Disclaimer: I do not own any Sonic characters except Rolm, Garion, and the girl mentioned in the last chapter. OK? OK.

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~~~~~SONIC

I was thrown into a small cell and the door slammed shut behind me. So they finally had me. Eggman had me.

'Oh well, Tails or someone else will get me out of here,' I thought to myself. 'I do hope they hurry, though...'

~~~~~ROLM

The phone rang. I closed the book I was reading and walked over to answer it. It was Tails.

"Hey, Rolm. What have you been doing?" he asked.

"Nothing much. Just reading my books. Is something wrong?"

"Well, I'm not sure. Sonic took a walk in the woods about an hour ago, and I think that he should've been back by now. Do you think something is up?"

"It's hard to say. Chances are likely, though. Hang on a second, let me talk to Garion." I walked over to Garion's room and opened the door. He was in there, gazing into his Chaos Emerald.

"Garion! Sonic's missing!" I shouted at him.

"Oh, man, sometimes I wish that we DIDN'T meet up with those guys. It's a lot of work to go help them all the time!"

"Garion!"

"Oh, fine! I'll run over and see if I can find him. Tell Tails I'll be there in a bit. And if I'm not back in an hour, get some of Sonic's friends and look for us," he said as he ran out the door.

I walked over to the phone and picked it up.

"Tails? You still there?" I asked.

"Yeah. What's going on?"

"Garion is heading over there. He should be there any second."

"Wow, you're right! Here he comes! Geez, he must've been working on his speed again."

"You know him. Well, I'll talk to you later."

"See ya!"

I hung up the phone and walked back towards the couch.

'Like Garion would need to be rescued. Ha!' I thought to myself.

I opened my book and continued to read. 'Hmm, so if enough energy is harnessed...'

~~~~~SONIC

"Man, how much longer are they going to take?" I complained as I leaned against the wall.

"Not long at all," Tails said as he got shoved into the cell.

"Great. Did a certain 'damsel in distress' catch you too?" I asked.

"Yep. Garion is still out there, looking for you though. We split up to cover more area."

"And there he is," I said as I watched him get dragged in by some robots. He was out cold.

"Garion! Wake up!" Tails yelled as he slapped Garion's face. Garion got up and started to groan.

"I can't believe they kept me at bay with super soakers."

Tails and I laughed. Garion never was fond of water.

"Cut it out. This isn't funny! Rolm is the only one left now, and he should be here with some of your pals in about a half hour," Garion stated.

"Let's hope so," Tails said.

"He'll come. Trust me."

~~~~~ROLM

'Ah! So if the energy accumulated is greater than...'

I suddenly put down my book and looked outside. It was dark out. I looked at the clock to see that it had been three hours since Garion left. Crap.

I raced to the phone and picked it up. I quickly put it back down, however. Who was I going to call? Knuckles was on Angel Island and it would probably take him a day to get here. Rouge was out treasure hunting and hasn't been heard from in weeks, so who did that leave?

I kept coming to the same solution, but every time I thought of it I shook my head to get the idea out of my head. She was just a bimbo that followed Sonic everywhere. How could she help in a situation like this? But still, she seemed to be the only one who was left, and Garion strictly told me to bring help if I had to go rescue him. Rescue him. Hah, I never thought I would be doing this.

I looked up Amy's number in the phone book and called her up. She picked up on the fourth ring.

"Hello?" she asked.

"Amy! My name is Rolm, and I'm a friend of Sonic's. Could you meet me at his house in about five minutes? He's gone missing, and I need some help to go and get him."

"Um... Sure Rolm. I'm not sure how I could help, but I'll be there in five minutes."

"Don't forget your hammer!" I yelled as I hang up. Well, I guess that would be all the help they would get. What a pitiful group of reinforcements.

I grabbed my purple chaos emerald and ran through the dark to Sonic's house. How were we going to do this? I decided to skip the forest and head straight for Eggman's nearest base. Surely there was some kind of trap in that forest, and if it caught three of the strongest people I know, I definitely don't want to go anywhere near it.

I arrived at Sonic's house shortly before Amy did. When she arrived, we discussed what we were going to do.

"So, where was he last seen?" she asked me.

"In the forest. However, Tails and Garion, my best friend, both went into the forest to look for Sonic. Neither of them have come back yet."

"A trap?"

"Most likely. I'd like to steer clear of the forest altogether and just hit the nearest base of Eggman. I heard one is just on the other side of the forest."

"But that forest is huge! It'll take a day to get around the whole thing!"

"Not exactly," I said as I threw my emerald into the air and caught it. "We're going over it."

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