Mission Impossible

Chapter.2

Sonic got to the air strip in five seconds. Tails was just coming over the hill about 30 meter's away. Surveying the area Sonic saw his half robotizized friend, Bunny Rabot, loading crates onto the plane. Sonic felt a pang of guilt for his girlfriend, Princess Sally, because he couldn't help thinking how good Bunny looked.

She had just recently been taken ill because her body was rejecting her robotic legs and left arm. The best odds for her survival was to disconnect permanently from her robotic limbs for a robotic upgrade which would make any chance for derobotization nil. With her boyfriend Antoine the coyote's support the friendly dwarf overlander scientist, Nate Morgan, helped create her new robotic limbs that had more capabilities and was pretty darn flattering to her figure to boot. Bunny wasn't at all unhappy to discard her bulky limbs of old.

Up from behind Sonic came Antoine. With a tap on his shoulder and a clearing of his throat Antoine got Sonic to turn and look at him. Standing with the most dignified facial expression that he could muster, Antoine unruffled his general's coat, which belonged to his father, and placed a hand on the handle of his sword.

"Sonic, I am keeping zee eye on you." Antoine said in his french accent. "Keep away from my darling bunny if you know what iz good for you."

"Ant, don't be an idiot..."

"I am not zee id-eot!"

"Relax, I'm not moving in on your girl. No matter how much you annoy the hell out of me I wouldn't hurt you like that" Sonic said sincerely, "Besides, Sally's my girl." he added.

"Hey sugar-twan, give me a hand with these crates ova hea." Bunny shouted in her southern accent.

"On my way my sweet." Antoine replied.

As he walked away he gave Sonic a snooty stare. His snootiness always boiled Sonic. Antoine always put up a tough facade but when it comes right down to it he was really nothing but a coward. Sonic decided to cut him some slack this time since Antoine had reason to be paranoid. He had noticed himself that many of the male inhabitance of Knothole had been taking extra notice of Bunny.

"Hey Sonic!" Tails said panting, "that's not fair, why didn't you wait for me?"

Sonic was about to give Tails one of his trademark sarcastic comments when Amy Rose walked up to them.

"Hey you two. We're boarding the plane now so get moving, We don't have much time left before takeoff." Amy said, grabbing a hold of their hands and attempting to pull them toward the air craft.

"Whoa, hold up Amy!" Sonic said, pulling his hand out of her grasp. "Since when are you old enough to go on one of our top secret missions."

"Don't you start too Sonic Hedgehog. I may only be a kid and you and the other's may be teenagers but that doesn't mean I can't help. Besides, Tails is a kid too so if he's going I'm going also, so there." Amy said pointedly.

Sonic was taken aback. He had never witnessed the usually soft spoken pink little hedgehog being so assertive.

"Don't even try to argue her out of it." Prince Elias cut in, "Sally and I have already tried to no avail. Besides, father would have become suspicious of our cover story if we didn't."

"Ok then, it's settled, she's coming along." Sonic abdicated, "It's not like we're expecting any trouble anyway."

Sonic smiled at Elias who returned it wholeheartedly. No one, even Elias' sister Sally know of Elias' existence until just recently but Sonic thought he seemed like a nice guy. Definitely someone you can count on when the going gets tough.

Aside, Tails whispered with the back of his hand covering his mouth from the other's view, "Geez Amy! It's only a meeting. It's not like it'll be exciting or anything."

"Well I don't like being left out all the time." Amy answered in the same manner.

The four then continued walking toward the Freedom Fighter Special. Up ahead Princess Sally was talking to her pocket computer Nicole.

"Nicole, lets run down the list again to make sure we have everything in order."

[AS REQUESTED PRINCESS SALLY. A DAY'S SUPPLY OF FOOD...CHECK...FIRST AID SUPPLY...CHECK...INFLATABLE BOAT...CHECK...10 RETRACTABLE HANGLIDERS...CHECK...CLIMBING GEAR...CHECK...MAP OF THE FLOATING ISLAND...CHECK...ALL IS IN ORDER PRINCESS.]

"Hey Sal!" Sonic greeted.

"Hey Sonic! Hi Tails, Amy, Elias." replied Sally. "Bunny and Antoine are all ready set up in the cockpit. That's everyone so lets all get in..."

"No, that's not everyone Sally." Sonic interrupted, "I invited someone to come along yesterday."

"Who is it?" Sally asked.

Sonic didn't have to answer because just then a shout turned everyone's attention to Mina the yellow Mongoose.

"Wait! Don't leave without me!" cried out Mina as she ran towards the group.

"Glad you could make it." Sonic replied, "Now let's motor people and get in side."

Sonic motioned for them to get in before him. Everyone filed in at Sonic's insistence except for Sally. Sally pulled Sonic aside, out of hearing range from the others in the plane.

"Sonic, why did you invite Mina along?"

"Well," Sonic answered, "she has a special interest in the meeting. You know that a loved one of hers was taken by Robotnik."

Sally searched his eyes for a moment before answering him.

"Ok, but you should have told me earlier. You could have compromised the mission."

"No sweat Sally. You can trust me and I know that we can both trust Mina."

Walking into the plane Sonic and Sally saw that Tails was seated in the back row by the window with Amy and Mina beside him. Elias had left the two seats in the front row closest to the window empty, taking the outside seat himself. They both took there seats quickly, Sonic taking the window seat. Bunny and Antoine had taken their seats in the cockpit.

"Buckle zee seatbelts and get ready for zee lift off." Antoine announced from the pilot's seat.

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