Chapter Three

"Let's Buy Shoes!"

"Okay, so now I'm a mouse. What am I supposed to do as a mouse!?" Tizzi was starting to freak out.

"I could eat you?" Sapphire offered, grinning with her new cat teeth.

"Hey, don't you remember what Dog said about Winslow? Friends don't eat friends!" Ayla glared at Sapphire, her raccoon tails flicking back and forth.

"I was only kidding!" The cat laughed. "Now, I think we should go to the New City. We could get a map from there and find a Mirror or something to Angel Island. Maybe Knuckles will know what to do- He's the guy who's supposed to be watching these things in the first place, right?" She explained her 'plan' to her friends.

"Hey, I have an idea!" Tizzi said, finally out of her freak-out mode. "Let's buy shoes!" The others just stared at her like she was crazy. And she was. But that's not the point.

"You know, like those power-up ones that guy made for Sonic..?"

"Oh, yea! But where are we going to get the rings from?" Sapphire asked.

"Hey, maybe that hotel-manager guy is still running the 'Festival of Rings'. We smash boxes and gets rings- it'll be easy!" Ayla explained.

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"Ow! How was I supposed to know the crates were going to be so hard?" Tizzi rubbed her mouse-feet, which she had tried to use in a Sonic-style homing attack on the boxes. It didn't work very well.

"Yea, but who knew I could pick stuff up and throw it?" Ayla smiled. "I'm just like Silver!" Sapphire glared at her.

"Yea, but you almost hit me in the head with a broken apple-crate. At least my cat-reflexes let me dodge the thing in time." She complained.

"Oh well." Tizaria sighed. "At least we have enough money for those gem-things to put in our shoes, right?"

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"Hey, look! I can fly!" Ayla was floating above her friends with her tails spinning around like.. Well, like Tails!

"Yea, and I can throw these cool crystal-things!" Sapphire was practicing aiming her crystal shards at a barrel.

"I'm invisible!" Tizaria ran around her friends, though they couldn't see her.

"Hey!" A familliar voice came from behind the girls. All three turned around in unison to see where the voice came from.

"Sonic!" Ayla fell down from the air in surprise and landing on her bottom. The blue hedgehog laughed. "Hey, where's your friend?" Sonic asked, not seeing Tizaria. "Oh, right!" She laughed and turned visible again. "I forgot I was still invisible!" She laughed nervously. A sweat-drop would have appeared if she was in an Anime.

"Hey, that's pretty cool!" Sonic laughed. "Why were you guys so freaked-out before?" He asked. "Did you see Egg-head in the forest or something?" He laughed.

"No. I guess we were just surprised to see you. You're really famous where we're from." Ayla explained. "I mean, we were watching you on tv yesterday!" That was true- they had been watching Sonic on tv. It was his cartoon version, sure, but it was still 'Sonic'.

The girls continued to talk with Sonic for a few minutes until they heard a loud 'BOOM!'. Turning around, they saw the Egg-Carrier flying towards them, leading an army of robots. "Well, if it isn't the Egg-Head himself!" Sonic laughed. "What're you after this time?"

"Give me your Chaos Emeralds!" He yelled. "Well you're outta luck, Eggman, 'cause I don't have any!" Sonic laughed. "You don't." Robotnik started. "But they do!" He looked at the girls. "Give me the Emeralds and my robot army won't destroy this city!" He threatened. Sonic looked at the girls. "You have Chaos Emeralds!?" They nodded.

Ayla flew up and picked up some nearby crates, throwing them at Eggman. They did no damage. "Sapphire, try your shards!" The cat did as her friend suggested, but the Crystal Shards also did nothing. "Hey, let's try attacking his robots! With no mechanical army to protect him, Eggman won't be able to do anything!" Tizaria suggested. Wow, that was the first smart thing she'd said in a while.

So Ayla used the crates, Tizzi used her 'bombs', and Sapphire used her shards. With Sonic helping, of course, the four defeated Eggman's entire robot army.

"I'll be back to get those Emeralds!" He yelled, flying away in the Egg-Carrier.

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A/N: So, Eggman attacked and lost. Same thing as always, huh? But like he said, Eggman is going to be back to try and get those Chaos Emeralds. Please review! TW