Chapter 3

The Metarex Capture

"S-Sonic?" the voice asked quietly. Sonic recognized that voice! It was Cosmo for sure! Sonic found her under a pile of rubble.

"What happened?" Sonic asked. He wanted to get to the bottom of the case and fast.

"A metarex capture… I think that they've discovered how to do magic…, but the magic only affects someone who isn't a plant… They used a love potion on you, Rabby, Tails, and Lily, but Lily wasn't affected… They wanted you and Amy to fight with each other so that you wouldn't catch them kidnapping our friends… I hid, but then something must have fallen on my head because I don't remember anything else…," Cosmo finished.

Sonic was speechless. His friends were captured by more metarex! He was under the effects of a love potion! Sonic was confused.

"Why did they want Tails to fall in love with Rabby? How did they use that love potion if I didn't drink anything at all today? Now that I think about it, I'm parched!" Sonic said.

"They were only testing the love potion on Tails just to be sure that it works. They don't trust the person who gave it to them I guess… The potion isn't liquid by the way. It's a substance that you can breathe in and once you've inhaled it then you're under the effects of it," Cosmo replied.

"Now things are making more sense. Come on! We have to get them out of the clutches of the metarex!" Sonic said with great confidence.

"Do you know where they are, or how to fly the Blue Typhoon?" asked Cosmo.

"No, but I'm sure that Tails must have made some instructions for this thing. Once I get this thing working, we can go and take a look at space that never ends and keep our eyes out for the base!" Sonic replied.

"Let's hope that luck helps us because I'm not sure that the odds of there being a manual. I don't think that Tails made a manual for the Blue Typhoon," Cosmo told Sonic.

"Cosmo look! I found the manual for the Blue Typhoon!" yelled Sonic from another room.

"Never mind what I said. We're going to find them if that keeps happening, so maybe I should keep talking like that. I'm going to help Amy," Cosmo said cheerfully before walking away.

Meanwhile with the metarex, they were all waiting around in their base. Nothing interesting was happening and Black Maple was beginning to think that he had made the wrong choice in trusting the metaltron. If that was true, then they just lost a valuable metarex in their army. Suddenly there was a loud crash! The metarex that Black Maple chose returned with a large cage on its back containing all of Sonic's friends! They were all knocked out.

"My mission is accomplished. Black Maple, you will have to watch these prisoners very closely because they will be required in a plan in the future. Now you know that the metaltrons keep their promises, we must be sure that we keep ours. If we don't, we'll suffer dangerous consequences. That is the message that I have brought you from the leader of the metaltrons Black Maple," said the metarex once it had put the cage down.

"Like what? Will they just kick us out?" asked Black Maple.

"No. They will destroy us all and if not us all, then just you Black Maple. They don't exactly trust us yet, but they have agreed to continue working with us since we've done so good so far. This is why you mustn't screw this up," said the metarex.

Black Maple stood silently thinking to himself for a moment before turning back to face the rest of the metarex. They stared back at him as if they all expected to be assigned a job to guard the new prisoners.

"You two!" yelled Black Maple pointing at two of the metarex, "You will guard the room they are in!"

"Yes sir!" they replied before quickly running away with the cage in their arms. Suddenly they turned around in shock.

"What is it?!" snapped Black Maple.

"Look in the cage and see. There appears to be an extra person in it that we've never seen before," replied the metarex.

"That is one of the prisoners that the leader told us to keep an extra sharp eye on. The powers that dwell deep within her are stronger than you realize. Don't take your eyes off of her unless if you want to be dead," replied the metarex that was sent on the mission.

She had bright pink wings, brown eyes, brown short hair, and wore blue jeans with a pink T-shirt matching her wings. She also looked a lot like a human besides the fact that she had wings. The thing that got Black Maple was that she appeared very young, in her teens probably.

"What could a young girl do to offend the metaltrons? She's about fourteen from the look of things!" yelled Black Maple.

