What happens when your closest friends are suddenly doing everything your worst enemy tells them, including trying to kill you? Sonic finds out the hard way! Can he free his friends from Eggman's control before it's too late?

It's me again! For those who have read my past fics, glad to have you back. All newcomers, welcome. This fic takes place within the Adventure universe of Sonic.

Sonic the Hedgehog and all related characters are trademarks of Sega, I do not own them.

Now on with another Sonic story.

His Closest Enemies

by Rob the Hedgehog

A blue biplane went roaring thru the sky as it's two tailed pilot tried to shake off his persuer. He looked over his shoulder to see that the stange looking aircraft was still behind him. It was a red robotic jet with a pair of spinning blades to serve as rotors.

The egg shaped man who sat in the cockpit was laughing wildly, "Fly all you want, Tails! You'll never out fly my Egg Beater! You might as well give up!"

"That's what you think Doctor Eggman! Nothing can beat my Tornado!" Tails said as he pulled on a lever next to the steering wheel. Suddenly the Tornado went into high speed reverse, going right past Eggman's ship. Tails then quickly switched back to forward thrusters, so now he was chasing Eggman's ship.

Tails had a good shot at the Egg Beater and began to open fire with his machine guns. To his surprise the shot's bounced off .

Eggman laughed, "Clever trick, Foxboy, but not clever enough! You can't penetrate my robot's hull with those pathetic popguns. You'd need a weapon like this!"

As soon as Eggman said that, a large laser cannon appeared on the bottom of the Egg Beater and pointed back toward the Tornado. The cannon let loose with a devastating plasma blast. Tails barely avoided the powerful blast as he pulled upwards on the steering wheel.

Tails leveled off and looked around for Eggman. "Where did he go?" Tails said to himself.

Just then he heard a voice behind him, "Looking for me?"

Tails turned around in time to see Eggman launch a pair of missiles at him. Tails moved downward and avoided the attack.

While this battle was going on, a blue blur was speeding through the forest below. The speeding figure was heading straight for a mountain side, and quickly began running up the side of the mountain to the top. Instead of stopping at the top, his speed caused him to rocket into the air high above the two battling aircrafts.

Eggman was shocked as he looked at the airborne speed demon, "It can't be! It's ..."

"Sonic!" Tails cheered. Sonic the Hedgehog grinned as he gave his friend a thumps up.

Eggman waisted no time and quickly launched several missiles at Sonic. Sonic smiled and began to jump from missile to missile until he landed on the left wing of Eggman's plane.

Sonic laughed, "Thanks for the stepping stones, Doc."

Eggman shouted, "Get off my wing, Sonic!"

Eggman began to fly back and forth in an attempt to knock Sonic off . Sonic, however, was standing on the wing like a surfboard, laughing with exitement the entire time.

Finally, out of pure rage, Eggman made a grab for Sonic. Sonic jumped back slightly causing Eggman to miss and fall face first onto the wing of the plane.

Eggman looked up at the blue hedgehog, "Why you little.. !"

"Boy," Sonic interupted, "I know I only paid for a forth class flight, but you'd think they'd at least give me a pilot."

Eggman quickly realized what he was talking about, and looked back at the cockpit. No one was flying the plane!

Sonic smirked, "Happy landings, Doctor Egghead." With that, he jumped off the wing of the plane. Eggman looked over the side just in time to see Sonic land on the wing of the Tornado.

Eggman panicked and quickly jumped back into the cockpit. Unfortunately, he got back in control of the plane just in time to crash into the side of a mountain.

Sonic and Tails looked on as the Egg Beater fell to the ground below in flames. "Do you think he's done for?" Tails asked.

His question was answered as they heard a voice from above, "Curse you, Sonic!" Sonic and Tails looked up to see a burnt looking Eggman flying away in his hovercraft. "You haven't seen the last of me, Hedgehog!" Eggman shouted as he flew out of sight.

Sonic turned to Tails, "You okay, little buddy?"

Tails nodded, "I'm fine, Sonic! Thanks for helping me out."

Sonic smiled, "No big deal. I saw you guys while I was going for a run down there, and I couldn't resist a good egg beating."

The two friends laughed as they headed back to Tails' workshop in the Mystic Ruins.

Meanwhile, in Eggman's latest base, the mad scientist was still furious over his resent defeat, "Why does that pest Sonic always have to ruin all of my brilliant creations? Everytime I create a new war machine to help me take over this world and establish my Eggman Empire, Sonic destroys it!"

Eggman sat down in a large chair and began rubbing his chin, "That gives me an idea. With a little creative genius, I will have an army of slaves that Sonic would never harm in a million years. Ha ha ha ha ha ha!"

Meanwhile, on the airborne Angel Island, Knuckles the Echidna was sitting before the Master Emerald Shrine. It was his destiny and fate to gaurd the Master Emerald from anyone who might misuse it's powers.

Suddenly, Knuckles noticed something flying toward him. As the object drew closer he could see that it was Eggman in his hovercraft. Knuckles was instantly on his feet and ready for action. Eggman stopped several feet in front of the shrine.

Knuckles growled, "What do you want Eggman?"

Eggman chuckled, "How rude! Is that any way to greet a friend?"

"You're no friend of mine! Now answer the question!"

"I was just wondering if you'd be interested in helping me with a little problem I have."

Knuckles grunted, "Forget it! I'm not falling for anymore of your tricks! Now get off of my island!"

Eggman laughed, "You sound as though I'm giving you a choice in the matter."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Suddenly, Knuckles felt a sharp pain throughout his body, then everything went black.

The next morning Tails was inside his workshop, working on repairing the damage the Tornado had sustained during the battle with Eggman. Meanwhile, Sonic was relaxing on the roof, wondering where he should go to search for his next adventure.

Sonic yawned and stretched his arms, "Maybe I should see what's going on around Station Square."

Before Sonic could even get up, he heard Tails call up to him from inside, "Sonic! You gotta come see this!"

Sonic jumped down from the roof and ran inside to see what his friend was talking about. "What's up, little buddy?"

Tails turned to Sonic, "I just got a message over the Tornado's radio. Listen."

Tails turned on the radio, "Sonic, Eggman stole the Master Emerald! I need you to meet me at Windy Valley right away." Then the message was lost in a shower of static.

"That's Knuckles' voice!" Sonic said.

Tails nodded, "Looks like he needs our help."

Sonic grinned, "Don't worry, Tails. I can take care of this myself. You can keep up with the Tornado's repairs."

Tails was confused, "Are you sure?"

Sonic nodded, "You bet! Besides, I was just about to go out and look for some excitement anyway."

Without another word, Sonic ran out of the house and headed toward Windy Valley to meet Knuckles.

Tails wondered why Sonic didn't want him to come along. "I guess he knows what he's doing." Tails concluded. Suddenly, Tails felt a sharp pain throughout his body, then everything went black.

A/N:Well, what do you think so far? Things will definetely pick up in the next chapter. Please review to let me know what you thought. And to motivate me to continue of course.