Chapter 4

A Metarex Rescue

Crash!

"Hey guys! We're actually here! Don't tell Tails that it was me who crashed his ship!" Sonic said.

"He's probably going to find out Sonic, but where will we go once we've rescued our friends?" asked Amy.

"You know that I love to think on my feet!" Sonic yelled as he ran off.

"Hey! Wait for us! Don't leave us alone in this metarex base!" cried Amy to Sonic, but Sonic didn't hear her. He was too busy trying to find his friends before it was too late.

Suddenly the alarms started going off! It was going to be more difficult to find his friends than he thought…

The metarex guarding the prisoners ran away from their posts to investigate why the alarms were going off. The prison cell was left unguarded.

"What happened?" asked Tails when he regained consciousness. He looked around and instantly noticed that he wasn't on the Blue Typhoon. Tails finally figured out that he got kidnapped by the metarex and sprang to his feet in alarm. He woke everyone else up.

"Everyone! You must wake up! We've been kidnapped by metarex! This is no time for a nap! Wait! Who's that?" asked Tails looking at the girl with the pink wings. It wasn't anyone that he knew of.

"Tails why did you wake me up? I was having such a good dream…," said Rabby who was no longer under the effects of the love potion.

"Tails, waking me up is a huge mistake, so prepare to get pummeled!" yelled Knuckles when he woke up from his slumber.

"Seriously Knuckles?" asked Tails.

"What? I was trying to sound tough!"

"Never mind…," Tails replied.

"What happened? What's with the unfamiliar scenery? Did I get captured?" asked the girl with the pink wings.

"We got captured by the metarex," explained Tails as he walked over to her.

"The metarex? I've only heard of the metaltrons… Where are we now?!" asked the girl as she jumped up from the ground.

"In a metarex base…," Cream the rabbit replied in her high tiny voice. Cream is a young heroine traveling with Sonic and his friends. Her mother lives far away from where Cream was right then. Cream's mother, Vanilla, was back on Sonic's home planet, but that didn't stop Cream from being important to the gang.

"Chao!" replied Cream's best friend Cheese the chao. He would follow her everywhere and Cheese is quite powerful despite his cute looks.

"Are these metarex like these metaltrons that I am fighting against? If they are, then we must stop them as soon as possible! Another thing, who are all of you?" asked the girl with wings.

"I'm Tails and these are Lily, Knuckles, Cream, Cheese, Rabby, and … Wait! Where'd Sonic, Amy, and Cosmo go?! I hope that their all right… What about you?" asked Tails to the girl.

"Give me a second," she said. She crossed her arms and closed her eyes as if trying to focus on something. Then after a few short seconds, she opened her eyes again.

"My name is Kaira," Kaira finally replied. Her gaze was a lot less concerned now.

"Kiarra? Kirra? Cara? Kara? Karra? Carra? Kiara? Kiiarra? Kaairra? Um… Am I saying it right?" asked Knuckles with a confused look on his face.

Kaira rolled her eyes. She got that a lot and it would always annoy her. Only this time she got it nine times.

"My name isn't this complicated, or at least shouldn't be…," she said to herself.

"Sorry, but I'm not that good with names Karran," Knuckles said looking at the ground.

"It's Kaira! K-A-I-R-A! K + AIR + A= KAIRA!" snapped Kaira angrily at Knuckles.

"I've been offending a lot of people lately…," said Knuckles to Tails sadly.

"Maybe it's because you haven't been quite yourself lately. You've been really jumpy making you really dumb sometimes. Please try to do better!" shouted Tails angrily.

"Okay! Okay! Alright! Alright! I'll shape up!" cried Knuckles putting his hands up in the air.

"This really isn't the right place or the right time to argue. I'll explain everything later, but now we must escape!" Kaira said as she took a look at the lock on the door.

"Hey look! Someone's coming toward us, but it doesn't look like it's a metarex. It looks like a two-tailed fox!" exclaimed Cream.

"Another mutated fox? How many two-tailed foxes are there in the universe?!" asked Rabby.

The fox ran up to them and he was gasping harder than ever from running. He was green and seemed younger than Tails and Rabby.

"Is there any metarex around?" asked the fox. He glanced around cautiously, but gave nothing away about his emotions.

"There's no metarex, but they will return if we make too much noise. Do you think that you could help us out? We need help getting out of this prison cell!" cried Tails.

"That's simple; I just need to take a little look at this lock… This is an easy lock! All I have to do is use my tails as a key! That's one of my special abilities. I can unlock almost any door with my tails, but maybe I should just open the door now instead of wasting time with my rambling," said the fox. He stuck one of his tails into the lock and then the lock clicked. The fox unlocked it!

"Wow, that's impressive! I've never seen anything like it! Well, maybe from Sonic's brother, but other than that nothing!" announced Knuckles in amazement.

"It's amazing! Sonic's brother uses whatever he can find, but not his tail!" said Tails.

"The name is Apple (Why do most of the Sonic characters have names like that rather than normal names?!). I got kidnapped by the metarex along with my family. I'm trying to rescue them, but obviously I'm running into problems constantly… I am trying to save my mother especially," Apple said boldly.