"She is older than she appears. In reality, she's twenty-three. Her race could use magic, so she's using magic to make herself appear young. That is all I know about her and her race," replied the metarex.

Black Maple stood silently for a moment and then said that he wanted to make the robot who went on the mission his second in command. He also decided to actually give him a name. The name he obtained was Blue Sycamore. Blue Sycamore didn't know what to say. All that he did was nod and walk to the other room.

The metarex that were given the job to carry the prisoners to the dungeon did as they were told before taking their stations in front of the jail cell. They weren't about to let anything in or out.

Back with Sonic, Sonic was reading through the manual, but it didn't make any sense to him whatsoever. He poured through it and then jumped into the pilot's seat. Sonic then began pressing many buttons randomly. Somehow, Sonic started up the ship and was able to turn it around as if he knew where to go, but he didn't. Cosmo walked into the room with Amy right behind her.

"We cleaned up and fixed the room somehow. I say somehow because it's amazing that we were able to clean it up so fast! Sonic, do you actually know how to fly the Blue Typhoon?" asked Amy.

"No."

"Well, then I'm sure that we'll find them! When Sonic doesn't know how to do something then he does it with ease… How do you do that anyway? Usually that's the other way around!" Amy said.

"Don't ask me! The luck balance has changed in my favor, therefore, giving me good luck! This makes me wonder about who's got the bad luck? I hope that it's Eggman! He deserves it!" replied Sonic.

"Um… the luck balance? What do you mean by that?" asked Amy

"Never mind what I'm talking about."

"Hey, look at that! It looks like the metarex fortress! I'd bet that our friends are there! Let's go Sonic! We need to get there as fast as possible," demanded Amy.

Cosmo nodded in agreement, but thought that it was a little risky to just barge right into the metarex base without a plan. She knew how much Sonic likes to do that, but he's never gotten caught before. She was willing to do as he said, but didn't have any idea about what those commands would be. This sort of thing concerned her. Although, she would do whatever Sonic said even if it was the craziest thing ever thought of.

"What are we standing around for?! Let's go and save our friends!" yelled Sonic.

At Eggman's ship, Eggman was thinking to himself, but it didn't take long for him to figure something out.

"Well, it appears that Sonic and his friends are moving to another part of space. We're going to secretly follow them," Eggman said with a laugh, "They won't suspect a thing."

"They know," Shadow said.

"What are you talking about? How do you know if they know?" asked Eggman.

"I told them," he replied.

"You told them?! Shadow, you are such a traitor!" snapped Eggman.

"Who cares?" he asked.

"They know that we are following them now and also that we may strike soon! I'm uncertain if I can trust you Shadow! Well, I don't think I was ever able to trust you…," replied Eggman.

"You can't trust me. I work for myself. I don't rely on people like you; one of those humans; the race that took Maria away. I may have saved them more than once, but… I'll never trust them again. Very few I really have grown to like and respect…," Shadow said.

"Don't tell me that you're thinking of Molly again! She's probably dead!" Eggman exclaimed.

"Don't remind me! In the Japanese series of Sonic X, she blew up thanks to those stupid metarex!" snapped Shadow.

Eggman rolled his eyes. For Shadow, it was always the same thing; Maria and Molly.

"I had business being here. I only decided that since you revived me I'd pay you back and now that I've done that I don't have to hang around!" Shadow called before jumping from the ship and into the never ending world of space.

"Well, if there's one thing that Shadow is good at, it's running off without a real reason. Then he shows up again and then he leaves without even saying hello. It's like he has this cycle!" Rouge said to Eggman.

"No kidding there…," Eggman said as he watched Rouge follow Shadow.

If there was anything that he knew about Shadow, it was his greatest weakness. That weakness is his past. The one major thing from his past that would really put him off guard is Maria.

simply shrugged and got back to his work once again. His project was big. Bigger than most of his others. He was going to use Shadow in ways unimaginable. All he had to do was use the negative energy in the chaos emeralds to make Shadow into a super weapon once again...