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-The Chapter With No Name-

I couldn't believe this was happening. This whole entire trip I had worked so hard, SO hard, trying to keep Paige safe. Now look at what happened.

How could I know what Sonic would do with her? He was pretty delusional at this point. There was no way to tell what was going through his messed-up mind.

"My only question is this: Why?" I asked, still curled in my little ball by the door.

Cream had finished her chat with a very distressed Tails and was now staring at me with a resentful expression. "I'm sorry, Maddie! I just..." she trailed off.

"Just what?"

"I feel so useless sometimes! I'm so young and I can't help out!"

I sighed and came untucked out of my sphere, staying on the ground with my elbows on my knees. "Cream, there's lots of things you help with. Sometimes things that don't seem very important to you are extremely special to us," I explained.

"You're the person that's always there to help out when we need an extra hand. Helping doesn't always mean going off into battle, you know. We have plenty of people for that," I continued, a smile tugging at my lips. "In fact, Paige and I were "useless" in the fight at the bridge. It was too big a task for us, so we just stood out of the way and helped the injured."

"Really?" Her big eyes filled with light.

"Yep. We're pretty unhelpful at times, but that's why we train and do what we can to get better at it. Soon, we'll be able to go off and help fight with a little practice." I stood up and crossed the room to Cream. Her bright eyes sparkled in the yellow lamp light when I kneeled in front of her.

"The same will be with you someday. Until then, we need you to listen to instructions and be safe. Our two jobs are to protect you and others as well as take care of dangerous threats. Did you know you have a super special job too?"

"I do?"

"You have a natural talent of healing people. If anyone is ever hurt, you're always there with the right medical supplies when we need you," I told her.

"You have so much talent that I can't wait to see grow in you." I smiled and put my hand on her cheek. Cream grinned and hugged me. I embraced her back.

"Come on. Let's go see what your mom is up to, together." I stood up, grabbing my ice pack in one closed fist and Cream's hand in the other. We entered the kitchen where Vanilla was busily cleaning shards of glass and food off the floor. She was down on two knees, scooping up the objects with a tiny broom into a dustpan. Cream immediately went to help.

"I'm going after Paige," I announced boldly, "alone." Vanilla glanced up from her work, a dim worry in her eyes.

"If that's what you really feel you should do, I think you should go as well," she agreed. I was surprised by how little of a fight she gave. Her immediate agreement made me rethink what I was doing a little. Normally, Cream's mother would always urge me to change my mind.

I crossed my arms. "Maybe I should ask Amy to come along?" I asked. Vanilla turned her upper body towards me and nodded approvingly. A smirk appeared on her face for a fraction of a second, then quickly melted back into her loving smile.

"That'd be best dear. Wouldn't want Sonic to get you too!" So after packing a small bag with various tools and weapons, saying goodbye to the two rabbits, and calling Amy to set up our plan, I headed off to go save my best friend.

Genius. That's the only way to describe it, Eggman thought. After years of plotting plans, making missions, and failing miserably, he had finally done it. This would be the time his plan would work. He was so close! Only one more puzzle piece left to put in its place, and then it would be ready.

"Speaking of my puzzle piece," he muttered, staring at a row of screens showing various locations. On one of them, Maddie was running with her hover shoes straight towards his new base. Eggman grinned evilly. Everything was perfect! Well...almost perfect. Amy was tagging along. It wouldn't be too hard to get rid of her though, and the mission could resume smoothly.

He needed Maddie. At first, he hadn't thought she was important. She was just another enemy to deal with. Then he had discovered something even she herself didn't realize.

Oh, Maddie, thought the evil scientist with a smirk. If only you knew how powerful you are!

Eggman heard the soft whoosh of the metallic door as it opened to his main lair area. He was immediately greeted by frantic shouting from none other than Paige. He sighed, put a hand on his forehead, and spun his chair around to watch.

"-RIGHT NOW! I MEAN IT!" Paige screamed, kicking and thrashing at Sonic's grip, which still hadn't faltered. The hedgehog had marched Paige in with her arms forced behind her back painfully. Eggman found it amusing to watch her struggle helplessly. Since he didn't know Paige all that well, he decided he would...get to know her better, if you could call it that.

"I've been expecting you!" Eggman said ominously. Paige didn't react as he hoped. She stopped struggling against Sonic, crossed her arms, and grinned.

"Hi!" she cheered, waving as well as she could with Sonic restraining her arms. Suddenly, her head cocked to one side. "You know, now that we're talkin' face to face, you're a lot bigger in person than in the video games." The playful smirk danced across her face.

Eggman's cheeks grew red. "Why you little-!"

"I mean, lay off on the cheese balls!" Paige interupted. "That's WAAAAAY too much gut you got going there."

"I'm going to forget you said that!"

"Whatever," she toyed, still grinning. She turned and looked around Eggman's lair.

It looked similar what she had imagined from Maddie's description of the last base. Lots of buttons and flashing lights blinked everywhere. The large, main computer was directly in front of her, the screen taking up at least half of the wall space. There was a large hanging cage above her to the left that reminded her of a bird cage somewhat. The rest of the room was just glass cases and random gadgets.

Paige grinned and in one swift motion, elbowed Sonic directly in the face with all her might. He let go immediately and yelled in pain. When he moved back to attack her, she launched a nice kick straight to his chest. He went sprawling backwards, eyes blazing with fires of hate.

