(Sonic and the gang are owned by SEGA and Sonic Team, I do not own them.)

(I'm feeling better now. Thanx for reviewing Jwan, Did you puke on the kissy parts cuz your stomach isn't good with that stuff. Oh, I have been calling myself Maria and my friend Shadow. It's creeping me out. Can someone tell me how to stop doing that?)

"Hm… I'd better go blast that radio tower."

I looked at Tails.

"No, best not. Everything's back on line. These gems must be his power source. Without them he can't control the radio towers."

Tails hugged his gem.

"That's not even right."

Shadow said seeing that Xipho has a gem.

"That Xipho has a gem?"

I asked.

"No, that his gem isn't sulfur."

He groaned.

I laughed.

Then Breeze gave me the "I dare you to laugh at him again and see what happens" look.

I stopped laughing.

Suddenly the gems flew up into the air and started to spin in an elliptical pattern.

"What the…"

Stella whispered grabbing my sleeve.

A giant beam of light burst out of them.

The sky turned dark and the ground we were standing on ripped out of the earth and was dragged to a barren waste land in Antarctica that none of us, not even Tails, knew existed.

"I see. You, you pathetic things, are the great warriors that the chaos elements have brought me. I understand that you thirteen are the few who hold the power of the chaos elements."

All I could see was a black blob.

"You mean that the gems are the chaos elements!"

I yelled.

"Yes. You thirteen have been blessed by their power. They must have strayed out of my range for some reason. Did they want you to get rid of me?"

The blob turned what I thought was its head towards to chaos elements which seemed to be quivering in fear.

"Y… OOF!"

Tails had started to say yes but I tripped him.

"Yoof? Do you not speak English?"

The blob asked.

"We speak English, but I'd like to know something first. Are the chaos elements alive?"

I looked back at the shaking rocks.

"In a way. They know when there is danger. They understand balance."

The blob went on.

"Well, then why do you want to know why they brought us here?"

"You ask a lot of questions, girl."

The blob stepped into the light.

It was a creature I'd never seen before.

It had the largest fangs I'd ever seen, horns, red eyes, claws; you know the kind of thing you'd only see in a nightmare.

"Whoa. He musta been on "Pimp my bad guy" or somethin'."

Tikal whispered.

I nodded.

The guy looked like he stepped off a horror movie poster.

"Power gives you that sort of look."

He walked towards us slowly.

He walked straight up to me.

I grabbed Shadow and pulled him in front of me.

"Ha, Ha, Ha! Foolish. Do you really think it will you any good to hide behind this inferior Lifeform?"

Alpha laughed.

"Hey! I'm the ultimate Lifeform!"

Shadow yelled.

"It's true, just ask his creator."

I said.

"Hm, you resemble a once great ally of mine, Black Doom."

Alpha muttered,

"What, he doesn't look anything like his dad!"

I yelled suddenly not needing Shadow for protection.

"I wouldn't be so sure, he'd pretty darn ugly."

Breeze muttered.

"Oh, shut up Breeze. You only hate him cuz he gives me more attention then he does you."

I yelled.

"So! I deserve more attention than you! My parents are dead!"

She yelled back.

"I don't care if your parents are dead! What'd they ever do for you anyway?"

"Die! That's what they did! They died for me!"

"No, your mom did. Your dad died because of self pity."

"I'm sorry girls but I'm in the middle of evil doing so if you would just SHUT UP for a few seconds, I would appreciate it greatly."

Alpha shouted.

We stopped bickering.

"Sorry Breeze."

I whispered.

"That's okay."

Breeze whispered back.

"Did they or did they not bring you here because they felt I had too much power?"

Alpha asked again.

"They did."

Tikal said quietly.

"Thank you, your death will be less painful than everyone else's."

Alpha said.

"Death? You're going to kill us?"

Stella asked grabbing my legs.

"Yes, little girl, I am."

He bent down and picked her up.

"Hey! Give me Stella!"

I jumped up to grab her but he was too tall.

Stella started crying.

"I don't think so. She is too young. I will place her with proper parents and she will be mind wiped along with the rest of them."

He turned to hand her to a robot.

I took out my shotgun.

BANG!

I shot him in the shoulder.

"Maria!"

Stella screamed and ran to me.

I picked her up.

"I see. If you want to play rough, I can play rough."

As he said it we were attacked by robots.

We were doing pretty well at first.

But every time we beat one another came to take its place.

"There are to many!"

I shouted.

"No! Keep fighting!"

Breeze said.

Jwan was down.

'Great'

'Now if we die there's no one to bring us back.'

Breeze got a large gash in her side.

"Breeze!"

I yelled.

"Keep fighting!"

She yelled once more.

So I did.

Finally we were all knocked out.

I woke up inside a glass capsule.

Everyone was in one and we were in a circle around a computer.

There was a button on the side of each one.

"Sound Proof."

It read.

"I see you're all awake."

Alpha said stepping into the room.

"Welcome to the dungeon. It's a bit more modern than most but it serves me well."

Sonic was in the capsule next to me, struggling to get out of his restraints.

"Well, it says in the "Intergalactic Super-Villain Handbook" that the next step is to tell you my evil plan."

He closed the book and looked around the room.

"I am Alpha. I take over planets as a hobby. I have the master element, Dictation. I rule. But not I rule as in I rock. I rule as in I've got the power."

"Isn't that a 1980's song?"

Cream asked.

"Silence! I own your world as of now. You are the last of the heroes to fall."

I thought about the few still on earth. I decided not to mention them for fear of their safety.

"These capsules you are in are torture devices. There are two tanks attached to your capsules. One provides oxygen, the other makes your worst fears realized. The computer behind me helps me monitor your dreams. I'll start with the smart one. His name is…"

"Tails, he eats drinks and sleeps inventing. It's his life."

Cream said.

"I see. And you wish he would put down his tools and pay a bit more attention to the world around him. Is this true?"

"Yes."

"Alright, well, Tails, you will be the first to go."

Alpha pressed a button on the computer then went up and pressed the Sound Proof on Tails capsule.

After a few minutes we saw that Tails was screaming.

We couldn't hear him but he was definitely screaming.

I looked around and found that Stella wasn't there.

She was with the other prisoners.

I looked up I saw Cream was almost enjoying seeing Tails suffer.

He must've treated her pretty badly while I was gone.

After a while Alpha turned off the gas and Tails stopped screaming.

"How'd that feel, Tails? Did you enjoy the horror you've been putting me through?"

Cream hissed at Tails.

Tails was still catching his breath, tears rolled down the young fox's face.

"Who is the leader here?"

We all looked at Sonic.

"Who, out of the people here, do you hate the most."

'Oh no'

"Shadow."

Sonic turned his head to look at him.

Alpha walked up to Shadow who took at quick nervous glance at me.

Alpha looked in Shadow's eyes.

He leaned his head back and laughed then went over and pressed anther button on the computer.

I heard a loud hissing.

"I said Shadow!"

Sonic screamed.

I passed out.