Chapter 19

Doors 1-2

"Okay Tails, we'll cover you!" Mona said as she and the others (including Amy) helped by smashing the robots in the way. Most of them were laser seekers and were easy to knock back. The others were composed of water and easily dealt with by the Charger Emerald Sword. The group eventually reached a room that was filled with lasers.

"The door is up there! You can reach it if someone holds that switch!" Mona announced and pointed towards a half-sphere that looked as though it had a clock positioned in the center.

"I'll get it!" Amy shouted and ran towards it. She smashed though a robot in her way before holding the switch. Tails maneuvered himself to the top and blasted the door down before time resumed. Amy turned before seeing that she was face to face with a robot that had many lasers positioned to her.

Mona gasped before running towards Amy.

"Hold the switch! Hold the switch!!!" Mona shouted with desperation in her voice as she unsheathed the sword. "Sonic, hurry!!!" Amy didn't move. She continued looking with fear at the robot until a blue streak pulled her out of the way in time. The brunette felt electricity channel up the sword before it sliced through the robot sending the remains crashing onto the ground.

She turned to see Amy holding onto Sonic fearfully.

"Sonic…I was so scared!!" She cried.

"Okay Amy, probably you should stay with Tails and guard the first door." Mona said with a worried tone.

"O-okay…" Amy nodded as Mona kept her hand positioned on the switch before the group left Tails and Amy as they walked through the small opening with Mona in the lead.

"I should've went, not her…" Mona sighed.

"She's still alive right? Nothing to worry about!" Sonic responded assuring the human.

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When they made their way out, the group (now consisting of two hedgehogs, one bat, one echidna, and two humans), were in another hallway.

"Okay Eggman, you'll have to watch out for the acid of it'll burn through the Egg walker." Mona warned.

"What acid?" Eggman asked.

"You'll thank me for warning you when you see a room full of it." Mona said. Eggman sneered and played a 'minor' prank by firing a small blast at her leg causing Mona to run ahead and return a spark of electricity at his Eggwalker before turning a corner and stopping as the doors opened. She waited for the others to catch up before pointing out what she meant as everyone saw the room filled with acid.

"SEE?!" Mona asked giving a dark look to Eggman.

"Okay, I shouldn't have shot that laser blast." Eggman said a bit too self-inserted to apologize to her. Mona turned to Rouge.

"Rouge, you stay behind and make sure to keep that clock still until everyone's up there." She said with her foot keeping the clock still.

"Why's that?" Rouge asked.

"You're the only one who can fly at this point and right now the blocks are in a good formation for us to run up." Mona explained.

"Good point," Shadow nodded. "Not to mention Eggman's machine is strong enough to break the second door." Rouge nodded and kept the switch at an angle so it would cease to function for a few moments as the others ran up until they got to the top.

"Okay Rouge! You can come up now!" Mona shouted. The white bat ran up the stairs and before she made it to the top, the beeping from the clock accelerated and time resumed. The block Rouge was running on dropped and Rouge lost her footing. Fortunately, Eggman caught her hand with his.

"Um…thanks?" Rouge gave Eggman a puzzled look.

"I wouldn't be doing that but if the world's destroyed I'm out of work." Eggman explained before the group continued. They reached the second door before Eggman broke it down.

"We just broke the second door down Tails." Mona said into the radio.

"Okay, I and Amy are doing okay over here!" Tails responded.

"Yeah! No robot's going to be a match for us!" Amy said. Mona breathed a sigh of relief that everything was okay at the other door.

"Okay…we're going in." She nodded before switching it off. "Eggman, you'll have to stay here."

"What! Do you even trust me?" Eggman asked.

"I trust you enough not to get zapped by the Charger Emerald Sword if I find out you're causing trouble behind our backs." Mona responded.

"You wouldn't even get here fast enough." Eggman huffed.

"Don't worry. I'll Chaos Control her over." Shadow smirked causing Eggman to give him a puzzled look.

"You-you mean you got her out of the pod?" Eggman asked. Sonic smirked when he saw Mona nod.

"Couldn't stay a bad guy could you Shadow…" He whispered inwardly.

"I heard that…" Shadow muttered as they walked through the door.

"NEXT TIME THE CAPSULE WILL BE CHAOS CONTROL PROOF!!!" Eggman shouted signaling Shadow was now on his death list if they survived the destruction.

"That would be the day." Sonic taunted.

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Thanks for the reviews so far. I didn't think about posting this as romance because of the many Mary-Sue bashers out there.

Shadow: (whispering) she's sensitive…

I HEARD THAT!!