The blue hedgehog had skill and speed, but she had more height and strength. If Sonic were himself, there would be no way to defeat him, but since he was locked in a sort of demented trance, she still had a small chance.

A slim chance, but still a chance nonetheless.

"GET HER YOU IDIOTIC IMBECILE!" Eggman shouted from his position in front of the computer. Paige rolled her eyes.

"I'm just saving you the trouble of throwing me into here," she explained with an exasperated expression as she pointed to the bird cage. "No need to go all ninja on me."

Paige broke into a run and quickly closed the gap between her and the cage. Leaping onto the side of some electronic thingy that looked kinda like those vintage video games machines that take quarters only, she hoisted herself on top of it. Then she launched herself onto a glass case nearby, crouching to keep her balance.

She gingerly stood up and reached for a hanging light overhead. She had to swing across a large gap to reach the cage. Halfway across, the cord snapped, but her momentum threw her into the open door of the cage.

"Better?" Paige smirked. She clicked her tounge softly, staring at Sonic with a twinge of guilt. "Sorry about that," she apologized honestly.

She regretted hitting Sonic so hard. Blood began to pool out of his nose and you could clearly see the impact point where she kicked him. This is what I have to do, she reminded herself. I can only help if I'm alive.

"I'm going to save you, Sonic," she whispered to herself. "I promise."

Sonic apparently heard because he laughed menacingly and said, "Some people just don't need to be saved," before pulling out a handgun and aiming it straight between her eyes.

We couldn't seem to get there fast enough. Even in the darkness of the night, I could make out the ominous dark storm clouds approaching fast. The full moon lit our path mostly, but Amy and I both strapped flashlights to our foreheads to help us see a little better.

The night was cold, and gusts of wind nipped at our patches of bare skin. I wished I had brought a hoodie with me. The chill sunk deep down into my core and seemed the spread through my veins, in my bones, all the way from my head to my toes.

"Monsoon's almost over," Amy quipped to me, reading my mind as we ran. "Our Spring's are nice and warm. I bet this"-she gestured to the dark looming clouds-"is the final storm before Spring arrives."

She was surprisingly fast. I guess she got all the practice from chasing after Sonic all day or something. While I ran on my speed shoes, she ran beside me, staying close every step of the way. Of course, I slowed down a little bit for her sake, but she still had a lot of speed and agility.

My mind danced from topic to topic. I couldn't focus on one thing for more than a few minutes. It messed up my brain and confused me a little, trying to think about so many things at once. Paige was my main thought, but Sonic, my family, the deadly weapons at my side, Eggman, and my hunger were a couple of other things that flew through my mind every so often.

"I called Tails and told him to meet us here," Amy informed me.

"What? Why?"

"You sure are determined to do things alone, aren't you?" she questioned.

I turned away from her and didn't answer. Sighing, Amy turned away as well.

"I thought that's how it's supposed to be," I confessed, stirring up the conversation again. "The hero goes alone to save the world, right?"

She laughed at me. Flat out giggled til she could barely breathe. "What's so funny?" I demanded.

"That's made for movies and books! Teamwork is ten times better than going alone!"

"But that's not how it's written or shown-"

"Of course it's not!" Amy responded. "The only realistic movies are the ones like biographies and recollections. Books are the exact same way! Anything else is purely made up for entertaining purposes."

"Well I just thought it'd look cooler if I was, y'know, the only hero?"

"Thoughts like that are pretty dangerous. Be careful to not let your pride overtake you and become a hunger for power. Don't want you turning into a power crazed maniac, right?" Amy joked.

Suddenly I felt an intense hurt in my side. My gut burned with sharp, pulsing pain, but it also felt different somehow. It was as if the pain wasn't my own, yet I still felt it, strong and present. My eyes widened.

"Is it possible to feel other's pain through the chaos spirit?" I blurted, doubling over with pain.

Amy's expression shifted from concern to panic. "You'd have to ask Knuckles. I'm not sure, but if I remember right, then yeah." I let out a worried sigh. Paige was hurt, I could feel it.

Literally.

"But only if they have the chaos spirit too," Amy finally confessed.

"What?" I asked. I wasn't sure I'd heard her right. "You mean...?"

"She's got something, Maddie. We're still not sure what exactly it is, but Paige has some form of chaos energy." Her eyes found mine and she gave me an earnest look.

I realized Paige was special too, like me! How awesome was that? She would be ecstatic when she found out! It would be so neat to be fighting side by side, each of us using our powers to vanquish the forces of evil!

Then something clicked in my brain. I wondered if Eggman knew Paige was special too, and that's why he sent Sonic to retrieve her. Maybe her capture wasn't just impulse, but an order. Maybe he had known the whole time.

"Come on, Amy," I cried with a renewed strength. "Let's go crack some eggs!"

A cheesy line, but one that drove us forward all the same.

Hope you enjoyed! We learned that Paige has chaos abilities, but the question is, what? Thanks for all your follows, favorites, comments, and overall support. You guys are my WORLD! Love you!

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"The Chapter with No Name" I love it! That's the best! XD Anyway, you guys rock since I'm obviously not doing my job. I'm sorry and I really want to make it up to you all. Keep being amazing!

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