PRISON ISLAND, SECURITY STATION

00:03, HOURS AFTER LAUNCH.

GADGET GEARS

Words trickle down the grapevine and reach the need for attention, to the eas of the canine they traveled from his superiors.

"Someone broke in, stole the three Chaos Emeralds from the vault and NONE of you managed to get an identifier on the suspect?" Gadget Gears said to the G.U.N troops by his side. The troops shake their heads in turn, knowing no information was a bust to the investigation, however, in what little was known, one possibility trickled from his mind. "Whoever it was must have known exactly what to hit and how hard. If no one saw the prep, they must have been fast."

Pacing back and forth, Gadget occasionally brings attention to his own Emerald that snugly sat within his Wispon. A dull white glow permeating the lack of light outside and a new thought passed through.

"The rocket stationed here launched a few hours ago, did anyone happen to know what may have caused it?" He stops still before one of the team and he raised his brow, head cocked to the side and his free hand under his chin. The guards talk between themselves for a moment, the one under Gadet's watchful eye speaks up at last.

"S-Sir, two blurs were caught on the cameras outside a minute before the launch."

The canine, being directed to the surveillance room, he holds high expectations for something, anything, to come through that may point the investigation in a suitable direction. Step by step, boots clanking against metal floors, each sound filled the silence that fell over all.

PRISON ISLAND, SURVEILLANCE ROOM 00.15

Finally, those present filtered into the tightly packed room; camera feeds line the walls and each one shows a different place among the confines. The personnel that spoke to the wolf directed him to a feedback panel, a small button pushed to relay the footage as he watches blue and black flash across before the feed cuts off, presumably from the force exerted on it by two sound barrier-breaking hedgehogs having a friendly competition.

"Sonic and Shadow...?" Briefly considering his options, the canine leans the nearest wall in though. "Where does that rocket lead?" The question's tone is laced more with concern than much else, perhaps the rocket has something to do with why those three Chaos Emeralds disappeared from the vault without a trace.

"T-Toward space, Sir. T-The colony." A G.U.N trooper responded with caution.

"Space Colony?" He's never heard of such a place, though when words pass his lips an automated voice calls out, a file being brought up about a place called the Space Colony Ark. "The ARK? I was told that place didn't exist, last I recall, Sonic and Shadow forced something by that name out of orbit via Chaos Control."

For the hours that followed, Gadget pondered back and forth about this mythic space station, the only space station he'd ever heard of was the Death Egg during the war.

"I'm going to need all the info I've got clearance to know." The order get's a single salute out of a half a dozen; strange how things slowly piece themselves together without so much as a single piece of credible evidence to go on. "Next stop: HQ, I've got some research to do."

FORMER KNOTHOLE FREEDOM HQ

12:00

SALLY ACORN

Moving across a vast variety of terrain from different areas. The last captured recording revolving around these two being when they hopped on a rocket that launched a few seconds afterward. Sapphire hues watching this footage rather intensely, brows furrowed in confusion as well as irritation, Eyelids shutting themselves tight whilst an elongated sigh left her. Fingers pinching bridge of her nose, cheeks slightly but noticeably flushed. Mind simply unable to comprehend why these hedgehogs would do something so, utterly reckless?! It makes one ponder, really.

"Why did I fall for such a moron?" Groaned Sally, an exhale having followed suit until the reopened gaze affixed upon a certain detail. One that hadn't been noticed prior, a third streak.

Having a rather sickeningly green palette. Seemingly heading straight for Prison Island's main facility, if Sally recalled... This was where they kept their Chaos Emeralds! And if the main individual focused on was who she thought they were, then things would only get worse from here.

"Oh, crab baskets."