Krystal felt a strong hand shake her out of her sleep. She mumbled something and sat up.
The white hedgehog waited a moment for everything to become less blurry, and then noticed who woke her up. It was Amy.
Earlier, they decided to spend the night at Amy's apartment, and wait until later to figure out what to do. Now, Krystal was wondering why in the world Amy woke her up at midnight.
"What is it, Amy?" Krystal asked.
"I can't wait any longer," Amy informed, now standing up.
"What do you mean?" Krystal wondered, standing up beside her new friend.
"I am going to Prison Island to rescue Sonic," Amy said, turning around to head to the door.
"Then why did you wake me up?" Krystal wondered.
"I said we were a great team, and I thought you would like to come along," Amy informed, now standing beside the door.
The white hedgehog smiled. "I wouldn't miss this for the world!"
"Then let's go!" Amy insisted.
Before Krystal knew it, she was standing beside Amy, and hiding behind a wall. The pink hedgehog was peeking out from behind it, trying to find a cargo plane that was heading to Prison Island.
"Hey, I think I found one!" Amy informed, and pointed to a plane that was being loaded with supplies.
"Great, then let's get in!" Krystal whispered, and when the place was clear, they ran inside and hid behind a large cardboard box.
"Whew, that was a close one!" Amy whispered, sitting down.
"Yeah," Krystal agreed, sitting beside the pink hedgehog.
They quietly breathed, and waited for the plane to take off.
"What's taking them so long?" Amy asked, impatiently.
Krystal shrugged, keeping her ears alert.
Suddenly, someone walked by. It was a G.U.N. member, checking the cargo.
"Uh-oh," was all that Krystal said before she and Amy stopped breathing, in order to not be heard.
It seemed like forever until the man was satisfied and they could breathe again.
"That was even CLOSER!" Krystal informed, closing her eyes.
"You mind telling me," Amy agreed, and sighed.
Soon, the plane started to take off, and Krystal gasped. She held on to Amy's arm without thinking in fear. Amy didn't seem to mind. As the plane steadied in the air, Krystal's grip weakened, but she still had her arms around Amy's.
After about ten minutes, Krystal closed her Sky Blue eyes, and rested her head against Amy's arm, falling asleep. Amy looked down at the small, slumbering hedgehog and smiled.
She seems so much like a little sister! Amy sighed, wishing she did actually have a little sister. Before long, Amy fell asleep, too.
Meanwhile…
Back at Amy's apartment, light sprayed across the floor, and reached the eyes of Miles Tails Prower.
He squinted open one eye, and quickly closed it. Why? Because the light was too bright, and it hurt his eyes.
Silently, he got up and rubbed his eyes, yawning. Then he opened his blue eyes and scanned the room. At first, his eyes passed it, but the second time, he noticed that Krystal, Amy, Knuckles and Rouge's sleeping bags were empty.
The fox shrugged, figuring that Knuckles had gone back to guard the Master Emerald, and Rouge went back to…what ever that bat does.
He also figured that Amy took Krystal shopping, or something, but wondered how Amy could forget what happened the previous night.
The fox sighed and walked towards the refrigerator, hoping to get a snack or something. When he opened the refrigerator door, the light inside the kitchen appliance, shined and met the e closed eyes of Shani.
Tails gasped as Shani moaned and rubbed her eyes. The hedgehog sat up, and then looked around after yawning.
The fox held his breath as Shani noticed that Krystal's sleeping bag was empty. Without thinking, she screamed.
The hedgehog immediately covered her mouth, realizing her mistake. There was no reason to worry! And yet, she just woke everyone up.
"Nice wake-up call, Shani," Maya Eva muttered, sitting up and blinking her hot pink eyes a few times.
"You welcome!" Shani replied smiling after uncovering her mouth.
The teal echidna just rolled her eyes and looked at the others, who also seemed to be waking up.
"Hey," Darkness noticed. "Where are Krystal, Amy, Knuckles and Rouge?"
