut off the power supply."

Blue chuckled "You're making it sound like a walk in the park. This is a Death Egg! Sure I've dealt with it before, but that doesn't mean it was a walk in the park."

Tails shook his head "Don't sweat it. You're gonna have this under control."

He backed away from the rocket and suddenly a hatch in the roof over the X-3 opened up and the rocket began to shudder as its engine began to turn on. The compartment Blue was in began to lower into the rocket and once it was in there completely the hatch closed and Blue was forced into darkness, right before the rocket blasted off of the ground and up through the hole that led out of the mountain and up into the air, a screen then appeared in front of Blue and it showed the outside of the rocket, specifically Blue could see that he was breaking atmosphere and heading right towards the massive Death Egg.