It was quiet and dark in the room Trav and Sally rested in. The personal ahdn comps were laying on the bedside table both beds shared. Suddenly a light beam lanced out of one to the other linking the two.

==In Cyberspace== Nicole looked up with a start. She was a silver squirrel dressed like a princess that liked roughing in in the wilds wearing golden buckskins and she was nervous. Something had accessed her core unit. She readied herself for battle as a figure walked towards her. He resembled a knighterant complete with armor. When he said, "Whoa! Let's not get hasty."

Nicole: Who're you and how'd you access my core. Knight: I'm TAL. And I accessed you through your remote interface. I want to talk about some data I had been analyzing before this whole mess started. Nicole: What data. Before TAL could respond he looked away the vanished in an explosion of datasprites.

Nicole sat down on a chair that materialized out of no where and said quietly to herself. "What would cause a portable AI to seek another in secret?"

===In Arcadia Mobius===

The nurse walked in and check their charts before moving on.

=At an unknown location in a mountainus region of Mobius=

A figure walked towards a metal door imbedded in a mountai and just looked at hit. The huge door lifted to a foot above its head and walked in. two swat bots moved to intercept it but it raised it's hand and they stumbled back. The figure was wearing a black hooded cloak and walk straight into Packbell's main lab and said, "so my little spy's data was correct." Packbell looked up from his current project and said in a calm voice, "How'd you get in here." The figure lowered it's hood reveiling the figure to be Spcetre as she replied, "This was on of Robotnik's early bases and a perfect hiding place for a new base. Packbell raise a conviently placed laser pistol as he asked, "And what can you offer me to allow you to continue to function?"

Spectre: A world that is ripe for the picking.

Packbell puts the gun down and leans in.

Packbell: Tell me more.

==Knothole, Mobius-Earth==

Sally watched as the tornado landed and walked upto Sonic and Tails. "Any luck?" She asked. Sonic while Tails stored the Tornado away replied, "Good, bad, and puzzling." Sally gave him a puzzled look before he said, "Sal call Kira back She should hear this as well." Sally nodded and headed to the comm. Hut. Sonic looked at the PADD and we can see a geometric shape hovering on it's screen but what had him worried was that the dots were labeled; [1] Mobius [2] Earth [3] Hylas [4] Earth 2 [5] Gardenia [6] Earth 3 (The Divided World)

"I just hope Kira thinks to bring home a case of asprin, we're going to need the whole thing if we're to figure out what's on this thing." Sonic mused.