"I don't know, that's why I screamed," Shani admitted while blushing a little.
Jet sighed. When could they have one night without someone leaving?
"Well, anybody up for breakfast?" Tails asked, trying to change the subject while holding up a carton of orange juice.
"Sure!" Shani said, running with amazing speed and sitting down at a table.
"Hey, I want breakfast, too!" Maya Eva exclaimed, sitting in a chair beside Shani.
"Count me in!" Lee agreed, and also sat down.
"I guess I'll have some!" Mira informed, taking a seat of her own.
Darkness and Jet looked at each other. "You hungry?" Darkness wondered.
"No," Jet replied. "Me neither," Darkness agreed, "I'm too busy thinking of how to get Sonic off of Prison Island."
"Well," Jet said, standing up beside Darkness, "The story goes that Tails went to rescue Sonic, so, we should just go with Tails."
"Good idea, but didn't Amy already try and go and rescue Sonic?" Darkness inquired.
Jet's eyes widened. "Yes…yes she did…"
Darkness looked at Jet. "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
"What are you two thinking?" Mira asked from the table.
"I think I'm thinking what she's thinking, what are you thinking?" Darkness wondered.
Mira shrugged her shoulders, completely not understanding one word Darkness just said.
"Well, what ever you said, I think we are thinking the same thing: That Amy took Krystal with her to go and try and save Sonic," Jet concluded.
"But if they went to do that, then that means that Eggman is going to find them, and Tails has to save them, and that they will be planting the bomb…" Darkness lost her sentence.
Jet nodded. Whenever Tails was ready to leave; that would mean the real adventure was going to start.
"Are you ready?" Darkness asked.
"What kind of question is that? I've always been ready to fight!" Jet replied.
"No, I mean, are you ready to lead us? You know we look to you as our leader," Darkness said.
Jet looked at the floor. "I guess…"
"What kind of reply is that? You guess? You need more confidence than that," Darkness said, and laid a hand on the chocolate brown animal.
"Don't worry, I'll be there for you, we'll all be there for you," she added.
"Thanks," Jet said smiling, and then added, "But, don't tell anyone I said 'thanks', kay?"
Darkness laughed. "Why not?"
"It's just not me, you understand, right?" Jet wondered.
Darkness nodded. "Of course, but we can't fight on an empty stomach, now can we?"
Jet smiled, "No, we can't!"
"Then let's eat!" Darkness informed, and sat down in a chair, ready to get her food.
Meanwhile…
It was dark and stormy as her surroundings became black. All she could hear was the constant rumble of thunder, and the shaking vibrations.
Then, it all formed into a figure in front of her. It was terrifying. Words can not describe what this…thing…was. It was black, and nothing could tell what it was. The only word she could come up with was: horrifying.
It opened its eyes. GREEN glowing eyes that seemed to pass right through her. She couldn't stand it. She ran. Her eyes looked behind her. The creature was chasing her. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't find her way out. It was hopeless.
Suddenly, she tripped, and fell. She knew it was her death, so she turned to lay on her back…when she saw them. Her friends. All of them in a glowing color, each with indescribable majesty, looking like Queens and King (Lee).
They looked at her, as if waiting for something and just stood there as the monster took it's stance for a final blow…
MJ gasped and sat straight up in her chair, breathing harshly. Sweat trickled down her forehead as she tried to calm herself down.
Shadow immediately rushed in.
"What's the matter?" he asked.
MJ shook her head, trying to gather her voice. "It's nothing."
Shadow gave a practical look then turned and left.
MJ looked down at her small temporary bed. When she met Eggman, she was afraid, she had to admit. Since her ankle was sprained, they were going to leave her hear at the pyramid base until they come back from their mission. Their meaning Rouge, Shadow and that Egg-head. Even though they accepted her into the team, they didn't exactly trust her enough to tell her all that they were doing.
MJ closed her brown eyes and rested her head in her open palms, trying to clear her thoughts. What was the meaning of that strange dream? Did it even have a meaning? Of course it did! Why else would it include her friends? But then, since it did, what was the meaning?
