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Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles rushed out the door to find Amy holding her hammer up steady. Their sights shifted to the girl Sonic rescued armed with a bow and arrow aimed at their pink friend. Sonic noticed she was shaking and her side was bleeding. She looks terrified...maybe this wasn't the best of ideas... Sonic begins to walk towards her, causing the Nynxe to steady her aim towards him, and he holds his hands above his head. Sonic Looks at Amy and she lowers her hammer while Tails and Knuckles just watch.
"You're okay. You're safe." Sonic says calmly as the girl begins to lower her bow.
She notices she is not in the same place she was before. She begins to speak with her words shaking. "W-why am I here!?" and backs away from Sonic.
"We found a distress beacon coming from your location." Tails replied, noticing her ears go down hearing those words.
"You alright?" Sonic asked her as she looked to be thinking of something intensely.
"How?" She falls to her knees, "D-did he-" then wenches in pain while grabbing her side.
Sonic motions for someone to get the first-aid kit and knuckles does so. "Hey, take it easy. You're hurt." He kneels down in front of her. "My name's Sonic. What's yours?"
She hesitates and notices his looks sincere. "Crystal..."
"Well, Crystal welcome to our home! You need anything just ask." Sonic replied holding out his hand.
"I-is this a trap? Will you zap me or something?" Crystal asks, skeptical of taking a stranger's hand.
"The only zapping we'll be doing is defeating Egghead's robots." Sonic explained while chuckling at her statement.
"Egghead?" Crystal was confused and Tails explained.
"Dr. Eggman is who he meant. This guy roboticized people for his Eggman Empire and we thwarted most of his plans so far."
Crystal stood up, Sonic retracted his hand, and Tails noticed her change in tune. "You are freedom fighters then?"
"Yeah, I'm Tails and this is Amy."
Sonic pointed to Knuckles as the echidna was back with the medical kit. "That blockhead over there is named Knuckles."
"I'm not a blockhead all the time. I still do some treasure hunting, but not often." Knuckles replied, handing Amy the kit.
"Will you let us help you?" Amy noticed that Crystal was calmer now and less freaked out.
Crystal nodded, "Y-yes, sorry for the skirmish..." and she began to walk with Amy.
Sonic sighed in relief that the situation didn't escalate any further. Knuckles noticed there was a lanyard on the ground. So, he picked it up. "Wait a second..." Knuckles stated, walking back inside.
Sonic and tails followed. "What's wrong?"
"The markings on her lanyard match the ones on the drive." Knuckles explained, aligning it with the writing on the wall.
"It says crystal in plain english." Sonic explained while his two friends looked at him as if he was mad.
"Wait." Tails started and Knuckles finished. "You can read this!?"
Knuckles shoved the ID in his friend's face. Sonic noticed the words were no longer there as they were when he found her. Sonic blinked in shock and replied in disbelief. "I-it now looks like gibberish."
"We need answers and it looks like Crystal may have them." Tails explained to them both.
{Crystal's Flashback}
Crystal made her way through the doors of the academy. She noticed all the students going to and from their classes. Her brother had just finished his final for one course when she spotted him down the hallway. Her brother greeted her with joy as they embraced in a hug. Crystal followed him to his own lab where she noticed all of his new ideas. Robots and her friends were there, smiling, laughing over someone mixing the wrong chemical, and just being happy. She saw how the clinical trial that her brother had made for prosthetic limbs was a success. The head of the medical department wanted him to do more and he did to help others around him.
"Here look at this!" Her brother said in excitement while handing her a piece of paper.
Crystal noticed the writing was in an ancient text. "Wait.. this is-"
"The origin language! I have almost deserved it with your help!" Her brother rushed to the computer and pulled up the monitors. He moved the open windows out of the way until he reached one. "This right here was said to be a robot made by the Origins. Could you translate for me what it says?"
Crystal smirked, "Healing is found in these grounds. Healing is where the metal is bound." and stopped to pounder what that could mean.
"I was right! They used biotechnology, like with what we are using now."
"Brother it may be something else. Remember, they were a thriving nation, but disappeared overnight."
Her brother sat down on his chair and spun it around. "I know that is another theory, but what if they found a way to make it possible to revert the injuries that a person suffered form?"
"Well, you'll have to test that theory? Won't you?" Crystal chuckled as the door opened in the laboratory.
(End of Flashback)
Crystal woke up from her dream. She noticed the room was changed then realized where she was. At the Freedom Fighter's Headquarters. Where they would stop plans made by Dr. Robotnik or Eggman as he is now being called. He uses the powerful mind that he possesses to roboticize his own people and take over more and more land to build his empire. Crystal couldn't imagine someone using technology for that kind of destruction. However, she'd seen it before in her homeland. The government getting power hungry, colonizing other parts of the country as they said it was their duty to invade other nations. Using weapons that were intended to help people for devastating and demolishing cities and countries. She'd seen her once powerful nation crumble under one ruler. Crystal noticed she was bandaged. They held up their word here so, she guessed they could be trusted. Amy walked in with a trey of food and handed it to her.
"Morning! Here is your breakfast." Amy said in a chipper tone.
Crystal blinked for a moment, "Is it poisoned? Also, how are you this happy in the morning?" and Amy laughed at her statement.
"Of course it's not poisoned. I am just a morning person that's all"
Sonic walked in the door as Crystal began eating her breakfast. He noticed the two chatting away and actually saw how amy could make Crystal feel safer here. Once the two were done with one topic they saw him leaning on the doorframe. Amy smiled as she took Crystal's empty trey walking out. Crystal noticed how the blue hedgehog was holding her lanyard.
"How did you get that?" She asked him.
"It fell off you when you were aiming at me with your bow." He replied tossing it to her.
"Wait...you're just giving it back?"
"Yeah it is yours after all." He explained and Crystal could tell something was a miss.
"What is it that you want?"
"We need your help figuring out something." Sonic replied, then she answered his question.
"If it's about the language on the drive, then that is a no..." Crystal crossed her arms and faced away from him.
The blue hedgehog was shocked, no one had said no before to him wanting help. Well, except for Shadow, Knuckles occasionally, and his enemies.
"O-okay, that is fine. You need time, but I got that drive from Eggman's base. If he has discovered another way of expanding his empire then he'll do it." Sonic explained, hoping she would change her mind.
"He can't read that writing anyway, trust me." Crystal stated while getting out of bed.
"Egghead's got an IQ of 300 so, he may be able to."
"My brother had the same IQ and he couldn't crack it until I did for him." She began to put on her shoes and the sole detached from the entire shoe. She grumbled and popped back on the bed.
"You need new shoes?" Sonic asked her, quickly changing the question.
"Indeed captain obvious."
He chuckled and responded to her. "Then would you like to get new ones? No cost at all."
Crystal shot up from her bed with a skeptical expression. "No cost?"
"Well, there is one cost." Sonic shrugged and smiled with his answer. "Your trust."