I don't own Sonic or Harvest Moon.

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Two hours had passed since Sonic and his friends met in the inn. Eggman and snively were at home when they heard a knock at the door. It was Sonic.

"Hey, I'm back in town!" Sonic said.

"Sonic? Uhh…did you hear about your farm?" Eggman said.

"No, what about it?"

"Well, it caught fire and burned down."

"WHAT!!" Sonic pretended to be surprised. "But..how…"

"Come on, we'll go examine the damage," Eggman said.

"What about Officer Snively? He should come too. I'll probably have to file an insurance claim."

Snively got up from his desk. "Of course I'll come, sir."

The three left for the farm. After they were out of range, Tails and Amy snuck out from behind a nearby building.

"Ready?" Tails asked.

"I will do my best," a voice said that belonged to neither of them. The door to Eggmans house seemed to open and close by itself.

There was nobody in the house, it seemed. Then, Eggmans chair moved away from his desk. A figure materialized. It was Espio.

Espio took out a small digital camera that Tails had given him had and took pictures of some interesting paperwork and schematics.

Putting the camera away, he then went invisible and moved Eggmans chair back into position.

Outside, Tails and Amy were waiting behind the building. "Let's go," Espio said, still cloaked. They ran back to the inn.

Soon, Sonic, Eggman, and Snively came around the corner, talking.

"It's not going to be easy restoring all that," Sonic said.

"WHAT?!" Eggman said, then quickly composed himself. "I...I mean, are you sure you want to restore all that, just for a little farm?"

"Yeah, I'll have to think about it. Well, I'm going to go see my friends. See you later." Sonic then sped off.

When he got to Creams room at the inn, Tails already had the images from the camera copied to his computer and was displaying them.

"Sonic, look at this…" Tails said. "It shows some sort of compound in the cave in the middle of Angel Lake."

"Let's go check it out," Sonic said. They all left for the lake.

Angel Lake wasn't the same lake that Amy and Cream hung out at all the itme. This one was further away. It had an island in the center, called Angel Island. It had a small cave. Before, people could go in during winter when the lake froze over. However, it was determined that the mine ran out of ore over a decade ago, so nobody even bothers to go there.

Now, Sonic and his friends were standing at the lake edge, looking at the island.

"Tails and I can fly there, but what about you guys?" Cream asked.

"I don't know…" Sonic said.

"Hey, I found something!" Amy yelled. Everyone came over to her. She pointed to the water.

"What about it?" Sally asked.

"Watch."

Amy then stepped on the water. She started slowly walking to the island on the surface of the water.

"How…" Knuckles asked.

"Ah, I see!" Tails said as he tried it too. "There's a bridge here. It's made of clear plastic, so it blends in with the water!"

Soon, everyone was in the cave on the island.

"Hey, an elevator!" Knuckles said.

They went down the elevator. Sally had Nicole keep track of where they went so they wouldn't get lost, and would build a map of the place at the same time.

"This place is huge," Tails said. "I can't believe they built it without anyone realizing it."

They went down a path that was booby-trapped. When they did, the floor opened up and they fell down a shoot, into a prison cell with two other people.

"Sonic, is that you?" said one of the two people that were already in the cell.

"Huh?" Sonic said. He turned around and saw his Uncle Chuck, half-starved.

"Uncle Chuck!" he said. He hugged the older hedgehog, a tear in his eye. "I thought you…you…"

"No, I'm ok now, for the most part," Uncle Chuck said, tears in his eyes as well.

"Daddy!" they heard Sally yell. She was hugging the other occupant of the cell.

"It's so good to see you, my dear," the older chipmunk said.

"Her dad?" Sonic asked.

"That's Max, her father," Uncle Chuck said. "He's been missing for the last five years. Turns out Eggman locked him up back then, like he did to me a few months ago."

"Eggman…" Sonic said with hate in his words.

They heard someone approaching. Espio went invisible. Around the corner came Eggman, Snively, and Nack.

"Who dares invade my...you!" Eggman spat out.

"Who else?" Sonic returned.

"You're just as troublesome as your uncle," Eggman hissed.

"Must run in the family," Uncle Chuck said proudly.

"Espio," Snively said, pointing to a nearly monitor, "don't try to hide. Our technology can see through your tricks."

Espio reappeared. "I have failed as a ninja."

Nack opened the cell and grabs Amy. He pulls her out of the cell and closes it before anyone can react. He then takes her mallet and tosses it behind him.

"Now to pay you back for the headache you gave me…" the weasel said. He then smacked Amy in the face with the back of his hand, hard. She crumpled to the floor, shaking.

"AMY!!!" Sonic and Knuckles both yelled.

Amy moaned and slowly pulled herself onto her hands and knees. She then realized that she was staring down the barrel of a handgun.

Nack was going to kill her.

She heard the sound of the firing hammer getting into position. "Now you'll pay the full price for messing with me," Nack said.

"Eggman! Snively! Stop this madness!" Cream yelled, crying. "Please!"

Eggman laughed. "Oh, I would, but you see, Nack here will give us a ten percent discount on his 'services' if we let him resolve some grudges he has."

A single tear came from Amy's terrified eyes as Nack pulled the trigger.

"NO!!" Sonic yelled. Without thinking, he spin-dashed through the cell door, knocking it down. He managed to get right between Amy and Nack, just in time for him to get hit with the bullet, instead.

Sonic collapsed right in front of Amy. Everyone was in shock, but Knuckles and Espio recovered first. They leapt through the now-open cell door and knocked the bad guys out cold.

Amy could hardly see, as her eyes were filled with tears. She trembled as she slowly crawled over to the blue hedgehog. "Sonic…" she finally managed to get out in a weak voice.

All of a sudden, Sonic started to move. "Sonic?" Amy asked, surprised. Sonic moaned and rubbed his back.