"MJ!" Rouge called, flying in.
MJ looked up with curiosity. "What?"
"We are leaving for our mission. Be careful, and don't touch anything. We'll be back shortly," then the bat left.
After the ivory bat flew out of sight, MJ wondered why they didn't wait for a reply from her. Well, probably because they didn't trust her, she figured.
Soon, she heard a soft blowing sound. Probably them leaving, MJ figured. The seal waited for the sound to die away, and then slid the covers off of herself. 'This seal,' MJ thought, 'Isn't going to sit around all day! She's going to do some exploring!'
Grabbing a single crutch, she wobbled off, trying to get used to it. After a while, she decided it wasn't necessary, and dropped it off somewhere. Much easier, she figured.
The seal walked on, knowing that she'd find a whole bunch of secrets and yet, some more mysteries…
Meanwhile…
"Are you guys ready?" Tails asked, standing up from his chair.
The others looked at him curiously.
"What do you mean, 'are you guys ready'?" Mira wondered.
"I mean, are you ready to go rescue Sonic from Prison Island!" Tails informed.
Jet stood up. "What do you mean, 'are we ready'? Of course I'm ready!"
"Me too!" Lee exclaimed, standing up.
"Me three!" Shani said.
"Me four!" that was Maya Eva.
"Me five!" Mira said.
"And me six!" Darkness exclaimed.
"Well then, let's move it! We've got a hedgehog to save!" Tails yelled.
The two-tailed fox lead the team to the garage, where it held his prized X-TORNADO.
Lee whistled.
Mira looked at Lee shocked. "You didn't think the X-TORNADO would be THIS cool!"
"Of course I thought that the X-TORNADO would be this cool! I just never thought that I'd see it in person!" Lee informed.
Mira gave an 'oh' expression, then watched as Tails checked the engine…and so on.
The half-hedgehog half-robot shuddered, remembering her fall down to the ocean…and when Tails had saved her.
"What's wrong?" Lee wondered.
"Oh, nothing, just remembering," Mira replied.
Lee nodded, understanding.
"Okay, the X-TORNADO seems to be okay, but we have a slight problem…" Tails informed, stepping off of the plane.
"And what's that?" Jet asked.
"It can't hold seven people. I designed it to hold two…" Tails admitted.
"Well…now what do we do?" Shani wondered.
The group immediately started thinking.
"I've got it!" Maya Eva exclaimed.
"What? What?" Shani replied, jumping up and down, excited.
"Since some of us can fly, since we are echidnas-and fox with two-tails- we, who can fly, just fly there!" Maya Eva suggested.
"But it's a really long flight over there, you guys would get tired," Tails said.
The group sighed in disappointment.
"Well then, I guess we'll just have to face it: only one of us can go with Tails on this trip," Jet said, sadly.
"But, who should go?" Mira asked.
Shani thought. Then she exclaimed, "I think Lee should go!"
"WHAT!" Lee yelled in surprise.
"I agree," Darkness admitted, "After all, he IS the only one who hasn't fought yet."
"Darkness has a point," Maya Eva informed.
"Sure, why not?" Mira shrugged.
"Okay, then it's settled. Lee, you've got to go on this adventure, and don't worry. We'll be waiting," Jet winked.
Lee gulped then nodded.
"Good luck, dude!" Shani exclaimed, closing an eye and giving a thumbs-up.
"I know you can do it, Lee! Just be confident!" Darkness encouraged.
Lee nodded.
"Be brave and strong and know that whatever happens, we'll still be your friends," Mira said, knowing that some of the males at school never accepted him as a friend.
"Just focus and you should get the job done!" was all that Jet said.
"I don't think he can do it…" Maya Eva informed, and that silenced the others. The echidna smiled, "I KNOW he can do it!"
They resumed their smiles and laughed.
"Overall, just do well, kay? And FOLLOW THE STORY," Jet advised.
