"We'll have our people out looking for him now." Number One called out from floor five of the Planning Building. A crowed had gathered around out side. "Listen we'll have him real soon." Number One felt a tap on his shoulder, he turn around only to see the clone staring at him. "Oh shi…" he started, but it was too late, the clone had dug his fangs into him.

"Hey they found him," one of the spectators said.

"You so going to die," Tripod called out from behind Tails. Tails slowly turned around to face him while Tripod pulled off the shotgun on his back, got down on one knee and started to put a shell in it.

"That's what you think suit boy," Tails ran at Tripod and jumped on his shoulder knocking him to the ground. Tripod pulled the trigger blowing apart the left side of Tails.

"Sweet!" Tripod yelled. "Now I remember why I joined up."

"Yes we all like killing things don't we," Lucky Seven replied.

"Where did you come from?"

"I was here all along. Anyway we better satisfy the spectators out there." Lucky Seven said picking up Tails by the fur on the back of his neck and walked to the window. "See here he is, now go home." Turning to Tripod he asks, "Do you have a camera?"

"Right here."

Fourteen minuets later.

"I saw him Sal, half his side missing," Sonic told Sally. "There's no way he could have survived that."

"Poor Tails." Sally replied sadly.

"I'm going till miss that lil'guy," said Bunny.



On 8 Ball's runway.

8 Ball had landed his plane and was greeted by two pilots.

"Welcome home 8 Ball." Said the first.

"We didn't think you were coming back, we even set up a games room in your hanger."

"Gee your faith in me is comforting." Replied 8 Ball scantily.

"So how did it go?"

"Well I was going to blow him up…"

"Sooo…"

"The missile didn't launch."

"Is he dead?"

"No he lives as far as I know."

"Damn, the clone was shot."

"Cool, is it dead."

"No, just missing half its body."

"Any thing new?"

"Just that the Erstmap Training Ship has set course for this planet and we are not getting any reinforcements from our mother planet. So I guess we're all going to die."

"I don't really know about Erstmap, how good are they?"

"We if one of our guys goes up against one of their guys, our guy does not stand a chance but if twenty of our guys goes up against one of their guys our guys stand a better chance of winning."

"Is that your way of saying they are twenty times better then us?"

"To a point."