"How old are you anyway? 10? 11? 9?" asked Knuckles.

"3 years old. Yeah, I know I act older than I am. In reality, I think that I'm acting a lot like my brother Orange the fox at the moment. He's about 15 I'd say," said Apple.

"Well let's go! We've got to find Sonic, Amy, and Cosmo! At least before the metarex do!" Tails said.

The gang agreed and ran off to find Sonic who was now in a bit of a pickle along with Amy and Cosmo. They were surrounded by metarex and they were trying to fight them off the best that they could, but the metarex were just too powerful. The metarex began closing in on Sonic, Amy, and Cosmo! Suddenly out of nowhere, Lily spun into a metarex and kicked down another. Kaira jumped above the metarex and did a certain motion with her hands that caused all of the metarex to get this big electrical charge which blew them all up! Their parts flew everywhere.

"Well, I think I overdid it…," Kaira said as she looked around at all of the destruction, but Sonic and his friends were still in one piece thankfully.

"How did you do that? It was cool! It almost looked like Shadow's chaos spear and chaos blast together, but better!" exclaimed Sonic with astonishment.

"It was my electrical blast. It's nothing compared to my supersonic tornado attack! It basically whips up a large tornado that quickly rips everything up out of the ground and on the ground while at the same time letting out this deafening noise to make my opponents lose their hearing. It's great when I'm by myself, but with all of you guys around, I was afraid that I would do a little too much damage…," Kaira said.

"That- is- totally- cool! I wish that I could do that! My name is Sonic the hedgehog. What about you?" he asked.

"Kaira," she replied.

"Kiarra? Kira? Kara?" asked Sonic.

Kaira rolled her eyes. That was about the thirteenth time someone had said her name wrong that day. Not many people get it right on the first time, so she'd spell it out time after time to everyone.

"Listen up blue hedgehog named Sonic! My name is Kaira! K- A- I- R- A. You got that?!" she snapped.

"K- AIR- A… Okay! I get it now! It's Kaira, but what you are is what's bugging me more. You look human, but not all human. You're more humanoid!" said Sonic.

"The question of what am I comes up again… I'll explain what I am when we get back to the Blue Typhoon," Kaira replied.

"How'd you know about the Blue Typhoon? I've never told you about it…," Tails said with a puzzled expression upon his face.

"My power is greater than what you think and I have to be this smart in order to actually have a chance up against all of these evil metarex, metaltrons, and… um… continued," she finished.

"Well, about the Blue Typhoon I sort of crashed it… Sorry about that Tails…," Sonic said.

"Well, since I am your friend, I guess that I'll have to forgive you, but how are we going to leave now?! There's no way off of this base!" exclaimed Tails.

"I suppose that I could use a spell to fix your ship and then we can leave this horrible base," Kaira thought aloud.

"Great! Wait! Did you just say spell? You're going to use a spell?" questioned Sonic curiously.

"So what if I did say that I would use a spell? Why should you care?" she asked.

"It's just that Cosmo said that everyone got captured by the metarex using a spell, but I always thought that magic didn't exist… Then you said that you'd use a spell. Do you suppose that the metarex stole your power or-," Sonic said as he thought back to the time when Cosmo used the word spell.

"-there's another one of me… I suppose that would make sense, but less wondering more thinking! Less thinking more doing! Let's just escape before metarex get to us! Sonic, I thought that you were all about speed, but I guess I was wrong," Kaira said as she hastily raced off.

"Hey! I do like going fast! Just you wait and see! Race you to the Blue Typhoon! I have the advantage due to me having the knowledge of where it landed! We'll see who's slow," Sonic yelled as he raced after her.

The two of them raced, but Sonic just couldn't seem to get ahead of the speedy pink- winged mystery. She also knew exactly how to get to the ship. To Sonic it didn't make any sense! This was a more intense race than the one he had with Metal Sonic! Zipping around and screeching to a halt, Kaira glanced over her shoulder to see Sonic arriving in second place and panting hard. Ten seconds later, Sonic's friends finally caught up to them.

"I win!"

"How did you do that? You were moving faster than the speed of sound! I thought that only I could do that!" panted Sonic.

"I was only going easy on you! The race I come from can go way faster than that! I would be ashamed of myself if I ran that slow on my home planet! I can go faster than the speed of light and I don't have time to always go this slow. Speaking of which, I had better get this done," Kaira explained.

She took the parts on the ground from the Blue Typhoon and zapped them with a beam of light. Instantly, the parts went back to their original position on the ship. Then she quickly managed to repair all of the parts that were damaged. It was all over in a flash. Tails was dumbfounded.

"H-how does she do that!?" Tails wondered out loud in an awed, wonderstruck tone.

"I'll explain everything, but now we must simply leave before more metarex show up. Let's go already!" Kaira retorted.

"We're coming! No need to snap at us like that!" shouted Sonic as he scurried back onto the Blue Typhoon with the rest of his friends. As soon as he did, the newly repaired ship's engine started and they blasted off.

Kaira wondered if she would be revealing too much by telling Sonic and his friends about her, but she didn't exactly have a choice. The life of a Drayan is a dangerous one. Even if you are a Drayan with the power of the universe in your hands.