Lee nodded, "Okay, wish me luck!"
"I did!" Shani insisted.
Lee smiled at the always-cheerful girl and then hopped inside the seat in back of Tails'.
"You ready?" Tails wondered, already sitting in the front.
Lee took a deep breath and nodded.
"Okay, then we're off!" Tails started the X-TORNADO, and a gush of wind blew about.
"Bye, guys!" Lee waved at the others, who waved back.
The two-tailed fox watched as his friends shrunk out of sight, and then turned his attention to what was ahead. The simple words of Jet rang through his head…' Just focus and you should get the job done!'….
Silently, as he watched nothing but ocean below them pass, he added, 'Hopefully'.
Meanwhile…
Amy took a deep breath as more members of the G.U.N. organization passed by.
"Coast is clear, let's move!" she informed to the white hedgehog beside her.
They had already successfully gotten off the plane, and now where making their way to the building which held the prisoners.
Krystal nodded, and the two hedgehogs raced across to the next steel box, which they quickly hid behind.
Amy's green eyes alertly watched as people passed by. She patiently waited, but Krystal didn't seem too patient.
"Are they gone yet?" she asked.
"No, be patient," Amy scolded quietly.
Krystal shut her mouth and tried to wait. For her, waiting wasn't easy…
"Are they gone, NOW?" Krystal inquired.
Amy was getting a little irritated.
"NO! NOW WILL YOU BE QUIET?" Amy whisper-yelled.
Silently, Amy turned her attention back to watching.
"NOW they are gone," Amy informed, and the two ran to the area which no men guarded, where they could just stand without hiding behind an object.
As they stood still, Amy surveyed the area.
"A-amy, I'm sorry," Krystal admitted.
Amy gave a half-grin, "Its okay, just be a little more patient, kay?"
The white hedgehog nodded, but before they could do anything else, a shadow towered over them.
An all-too-familiar voice said, "Well, well, well, what do we have here?"
Amy gasped, even though it was the terrified Krystal who was seeing the mad-man.
"Eggman!" she exclaimed.
Meanwhile…
"Lee, the news says that Sonic stole a Chaos Emerald from the bank. I know Sonic would never do that, but, do you think that's why he was arrested?" Tails called to his partner.
Lee thought for a minute. Wasn't that the way the story went? "Yeah, I think so…"
Tails was confused. "What kind of answer is that?"
"Well, I dunno…I guess I'm just not ready to take on an adventure…" Lee said.
"…You want to give up your position to someone else?" Tails asked.
Instantly, Lee had a flashback of what that strange hedgehog Sarah told him…
Lee firmly replied, "No, I know I can do this, I just know I can!"
Tails laughed. "That's the spirit!"
Lee smiled, but that smiled quickly disappeared as Prison Island came into view.
"Hey, isn't that—?" Tails was caught off as his own question was answered.
"It's Amy and Krystal!" Lee exclaimed.
"Yeah, and it looks like Eggman beat us to them! Get ready to make a grand entrance!" Tails warned.
Lee nodded, and got ready to hop out of the X-TORNADO.
"Yeehaw!" Tails yelled, and that was Lee's cue.
The two-tailed fox jumped out of the plane and landed perfectly between Amy and Eggman.
Tails landed the X-TORNADO right beside Lee, and transformed it so then it was a combat-machine.
"Way past cool!" Lee commented, feeling no fear at all. A strange feeling had erupted inside of him. It was the flame of courage that everyone feels when going on a daring adventure and that, my friends, is what keeps heroes going (like the energizer-bunny!).
"Gah! You little twirps! No matter, I'll finish you off myself!" Eggman challenged.
"Lee, you go see if Amy and Krystal are alright, I'll go fight Eggman!" Tails commanded.
Lee nodded, then turned and ran towards Amy and Krystal as Tails battled Eggman.
"Amy! Krystal! Are you okay?" Lee wondered.
"I am," Amy replied, "But, Krystal isn't here…"
"What!" Lee exclaimed, then looked. Amy was right: Krystal wasn't here!