"What happened?" he asked, dazed.

"You were shot, and we thought…" Amy said before she got choked up and couldn't finish her sentence.

Sonic checked himself for where he was shot, and found a bullet hole in his rucksack. Opening it, he found the bullet lodged in the soda can he had used to water his crops before. The bullet still had enough force to knock him out, but the can had protected him from any injuries, let alone death.

The two hedgehogs got up, and then noticed that everyone was out of the cell, and that Snively and Nack were on the floor, in pain.

Nack was slowly crawling for his handgun, which was on the ground a couple feet away from him, hoping nobody noticed him. He had just wrapped his hand around the gun and started to pick it up when a red boot pinned his hand down.

Nack let out a cry in pain. He looked up and saw Amy standing on his hand, brandishing her mallet. Nacks eyes got wide.

"BAKA!!" Amy yelled. She got ready to swing her mallet. That's the last thing Nack remembered before the mallet sent him unconscious again.

Sonic then noticed something. "Hey, where's Egg-belly?"

Everyone looked around and noticed that the mayor had managed to sneak away. They heard the sound of someone running down one of the paths out of the room.

"There's no way I'm letting him get away," Sonic said. He got ready to run off.

"Sonic, wait," Tails said. He ran up to the hedgehogs side. "I'm going too."

"Hey guys," Sally said. She ran up and gave Nicole to Tails. "You might need this."

"Ok," Sonic said. "You guys get back to town and keep an eye on these crooks. We'll deal with Eggman," he ordered, pointing to Snively and Nack. Then, Sonic and Tails ran off.

"Wait, we're coming with you guys!" amy and Cream said, chasing them.

"Girls, wait!" Knuckles yelled after them, he started to chase after them when a large stone door closed behind the girls, stopping Knuckles in his tracks.

"What the…" Knuckles said. He put his hand against the door as if he was trying to tell if it was real or not.

"Knuckles," Rouge said softly. "We need to get out of here."

Knuckles stared at the stone door for a second, and then gave it a good punch. This startled everyone, but the door didn't even dent.

Knuckles sighed and turned around. "Any clues on how to get out of here?"

"I know the way," Sally said. "I memorized the map on Nicole before I gave it to Tails."

"Let's go," Knuckles said. Sally led the way while Knuckles and Rouge carried Nack and Uncle Chuck and Max carried Snively. Espio brought up the rear, ready for any surprise attacks.

Sonic and Tails sped through the tunnels, and stopped where the path divided into two. As they were trying to find out which way Eggman went, they heard someone running behind them. They turned around to see Amy and Cream.

"What're you guys doing here?" Sonic asked.

"We couldn't let you go it alone…" Cream said.

"But it's dangerous!" Tails protested.

As they argued, they didn't know that a hidden camera was watching them.

A trap door opened up below them, sending them falling, again.

They landed in a small room, the opening in the ceiling closing up after they fell through. They glanced around. Were they in another prison cell?

The walls started to move in with a low rumble. Everyone's eyes got big and they huddled together, their eyes closed. Fear gripped them all.

It was then that Sonic and Tails made the same wish.

Please, I don't care what happens to me, just don't let this be the end for my friends.

The emeralds on Amy's and Cream's necklaces started glowing, but nobody saw this because their eyes were closed. The emeralds were responding.

A noble wish from that who is pure of heart…

The rest of the group had just made it across the clear bridge and back to the main land. That's when they saw a bright flash of light on the path leading back to town. When the light died down, Amy and Cream were standing there, with eyes closed. The glow from their emeralds had died down before the flash of light did, so nobody saw the emeralds glowing. Sally ran up to them.

"Guys?" the librarian chipmunk asked, confused.

"Sally? How'd you end up down here?" Amy asked. Then she opened her eyes.

"Huh? We're…outside…" she said. Cream opened her eyes, and they got big.

"But how…" Cream asked.

Amy wasn't even thinking about that. She was looking back at Angel Island. "Sonic…" she said.

Sonic and Tails had also been teleported out of the trap pit too. They were transported right into a large room with lots of monitors and controls along the walls. Eggman was at one of the controls. He had just seen a white flash on the hidden camera he was watching in the room that his foes were just trapped in. He noticed another flash on a screen showing the land outside the compound, and saw Amy and Cream appear. He turned around when he saw the reflection of the white flash on the computer screen in front of him. "What the…" he yelled.

Sonic and Tails opened their eyes. "We're Ok!" Tails said. They then noticed that the girls weren't with them. They started to fear the worst.

Eggman started yelling. "How did you escape my trap? I was watching, and then there was a bright flash, and all four of you disappeared! You guys appeared here, and those meddlesome girls ended up outside!" He pushed a button, showing the outside camera on a large screen. Sonic and Tails could see the girls and their other friends on the shoreline.

Eggman started screaming in rage. "How did you escape?!"

"The girls are Ok!" Tails said to Sonic.

Eggman stopped screaming when he heard this. He then realized something: they had no clue how they got out.

"You must think you're pretty lucky," he hissed at the hedgehog and fox. "But not lucky enough!"

Eggman spun around and hit a large red button on a console. The room started to shake as numerous large ape-like robots started entering.

"These are what you wanted to build on my farm? A factory to build these?" Sonic said as he and Tails backed away from the robots. "Somehow, I don't think they'd sell very well on the U.S. market."

"Who said anything about selling them?" Eggman said, grinning.

Tails scanned the robots quick using Nicole. "Heavy armor, multiple weapons, advanced AI…Sonic, these are designed for war."

Sonic clenched his fist in anger. "You're planning global domination."

"Correct!" Eggman bellowed. "But you won't be around long enough to see that, I'm afraid. Attack!" he ordered his robots.