"Where is she?" the fox asked.
"I don't know, she took off!" Amy informed.
"What do you mean, she took off!" Lee was getting worried.
"Right when she saw Eggman, she froze with terror! I had to pull her out of the way to move, and when we suddenly got trapped, surrounded against the railing, Eggman was about to fire when she screamed and ran out of sight!" Amy explained.
Lee didn't say anything. Raquel (Krystal) ran away? It didn't make any sense! All her life she had dreamed about adventure, and now she was running away from it? That couldn't be right? …Could it?
"We need to find her after we get Sonic, kay?" Lee suggested.
Amy nodded, close to tears.
"What's wrong?" Lee asked.
"Oh, Lee, it's all my fault! If I hadn't asked Krystal to come with me none of this would have happened!" Amy was about to cry.
Lee gave an exasperated sigh and grabbed Amy by the shoulders, shaking her and exclaiming, "GET AHOLD OF YOURSELF, WOMAN! IT WASN'T YOUR FAULT!"
When he stopped, he was still gripping Amy's shoulders, and Amy asked, "It wasn't?"
"No! You actually did a good thing! I think it was actually Krystal who wasn't ready to fight yet…" Lee admitted.
Amy looked at the ground. "I still feel guilty…"
"Well you shouldn't because I know that Krystal will be okay! And you should, too!" Lee advised.
Amy nodded, full of hope and then looked to see how Tails was doing. That smart two-tailed fox was, in fact, coming back victorious.
"Tails! You did it! You defeated Eggman!" Amy exclaimed happily, running to the two-tailed fox.
"Thanks, but he'll be back, just wait and see. Right now, we need to find Sonic! And, where's Krystal?" Tails wondered.
"She ran away, but we'll find her after we get Sonic," Lee instructed.
Tails saluted. "Yes sir!"
Lee smiled as he hopped in.
"Um, we have a problem…" Lee announced.
"Oh yeah…Well, guess she'll have to sit on your lap, Lee!" Tails taunted.
"Why not YOUR lap!" Lee exclaimed.
"I'm the pilot!" Tails said with a strange voice.
Lee rolled his eyes. "Fine, but I'm going to regret this…"
"Thanks, Lee! You're such a gentleman!" Amy informed, hopping on top of the fox's lap.
"Don't mention it…" Lee muttered with not much enthusiasm.
Amy giggled as Tails started towards the base, ready to free Sonic.
In a few minutes, Tails found himself and the X-TORNADO standing nearby an entrance to the room where Sonic was held.
"Who's going to get him?" Tails asked.
"I will!" Amy volunteered, raising her hand excitedly.
Tails looked at Lee to see if it was okay. Lee nodded.
"Okay, but just be careful. Me and Lee will meet you two outside the base, kay?" Tails instructed.
"Okay!" Amy replied, cheerful.
Lee was VERY grateful when Amy got off his lap.
He was about to jump for joy when he remember that if he did that, they would be discovered.
Amy carefully opened the door, and hopped down, ready to rescue her darling Sonic.
Tails closed the lid after her, and turned to Lee. "You ready to leave?"
"You bet!" was the reply, and the two made their escape.
Amy looked around with her green eyes for Sonic. Suddenly, she heard him call her name.
"Amy?"
Amy turned around and saw Sonic standing in a cell.
"Sonic!" Amy exclaimed, forgetting about being quiet.
"Sh!" Sonic hushed as Amy stopped in front of him blushing.
"Sorry," Amy apologized.
"Never mind that, what are you doing here?" Sonic asked.
"I've come to rescue you! Have no fear! Amy Rose is here!" the pink hedgehog quietly exclaimed.
Sonic rolled his eyes. "How did you get here?"
Amy smiled. "I caught a ride with Tails!"
Sonic shook his head. Note to self, he thought, when we get out of here, I need to teach Tails about allowing pink girls getting a ride in his vehicles.
"So, do you want out or not?" Amy asked, holding up the single key-card.
"What do you think!" Sonic whispered.
"I'll do it on one account…" Amy informed.
"And what's that?" Sonic said, not sounding very enthusiastic.
"If you marry me!" Amy exclaimed.
"NO WAY!" Sonic replied.
"Aw man! I thought I had you this time!" Amy complained, finally opening the cell.
Once open, Amy noticed something, and walked inside the cell. Her green eyes searched the walls, noticing all types of writing.
"Sonic? Did you write this?" Amy inquired.
Hearing no answer, she turned around to find no one there.
"Darn you, Sonic! Sonic!" Amy called, running.
Oh well, she figured, at least I know the way out!
Krystal ran for her life. NEVER had she been this terrified. She couldn't stop thinking of how cowardly she was; running away from the one thing she had dreamed of her whole entire life, and now it was all going down the drain. Guess she'll have to keep on dreaming…or did she?
Suddenly, her foot caught something, and she tripped. Luckily, she didn't twist her ankle or anything. The white hedgehog got to her hands and knees crying. Rain started to pour. And HARD. She wasn't crying out of pain, but of fear. What was going to happen to her? She had no clue where she was! Probably in some type of forest, she figured. Wait a minute…forests? Wasn't there—
A sudden sound interrupted her train of thoughts. It sounded like a twig snapping. Krystal gasped and turned around, searching in all directions desperately.
The white hedgehog stood up, and kept looking, fear filling her entire system. She was no longer crying, but her cheeks had dry tears on them and were stained.
Another twig snapping! Krystal started backing up. What was going on?
"W-who's there?" Krystal called out.
No answer.
Another twig gone in two.
Krystal's head turned left and right as she still stepped backwards.
She tried again; this time, with more firmness. "Who goes there?"
No reply.
Suddenly, Krystal reached a dead end. Her back contacted with something….soft. Not hard as she expected, but soft, like fur.
Shakily, Krystal reached out a hand to touch what it was. Sure enough, it felt like fur. Krystal's eyes widened in fear, but nothing scared her more than what the creature behind her said.
"Hello."
Krystal screamed and ran a few feet before turning around to see who it was.
She couldn't see anybody! Her heart beat faster in fear.
Suddenly, a black figure with red stripes on his quills walked out of the shadows. Krystal instantly recognized who it was.
"Sh-shadow?" Krystal asked.
The hedgehog just looked at her, a little mad.
"How do you know my name?" Shadow asked, threateningly.
"I-I…" Krystal couldn't talk.
Silence followed for two seconds until Krystal found the courage to say, "What are you doing here?"
"That's none of your business!" Shadow growled.
Krystal was surprised by Shadow's reply so much that she fell on her bum. Then, everything clicked.
Her sky blue eyes widened in realization. "No…no…." she muttered. She was terrified. Worse than terrified, but she was SCARED OUT OF HER WITS.
Krystal wanted to scream, but that wouldn't do anything, so she closed her mouth with her eyes getting watery. She knew what was going to happen, but she didn't know what to do about it.
Shadow was confused but remained silent.
Then, Krystal started thinking. What should she do? She knew she HAD to do something….
The hedgehog gasped as she knew what she had to do.
She quickly got up and started running away. Unfortunately, Shadow was one step ahead, and tripped her.
"AH!" Krystal screamed as she fell to the ground.
"You know about the bomb, don't you?" Shadow asked, standing beside the fallen hedgehog.
Krystal shakily got up to her hands and knees.
"Don't you!" Shadow demanded the truth out of her.
Krystal nodded while she was starting to cry.
Shadow looked at her before a sound caught his ear. He turned his head in the direction it came from. Krystal looked up at the ebony hedgehog. Silently, her heart prayed, "Dear Lord, please help me. I need to warn the others."
Then, almost as if as a reply, someone knocked Shadow off his feet! Krystal couldn't tell who; they moved too fast!
"Nice, Sami!" complimented someone.
"Thanks, I was working on that one!" replied a cheerful voice that Krystal figured was 'Sami.'
"Your welcome!" said the other person.
Krystal was too wrapped up in trying to find who was talking that she didn't notice someone walk up to her. "Hey, are you okay?" asked a kind voice.
Krystal gasped and looked up slowly to see a white fox that had red streaks on her fur and wore a short mini red skirt and a strapless shirt that said 'cutie'.
"Who are you?" asked Krystal.
"My name is Spicy. Yours?" asked the fox.
"My name is Krystal, and what happened to Shadow?"
"Oh, you mean that ebony-meanie? He's over there," Spicy pointed over to where Shadow was fighting 5 people at once.
"Whoa…" Krystal said in awe.
"Yeah, they're pretty good. Did you know we are a team?" Spicy inquired.
Krystal looked at the fox startled. "A team?"
"Yeah! See that red hedgehog over there? That's Boom. The brown hedgehog is Sami. She's our 'leader' you could say. The wolf is Renegade. He ALWAYS knows what to do, so you could say he's the advisor of the group. The hedgehog that looks almost exactly like Shadow is Carlos. Don't confuse him with Shadow. Carlos is nice. The hedgehog that is black and has blue highlights with barn owl wings is Coldwing. He is SUPER cool; never is one to back down on an adventure," Spicy introduced.
Krystal was too astonished to speak. "Whoa…" was all she could say.
Spicy smiled, "You better get going. We can take care of Shadow."
Krystal looked at Spicy and was about to protest when suddenly, Shadow's watch-communicator said with a familiar voice, "Shadow! What are you doing? Get out of there before the island blows-up with you on it!"
The fighters stopped.
"Blows-up!" Boom exclaimed.
"We need to get off the island NOW!" Sami yelled as Shadow made his getaway.
Coldwing growled but let the hedgehog run.
"He's getting away!" Renegade informed.
"But what is more important is being safe. We NEED to go!" Sami instructed.
They nodded.
"Well, looks like we've got to go! We would take you with us, but we really need to be on our way!" Spicy replied before running after her team.
Krystal watched as they ran and then sat there for a few moments confused before she silently slapped herself for wasting time. She HAD to warn the others!
The white hedgehog ran through the forest as fast as she could. She wasn't as fast as Jet or Sonic, but she could at least run.
Then, she tripped. As she got to her hands and knees, she scolded herself, "No time to be klutzy right now!"
Suddenly, a familiar blue hedgehog ran in front of Krystal. "Krystal?" Sonic asked, stopping beside the white hedgehog.
"Sonic!" Krystal exclaimed through the falling rain. "We need to get off the island! It's going to blow-up!"
Sonic's eyes widened. "Bow-up! Say no more!" The blue hedgehog grabbed Krystal and ran VERY fast towards the waiting Tails, Lee and Amy were.
"Krystal! We were worried about you!" Amy exclaimed, running to the now-nearby white hedgehog.
But the pink hedgehog stopped. "Krystal, you're…so dirty!"
"What!" Krystal asked and looked down at herself. Sure enough, she was covered with mud from head to toe.
"Lucky…" Lee muttered.
"Come on! We don't have much time! We need to leave the island NOW!" Sonic instructed.
Tails asked why and Sonic explained while Krystal, Lee and Amy got in the X-TORNADO. Luckily, there were more seats because Tails worked on there being more.
Sonic eventually got in and off they were, away from the island.
Right after they were a safe-distance away, boom! went Prison Island, torn to pieces.
Krystal slowly looked back at the raging fire and remembered what happened. To her, it happened in such a rush. The rain certainly fitted her mood. She wasn't happy at all. Not because she acted cowardly but because of what happened. The adventure she took on wasn't one of excitement. It was one of peril. It wasn't a happy adventure; it was a solemn adventure.
Well, Krystal figured. Every adventure has a twist to it; has a solemn part that is full of pure secrets being revealed and is no fun at all. And it just had to be her to experience it…